Chris Ward Prairie

[Hugh Norwood]

Herewith a couple of shots of my latest - the Chris Ward Prairie for the DAPOL chassis.
It's not quite finished as I have run out of handrail knobs (fortunately the York Show is coming up) and it will require naming. Plus some coal in the bunker.





The body comes with the smokebox door, cab roof and four spectacle frames as extras.
There's plenty of space for adding weight.
I should perhaps mention in defence of CW that the body was a "second".

[tedp]

That is quite a handsome engine, Hugh. It has nice balanced lines. Which says that with a little care, a 3D printed body can be turned into an excellent model.

[38thfoot]

How big is the loco, I am thinking competed to a we'd Baldwin or SL 2-6-2?

Cheers

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[Hugh Norwood]

Hi, it's 24mm wide and 74mm long over the buffer beams - the bunker overhangs at the rear a bit, of course.

[Andre Anderson]

Greetings,

First let me say that I really like the looks of your locomotive. Now for a question or two, being new to oo9 and from across the pond, I realize that you said the chassis was a Dapol, but which one? I notice that they have two different Prairie, a class 45XX and an Ivatt. How hard was it to modify the locomotive so the superstructure would fit?

Andre Anderson
Portland Oregon USA

[JulienW]

As far as I can tell Andre (having had one of the GWR prairies pass through my hands and currently own one of the Ivatts) the only difference between the 2 chassis is that the Ivatt has Walscherts valve gear whereas the GWR loco just has the connecting and coupling rods (GWR tended to sue inside valve gear).

These 3D printed bodies are designed by Chris Ward specifically for the Dapol chassis. I have one of his newer ones (a "Libby") and essentially all one needs to do is detach the N scale body (clips and screws) and drop the printed on in its place. You may need to sort out some way of fixing the 009 body to the chassis - I made a little clamp that fixes through one of the screw holed in the chassis but something like 'Blutack' / stickytack would be a good 'low tech' solution.

[Andre Anderson]

Julien,

Thanks for the reply, that answered the questions.

Andre Anderson
Portland Oregon USA

[Hugh Norwood]

I can confirm that the chassis I used was from the DAPOL ND-024 45xx Straight tank British Railways 4571