Festiniog Railway 0-4-0 Loco 'Princess' & Tender Langley kit

Brian Mosby · December 11, 2015, 15:28

I will be building a Festiniog Railway 0-4-0 Loco 'Prince' & Tender to run with my F&WHR Peco rolling stock
the loco kit is n on its way from Parkside
& arrived in todays post was a Fleischmann Piccolo 7000 2nd hand on ebay it looks not to have had much running & runs nice & slow

2015-12-11_03-17-00 by brian mosby, on Flickr

B.Meldon · December 11, 2015, 15:42

Good choice of chassis, I used the same chassis under the old 1960

Brian Mosby · December 16, 2015, 16:17

The kit is in hand
The casting need some cleaning up before work can start
& once built here's the stock the loco will pull

100_8506 by brian mosby, on Flickr

Brian Mosby · December 27, 2015, 00:10

If my trapped nerve will allow me later to day when I get up I hope with Deans help make a start chopping the chassis to shape & start on the body

Now a cup of Hot Chocolate then Bed

Brian Mosby · December 29, 2015, 18:42

Still nothing done apart from ordering A set of 4mm Princess plates from the F&WHR shop

Brian Mosby · February 21, 2016, 13:16

Making a start
1st I have removed the lower cob front to allow the motor to fit
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I am also removing the doors from the cab back sheet

More to follow

Brian Mosby · February 21, 2016, 13:54

I have now cut out the door & solded the end & 2 sides together
I then removed some of the plastic from the front Fleischmann Piccolo 7000 chassis As well as the front buffer I hav left the ones on the back of the chassi in place

2016-02-21_01-31-50 by brian mosby, on Flickr

I then removed some of the casting from the front footplate
so the loco's body will sit low on the chassis

IMG_20160221_114030 by brian mosby, on Flickr

I then solded this to the body & filled the hole left under were the sand pots go with a scrap piece of white metal & flooded with solder

IMG_20160221_114657 by brian mosby, on Flickr

I then worked on the cob foot plate removing a lot of it all the way back so the hole to mount the coupling was just gone

IMG_20160221_115903 by brian mosby, on Flickr

& solded in place

IMG_20160221_120416 by brian mosby, on Flickr

Now with the body fitted to the chassis the bottom of the smokebox sits on the step on the plastic part of the chassis & the back buffers of the chassis sit under the floor

IMG_20160221_120457 by brian mosby, on Flickr

I then added a large scrap piece of white metal in to the smokebox so I can screw the chassis to the body

IMG_20160221_123137 by brian mosby, on Flickr

the loco is now ready for painting the holes for the sand pots have been drilled these & the front vac pipe will be fitted once the painting is done

IMG_20160221_123243 by brian mosby, on Flickr

As to the tender I am using a Minitrains F&C coach bogie that I have spare from a F&C 0-4-0 tender I have to hand the wheel base is the same & look almost right

2016-02-21_01-53-00 by brian mosby, on Flickr

That's it for today

Brian Mosby · February 21, 2016, 19:12

the tender footplate is now in black & the bodys are now in Maroon

Brian Mosby · February 22, 2016, 08:19

just masked off the loco & tender & given them a coat of Halfords matt black

clayliner · February 22, 2016, 11:34

It's looking good, Brian!

David.

Brian Mosby · February 22, 2016, 12:57

Here is how things were at 10.30am today
loco with the masking taken off still need to hand paint the black edges on the loco fit the smokebox dart & paint the chassis

need to get some handrail knobs so I can add handrails & fit some couplings

2016-02-22_10-29-38 by brian mosby, on Flickr

& here's some quick photos of the loco as it is now still need the handrails

IMG_20160222_125100 by brian mosby, on Flickr

IMG_20160222_125117 by brian mosby, on Flickr