A Gentleman's Light Sporting Design... 4-4-2T style

[pilotfriend]

Mick, they are the best Pug bashes I have seen...where did you get the headlights?
JdF

[Andy_Elms]

Cheers guys. I'll give the existing motor a go.

[MickT]

Mick, they are the best Pug bashes I have seen...where did you get the headlights?
JdF

Thank you John, accolades indeed but undeserved I have to say! I suppose I am going to have to spend some time raking through my snaps and sort out a selection of much better pugbashes than mine and by much better modellers than me! - I can already feel a new Fotopic set for my gallery coming on!!

In answer to your query about headlights, I made them myself, my finances do not run to such indulgences as forking out for luxuries! They are actually very crude - a block of 4 x 80thou bits of square section plastic rod, a pug valve gear pin on top for the lamp top and the lens is made from one x jewel from a string of them that you can get from haberdashery/soft furnishings/needlecraft type shops (if you are still able to track one down in your area!) - you can buy strings of such jewellery brilliants already in their mountings at so much for a foot length. For 2 or 3 pounds (Yes I do have to purchase some items!) you can obtain sufficient brilliants for about 200 loco headlamps. The advantage of using these things is that the plastic/nylon type mounting that they are set into form the lens casing of the lamp without additional work required - I used to mount brilliants into slices of brass tubing before I discovered these. To finish off, a strip of gold sellotape is glued around the rim and the front end of the rim is touched in with a Pilot very fine gold marker.

If you can get hold of very small brilliants from this type of source, they can be used for all sorts of modelling uses - such as lamps on brakevans - no need to search for coloured brilliants - just go over it with a Staedler Lumocolour or Stabilo finepoint permanent marker pen - I find the type intended for writing on Overhead Projector film is the best - this will give you a transparent "ruby" that still reflects light.

Now I think we should return to the subject of this thread - apologies for partially hijacking it!

Mick

[Andy_Elms]

No problem Mick, I've been meaning to replace the headlight on my SLGR Hunslet to an more traditional outline and this sounds just right. Will have to put one on the 4-4-2 too... So it was on topic.

For an update on progress, cf thread on Replacement Gears. If the worst comes to the worst I may mod the Farish Jinty motor, worm and block from the bits box, it fits quite nicely.

[Andy_Elms]

Slight lack of progress reports on this front due to.. err.. lack of progress. Painting the front room is taking preference.

But, I thought I'd share with you a size comparison I came up with:


Although I'm halfway through the plasticard-body-and-bashed-chassis, I found out at last years Expong that Branchlines do a resin 0415 (top picture) body. They also do a details kit for IoM BP locos - so bigger dome and stack would be available. Farish compund 4-4-0 wheels 'n' rods 'n' axles are available from BR Lines (ta for rapid reply Bob!).

I suppose I'll just have to build two...