Will's West Highland Workbench - K4s, J39s, D34, K2/2

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Re: Will's West Highland Workbench - K4s, J39s, D34 'Glen'

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Great work on the D34.

All the extra detail fairly makes a difference and brings the model to life. Looking forward to seeing more building progress and then of course the painting to finish it off.
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Re: Will's West Highland Workbench - K4s, J39s, D34 'Glen'

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60027Merlin wrote:Great work on the D34.

All the extra detail fairly makes a difference and brings the model to life. Looking forward to seeing more building progress and then of course the painting to finish it off.
Cheers! Yes, it's getting there slowly & starting to come to life but still much to do. I still have to order the Bogie & Tender wheels & source a decent Whistle as the whitemetal one just won't do (that'll be todays job at lunch)

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Re: Will's West Highland Workbench - K4s, J39s, D34 'Glen'

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Westinghouse Brake equipment was removed from the Glens 1935-7. The pump exhaust originally entered the smokebox almost at handrail level but a number of locos had this shifted to enter at the base of the smokebox which is unusual as the normal path was into the side on other classes apart from the D30s.
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Re: Will's West Highland Workbench - K4s, J39s, D34 'Glen'

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More detailing. Scratchbuilt Lamp irons & fuse wire bits from the smokebox (not sure what they're for!)

Argh!!!-Cruel close-ups!!!
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Re: Will's West Highland Workbench - K4s, J39s, D34 'Glen'

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Gibson bogie & tender wheels arrived & make quite a difference I think.
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I'll make a start on the tender tomorrow & this weekend.

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Re: Will's West Highland Workbench - K4s, J39s, D34 'Glen'

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I'm following this thread with a keen interest, mostly because I have the same kit on my to do list. I'd like to join the list of people to compliment you on your work, it looks great.

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Nice work and continues to be very interesting - thanks for sharing. :)
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Re: Will's West Highland Workbench - K4s, J39s, D34 'Glen'

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Cheers folks! I'm glad it's of interest to you.

It was tender time today & I got most of it done today with just a few details remaining.
Firstly though I scratchbuilt a basic chassis last night from 12 thou brass with homemade L shaped spacers (forgot to take a picture of this though). It runs ok but I think it'll benefit from having bearings fitted so I'll order some next week.

Then this afternoon it was on with the body, and as with the rest of the kit quite a bit of fettling was needed to get a decent fit of the parts. I'm quite happy with the outcome, though I may live to regret not replacing the coal rails as the cast ones are minging.

Please note it's sat a little low, as its on the old bogie wheels at the moment to save the new Gibsons from nasty flux.

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Handrails, Buffers, coupling & pick ups still to do.

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Re: Will's West Highland Workbench - K4s, J39s, D34 'Glen'

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More tender work

Cast Tender rails replaced with 0.7mm wire for the rails & 5 thou for the vertical bits. A lot of solder still to clean up!
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Very nice work sir! :)
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Re: Will's West Highland Workbench - K4s, J39s, D34 'Glen'

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That really WAS worth the effort...


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Re: Will's West Highland Workbench - K4s, J39s, D34 'Glen'

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I concur, that's quite an improvement. It's amazing what a bit of brass rod can do for a model.

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Re: Will's West Highland Workbench - K4s, J39s, D34 'Glen'

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Thank you very much chaps!

This weekend's achievements were small & few:

Glen tender chassis had bushes fitted & was sprayed in Railmatch weathered black
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Glen Tender now has handrails & buffers
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LOTI got its reversing lever fitted
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Loch Long had nameplates & worksplates fitted. 24/7 worksplates seem a bit on the big side to me
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K4 tender #3 got a coat of Halford's filler primer to see any imperfections, of which there were many!
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Re: Will's West Highland Workbench - K4s, J39s, D34 'Glen'

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Hi all,

well the weather has been too nice & the cricket too plentiful recently to get much modelling done, but here it where I'm at with the Glen. Railmatch 'Weathered Black' has been used for the smokebox, wheels, roof & tender top with satin black for the rest. Lining is next when I get time.

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Re: Will's West Highland Workbench - K4s, J39s, D34 'Glen'

Post by nzpaul »

Nice to see you back Will. I've been looking forward to the continuation of this. It's looking really good too.

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