I’ve collected 00 for years, but I recently dropped on an old 1950’s Hornby tin plate engine in a charity shop, for a price I couldn’t ignore. It brought back old memories of the engine that I’d inherited from my elder siblings many years before and my quest in oiling the motion, quartering the wheels and re-pinning the broken spring…
In Primary School, I used to fix other children’s trains, which usually meant oiling them from a seized state, but on a few occasions, I was asked to remove the backs from tank engines to allow better access to the cabs and even loosen the tags holding the smoke box door in place to access the boiler inside, so no surprise to me that this engine was missing them and maybe karma!
What should I do, wait for a cheap body to turn up on eBay to cannibalise or design my own for 3d-printing???
Here’s the results from my current project of restoration that I’ve extended to replace things like wagon wheels and even complete tenders….
I’ve put together a series of prints that I will slowly add to over time….
Some of the items that I’ve modelled, the Special Locomotive Wheels in particular, are based on internet photographs and maybe slightly off size: I appreciate any feedback on such details.
The tender project is based on a real 1949 vintage draughtsman plan, supposedly for B12, D16, J18, J19, J20 classes, uses a single filler cap that I can’t find much evidence for in Yeadon’s Register/RCTS, but is contemporary with GER.
This article was first featured at https://ift.tt/2xcyeet on April 12, 2020 at 01:37PM by Ace3DJ
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