My loco collection

BR (ex LNER) A3 Class no. 60099 Call Boy

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Call Boy
Call Boy
BR (ex LNER) A3 Class no. 60099 Call Boy. Built from the David Andrews kit by myself around 15 years ago. Originally painted by myself also, but I didn’t quite get the colour right. After letting it “make do” for too long I have recently stripped the original paint and let Warren Haywood do the rest. This model is DCC/sound with a Zimo MX645R decoder, switchable between DC and DCC, converted for me by Richard Pogson.

LSWR Drummond T9 class Greyhound no. 113

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LSWR Greyhound no. 113
Greyhound
LSWR Drummond Greyhound T9 class No.113.

 

A top quality model, with fully working inside motion and opening smokebox door with internal smokebox detail. Built to finescale standards by Nick Dunhill, making use of the Martin Finney kit. Furthermore, the project was used as a test bed for 3D printing technology and its possible applications in O gauge.

Numerous changes have been made to the standard kit build: including making the spacing of the main frames above and below footplate level a slightly compromised, but consistent 29mm. Making prototypical frame stretchers to suit the new frame spacing. The fabrication of new smokebox front and backs. A new more prototypical ashpan has been designed and fabricated. A representation of the firebox front has been incorporated into the chassis. Loco and tender brake gear has been modified to give a more prototypical appearance. Side control and downward springing to minimise movement has been incorporated into the mostly scratch built bogie.

Additional detail to the inside of the cab: includes the the fitting of damper and cylinder draincock levers to the cab floor. The use of perspex rod for the water level indicator safety glass. Displacement lubricators are added to the cabsides. Finally and most noteworthy, wood veneer has been used for the cab floor.

Additional detail below the running plate: including injector, vacuum and lubricator pipes between the frames. Reversing steam rams and cylinder blocks with drain cocks, pipes and linkages are modelled to give an improved prototypical appearance.

Current pick-ups: are by phospher bronze wipers fitted to the tender inner chassis.

Number and worksplates: are by Diane Carney.

The loco crew: expertly hand painted by Mike Sheardown.

Superb loco and tender paintwork: with hand painted crests and lining is by Warren Haywood to give a fabulously smooth finish.

In conclusion, for a more detailed report on the building of this Greyhound refer to the Gauge O Guild Gazette Volume 19 no. 12, of August 2016 pages 65 and 66.

BR (ex GWR) Castle class No. 5018 St. Mawes Castle

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St. Mawes Castle
St. Mawes Castle
BR (ex GWR) Castle class No. 5018 St. Mawes Castle, as running circa 1954. This model was bought by myself from the Guild Executors & Trustee Service in a 60% finished state. That 60% however, has been superbly scratch built, in nickel silver by a person unknown. (Apparently the model was from the estate of a Mr. Leadbetter of Liverpool). Rivets have been expertly marked out and punched by hand. Other marking out is still visible inside the firebox. The wheels at that time were a real mystery. The bogie wheels are an odd miss-match and to this day remain a mystery. Most noteworthy though, the others are of exceptional quality, but they gave me headaches as to how to make use of them. Metal construction. All of them seem to be insulated, but I’m not sure how. Telescopic axles with tapered pins to set the quartering. Unusual crankpins, one pair no more than blank pins. In conclusion, to enable me to complete the build in a way that I am used to, I replaced them with ones from Slaters Plasticard. St. Mawes Castle has now been completed by myself, with a Slaters motor and gear unit and with working representation to give movement of the valve linkages. Superbly painted by Warren Haywood. The name and number plates are supplied by Severnmill.

In conclusion, I tried to sell the unused driving and tender wheels at a Guild bring and buy recently……nobody wanted them. Consequently I took good photos of them and put them up for sale on ebay. Fortunately for me a very kind man put me straight as to their origins. I compared with photos in the book of the great man and immediately withdrew them from sale and have kept them, still unused. They are no doubt the work of James Stanley Beeson. How much more of this loco is Beeson we will probably never know.

GWR Armstrong class 4-4-0 no. 16 Brunel

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Brunel
Brunel
GWR Armstrong class 4-4-0 no. 16 Brunel: I built this model from the very comprehensive Modern Outline kit, which includes lost wax brass castings for the fully working inside motion and crankshaft. It has been expertly painted by Warren Haywood. This fabulous kit is not for the faint hearted and certainly not for anyone just starting out in O gauge model loco kit building. It is the second of the MOK Armstrong kits that I have built. The other, Gooch, was a commission and can be viewed by following this link.

LSWR Adams Radial 4-4-2T No. 492

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Adams Radial stovepipe chimney
LSWR Adams Radial 4-4-2T No. 492: Believed to have been built from the Shedmaster kit, but it could be scratch built and painted to top quality by persons unknown. This superb model has the original Adams design of chimney. For comparison with another Adams Radial that I have had in my collection, but with twin slidebars and Drummond chimney, follow this link. Adams Radial no. 125