and welcome to an extra blog, a couple of days early, mainly because I'm bored. Can't do much gardening because a bit of rain has made things wet, and a shortage of track prohibits starting on the Teifi Gorge Railway extension.
So to pass the time away, I thought we might take a peek under a rather large bushel that conceals Colins work. Not too many are aware that Col has an exquisite N gauge layout. He very occasionally sets it up on a chuffer night for us to have
Couple of pictures below:
One of Colins locomotives is a model of a large GWR Prairie tank engine, specifically number 6106 (seen here in Didcot after restoration)
The model that Colin had was an old Graham Farish cast metal metal version that lacked some of the finer detail. As you can see it looked a bit coarse.
Paint was stripped off, various parts filed down or removed, and the missing detailing was added, using wire, brass pins, and pieces of plastic:
After this fettling, it was repainted, relined, and the appropriate transfers added.
The next loco to feature was one of the 56xx class GWR engines. This time Col was going to build from scratch, as he didn't have a suitable model, only a donor chassis.
This is an example of a proprietary N gauge model of a 56xx class:
The chassis/motor was given a footplate:
and extra pickups added underneath to a new collector board:
A body and cab was constructed from Plasticard:
And a boiler/smokebox added using some copper pipe:
A few more bits and pieces made from wire, brass, copper and plastic:
And then it was off to the paint shop for a final finish.
Here is the end result gently simmering away outside of the layout's engine depot:
Hope you enjoyed our little tour of Herrington Light Industries.
Back with a regular ChufferDuffers next week.
Stay well.
Shaun.
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