Crook Street Works - Gladiator Precursor Tank

[adrian]

Hi All,

Just a brief one... I always liken spray painting an engine to launching a ship - it feels like it's nearly finished but, in reality, there's still an awful lot of fitting and details left to do.

So I revisited the chassis to add some more detail here. First there's the sand boxes, on my engine they're inboard and according to Ted Talbot were almost impossible to fill. I made mine out of wood. In these days of 3D printing that feels like being a flint knapper in the iron age...:

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I also added some Laurie Griffin coil springs:

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Progress will slow for now as firstly the weather is good and secondly most of the tasks involve waiting for paint to dry and harden.

Cheers
Allan

Thanks for posting - it really helps the motivation to get mine progressed as well.

By co-incidence as you mention it regarding 3D-printing here's one I prepared earlier.



I've been practicing my 3D modelling although yet to turn it from a virtual model to a physical one. However quite happy to print a set off and send you a set if you'd like.

One other thing I noticed as I've been studying it in some detail - the leading driving axle had the 2 coil springs whereas the trailing driving axle had a quadrant of 4 springs. I realise once it's on the track you probably won't see the inside pair behind the wheels etc so this will look fine.

 

[Allan]

Thanks for posting - it really helps the motivation to get mine progressed as well.

By co-incidence as you mention it regarding 3D-printing here's one I prepared earlier.

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I've been practicing my 3D modelling although yet to turn it from a virtual model to a physical one. However quite happy to print a set off and send you a set if you'd like.

One other thing I noticed as I've been studying it in some detail - the leading driving axle had the 2 coil springs whereas the trailing driving axle had a quadrant of 4 springs. I realise once it's on the track you probably won't see the inside pair behind the wheels etc so this will look fine.

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Thanks Adrian, that's really interesting regarding the springing. I'll probably pass on your kind offer of the sandboxes, they'd put the rest of my model to shame...!

Cheers
Allan

 

[Mike W]

I'll probably pass on your kind offer of the sandboxes, they'd put the rest of my model to shame...!

I know what you mean, but these things can be inspirational. When I was about 18 a friend Jim Richards sent me an LNWR crank axle in the post. I had never built a loco (other than a plastic one on a Big-Big chassis!) and had no plans to build a loco, let alone with full inside motion. But I couldn't resist twiddling it in my fingers and a few months later started work on an 0-8-0 class C - chosen as showing more of the inside motion than most other classes. If it hadn't been for JIm I might never have built locos at all!
Mike

 

[Allan]

Hi All,

With all this good weather, the last part of this build has been slow in materialising. However, before completion I fitted some pick-ups, scrapers in this instance:





I wanted a evidence of coal from the bunker to be seen in the cab, so I constructed a little bunker within a bunker for a small amount of coal - the main bunker fill will be onto a false floor:







And so, after painting, lining, weathering and filling the bunker with lead and of course waiting for it all to dry and harden, we have a finished engine, allocated to Longsight, LNWR shed code 16:













With all the good weather, I haven't built any fire irons for it but as it's a bit dull I'll try and get to that today.

So that's it for this one - not nearly as evil a build as it was billed (build/billed get it...), there's a lot of empty space between the frames in the interests of running a railway, but you never know, one day...


Cheers
Allan