This has come about due to a bit of detective work by a couple of members about the Worsley Works scratch aid for a British Rail 04 class shunter built by Drewry. as it turns out this was also used as an export model and wound up here (with some minor detail changes) as our Ds (and possibly DSA) shunters. The outside frame chassis appears to be reasonably similar to the Farish/Bachmann 08 diesel shunter as the new version has outside frames. It therefor appears that there is a possibility of a 'scratch aid' kit. As CAD can readily be rescaled fro larger projects
This has me in a thinking mood this morning. Discussions with other local modelers have revealed that the biggest problem that they seem to face is getting any of the 'state of the art' steam loco kits available to S scale modelers to actually run really well. They have even been reduced to sending them off to expert builders in the hopes of getting them to run acceptably.
This leaves me in a bit of a quandary. I want a loco stud with 4 Ka and 2 Ja locos. If I want to get these looking right then I have to do/organise quite a few things. I'll just ignore the wheels for the moment. The frames will have to be etched and be able to be assembled in a foolproof sort of way. Suspension of some sort will probably be required, which really adds complexity on something this small (plus there would probably have to be a second set of almost everything on the etch, as something is bound to ping off into the ether).
The Cylinders, coupling and connecting rods have to be moved out slightly as our wheels will not be a scale thickness and there are clearance issues. as for assembling valve gear, there's going to be a really fun watchmaking job. Compared to all this the top and tender will be a walk in the park!
Hmm, might be time for another cuppa. And possibly another guards van to build.
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Is that the new monicle I spy there Von Druff....
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