Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Ugly chassis

 


The Hudsell Clarke chassis is easy enough to build. The modeller has to knock out a couple of tiny blanking plates in the floor to allow the frames to fit at the correct gauge, and it all slots together. 

Before doing this, plastic bearings are forced (I put them in a vice) into holes. They don't need any glue, as they are a nice, tight fit. 

Bufferbeams glue onto the ends, motor supports are fitted because I'm building this to 45mm gauge, and we are ready for a bit of paint and then mechanical bits.  

1 comment:

Paul B. said...

Following with interest - I quite fancy his rather quirky little estate loco. (Why do 16mm modellers refer to small diesels as 'estate' locos rather than industrials?)