Showing posts with label 165DS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 165DS. Show all posts
Monday, March 28, 2011

Ruston 165DS - Finished

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4 months isn't bad for building a locomotive I suppose - although it's less impressive when you don't have a proper job and ou...
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Friday, March 25, 2011

165DS in eye-searing colour

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Most of the model railway rolling stock I build is, as far as the colours go, dull. Not the 165DS shunter though. The specification call...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

165DS in primer

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Hooray ! The Ruston 165DS is now in primer ! A nice coat of etching primer has persuaded me that everything is looking OK. The can is ge...
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Friday, March 18, 2011

UK vs US rolling stock

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While I'm doing this HO scale thang, I couldn't resist posting pictures of the UK Ruston 165DS locomotive coupled to a US bogie re...
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Thursday, March 17, 2011

Nailing Kadee couplings to British stock

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If God had meant us to fit Kadee couplings to UK stock, he wouldn't have given us 3-links. Hover the customer request Kadee's so th...
Friday, February 25, 2011

165DS Buffers

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With my spares box unable to produce anything that looked sufficiently like a 165DS buffer, I had only two options; go and find something be...
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Bufferbeam curve ball

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Just when you think you can see the end of a project, the kit fights back. With the 165DS, this turned out to be with the buffer beam. Fir...
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Thursday, February 17, 2011

165DS Roof on

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Progress on the Ruston continues. The roof has been fitted to the cab. This is a bigger step than it ought to be. The original plans for...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Accomodating chips

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The Ruston 165DS locomotive will eventually use some of this new fangled DCC power. I don't really understand it but know enough to real...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

Shunter steps

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Shunter steps Originally uploaded by Phil_Parker On the 165DS, the cab steps are a lovely bit of kitmaking. Each comes as three parts - ...
Saturday, February 05, 2011

165DS Progress

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I've not mentioned the Ruston 165DS locomotive for a a little while but I've not been idle. The model now has handrails around the...
Thursday, January 27, 2011

Ruston 165DS chassis test

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With power coming from the desperately unsophisticated H&M Controller I like to use for this sort of job, the Ruston 165DS chassis sit...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Electric modifications

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To turn a diesel-mechanical Ruston 165DS into a diesel-electric one, there are two jobs to do. At least as far as the model version is conce...
Friday, January 21, 2011

Getting cranky

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With the con rods rotating well, the next step was to build and fit the cranks that on the real locomotive would drive the thing. Three sets...
Thursday, January 20, 2011

165DS wheeled up

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Returning to the Ruston 165DS, it was time to fit the wheels. As mentioned earlier, I've had to eshew Romfords for Gibson wheels to get ...
Friday, January 07, 2011

Squeezing the mechanicals in

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The instructions might say to drive this model on the front axle, but I'm building it and I say the power should be on the middle one....
Thursday, January 06, 2011

High Level Models Hump shunter gearbox

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The 165DS needs a motor and gearbox if it's be something other than a static model. As a shunter it's top speed needs to be low, i...
Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Painting the 165DS chassis

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If I were building this model with Romford wheels, I wouldn't be doing this. Their design allows removal and re-installation as often as...
Monday, January 03, 2011

165DS Bonnet part 2

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Returning to the bonnet I fitted the radiator and was initially very pleased with how well it went on. The step section at the back clipped ...
Friday, December 31, 2010

165DS Radiator

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In this weather, building an extra radiator seems like a really good idea ! On the 165DS this is assembled as a separate module and then a...