Showing posts with label Barclay 0-4-0T. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barclay 0-4-0T. Show all posts
Thursday, June 01, 2017

Build a Barclay and look under the sink

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Time for a little bit of a magazine catch-up. If you wonder why I write these posts, it's partly ego (look at me, I'm in print), b...
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Tuesday, September 06, 2016

The Barclay goes for a spin

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Last year I bought a little turntable for displaying models. Until now it's sat in the box, but I thought I'd give the Barclay a q...
Monday, September 05, 2016

0-4-0T Barclay

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Let's start the week with a finished project. The Barclay has been heavily weathered and is now ready for service - or at least stan...
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Friday, September 02, 2016

Hero of the footplate

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Driving the Barclay is this slightly camp figure from the Border Miniatures "Heroes of the Footplate" range. I'm not sure...
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Thursday, September 01, 2016

Not matt

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  Model railway frustrations No.65 - paint that should dry matt and doesn't. I'm looking at you Humbrol 33 and Railmatch We...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Lined out

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  The Barclay would probably look fine in plain green, but I need the practise at lining models out so I've loaded up the bow pen w...
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Monday, August 29, 2016

Molten metals paint

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  Metal is tricky in model form. Ideally you'd make whatever it is in the right material and just polish it, but that's not alw...
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Friday, August 26, 2016

Dumb buffers made of wood

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  Narrow gauge locos don't often have buffers outside of Talylln land. Mostly there is some sort of chunky centre coupling. The Bar...
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Thursday, August 25, 2016

Plumbing the cab

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  Cab plumbing is simple enough - some (supplied) 0.8mm copper wire is fitted into  0.85mm holes drilled in the lost wax castings fitte...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Sandbox handles

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  Normally once I start sticking castings on a locomotive, the model begins to come to life, but not this time. The odd proportions of ...
Monday, August 22, 2016

Time to turn the soldering iron off

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  Happy days. The soldering on the Barclay body is complete. Everything else can be glued on.  Last job was the cabside handrails. ...
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Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Barclay chassis testing

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A quick coat of Railmatch "Weathered Black" followed by a bit of cleaning up the next day and the chassis is ready for a test...
Monday, August 15, 2016

Painted primer

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  Stripping this chassis down will be a faff so I've treated it to a brush coat of lovely Humbrol primer. I did buy a new pot, but ...
Friday, August 12, 2016

Pickups

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  No problem fiddling the electricity in this loco. Once side is uninsulated, so the chassis is live. The other needs some phosphor bro...
Thursday, August 11, 2016

Brakes

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  Braking on the Barclay is a bit limited. We get some rear shoes and nothing in the middle. Is this prototypical?  Anyway, the who...
Tuesday, August 09, 2016

Wrap the cylinders

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  Hard nickel-silver cylinder covers aren't ideal. Much as I love this metal, it's a pig to bend.  A few moments with the g...
Monday, August 08, 2016

Boiler won't sit down

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  I always hope that these posts will help people. If you are building a kit, it's useful to read about potential problems before y...
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Friday, August 05, 2016

Boiler fitted

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  As suspected, a great big hole had to be opened out in the bottom of the smokebox to enable the boiler unit to sit down properly.  ...
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Thursday, August 04, 2016

The Barclay's back

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  6 months in a box while I was too busy on other projects hasn't done the Barclay too much damage.  With a little more time to f...
Thursday, January 21, 2016

Hot handrails

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Planning is important. The correct time to attach the handrails to the Barclay tanks was when I could solder the knobs from inside. Ins...
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