Showing posts with label J72. Show all posts
Showing posts with label J72. Show all posts
Thursday, January 09, 2020

Post 5000!

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Today marks the 5000th post on this blog. It's taken just over 14 years to get here - although moving a post-a-day speeded things ...
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Tuesday, January 07, 2020

There's no floor in this plan...

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Not a great photo but it was hard enough persuading these ModelU figures to hang on the inside of the J72 cab without worrying about prod...
Monday, January 06, 2020

Four non-blondes

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What's up? Well, I've painted a set of figures for the J72. Yes I know there are four of them, but I want to pick the ones that fi...
Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Colour, or at least black

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Close-up photos can be cruel. On this loco, they exposed the horrible mould line up the front of the chimney. Once scraped away, there w...
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Monday, December 30, 2019

Head scratching on the J72 cab interior

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I don't understand the cab interior. The diagram and instructions don't really help me much. Maybe I'm just a thicko. Fortu...
Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Rods on the J72

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While watching the last episode of the BBC's fairly awful version of War of the Worlds, the one where the writer looked up the plot o...
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Thursday, November 28, 2019

Boiler fill

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This might not look like an exciting picture, but I'm happy with it. Originally, the J72 chassis block stuck out into the visible p...
Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Buffer beams

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Moving on with the J72 build to the body beautiful, the main job seems to be to scrape the buffers off and replace them with metal version...
Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Chassis with pickups

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Finding time to work on the J72 is proving difficult at the moment. Too much to do for work sees spare time vanishing. However, the other ...
Tuesday, November 12, 2019

J72 Brake gear

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Time for some sacrilege. I don't think the brakes on this J72 chassis are very good. For a start, when hung, I don't think the...
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Monday, November 04, 2019

Wheels in the chassis

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I love the Hobby Holidays chassis jig. The wheels were fitted to the chassis, rods fitted to the wheels, and it runs smoothly when pushed ...
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Thursday, October 31, 2019

Romford wheel preperation

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Romford wheels enjoy a well-deserved reputation as the most user-friendly locomotive wheels for kit builders. Metal centres, self-quarter...
Tuesday, October 29, 2019

To compensate or not?

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The biggest decision of the J72 build was whether I should fit the chassis with compensation.  A relatively long wheelbase 0-6-0 is...
Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Setting up a Hobby Holidays chassis jig

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Clever people don't need jigs to set up a chassis. I can do it, but as I own the tool, why wouldn't use it?  One issue I di...
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Monday, October 21, 2019

A pointless loco build

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There is no point in building a OO gauge LNER J72 steam locomotive.   With the Bachmann model on the way , you would be wasting you...
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