Showing posts with label ghillie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ghillie. Show all posts
Monday, January 27, 2025

The end of Ghillie?

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  The old incompetance is back.  Deciding it was time to move back to the DJH O16.5 kit that last appeared here in November, I started by fi...
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Thursday, November 14, 2024

Plastic handrail knobs

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  I've managed to fit in a little more work on the DJH loco. This time I've fitted the handrail knobs on the tank and smokebox.  My ...
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Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Cab work

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  First job, fit the brake standard. Easy. Poke the spigot through the hole in the floor, and solder underneath.  Then the roof. This is sup...
Monday, October 28, 2024

Sandboxes and (gulp) chimney

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  Time for some detailing. The sandboxes are easy, each has a spigot that sticks through the footplate. All I had to do was run some solder ...
Thursday, October 17, 2024

Bunker time

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  The imaginary bunker is a simple afair. Four sides to be joined together, and fitted to the footplate. Raised beading on the sides indicat...
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Shim brass

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  Shim brass is basically just very, very thin brass sheet. Modellers in the old days seemed to make pretty much anything from it, and I was...
Monday, October 14, 2024

Tack soldering win

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  I mentioned that I was soldering the kit together last week (and yes, I must put a guide on whitemetal soldering together one day) and sta...
Wednesday, October 09, 2024

Cleaning away primer

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  Time to move on to the whitemetal body. The part-build is a bit odd. We have some large lumps of metal for the footplate and tank, plus th...
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Tuesday, October 08, 2024

Track testing

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  The track has been laid on the NG7 magazine project layout, so I couldn't resist giving the "Ghillie" chassis a quick run, p...
Monday, October 07, 2024

Screwing down and chasing shorts

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  The chassis works, so time to finish off the body. This was part started when I got the kit, so in theory, it's not going to take too ...
Tuesday, October 01, 2024

A good idea, that doesn't work

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  Adding pickups to the Ghillie kit ought to be simple. There is a nicely moulded plastic part that just needs the wires slid through it, be...
Wednesday, September 25, 2024

A working chassis

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  The motor is back in, and the chassis works!  This is great news as it makes a huge difference to the chances of this project being comple...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Waggly bits attached

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  The chassis has had a coat of primer, and some back paint, so I can start fitting the wheels. With these in place, the slighly crude sideb...
Monday, September 23, 2024

Squeeze that motor into the chassis

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  It's big isn't it?  Fitted into the chassis, the motor looks somewhat incongruous, but that is the way the kit designer intended i...
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Thursday, September 19, 2024

Motor

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  According to the box, this is a Japanese motor, and it is in a pink carton marked "Mashima", so it's reasonable to assume th...
Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Replacement Romfords

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  Close up, the Ghillie chassis is very much of its time. Rectangular frames made from thick brass are screwed together with spacers. Plasti...
Tuesday, September 17, 2024

DJH "Ghillie"

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  I don't need any more locomotive kits, but when I spotted this unusual whitemetal model from DJH on RMweb marketplace, I snatched it. ...
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