Mr Grumpy
Western Thunderer
The deed has ben done….I have placed my order for my DJH class 47. A few weeks to wait as my kit will be made to order.
After bending many ears and gleaning much useful info from WT members, I have decided on the following spec:
DJH class 47/4 (or 8 see below)
DJH lighting kit
One ABC motor bogie (Brian will taylor make the bogie using the DJH etch as a pattern so the bogie side fames should just ‘fall on’) Plunger pickups on trailing bogie
XL decoder (Still to decide on which sound project)
Cliff Williams 35mm round speaker and enclosure
Slaters wheels.
CPL or MMP loco screw couplings
I will use solder for construction, possibly Fry's 99 degree, to save tinning the brass etches when joining to the white metal/pewter castings. I was surprised that some people use a micro flame torch to join the larger castings. Don't know if my ability or luck would hold out for that one!
My existing stock is mostly banger blue, mostly BR WR and, because my first loco was a Triang Hornby D5572, a lovely filthy green 31, all numbered pre TOPS. I haven’t run my locos for years, as I enjoy building things (even a whacking great cement silo for my JLTRT presflos)……but thats another story.
However, my thought process seems to have gone a little haywire, as I really fancy building my 47 as DRS 47805. I just happened to be on Basingstoke station as it roared through, opening up 1/2 way along the platform. The photo eventually made it’s way to my desktop, and the loco has just nibbled away at me ever since….build me….build me!!
Now, as I don’t get round to running anything nowadays, and my layout has become a 12’ diorama I guess I could have it in which ever livery I choose. Still a few weeks left to decide. (I think the 47/8 is basically a 47/4 with long range fuel tanks.) My money is still on banger blue 1662 IKB!
I’m clearing down my work bench for the ‘big build’ and just getting round to the painting stage of my Thumper. Just need to fit the XL decoder and the awful excuse of the cast resin engine. (A painted toilet roll would have done just as well if not better). Also just weathered my MMP B tanks. Brilliant kits, lovely wagons. Bearing in mind each wagon took me around 87 hours to build before painting, don’t hold your breath for a quick build of my 47!
I have spent hours reading the threads and topics on WT, and am slightly in awe of the quality and excellence that prevails. I feel like someone who has just left college without good A levels and somehow snuck in to Oxford! So, for me to post my build, is, for me a big thing. I’m always glad to accept advice, and reasonably thick skinned enough to take some knocks, thats life! I want to improve and learn, gaining new skills and experience. Hopefully, if and when the MOK re-built MN returns, I will have the confidence to tackle it.
Just need patience for that big heavy box to arrive.........................
After bending many ears and gleaning much useful info from WT members, I have decided on the following spec:
DJH class 47/4 (or 8 see below)
DJH lighting kit
One ABC motor bogie (Brian will taylor make the bogie using the DJH etch as a pattern so the bogie side fames should just ‘fall on’) Plunger pickups on trailing bogie
XL decoder (Still to decide on which sound project)
Cliff Williams 35mm round speaker and enclosure
Slaters wheels.
CPL or MMP loco screw couplings
I will use solder for construction, possibly Fry's 99 degree, to save tinning the brass etches when joining to the white metal/pewter castings. I was surprised that some people use a micro flame torch to join the larger castings. Don't know if my ability or luck would hold out for that one!
My existing stock is mostly banger blue, mostly BR WR and, because my first loco was a Triang Hornby D5572, a lovely filthy green 31, all numbered pre TOPS. I haven’t run my locos for years, as I enjoy building things (even a whacking great cement silo for my JLTRT presflos)……but thats another story.
However, my thought process seems to have gone a little haywire, as I really fancy building my 47 as DRS 47805. I just happened to be on Basingstoke station as it roared through, opening up 1/2 way along the platform. The photo eventually made it’s way to my desktop, and the loco has just nibbled away at me ever since….build me….build me!!
Now, as I don’t get round to running anything nowadays, and my layout has become a 12’ diorama I guess I could have it in which ever livery I choose. Still a few weeks left to decide. (I think the 47/8 is basically a 47/4 with long range fuel tanks.) My money is still on banger blue 1662 IKB!
I’m clearing down my work bench for the ‘big build’ and just getting round to the painting stage of my Thumper. Just need to fit the XL decoder and the awful excuse of the cast resin engine. (A painted toilet roll would have done just as well if not better). Also just weathered my MMP B tanks. Brilliant kits, lovely wagons. Bearing in mind each wagon took me around 87 hours to build before painting, don’t hold your breath for a quick build of my 47!
I have spent hours reading the threads and topics on WT, and am slightly in awe of the quality and excellence that prevails. I feel like someone who has just left college without good A levels and somehow snuck in to Oxford! So, for me to post my build, is, for me a big thing. I’m always glad to accept advice, and reasonably thick skinned enough to take some knocks, thats life! I want to improve and learn, gaining new skills and experience. Hopefully, if and when the MOK re-built MN returns, I will have the confidence to tackle it.
Just need patience for that big heavy box to arrive.........................