Nick Dunhill
Western Thunderer
Well folks the Whitby tanks are on hold while Slater's make suitable wheels, so I have moved on to my next commission for the time being. It's a Backwoods Kit for one of these:
I've made the coupling rods and detailed them with oil caps and knuckle joints;
Then I moved on to cutting the frames and modifying them to accept hornblocks from the Alan Gibson range (a bit 4 mm-ish here, apologies!)
I sold the inappropriate Romford spoked drivers and Colin at Alan Gibson sold me some disc wheels that are the correct diameter and nearly the correct pattern. They look a lot better. I milled off the crankpin bosses and added balance weights to hide the mess.
There are more pictures to see on my Flickr page here
nick dunhill
Next I'm going to make some prototypical frame spacers.......
I've made the coupling rods and detailed them with oil caps and knuckle joints;
Then I moved on to cutting the frames and modifying them to accept hornblocks from the Alan Gibson range (a bit 4 mm-ish here, apologies!)
I sold the inappropriate Romford spoked drivers and Colin at Alan Gibson sold me some disc wheels that are the correct diameter and nearly the correct pattern. They look a lot better. I milled off the crankpin bosses and added balance weights to hide the mess.
There are more pictures to see on my Flickr page here
nick dunhill
Next I'm going to make some prototypical frame spacers.......