AJC
Western Thunderer
Yes, it's the Bachmann one - dad has the MSE version and a Cambrian. I know that there's the Chivers' kit out there as well but four is certainly too many!
Adam
4mm An EM Workbench - lots of lamp irons
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Yes, it's the Bachmann one - dad has the MSE version and a Cambrian. I know that there's the Chivers' kit out there as well but four is certainly too many!
Adam
AJC
Western Thunderer
It is a common affliction, which is strange, given how much hassle the things are; all those brake shoes, handrails, lamps...
Adam
AJC
Western Thunderer
A host of lamp irons. I seem to have been making these for weeks, but it's one of those jobs, yet again, that once you're in a groove, you may as well keep going. So first the aft of the tender for my M&GN 0-6-0. These are all folded over from shim per Iain Rice's little sketches and soldered to a length of 0.45mm wire being pinned into the back of the tender. Yes, the plates are completely wrong, but unaccountably no one does M&GN tender plates, though under paint you'll never tell, and their presence is necessary.
Note that the top iron protrudes further out because of the flare of the tender. You can see the same thing on the bunker of my Mainline/High Level pannier whose prototype was subject to Eastleigh's ministrations, so got Southern pattern irons to go with the GW ones, including GW-pattern in SR positions. GW irons via Masokits, plain from scrap etch.
At the front end, only the smokebox has it's full compliment. On 8745 (and two Weymouth engines, 7780 and 7782), the SR position irons were mounted on the smokebox by means of a pair of triangular brackets. Ugly, but fun to model.
Obviously, there's more of these, but how many do you really need to see?
Adam
Note that the top iron protrudes further out because of the flare of the tender. You can see the same thing on the bunker of my Mainline/High Level pannier whose prototype was subject to Eastleigh's ministrations, so got Southern pattern irons to go with the GW ones, including GW-pattern in SR positions. GW irons via Masokits, plain from scrap etch.
At the front end, only the smokebox has it's full compliment. On 8745 (and two Weymouth engines, 7780 and 7782), the SR position irons were mounted on the smokebox by means of a pair of triangular brackets. Ugly, but fun to model.
Obviously, there's more of these, but how many do you really need to see?
Adam
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