7mm Mickoo's Commercial Workbench

[Genghis]

More progress on the JLTRT Star, it's always the little bits at the end that take the greatest time, you think I'd have learned that after five years .

Been there, got the T shirt………..

 

[Compton castle]

When you ( hopefully) 3 D print the elbow style steam pipes I’ll have a set off you for my Star.

 

[Paul Cheffings]

Hi

I’ve always found that 80% of a build gets done in 20% of the time and the last 20% of the build takes the remaining 80% of the time.

Cheers

Paul

 

[simond]

In project management, we said that the first 80% of the job took 80% of the time and budget, and the remaining 20% took the other 80%…

 

[3 LINK]

When you ( hopefully) 3 D print the elbow style steam pipes I’ll have a set off you for my Star.

Ditto, for my Castle, although bound to be a different shape, curve and diameter …

 

[mickoo]

Ditto, for my Castle, although bound to be a different shape, curve and diameter …

This Star is totally different to Castles as far as I know, it sweeps back around and dives under the boiler behind the saddle, not into the top of the outside cylinder blocks.



I've already done a set for a Castle, the later big fat pipe variant.

 

[3 LINK]

Good morning Mick, I thought you might have replaced those steam pipes as the original offerings were rather abysmal . I’ll drop you a pm later, cheers.

Martyn.

 

[LarryG]

I seem to remember there were variants of steam pipes on the Stars, depending on whether they got a new cylinder block or not. Lawrence Waters book on the GWR Star class is pretty handy.

 

[mickoo]

Good morning Mick, I thought you might have replaced those steam pipes as the original offerings were rather abysmal . I’ll drop you a pm later, cheers.

Martyn.

I did the white metal ones on the first castle and vowed never again.

 

[mickoo]

End of build for the JLTRT Star, some bits to add on strip down and some when back from paint; steam pipes are loose to allow easier for painting of boiler front and will be secured after paint.

Some photos show a lozenge shaped patch on the RH boiler side so just checking it if needs that for the clients date line. Also speedometer bracket to fit when I can find one as not in the kit

 

[Compton castle]

Some stars did indeed have early style castle outside steam pipes when they gained new out side cylinders. The elbow pipes were for new smoke boxes but original outside cylinders.