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.

 

[mickoo]

Boiler patch finally added, took longer than anticipated but done and dusted now.

 

[spikey faz]

Boiler patch finally added, took longer than anticipated but done and dusted now.

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Its these kind of additions that add character and help bring a model to life.

It's easy to forget that the full sized engine was a working machine with fire and steam conspiring to bring wear and tear to components.

Mike

 

[simond]

Its these kind of additions that add character and help bring a model to life.

It's easy to forget that the full sized engine was a working machine with fire and steam conspiring to bring wear and tear to components.

Mike

And blokes with spanners, shovels and hammers who were perhaps less concerned with appearance than getting the job done and the loco in service so the train could run on time.

 

[Genghis]

The boiler patch reminds me of a visit to Thai Railways (SRT) steam depot when I lived there. SRT had built new boilers for two of the locos and there they were on shed - one of the two had an ugly patch on the nearly brand new clothing, presumably where the shed fitters had cut away for attention. Unfortunately most of the photos were lost in a computer disc failure.