Hi Mick,
That's timely an overdose of LNER streamliners!
Okay,
It's been over a year since I picked at the W1 but we are now on the final step. All of the new castings have been worked up and manufactured, both white metal and brass, the etches have been cleaned up and organised into production sheets and the final item to complete the build has arrived today.
All that's left to do is send off the final etches for printing, complete one test build from essentially what's in the box and write the instructions as I go, it'll also ratify our stock lists and cross check all the sundries.
Once the instructions have been proof read and checked then they'll go to the printers and thence into the boxes which are already getting stocked up.
So we are now very nearly there, I'd like to give a deadline but a complete build isn't something completed over a lunch time, let alone photography, drawings and detailed text. The etches will take two to three weeks once I pull the trigger which I hope will be this week.
I will show progress here as we go along, that'll probably be your best guide to when it's getting close to being available.
I have cleared a space in the corner of the workshop to set up a little photo table, so that'll speed things along a bit, rather than having to keep clearing the work bench after each stage to take photos before carrying on.
So first off a little taster of the new casing
This is hot off the press and only days old, so it hasn't had any work done to it to clean up the edges, it is exactly as it will be in the box.
View attachment 93037
And just to show it's not an A4
View attachment 93038
So keep tuned folks, there'll be more updates later in the month once the etches return ready for building
Mick D
Okay,
It's been over a year since I picked at the W1 but we are now on the final step. All of the new castings have been worked up and manufactured, both white metal and brass, the etches have been cleaned up and organised into production sheets and the final item to complete the build has arrived today.
All that's left to do is send off the final etches for printing, complete one test build from essentially what's in the box and write the instructions as I go, it'll also ratify our stock lists and cross check all the sundries.
Once the instructions have been proof read and checked then they'll go to the printers and thence into the boxes which are already getting stocked up.
So we are now very nearly there, I'd like to give a deadline but a complete build isn't something completed over a lunch time, let alone photography, drawings and detailed text. The etches will take two to three weeks once I pull the trigger which I hope will be this week.
I will show progress here as we go along, that'll probably be your best guide to when it's getting close to being available.
I have cleared a space in the corner of the workshop to set up a little photo table, so that'll speed things along a bit, rather than having to keep clearing the work bench after each stage to take photos before carrying on.
So first off a little taster of the new casing
This is hot off the press and only days old, so it hasn't had any work done to it to clean up the edges, it is exactly as it will be in the box.
View attachment 93037
And just to show it's not an A4
View attachment 93038
So keep tuned folks, there'll be more updates later in the month once the etches return ready for building
Mick D
You should have added a couple of parts to make up an oil can or something similar.I did toy with adding a few spare washers to make it over 650
After 42 months I think enough is enoughYou should have added a couple of parts to make up an oil can or something similar.
We have no evidence to date that it did, but you can be assured that the day after release date, said information will surface, such is the law of sodI take it that the W1 unlike the A4s in BR post 1956 years did not receive the revised Double chimney ?
but you can be assured that the day after release date such information will surface, such is the law of sod
I take it that the W1 unlike the A4s in BR post 1956 years did not receive the revised Double chimney ?