Your “project of passion” has turned an entry level toy into a model. I have one of these somewhere, and I had considered making it into a National Coal Board shunter. First thing I need to do is, lose and modify that exposed motor retaining spring, and maybe a tenderising conversion like I’ve seen recently on YT, by OO-Bill. Thank you for a job well done, and sending me off on a tangent to start another project😜
It might be the OO gauge equivalent to Triggers Broom but you made a pretty good job of it and as the saying goes it’s my railway so I’ll run what I want. Good video
I had a Dublo 2-6-4 T that was like triggers broom, I had it handed down to me in the mid 70’s, but couldn’t run it as it was 3 rail, my brother converted it to 2 rail later using some Triang princess parts, but eventually the motor burned out. Sometime later, in the early 80’s, I hacked out the chassis with a hacksaw, and with car body filler I made an X04 motor mount and changed the axle gear to suit. It was crude, but it ran. By the 90’s, it had a Comet chassis with Romford wheels and five pole motor. By the 2000’s, the body had been stripped, etched brass and white metal detailing, another Comet chassis to P4 gauge, Alan Gibson wheels with coreless motor, resprayed in 2k satin black and Methfix decals. Foolishly, I sold my whole collection around 2011-12.
That smokey looks sick in GWR colours, u done a awesome job, might do something like this myself for a kent company... imagine a networksouth east colour livery lol, crazy i know, but might donit for a laugh
You've given me inspiration to do something similar with my first loco, a 90s Hornby 'Queen Mary' red 0-4-0 from the Freight Hauler set. Though I run DC so it may get a new coreless motor. P.S. Did a quick google of the Dowalis D Class and found out she was rebuilt from an 0-4-0 to and 0-6-0 so might be looking around for a suitable chassis! 😂
Glad you're enjoying them! If I could turn out videos now often I would, but sadly I have other commitments too. Life is all about balance. But great to know you appreciate them, that means a lot.
What a transformation! That honestly looks fantastic! This series has inspired me to try and do the same, albeit on a slightly tighter budget 😉. Thanks very much for sharing!
Nice little project. As a note the Chinese chassis 0-4-0's do not have a different gearing, it is exactly the same, all that they have done is fit a lower RPM motor - 10,000 if my memory is correct. The old UK built ones had motors with a considerably higher RPM!
The GWR spent a lot of time turning their saddle tanks into pannier tanks (and occasionally vice versa). What would a pannier conversion of a Caley 0-4-0 look like?
That's quite a neat rebuild. Not too different, indeed, from some of the engines the GWR inherited from lines such as the Swansea Harbour Trust. Quite what the O16.5 and other branches of the narrow gauge fraternity would do without 'Desmond / Smokey Joe' I don't know. Have a look in 'Narrow Lines' magazine, or Smallbrook Studios website, and see what I mean I once built a Chatham steam railmotor using the mech, fitted with 'proper' crossheads and cylinders - the improved appearance was immense. At present I run two of the bodies, mounted on 12mm gauge chassis, s 3 foot gauge industrials, and they look great.
Bit of a rollercoaster with the chassis/chip thread - I used to go cheap with my decoders, but now I only go with Zimo to never have to worry aobut it! AK Ultra Matte is great for painting onto smokeboxes, if you wanted to varnish for one reason or another, to bring it back to pure matte finish.
Nice video.. the loco looks great.. can't believe you didn't consider the condition of the track and the loco's wheels, especially with that bad misalignment of the track in the station, before buying a new chassis. Have you tried the old chassis since cleaning the track.
@@FrontingtonandBackwoodsRailway I understand that it's too late and counter productive to go back to the old chassis with the model being finished, but just wondered how well the old chassis worked now that you've cleaned the track and if you had tried it. Only time will tell if the chinese version is any good, as the chinese version more or less ran the same as the 40 year old british version until you cleaned the track. I have an old Hornby/Triang 0-6-0 Jinty that came with the Battlespace set and has the original metal smoke unit that worked on a piston and the only thing that has been changed on it is the brushes and it still works well.
hi there, the chinese versions are much better, i have one in standard condition and operates perfectly, the made in Margate ones were too highly geared, hence the pocket rocket locos, looks great in green,
