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I received the IP Jessica Kit bought on the forum for sale pages from (90733)Jack and was surprised at the good quality of the steel bodied kit, I wonder why IP stopped making it, cost maybe? I looked through the parts and started to assemble the chassis, and was pleased to find it goes together well. here are a few early photo's.



The chassis ran well with a small battery set up.



I placed the body parts together to see what it looked like.




I am very impressed with this kit I hope I can do it to a good standard.

Nice job Big Al. I have one of their smaller, 4 wheel, diesel kits which I bought ready made. It has now been stripped down and cleaned back to bare metal and I'm about to rebuild it soon.
Agreed it is a very well made kit and will look good on completion, possibly with a few extra details along the way.

I made an offer on the kit but it was refused so glad to see you got it anyway Al.

Keep us updated!

Thanks Peter and tom, the kit came with the extra fitting kit I cleaned up the castings and painted them with etch primer. the exhaust I bent to a better shape and drilled the end to make it more realistic, I have polished and clear coated the pipe and painted the silencer silver, it now looks like a stainless steel pipe .

The exhaust looks the biz

The chassis is finished and all the many holes have been tapped ready for finishing assembly of the body work. the photo's do not show the colour of very well with and without the flash. I have put the body loosely on the chassis to see what it will look like, will post pic;s in day light soon.

Coming along nicely

Having got up sober this morning I realised that the paint work was not up to standard ( had a few beers with me mates last night) I spent all morning rubbing down paintwork and resprayed Brunswick Green, looks a lot better.  


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Some excellent progress there. Well Done.

I do like the idea of drilling out the exhaust pipe end for realism. Must see if I can do that on my two IP Eng exhausts.

Chris Cairns.

Paint job looks better second time round. Nice work.

Chris I had trouble trying to drill pipe out I ended up using Dremel with small diamond burr, Hard to get drill central on pipe.

Your best bet is to start the hole off with a fine bit in a pin vice

Narrow Minded wrote:Your best bet is to start the hole off with a fine bit in a pin vice

Unfortunately the one on my Lollypop railcar has already been araldite'd to the rear panel.

Chris Cairns.

Loosely assembled parts with new paint job looks better still lot's to do.

I have cleaned up the yellow/black paint work on the rad's and fitted the grill mesh, I received a parcel from Chuffed 2 bit's with the electricary bit's, nice to see he has labelled all the wires for me and wrote instructions on the box as well, all I have to do now is fit it all in to the loco.
















The Biffo battery

That is a comprehensive package from Chuffed 2 Bits.

Look forward to seeing and hearing it all in action soon.

Chris Cairns.

Sorry for poor video it's my ancient gas powered Cannon camera , I couldn't resist throwing the sound system together to try it, it sounds OK live but a bit dodgy on my lap top. Hope it comes out OK. I need to correct a dodgy wheel that is giving the loco a bit of a wobble on test rig.             Click on picture.

I like the sound system. Great work!

Thanks for posting the video Allen. Sounds good although I notice there is quite a delay between closing the throttle and the engine sound running down.

At least you have enough space in the IP Jessica. Just been running my IP Jessie and although there may be enough space for the sound module I'm not sure about a speaker. Which speaker have you fitted to the Jessica (there are 2 in your photo above) and where have you fitted it?

Chris Cairns.

Chris, I fitted a speaker directly behind the radiator grill in my Jessie - I fitted a bit of black cloth in there first to hide it

Nice work Al