RE-Building my Lady Anne

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RE-Building my Lady Anne

Post by bungle80a » Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:19 am

Well, the day has come to order the first of 3 kits to build a Lady Anne. Later today I shall be placing an order with Roundhouse Engineering, Doncaster for the Lady Anne Chassis kit. Over the coming months I will be posting details of my progress, along with piccies so you can see how its going!

At last, I will finally be on track to owning and running my own gas fired, reliable, non-mamod loco!

Cecil: Lets hope this project gets further off the drawing board than the Iver!!  :lol:

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Post by Matt » Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:29 am

Now thats a good way of buying an expensive loco-by it in bits over a long time, and then build it! What's thios about the Iver.
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Post by bungle80a » Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:55 am

About 4 years ago I managed to pick up a 45mm Cheddar Iver off eBay fairly reasonably priced. When it arrived it was practically mint. Still stiff as it hadn't even steamed enough to run it in! However, due to the design, rebuilding to 32mm meant a heck of a lot of work, including changing it from inside to outside framed, which I wouldn't have had a clue how to do at the time. And PTLRsam just didnt have the time to do the drawings and work etc, so it ended up being put back on ebay, along with my old tablet fuelled mamod. Instead I ended up with my current mamod (YDG), which had been previously modified by PTLRsam for its old owner, which you (Matt) subsequently knocked off the rails, dislodging the chimney and chuff pipe! (Nothin a bit of epoxy didnt solve!)
Can't remember if I made a profit on Iver when it went on eBay, but I do remember both the loco's I sold were bought (about a month or 2 apart) by the same buyer, in JAPAN!

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Post by Matt » Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:02 am

Wow :D :D ! Thats a long way to post an engine.
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Post by bungle80a » Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:56 pm

The order has been made! Werhoo! It will be sent out by courier tomorrow, but because they don't deliver at weekends, it will arrive on Monday, which is great because that will be my next day off work!
Matt wrote:Wow :D :D ! Thats a long way to post an engine.
Yes it is a long way! and there were 2 separate occasions they got sent too! My eBay ads after that read
"Will post worldwide, even to Japan!"

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Post by Matt » Thu Feb 21, 2008 4:01 pm

How much does it cost to post that far?
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Post by bungle80a » Thu Feb 21, 2008 4:33 pm

I cant remember, but a lot i would imagine!
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Post by SillyBilly » Thu Feb 21, 2008 4:48 pm

Sounds good! Perhapos it's a bit late to mention the one which is rather cheap in the 16mm Assoc. Magazine, which only turned up today :lol: !

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Post by ACLR » Thu Feb 21, 2008 7:33 pm

look forward to the building of the lady ann :D
will be a great project

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Post by steamyjim » Thu Feb 21, 2008 8:00 pm

Looking forward to some pics!

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Post by Chris Cairns » Thu Feb 21, 2008 8:02 pm

Good luck with the Lady Anne kits.

When I first looked at getting a Cheddar Iver secondhand, the 45mm versions were only available. However a phone call to Cheddar Models at that time (they were still in business) advised me that it would be very difficult to regauge this model as you found out. I hope you did not lose out on having to resell it on ebay.

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Post by laalratty » Thu Feb 21, 2008 8:49 pm

Good luck with yer Lady Anne bungle, look forward to seeing it at the ANLR when its finished. Any thought about what colour your going to paint it?

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Post by mhlr » Thu Feb 21, 2008 10:24 pm

Wow, I will look forward to seeing it! (in action too!... :D )
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Post by bungle80a » Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:33 am

Not really given much thought to the colour of her yet. Its gonna be a few months before I have to start thinking about that, as I now have to save up the £330ish for the boiler and burner kit!

I'll make sure I take loads of photos along the way for you all to see. Probably wont be very interesting, but you'll see the progression. Hopefully!
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Post by mhlr » Fri Feb 22, 2008 7:20 pm

bungle80a wrote:Not really given much thought to the colour of her yet. Its gonna be a few months before I have to start thinking about that, as I now have to save up the £330ish for the boiler and burner kit!

I'll make sure I take loads of photos along the way for you all to see. Probably wont be very interesting, but you'll see the progression. Hopefully!
By the time you've saved enough for all those upgrades, you could get a Edrig or something!
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Post by laalratty » Fri Feb 22, 2008 8:36 pm

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bungle80a wrote:Not really given much thought to the colour of her yet. Its gonna be a few months before I have to start thinking about that, as I now have to save up the £330ish for the boiler and burner kit!

I'll make sure I take loads of photos along the way for you all to see. Probably wont be very interesting, but you'll see the progression. Hopefully!
By the time you've saved enough for all those upgrades, you could get a Edrig or something!
Now come on I'm sure that it would be more fun then getting an edrig, even if its more expensive. Plus Edrigs are getting really common on this forum!

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Post by SillyBilly » Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:16 pm

Don't forget Pete this is a full on Roundhouse!

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Post by mhlr » Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:27 pm

haha lol! :lol:
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Post by bungle80a » Sat Feb 23, 2008 1:58 am

The money i spent on the chassis kit would have gone a long way to getting a budget engine, but I wouldnt get the pleasure, fulfilment and feeling of accomplishment that i am sure i will get from building the lady anne.

Also, I still have a lot to learn about the workings of our beloved 16mm locos, and this is a great hands on opportunity to get that knowledge!
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Post by bungle80a » Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:09 am

The box from Mr Roundhose has arrived!!! :D

Will post details and some piccies of the contents later1
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