Quick Emett loco
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Quick Emett loco
Whilst at Exeter Garden Railway show, I bought a lonley 3v Lima 4F tender loco for £15..lovely condition and working!..so what did I do...like Chop Shop...CHOPPED IT! and started converting it to a Emett loco using card craft boxes, plasticard, and stick on card craft gems (2mm and 3mm) as rivets...this is the story so far....though note I did make the cab taller as it did not look right.
Nice work Mr Crackingjob, Laurence of the Awchit and Cyder Railway has one of these 4f's and it is something of a surprise just how powerful they are. Look forward to seeing what it ends up like.
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The cab sides are tops from smaller boxes, the saddle tank is the bottom of a small box, and the tender is the bottom of a large box with a section cut out to narrow it. Using boxes means I have strong but light superstructure with strong corners. In the past I have made coaches, vans and trucks using card boxes...its fun
The original steam dome was a pen top but it did not look right so I dived into my collection of cheap brass trinkets and found some small candle sticks (bought for 50p each) which I have bought with the intention of using as the bases for lamp posts...and a swift Chop Shop moment I cut one to make something more like Emett.
I have also raided the recycling bin and found card for the tender coal rails....just coal to add.
A rail test went very well, and the added super structure is very light. SEE PHOTOS BELOW THE You Tube VIDEOS to see the improvements to the loco. (must watch from 12 minutes to 25 minutes on the first video...the purchase of metal and engine transported on a rickshaw plus test of the engine on the street outside the garage...and not in a car! is to be seen to believe!)
Oh yes incase you were wondering (those elsewhere in the world)....Chop Shop is UK programe (on Quest channel) with Leepu a Bangla Banger (a Bangladesh car designer) and Bernie a cockney mechanic..Leepu produces in a unique way a stunning car out of scrap the Bangla way, and Bernie tries to keep it all roadworthy..lots of shouting, broken bits and major body rebuilds...my way of modelling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP13YZ6AlFU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcMPlXv16nE
The original steam dome was a pen top but it did not look right so I dived into my collection of cheap brass trinkets and found some small candle sticks (bought for 50p each) which I have bought with the intention of using as the bases for lamp posts...and a swift Chop Shop moment I cut one to make something more like Emett.
I have also raided the recycling bin and found card for the tender coal rails....just coal to add.
A rail test went very well, and the added super structure is very light. SEE PHOTOS BELOW THE You Tube VIDEOS to see the improvements to the loco. (must watch from 12 minutes to 25 minutes on the first video...the purchase of metal and engine transported on a rickshaw plus test of the engine on the street outside the garage...and not in a car! is to be seen to believe!)
Oh yes incase you were wondering (those elsewhere in the world)....Chop Shop is UK programe (on Quest channel) with Leepu a Bangla Banger (a Bangladesh car designer) and Bernie a cockney mechanic..Leepu produces in a unique way a stunning car out of scrap the Bangla way, and Bernie tries to keep it all roadworthy..lots of shouting, broken bits and major body rebuilds...my way of modelling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP13YZ6AlFU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcMPlXv16nE
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Much work has taken place, with painting almost bringing the loco to a finish, with the exception of final fittings, lining, lettering and weathering.
I have also made a start on the train it pulls, again using boxes and parts of boxes to build up the shapes, before painting or cladding with coloured mounting board (saves painting and lends its self to the cartoon colouring feel I am after). The coaches stand on recycled Hornby Meccano o gauge tin plate wagons, that I found via Ebay very cheaply...a new lease if life fitted with Binnie wheels and axles.
The sort of scale is 7/8ths but the figures are the 4"-5" wooden artist figures you can buy cheaply....however invoking AWNUTS scale ruler rule, the guards van is a little too tall...but that adds to the flavour....and is what AWNUTS is all about.
The loco begins its life today as No1 of the Squally Bouy Railway, the new CEO Reece Shaw POPE my 1st grandchild born on 10th Novemeber 2014...however I am having to play with it...SORRY look after it.
I have also made a start on the train it pulls, again using boxes and parts of boxes to build up the shapes, before painting or cladding with coloured mounting board (saves painting and lends its self to the cartoon colouring feel I am after). The coaches stand on recycled Hornby Meccano o gauge tin plate wagons, that I found via Ebay very cheaply...a new lease if life fitted with Binnie wheels and axles.
The sort of scale is 7/8ths but the figures are the 4"-5" wooden artist figures you can buy cheaply....however invoking AWNUTS scale ruler rule, the guards van is a little too tall...but that adds to the flavour....and is what AWNUTS is all about.
The loco begins its life today as No1 of the Squally Bouy Railway, the new CEO Reece Shaw POPE my 1st grandchild born on 10th Novemeber 2014...however I am having to play with it...SORRY look after it.
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Ahhh you have seen the flaw in my plan to have the loco to myself..damn!....I think a wooden version needs to be made!!!
Though interestingly enough, when No2 son was small, card buildings and wagons, if broken were given a quick spray with water and ironed to flatten and dried out and put together with lots of UHU glue.
Though interestingly enough, when No2 son was small, card buildings and wagons, if broken were given a quick spray with water and ironed to flatten and dried out and put together with lots of UHU glue.
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A bit of work on the first coach and the guards van. The Guard is in fact Peter Porter from Plan-an- Query station and stands 5" tall...oops not 16mm or 7-8ths....owww awnuts scale!...the laoding gauge is quite big...nearer 1/12th
The Guards van needs lettering and fittings...and a suitable Emett guard
The 1st class coach is a bright yellow and blue ..can't miss that!
The second class coach needs to be started ...blood and custard colour scheme I think!
All coming along nicely! Just hope I can do a nice weathering scheme similar to Mr Goodwin...see Gnatterbox link
http://forum.gn15.info/viewtopic.php?t=9922
The Guards van needs lettering and fittings...and a suitable Emett guard
The 1st class coach is a bright yellow and blue ..can't miss that!
The second class coach needs to be started ...blood and custard colour scheme I think!
All coming along nicely! Just hope I can do a nice weathering scheme similar to Mr Goodwin...see Gnatterbox link
http://forum.gn15.info/viewtopic.php?t=9922
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A bit more done to 3rd class, with guttering and drain pipe made of paper straws and odd bits of wire...I went for black as the fancy stripes looked lost on the coach
Also door handles made from rings from a jewellry shop and handles from cast off wire
The roof was layered to give the dipped in the centre feel
Also door handles made from rings from a jewellry shop and handles from cast off wire
The roof was layered to give the dipped in the centre feel
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