4mm Brighton Works - An EM Terrier

[AJC]

Thanks Steph! The lining benefits from the right product being available - Hornby did such a fine job of the tank panels that it was imperative the rest matched and I'm pleased they do; it'll be even better once I get around to the footplate valance as well.

Terriers are small, but not that small: certainly they're easier to motorise and ballast than some things I've built or thought about building. What they really want, from an engineman's perspective, is a decent-size cab and a bigger bunker. Even the cab handrails live on the outside. That said, it has taxed the thinking of this 4mm modeller because all the standard bits, handrail knobs, in particular, are noticeably over scale.

Adam

Re. the lump - Presumably one of those spigot mounted lamps? I think the Brighton used these? Not that it matters, but a model hammer is on the to do list.

 

[Steph Dale]

Re. the lump - Presumably one of those spigot mounted lamps? I think the Brighton used these? Not that it matters, but a model hammer is on the to do list.

Yep, Dave's post had the correct description - and the hammer in the holder of his E4...
As an aside, Dave's E4 is a lovely model and for a Brighton fan well worth seeing.

Good luck with the hammer!

Steph

 

[Michael D]

I’ve been enjoying this thread after taking the Dapol 7mm to bits and putting it back together as an original Terrier then S7ing it.
Don’t know if it helps but here’s a pic of the cab of Fenchurch currently languishing at Sheffield Park. Best wishes Michael

 

[PaulR]

That's fantastically neat art work - brilliant! Is the lining done with a bow pen?

Paul

 

[AJC]

That's fantastically neat art work - brilliant! Is the lining done with a bow pen?

Paul

Thank you. No, not a bow pen - more details up the thread - but it's a mix of what Hornby did (tank sides, most of the cab) and transfers produced by the Brighton Circle. These made an impossible job relatively easy! A bow pen takes practise and not a little skill: transfers mostly only ask for patience and here do a better job than I could otherwise.

Pipe runs next.

Adam

 

[AJC]

And a little while later:



I haven't sorted out the vacuum ejector pipe just yet because I need to make up a union to connect it to the pipe through the cab front. As well as the feed pipes, there is a blower pipe, a lubricator run and a whistle (a spare from a bag of reject castings bought from Backwoods Miniatures years and years ago). You should also be able to make out the rivets on the cab roof. It's relatively neat and tidy, but there's a bucket, oil cans and lamps to add as well as fire irons which cannot live anywhere else and can't be left off! You may also make out a bit of Milliput to plug the holes in the cab front. Oops...


Adam

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

A nice piece of 'knitting'.

 

[AJC]

A nice piece of 'knitting'.

Yes - for a small loco, there's an awful lot of plumbing, and even now I'm only about halfway through it...

Adam

PS - and it's only halfway through doing it that you work out the loop is to clear the wash out plug! Evolution rather than design.

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Yes - for a small loco, there's an awful lot of plumbing, and even now I'm only about halfway through it...

Welcome to the SR Central Section....

 

[AJC]

A useful picture, full of interest, of Brighton Works at Eastleigh just prior to scrapping (and donation of the chimney to Waddon - a Marsh chimney...).

A1X 32635 at Eastleigh Works Open Day, 7 Aug 1963 by Ian Nolan, on Flickr

I could witter on at length about the features of interest here and most don't concern the loco': the single bolster may well have been a BR build and it's already in internal use, the stencil lettering on the LNER steel open is a nice feature and then we get to the loco'! Meanwhile, here's the latest update: lots of pipework, including steam heat (front easy, rear much, much less so) and vacuum pipe which is trickier because on this loco (but not on others), it wasn't quite tucked in behind the valance.



Up front, there's the steam heat firmly in evidence too, along with the restraining chain (anchored, prototypically, just below the buffer) and the drain for the vac' pipe - a short length of 0.7 wire soldered as a 'T' and a bored out bit of 2mm plastic - the mounting bracket for a tension lock coupling lifted from a spare Parkside sprue. The upright vacuum pipes themselves will have to wait until I've painted and transferred the buffer beams.



Next up, a couple of oil boxes for the tank fronts and then the thickets of lamp irons, one of the most beguiling 'Brighton' features. Then I can get the brushes out again.

Adam

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

and it's already in internal use,

I always thought the X inside a O meant the vehicle was condemned.

It's a nice revealing photo of the A1X.

 

[AJC]

I always thought the X inside a O meant the vehicle was condemned.

It's a nice revealing photo of the A1X.

Well, yes, but I've never seen one done that neatly, nor so obviously in use! That's a sign-written job, I'm sure.

Adam

 

[AJC]

Look, coppertop! Being unimpressed with metallic paint when casting around for options for the copper cap for a whitemetal chimney, I had a small epiphany when watching a timelapse video of preparation for an exhibition at the BL - why not try metal leaf? The technique is pretty simple, being exactly as it would be for signwriting - apply size, wait, wait some more and tap the leaf in place with a soft brush. I'm quite pleased...



Needs sealing, I think.

Adam

 

[Steph Dale]

Sealing? Yes, deffo.
I just replied to your post in the general workbench thread...

Steph

 

[AJC]

Was it worth the wait?





Adam

 

[john lewsey]

I like that

 

[Steph Dale]

Nice work Adam,

Those large pictures are so cruel; there's a splodge on the front of the tank and it looks like you've smudged a guard iron; but it looks lovely to me!

Does it run well too?

Steph

 

[AJC]

Nice work Adam,

Those large pictures are so cruel; there's a splodge on the front of the tank and it looks like you've smudged a guard iron; but it looks lovely to me!

Does it run well too?

Steph

The splodge on the front of the tank is the blanking plate for the condensing pipes (and thus intentional) but yes, the guard iron has picked up a smudge. That will be weathered, a bit, in time but I'll tidy it up for some better pictures. It ran last time I tried it, but I have 18" of EM track and a 9V battery to test it with right now...

Adam

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Looks very good - of course it was worth the wait as she is a Brighton engine after all .

A light weathering to finish but not too much as she would have been kept reasonably clean.

 

[daifly]

Unless Steph means the other splodge which I suspect is a shadow of the boiler protuberance (clack?).
Dave