Nick Dunhill's Charity Build. Can you help?

[Nick Dunhill]

Hi all. Hope you all had a happy Stafford. I was there and had a busy time on the Tech Committee desk. I hope my advice was helpful, and thanks to all for the chats. I did manage to do a bit of building, mainly before the public were admitted first thing in the morning after breakfast, in the quiet hall. As you can see from the above post I had pre-cut the footplate, side frames and valences (except the valences aren't in the photo!) I soldered them all together.







You can just see that I soldered 1.5 x 1.5 mm L section along the top of the valences and side frames to keep them straight on the underside of the footplate, and to give the join a little more oomph. I had forgotten to cut out the buffer and drag beams, but made some from left over NS scraps. I had intended to add the brake blocks and hangers but failed miserably as there was just too much chattage. Happy days.

As usual I would ask you please to throw a few coppers into the 'Just Giving link' above. It is a very worthy cause.

 

[Nick Dunhill]

Today it was raining in Sheffield so the H&BR loco's tender got matching steps and some buffers.

 

[Nick Dunhill]

I was waiting for the roads to dry on Sunday morning so I could go out for a ride on one of my bikes, so I did a little more work on the H&BR loco. I added the brake hangers, blocks and rigging. I did cheat a little and used some parts that were in the kit for a different H&BR tender that was kindly donated by Russell Burridge. The hangers and brake blocks were common to both tenders, and both have the same wheelbase, but the rigging did need a fair bit of modification to fit this type of tender.





The next stage will be to cut out the sides and ends for the tender body. Please consider donating to Village Water using the 'Just Giving' link above.

 

[Nick Dunhill]

Another wet day in lovely Sheffield and the Metisse stays in the garage, so an opportunity to push the build forward.

I have built the basic tender body.The kit that Russell donated was for a tender a fair bit bigger than this one, but I was able to repurpose some of the panels in the etches. The sides, back and top were cut down from the etches in Russell's etches, and the rest were cut out of scrap brass and NS.

Here the glue is drying on the lead sheets and melted white metal fittings used for ballast, as I disappear for a coffee.





I put the stays across the top of the tender to hold it all straight and square as I soldered on the top.

The coal space and front panels were all cut from brass and NS.





The flares on Russell's etches can also be nodified to fit, so I should be able to kick on on the next wet weekend day. If anyone has a picture of the front of one of these tenders I'd be grateful for sight of it. It would be good to get it all right.

Please consider a donation to Village Water charity, no matter how small, it all helps. The link is in the third post on page 1.

 

[Nick Dunhill]

Another rainy day in the Steel City and the Victor Special stays in the garage. I took the opportunity to move this build a little closer to the finishing line.

I ran a measuring stick round the Russell Burridge etches and to my delight the flares were the correct size. I cut them from the etch and curved them. I have a form tool for half etched flares, it is a piece of 8 mm bar welded to a chunk of steel bar. The etch is stuck to the bar with sticky tape and pressed into a square of conveyor belt material with a hitting tool.





The flares were soldered to the top of the tender and shaped/soldered.





I also did some work to the front of the tender, adding the coal boards. There's probably only two more sessions needed to complete this now. I have to add a fall plate, some handrails and a brake handle to the front. The tender still needs a vacuum pipe and some lamp irons on the rear. Also there's a good day's work to add the coal rails.

Thanks everyone, please keep donating.

 

[Nick Dunhill]

It'll be finished tomorrow, apart from glueing on the 3D axleboxes/springs, tool boxes and water filler (cheers Mickoo in advance).





The 1.2 mm rods are to space the coal rails.

 

[Hobbyhorse]

Another rainy day in the Steel City and the Victor Special stays in the garage. I took the opportunity to move this build a little closer to the finishing line.

I ran a measuring stick round the Russell Burridge etches and to my delight the flares were the correct size. I cut them from the etch and curved them. I have a form tool for half etched flares, it is a piece of 8 mm bar welded to a chunk of steel bar. The etch is stuck to the bar with sticky tape and pressed into a square of conveyor belt material with a hitting tool.

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The flares were soldered to the top of the tender and shaped/soldered.

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I also did some work to the front of the tender, adding the coal boards. There's probably only two more sessions needed to complete this now. I have to add a fall plate, some handrails and a brake handle to the front. The tender still needs a vacuum pipe and some lamp irons on the rear. Also there's a good day's work to add the coal rails.

Thanks everyone, please keep donating.

You can’t beat modelling with big hammer, It’s a lovely job you’re making of the loco.
Simon

 

[Nick Dunhill]

I would love to say it is finished, but of course it needs the 3D parts attaching when they arrive and then painting. Warren Haywood has kindly agreed to paint it for the cause.

All the metalwork/fabrication is now complete though. I thought ticker tape would tumble from the ceiling as I turned my soldering iron off, but it did not. I first made a smokebox for it in 2021 and it has taken on a life of it's own in the meantime.



The upstands were modified from some in the Russel Burridge etches and the coal rails are fashioned from 1.0 mm half round.

It would be great if you could donate to the Village Water Charity using the link above.

 

[Nick Dunhill]

3D applied (thanks Mick Davies). All done.

 

[Nick Dunhill]

It's back from paint.........(massive thanks to Warren Haywood).



I'll be doing more reassembly at the GOG Virtual Show tomorrow, come along, it's free!

 

[Nick Dunhill]

Nearly there.

 

[James]

@micknich2003

 

[Nick Dunhill]

Painted by Warren Haywood.

 

[Genghis]

That's rather special. Well done.