Garden Railway Specialists Kerr Stuart 0-4-2 saddle tank kit.

[yb281]

With the arrival of the nameplates (courtesy of GRS) this morning No.1 is finally complete. Llewellyn is named after Lord Llewellyn, the WGLR's first benefactor.
The weathering is considerably darker in reality than it looks in this photo.

VERY nice Mel - inspiration as always!
BTW - are the lamp brackets your own addition?

Rik

Cheers Rik. Yes, the lamp irons are frets from Chuffed To Bits purchased at shows. The Brandbright lamps fit them perfectly. The "rivets" which help to hold them in place are made from dressmaker's pins.

 

[Mike Thornton]

At the 2009 Telford exhibition Elliott, Gareth and Steve Warrington conspired to "make" me buy an unmade GRS body kit complete with an LGB Otto donor chassis. Having built one of these kits before (Hunslet 0-4-0ST) I can well imagine that the person who bought it opened the box, took one look at the pile of plastic card, bag of white metal bits and pretty useless instructions and thought "sod that for a game of soldiers". To be fair, GRS have now begun using one piece body mouldings for these kits, so they should be a bit easier, but these original jobs are one heck of a challenge (especially with THOSE instructions!!), hence the reason I had the kit sitting on a shelf doing nothing for 18 months before summoning up the courage to make a start.

A mistake I made with the Hunslet was not painting and properly preparing the chassis, so this time I spent 4 days just doing this. Then work could start on the bodywork. Early days here, parked next to the Hunslet, you can see by the state of the saddle tank how much filler and sanding was required.

Here the bodywork has been done, many of the white metal parts fitted and the whole thing has been primed (extra rivet detail has been added to the buffers beams using Cambrian individual rivets).

I have acquired one of the kits from Ebay, which has been partially built. Unfortunately ,it appears that all your pictures are no longer showing in this thread.

By any chance, do you still have them? For all the reasons you created this thread, they would be incredibly useful.

Thanks,

Mike

 

[Gizzy]

I have acquired one of the kits from Ebay, which has been partially built. Unfortunately ,it appears that all your pictures are no longer showing in this thread.

By any chance, do you still have them? For all the reasons you created this thread, they would be incredibly useful.

Thanks,

Mike

Mike,

yb281 is no longer on the forum AFAIK....

 

[PhilP]

Yes, a 13 year old thread, and these early offerings were more 'scratch-aid' than kits as we know them today..

Definitely require some imagination and skill.

PhilP

 

[Mike Thornton]

Mike,

yb281 is no longer on the forum AFAIK....

Thank you for your prompt reply. I have now tried messaging via their Facebook page.

Mike

 

[ge_rik]

Mel posted stuff on the Garden Railway Club after he left the forum but I see that site hasnt been updated for a few years. However, this article by Mel might be useful

GRS Kerr Stuart conversion kit - Garden Railway Club

The Garden Railway Club is a website jointly developed by a group of like-minded garden railway enthusiasts. What brings us together is the pleasure of creating, developing and running our own little railway, in a quiet relaxing sort of way. We enjoy other garden railways which may be quite...

garden-railway-club.s3.amazonaws.com

Rik

 

[Mike Thornton]

Mel posted stuff on the Garden Railway Club after he left the forum but I see that site hasnt been updated for a few years. However, this article by Mel might be useful

GRS Kerr Stuart conversion kit - Garden Railway Club

The Garden Railway Club is a website jointly developed by a group of like-minded garden railway enthusiasts. What brings us together is the pleasure of creating, developing and running our own little railway, in a quiet relaxing sort of way. We enjoy other garden railways which may be quite...

garden-railway-club.s3.amazonaws.com

Rik

Hi Rik,

Thanks for this. Together with this thread and the photos in the Garden Railway Club thread, I have a very helpful document.