musket the dog
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Evening everyone,
Some of you may have seen my progress with this build over on Facebook but I felt like I would share it here as well as the information and inspiration from the forum are what what convinced me to give scratch building a proper try
This is my second attempt, my first was a plateway style loco, detailed elsewhere on the forum. This was put together over my final year at uni.
So it's the year 1900 and the Narborough and Littlethorpe Light Railway is in desperate need of motive power following their recent extension. The Poochin brothers, the railway's directors, had heard of a similar line in North Devon operating a fleet of powerful Manning Wardles. The brothers soon visited the line and were impressed enough to order a similar locomotive for their own line. No.3, 'Royal Tiger' arrived the following year.
In reality the loco is based on a Hartland Mack motor block. The axles were extended past the frames using 3D printed parts. The cylinders and motion also came from the same source. The base plate is laser cut acrylic. Other than that, the rest of the locomotive is cut from plasticard using plans I drew up in Autodesk (A 3D design program).
The plan, a cut and shut L&B Manning Wardle
The computer design. This allowed to to properly plan how the body work would fit together, plan where the batteries would fit and figure out how I would get it to travel round R1s
Some of you may have seen my progress with this build over on Facebook but I felt like I would share it here as well as the information and inspiration from the forum are what what convinced me to give scratch building a proper try
This is my second attempt, my first was a plateway style loco, detailed elsewhere on the forum. This was put together over my final year at uni.So it's the year 1900 and the Narborough and Littlethorpe Light Railway is in desperate need of motive power following their recent extension. The Poochin brothers, the railway's directors, had heard of a similar line in North Devon operating a fleet of powerful Manning Wardles. The brothers soon visited the line and were impressed enough to order a similar locomotive for their own line. No.3, 'Royal Tiger' arrived the following year.
In reality the loco is based on a Hartland Mack motor block. The axles were extended past the frames using 3D printed parts. The cylinders and motion also came from the same source. The base plate is laser cut acrylic. Other than that, the rest of the locomotive is cut from plasticard using plans I drew up in Autodesk (A 3D design program).
The plan, a cut and shut L&B Manning Wardle
The computer design. This allowed to to properly plan how the body work would fit together, plan where the batteries would fit and figure out how I would get it to travel round R1s
