Owain from Swift Sixteen

[MRail]

Building of the MR's "Ewan Dai" from the Swift Sixteen "Owain" body kit is now complete.
The body is mounted on a well used "Edrig" chassis, replacing the "Baldrig" body, now transferred to a "Lady Anne".
The loco awaits lining, which is the subject of a separate thread under the appropriate section.

A local modification is the addition of the upper backsheet, which has been made detachable.

The original "Baldrig" body is now fitted to a "Lady "Anne" - "Lady Baldrig"??

 

[hornbeam]

I like it a lot, thinking about getting one in the longer run but worried about rolling the roof. Good choice of colour too. On the lady Ann how did you make the extended footplate on the front of the lady Ann?

 

[garrymartin]

I like the upper backsheet modification , the more I see the more I am tempted.

 

[MRail]

worried about rolling the roof.
how did you make the extended footplate on the front of the lady Ann?

I did have a little challenge curving the roof, because of the half etched lines for the rain strips.
I used a peice of 2" dowel (curtain pole) as a roller, but the panel wanted to form itself into a series of steps.
Some manual persuasion of each "segment" seems to have solved it.

The Lady Baldrig footplate is from 2mm brass.
The original was used as a template for screw holes etc., and the rest was by measurement.
It gives a more British look.

 

[Chris Bird]

Congratulations Rob - that looks excellent! I very nearly did mine green but then everything went black.....
The backsheet is nice too - and handy that it is removable.
Cheers
Chris

 

[MRail]

Just posted a video on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaFTMw4UpLU

 

[Old Tom]

Lovely loco and neat vid Rob. Where did you get the 'low relief' buildings from? They could well be an answer to a problem I have....

 

[adeshers]

Great scenery from 2' 47" - and the loco looks the business too. Any chance of a trackplan, it looks really interesting.

 

[Chris Bird]

Rob - I enjoyed the video and Owain looks excellent! I especially like the way you have incorporated the loop into the end of the garage.
I was out filming my Owain in something of a gale yesterday and luckily I had the very solid Swift Sixteen rooling stock on, with each coach and tanker weighing the best part of a kilo!
You can see it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfIlJ4Fb7Eg Cheers Chris

 

[MRail]

Sorry for the delay - been away a few days - trip over WHR, then garden line in Angelesey.

My low relief buildings are DIY concrete castings with windows etc added - now needing refurb.
Some still unfinished after several years.
Other buildings are Jigstones, also needing a tidy-up. Been too busy converting locos.

I do have a track plan which I'm happy to post, but it's a huge file, and needs to be a large size to be legible.

 

[MRail]

Chris, looked at the video. The loco runs well, rather better than my well-used pre-owned Edrig chassis.
The gales remind me that two weeks ago I was forced to add roof retaining screws to the ends of some scratchbuilt coaches.

Now, the track plan:-
Red is the MR, 32mm. Blue is the tramway, 45mm.
Despite the confusing complexity, the MR is a single track dumbell layout.

The two termini are at right angles to one another, and the one dumbell loop serves each end through a system of sprung points, so that traffic always takes the correct route, and returns whence it came.

 

[MRail]

Any chance of a trackplan, it looks really interesting.

Just realised there's no indication of scale on the current plan.
Here's an older version before the rebuild with new concrete shed/workshop.

The old one was a timber/asbestos garage with separate shed at the rear, over the loop.
At the perimeter, the square notches represent fence posts, nominally 6ft apart indicating the size of the garden.
The CLR (Cluttermere Light Rly) quarry line has been replaced by the 45mm tramway.