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Friday Update: Fourteen Two Twenty...

Exciting news this week, a bit of a 'sneak preview' (I'll do a proper write up next week) but there will be another diesel joining the Planet Industrials kit line up this year...
The basic CAD design is now complete for something a little different... regular readers may have guessed I have a thing about the Devonport railway system, and that led my to look into Clayton Equipment who supplied a pair of diesel hydraulic shunters to the dockyard back in the early 2000s. I had a very nice chat with their Managing Director, Clive Hannaford this week after requesting some basic outline drawings and am now looking at both the 25t model you see above, as well as, later, the 40t design used by Cross Rail. The CAD design follows my usual principles of a 3D printed core with etched overlays, and will include both heights of buffer (as well as overlays to hide the lower holes if required) and lots of separate detailing parts including battery charges, fire extinguishers and roof mounted light boxes. Despite appearances, the model will still need a lot of design work before release, expect to see more news this year, and release in Q4.
More CAD, this time a chassis for an 009 version of the Polish Lyd2, Romanian built Faur L35H. This uses components from a Grafar 08, respacing the axles to match the prototype and if it works, will allow all sorts of other ideas to come to fruition.
As well as virtual modelling there has been progress on some other larger scale commissions. Some CAD work has been completed for a pair of 7/8ths Glyn Valley style coaches, and the Campagne auto-tracteur is now painted ready for weathering - more on that next week. An unusual painting and weathering job is this 7/8ths scale brake van, based upon an example at Penrhyn. Supplied by my customer in raw finish I have primed and painted it, above you can see unpainted, test one, and test two for the scruffy worn paint finish requested for the cab - we went for the one on the right in the end - here you can see the result with the Ruston 20DL, finished this week.
Next week, I've got a pair of 7/8ths scale Simplexes in for painting and weathering, along with some smaller standard gauge OO project to progress - however, it's half term, so we'll see how much I can fit in around the kids and holiday. Have a good weekend, more soon...


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  1. Paul B.15 February 2020 at 12:19

    That chassis look to be an interesting and pragmatic approach to an age old problem, not only in getting the correct wheel spacing but also by using an existing chassis for its parts getting around the supply issues regarding wheels and gears. Nice work!

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  2. JeffB16 February 2020 at 13:35

    Good luck with the Lyd2 Chassis James... You're on a good path with your idea to use components from a commercially available chassis, so long as they're readily available for the foreseeable future.

    Will watch your progress on this with great interest.

    JeffB

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    1. James H16 February 2020 at 18:23

      Thanks Jeff, yes you're right, although nothing is guaranteed these days. I am doing this for a customer, so it doesn't matter if it doesn't end up under a kit as such - it'll be an interesting experiment.

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