The Empress of india

The Northwest Frontier 

kit-built loco and its entire train set.

 

 For this model build I used the Agenoria kit AM36 Hunslet 0-6-0 T

 

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Below the chassis parts

  

 With rivet punch

 Below:- loosely fitting the chassis parts together to check alignment

After soldering it all together including the bearings

                      All the main body parts

                   After punching the rivets out

            Soldering on the doorway hand grips

                  The footplate and bufferbeam

                      Fitting the body parts

The portholes open as well, and here can be seen my very own mod

    The boiler needs to be fitted very accurately

                         Lots of solder bleed

                       Test fitting the chassis

The movie loco had some kind of angle bar in front of the cab added by me

Adding the front bufferbeam mod, an addition made by me like the movie loco

                        Adding the brake gear

                      And the brake adjuster 

      

The connecting rods assembled. These need to be identical IE:- the holes

         The valve gear assembly with stop plates

File the back of the push-rod bolt flat after soldering

                      Valve gear mechanism

                       Fitting the crank-pins

                       File off any anomilies

 

The cylinder

        As the rear of the crank pin was ground flat we see why here, the crank-pin also had to be done and fitted to this wheel permamently to allow contacless rotation VERY IMPORTANT. Note the front of the push-rod bolt nut has also been soldered.

                     Marrying the two together

                    Cab detailing- the fun part

Scratch building is quite important in this conversion

            Here we see my log plough mod

                     The steps were fitted

 The injectors were fitted

                         Lovely cabin details

         The sand box is white-metal, and I replicated the erm thingy ? Above the smoke box door - an object that seems pointless but nevertheless is there in the movie loco.

        It was most practical to glue on the steam dome and chimney as soldering those big lumps would require sooo much heat !!!

There seemed to be some kind of cylinder on the left side of the loco in front of the cab

Above and below :- the steam and vaccum pipes

 

                   Lastly the whistle was fitted

                                                                  Chuffatrainman
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 The Eton boating song :- 

jolly boating weather tra la la la laaa

       A similar view to the one from the movie:- below.

The cab details 

A rearward shot of the engine 

 And a couple of the complete train Including the scratch built coach and match wagon

My procedure for ballast

Hello Everybody 

 

 

A view of the yard entrance

TRACK-WORK

I began by slicing thin strips of masking tape to the same width as the rail tops. followed by a general sploshing on of various shades of brown, rust and dirt. Once dried the masking tape was peeled off easily.

After a good railtop cleaning session the ballast was ready to apply

Ballast is a mixture of fine sand (sieved) and crushed ballast, using a mortar and pestle to grind down the rocks to a much finer texture. The sand was painted light grey by pouring in a good quantity of poster paint, stirring thoroughly and baking in an oven till dry. the two ingredients were mixed in a large container and here we see the result.

After using an old perfume bottle to dampen the new texture and prevent surface tension and of course those horrid blobs of PVA/Water mix destroying your good work I applied the 50/50 water glue mix with a dropper.

making sure there is a nice gap under the rails

Dusting off with weathering powders (greys) not too dirty track here as its a siding and will be weedy.

Nice and neat ballast

scenic work to do

Scenic work applied

Below:- the use of various grades or lengths and colours of static grass achieves a more varied effect. 

Below:- I love grubby grimy track which looks used . The grass was applied with a static grass application tool , of course one has to be aware that grass won’t generally grow on wood unless they’re rotten !! 

Notice below:- the various weathering powders used around the track, they’re brushed in stiffly. Notice also the faded yellow paint on the sleeper which marks the fouling point. 

A pleasant rural scene in a quiet siding

good luck

Best wishes

Chuffatrainman

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Below:- I love this shot of a well used and grimy yard .