Kriegsloks building shops

[KriegslokBR52]

Today working on detailing the tender shell. Missing was the rear coal bin diagonal slide, this one i just cut from a sheet of brass, used the existing tiny screws to secure it in place and redid the ladder going from top of water reservior to top of that slide. Next was the plugging of that hole in the rear bulkhead from light, as these tenders did not have them. After the bulkhead had to redo that rear ladder which was used by the breakman to get to doghouse on top of the tender.

After that a quick wash again from my greasy hands and used automotive gray rustoleum to prep it for black paint. Here it's warming again by the heater before satin black spray.

Pennsy fans when they hear that i did not use Brunswick green will probably scream in horror. That's ok, it's war time right now on my layout and boys on the Eastern front need the green. Besides these hard working machines were extremely dusty when working and i will weather this one heavily just like its scale 1:1 brethren.
Lastly here in Satin black automotive spray, slowly "baking" it over the heater:

 

[goscrewyourselves]

Very nice job!

 

[KriegslokBR52]

Today a little fun, first mating of the locomotive with the tender. "Buildiers photo":

And a short clip, as you can see my trackwork still needs some fine tunning:

 

[goscrewyourselves]

Very nice indeed!

 

[BigGRacing]

It truly looks like the cast iron of the real steamers that we see down here at our museum.

 

[KriegslokBR52]

It truly looks like the cast iron of the real steamers that we see down here at our museum.

That's exactly what i like about those old models. When handled one can also feel the cold heavy metal instead of warmer to the touch plastic.

 

[KriegslokBR52]

Today back to scratchbuiding the L&NE decapod, and details on the backhead:

Got these on a rail show and it's some kind of soft metal, so instead soldering these i decided to CA them to backhead. I have also added the rest of straps for the boiler jacket:

At this point i can probably just fine shave the front cab windows and solder the cab ito the boiler, as all inside fitments in the cab are done.

 

[Smudge617]

Today back to scratchbuiding the L&NE decapod, and details on the backhead:View attachment 163516View attachment 163517View attachment 163518View attachment 163519
Got these on a rail show and it's some kind of soft metal, so instead soldering these i decided to CA them to backhead. I have also added the rest of straps for the boiler jacket:View attachment 163520
At this point i can probably just fine shave the front cab windows and solder the cab ito the boiler, as all inside fitments in the cab are done.
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WOW! nice work, really coming along.

 

[KriegslokBR52]

WOW! nice work, really coming along.

Thanks. Those last boiler strapps were really testing my patience, it took several special words from both of my spoken langages to get them to sit ok. Deffinitelly challenging project.

 

[KriegslokBR52]

Sort of a mixed weather weekend, cold, a little snow, rain and sunshine, so back on the Lehigh & New England F1. Today started on the walkways around the boiler, together with the front ladder:

Got a junk boiler with diamond walkway from a hobby shop owner in Gettysburg. So was cutting and shaping them to fit my boiler:

Since i didn't have enough of that diamond plate for the front walkways above cylinder blocks, cut some flat plates out of brass and scribed diamond texture with a mini screwdriver on those:

Then it was time for front ladders, these proved to be time consuming since i had to brace everythig in place and solder tiny steps:

Now time to solder those ladders under front walkway...to be continued.

 

[goscrewyourselves]

Impressive work sir.

 

[KriegslokBR52]

Soldered the ladders:

Did the engineers side first, also needed to readjust he soldering jig a little since the ladder was not steep enough. After readjustments resoldered that side again and did firemans side:

Look like i'll have my work cut out for me tomorrow shaving the inside of both walkways, since they are still too wide. But the locomotive deffinitely looks better already;

TBC.

 

[Smudge617]

Soldered the ladders:View attachment 164097View attachment 164098
Did the engineers side first, also needed to readjust he soldering jig a little since the ladder was not steep enough. After readjustments resoldered that side again and did firemans side:View attachment 164099View attachment 164100
Look like i'll have my work cut out for me tomorrow shaving the inside of both walkways, since they are still too wide. But the locomotive deffinitely looks better already;View attachment 164101View attachment 164102View attachment 164103
TBC.

Love watching you do this, great work.

 

[KriegslokBR52]

The walkways are on:

 

[Lynnb]

Amazing

 

[KriegslokBR52]

Since i still had a little time and was all wound up, did the steam dome. Not exactly the perfect shape and it was the first time i beat it out of one brass piece. I'll have to take different approach for the sandbox since that is a lot bigger than steam dome.

Another lesson learned-don't use copper for the boiler, that copper sheet is a PITA to solder on, even with resistor station carbon tip getting red hot.

 

[KriegslokBR52]

This weekend similar as last one, currently sunny but windy and unpredictable. So continuation on F1 (at this time i made up my mind that it will be the Lehigh and New England version). Excercise in brass shaping to make the sand dome, this actually is more of a challenge than smoke chimney:

I have only side and front elevation drawing, so had to take those measurements and come up with footprint also using pictures try to get close to the outside curvature:

Looking at the pictures and drawing there is also what looks like a flat piece of steel that's part of the dome. I'll have to cut that later from a thin piece of brass.

Soldering time and trimming;

Starting to look good. And at last top portion is soldered on:

There is still trimming to do since the dome is sitting a bit too high. Also still have to cut that flat piece to go between boiler and that dome.

 

[Smudge617]

This weekend similar as last one, currently sunny but windy and unpredictable. So continuation on F1 (at this time i made up my mind that it will be the Lehigh and New England version). Excercise in brass shaping to make the sand dome, this actually is more of a challenge than smoke chimney:View attachment 164631
I have only side and front elevation drawing, so had to take those measurements and come up with footprint also using pictures try to get close to the outside curvature:View attachment 164632View attachment 164633
Looking at the pictures and drawing there is also what looks like a flat piece of steel that's part of the dome. I'll have to cut that later from a thin piece of brass.View attachment 164634View attachment 164635
Soldering time and trimming;View attachment 164636View attachment 164637View attachment 164638View attachment 164639
Starting to look good. And at last top portion is soldered on:View attachment 164640
There is still trimming to do since the dome is sitting a bit too high. Also still have to cut that flat piece to go between boiler and that dome.

Really looking good, great work.

 

[KriegslokBR52]

Main sand dome superstructure is on:

 

[Smudge617]

Main sand dome superstructure is on:

Done an amazing job on this, very well done.