Post by berth44 on Jan 31, 2012 0:55:32 GMT
As I need 'stuff' to finish off my Staniers and A1A,I thought that I would seek out my old tender drive Hornby Patriot (the un-rebuilt type)and see if I could fit a Backmann Jubilee chassis into the body of this loco......Why?
OK, I'm bored,(biding my time till the new 'floating floor' is laid,for that, I need to empty most of the house into the newly cleared half of my garage!!)
I probably saw something about the Patriot Class on the internet and thought,""'HMM"""' I should purchase the new Backmann version of this class, but wait!!...that's when I remembered mine and also a 'spare' Jubilee loco and tender (bought it at the Warley show in 2009,thinking it was the 'newest' version, I was wrong, it was just an updated Ex Mainline one, I wondered why it was 'Cheap!!)
Anyway,if you have one of these locos, they are crap,the boiler is way the wrong shape and it makes them look 'humphy backett' (Scot) and deformed to boot!!.... Backmanns New Jubilee on the other hand is superb!!
OK, we've got the two locos,I removed the chassis from both locos and of course one does not fit directly into the other. The Hornby Chassis is a pretty free runner,so it's set aside for 'other things' The 'Jube' body will probably be 'cannonbolised' for the sake of 'others!!...?'
Right, to get the Backmann chassis into the 'shell' of the Patriot required one thing and one thing only, craft knives! So after scraping my way through two Star Treks, CSI Los Angeles, Hawai 5-0 I had scraped enough plastic out for the new chassis to be a 'tight fit', so snug infact,it will require no securing method,ie, screws!!
Next I will turn my attention to the motorised overwidth 'Fowler' tender, it will require more serious surgery,methinks I'll have to cut the ends off leaving the sides and using the 'Jube's' tender chassis build it up from there, hopefully, I'll be able to re-use the ends if I get good cuts when these are cut (from the tender), otherwise, I'll scratch build new ends from 'Plasticard'
So there you go, more to do to keep me hand in.....Dave
P/S, I have an old Lima 'Crab' ( dead if I remember right) it has a Fowler tender as well, I'm wondering if it's as wide as the Hornby one.....but where is it???
OK, I'm bored,(biding my time till the new 'floating floor' is laid,for that, I need to empty most of the house into the newly cleared half of my garage!!)
I probably saw something about the Patriot Class on the internet and thought,""'HMM"""' I should purchase the new Backmann version of this class, but wait!!...that's when I remembered mine and also a 'spare' Jubilee loco and tender (bought it at the Warley show in 2009,thinking it was the 'newest' version, I was wrong, it was just an updated Ex Mainline one, I wondered why it was 'Cheap!!)
Anyway,if you have one of these locos, they are crap,the boiler is way the wrong shape and it makes them look 'humphy backett' (Scot) and deformed to boot!!.... Backmanns New Jubilee on the other hand is superb!!
OK, we've got the two locos,I removed the chassis from both locos and of course one does not fit directly into the other. The Hornby Chassis is a pretty free runner,so it's set aside for 'other things' The 'Jube' body will probably be 'cannonbolised' for the sake of 'others!!...?'
Right, to get the Backmann chassis into the 'shell' of the Patriot required one thing and one thing only, craft knives! So after scraping my way through two Star Treks, CSI Los Angeles, Hawai 5-0 I had scraped enough plastic out for the new chassis to be a 'tight fit', so snug infact,it will require no securing method,ie, screws!!
Next I will turn my attention to the motorised overwidth 'Fowler' tender, it will require more serious surgery,methinks I'll have to cut the ends off leaving the sides and using the 'Jube's' tender chassis build it up from there, hopefully, I'll be able to re-use the ends if I get good cuts when these are cut (from the tender), otherwise, I'll scratch build new ends from 'Plasticard'
So there you go, more to do to keep me hand in.....Dave
P/S, I have an old Lima 'Crab' ( dead if I remember right) it has a Fowler tender as well, I'm wondering if it's as wide as the Hornby one.....but where is it???
