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Re: LMS Shunting Engine with Tender
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:37:25 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Christopher Masi wrote:
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Jason J Railton wrote:
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I’ve just seen my latest Factory model added to
Cool Train Creations, so here
it is:
It’s based on the 0-4-0 ‘OF’ class (or ‘Pug’) saddle-tank steam shunting
engine, introduced in Britain in 1895.
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That is a cool little engine, and I like the details that you have been
placed in the interior of the cab (there really is much interior in that
engine is there). The tender looks a little silly, but I’m guessing that
it is a good copy of a real prototype.
Chris
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Thanks for the compliments (and James).
The tender is based on scrap I’ve seen once in a picture and rotting away at a
restoration railway; it’s not supposed to be perfect, but to represent an
improvised coal tender. Just made out of a small wagon with no boards, and some
shuttering fixed on to hold a pile of coal shovelled onto it during breaks. I
couldn’t find any pictures of the official coal tenders that some of this type
of engine had.
Having said that, I did just come across this:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:8106_%28Y9%29_inside_Kipps_Shed_in_July_1949.jpg
Looks like that would be big enough to take a dumped load from a coal hopper.
Not quite what I was going for, but I’ve taken a few liberties with the engine
anyway. I still think I prefer the smaller cart to just adding what most people
would take to be a full-sized wagon. This was primarily an exercise in set
design, rather than an attempt at accuracy. I do have a better model, though
not many photos of it:
LDD won’t let you do some of the more complicated SNOT around the white stripe,
which involves offsetting 1x2 tiles over a single stud. You can only do that to
1/2 stud positions in LDD. It also doesn’t have the thin-wall corners which I
use to cover up the rear part of the side panel, where I couldn’t fit a tile
without making the whole thing a stud longer.
Jason R
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