S4 Portfolio

Doug Newton, 5639
	Bradwell B1 Chassis with a Comet 40:1 gear box on the central driven axle. Mashima 1624 flat can. Alan Gibson wheels all round. Only thing to be fitted is the brake gear to the loco. To which the clearances are so tight the brake blocks are on! Replica loco body and tender body with no modifications to date. Tender chassis is from Dave Bradwell and is included in the Chassis kit.
	J27 built from a Dave Bradwell Kit. The only deviation from the kit was to use Alan Gibson wheels in lieu of the Ultrascale which were specified. In the top picture you can see it was still to be completed in that it needed the chassis painted, body lettered and boiler bands added. The bottom picture shows the end result.

	J39 My second attempt at P4 with a Comet chassis with Compensation with Perseverance horn guides and blocks. powered by a Portescap 1616. The tender has a scratchbuilt tender chassis which has compensation.
	J72 My first attempt at P4 conversion consisting of a Bachmann J72 body with minor modifications, placed on a Perseverance compensated chassis with a Mashima 1620 and Romford 40 to1 gear set in a Perseverance etched motor mount
	London road models N8/ N9 kit built as a N8 with Sharman wheels, Dave Bradwell (scalefour springing), a 38:1 Comet gear box (nylon worm). all powered by a Mashima 1224.

Andrew Nummelin, 1380
	Many thanks to all who provided help on building radial axle boxes - here's my first attempt. It was done purely for the sake of a challenge, but not having a pony truck certainly simplified other parts of the chassis. It works pretty well but has a tendency to climb up onto a check rail if the top of it is at all below the surface of the running rail. I suspect also that the side control spring should be a bit stonger (and preferably actually located properly - it was only after I looked at the scanned photo that I realised that it had dropped out of place.)
	The chassis is fully beam compensated and with the centre of gravity of the loco at the right place (as close as I can judge at home) the weight distribution, and hence road holding on a reasonable piece of track, should be OK. If I get the chance I'll get it evaluated at Scaleforum, and then ...... probably decide to stick to wagon building. Practice & advice helps!
	At least the lining on number 11 is a bit better than on 195: but I still have a long way to go to reach the standards I would like. Perhaps a bit more practice would help? (11 is the third loco kit I've built and was finished a couple of years ago, 195 was my first and started out in "OO" in 1967 - do I hear mutterings of "armchair modeller"?) A few years ago while unfinished, testing on the DCC outfit demonstrated that haulage performance was better with a solid lump of brass in the smokebox and first ring of the boiler - forward of the compensation beam pivot. Not perhaps what I would have expected in the past, but it certainly fits with the recent discussions on the need to get the centre of gravity in the right place. I really must adjust the screw in the compensation beam to bring up the front end, or people may start to think the lump of brass is overloading a spring. I need to learn to take better photos. The ghostly chimney and front lamp aren't bad - if the rest of the photo had been of the same quality you'd not be able to see just how much I need to improve my modelling!
I'd be happy to receive any questions, suggestions or criticisms, Andrew Nummelin

David Smith, 3129

In David's own words - The model is from the Impetus Bagnall 15" 0-4-0 saddle tank kit. As I haven't seen many pictures of Impetus or any other industrial kits built up, I am hoping this may bring a few more out of the closet. Details of the model are as follows: Sharman wheels, split axle/split frame pickup, Portescap 1219 motor with modified gearbox to enable motor to fit in the boiler so that the gearbox is hidden, boiler/tank unit separates from footplate.

'Scanned' image - who needs a camera?

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Bramblewick SlideShow with commentary by Tom Harland ( pictures are 1024 pixels wide, best to set your browser to display this size)

Paul Moore, 4817
Photo of the month, April 2003

D7624 - Bachmann with underframe hacked about a bit. D8597 - Dave Alexander whitemetal kit with twin Lo-Rider bogies. - Camera: Nikon Coolpix 4500.

Simon Ramsdale, 5232

Three shots of a model that I recently completed in P4. THey are of an Armstrong Whitworth diesel loco from a High Level kit as yet unpainted. It has a 108:1 gearbox and runs very well even before it has been run in. I even had to buy a book about the North Sunderland to understand the rest of the story about this locomotive and its environs. Not sure that I can come up with a good story abut why it would be working in GER territory unless it was purchased (saved) from the North Sunderland and used to pull tram coaches on the Kelvedon and Tollesbury!

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