Warship transplant day two

Today I’m in the process of fabricating the motor mounts now the non powered bogie is in place. That was relatively easy to achieve a flat piece of card one hole and a 5mm bore spacer. To powered end is more challenging.

That’s the hard bit out of the way now its adding strengthening webs.

Webs done it's DCC ready! And the body fits. Tidy.

Warship transplant

I have just made a start in modding my Mainline Warship “Kelly” basically I’m junking the mainline bogies and replacing them with Hornby items remove from the “Railroad” model I bought for £29 off eBay. I know these are not perfect but they are a marked improvement over the “mainline” offerings

Rolling Road la deuxième partie

My metal sections arrived from Birmingham and I had them cut to size +.5mm to allow for machining. Unfortunately the weather is not warm enough for me to venture up to my workshop to machine the parts for assembly. 

Just to give you an idea of where I am going with this I enlisted the help of “double sided tape”. The square section will have a 6 mm hole bored through so the eight assemblies can be mounted on two parallel arms  four each side. Each side electrically isolated from each other. 

Rolling Road

Yesterday I dismantled and salvaged 12 roller bearings from some defective hard disk drives just the job for my proposed rolling road, each bearing is 9.5mm in diameter and 6.5 mm wide and the centre is shoulders and threaded 2mm. a pair will be mounted on a section of aluminium angle, but more of that later.

Letchworth Model railway exhibition.

Yesterday was the Letchworth model railway club exhibition; I was a little disappointed with the content down on last year. Sellers were asking silly money for stuff and some of it was rubbish. I did however get my JCB Mk3 and a cooper craft tanker trailer. A power bogie for my warship was £34 come on get real. 

  

A quick check on EBay resulted in a Hornby R3068 class 42 “Formidable” £29.99 post free Tidy a bargain. Now what to do with the Mainline version well today she was prepared for the repaint of the yellow front I think strip the gears and use her for set dressing.