N Gauge GWR Class 101 steam loco?

[zwilnik]

You're heading towards one of my preferred candidate bodies for that chassis, the GWR 1101

Mike

Ooh yes, that would be an obvious one and not too tricky either. I also still have two more donor chassis to play with

And this similar Avonside design would be even sweeter

Mike

Definite food for thought

[zwilnik]

@maridunian

How about these as a starting point?

[maridunian]

Very good!

I got this far with iron age tools a few years ago, but lost my mojo!



Mike

[zwilnik]

I do need to add a bucketload of rivets. The flat tank sides look pretty plain without them. I'm also wondering if I have the tanks too tall relative to the boiler?

[maridunian]

There's  a drawing of the 1101 Class in http://www.gwr.org.uk/no4-coup-tanks.html.

They look pretty smooth to me. Can you thin the footplate at all?

Mike

[zwilnik]

There's  a drawing of the 1101 Class in http://www.gwr.org.uk/no4-coup-tanks.html.

They look pretty smooth to me. Can you thin the footplate at all?

Mike

I can a little but will need to glue a big buffer beam on the front to cover the chassis. At the moment the bodies aren't cleanly fitted to the chassis so they're riding a little high.

[RBTKraisee]

There's  a drawing of the 1101 Class in http://www.gwr.org.uk/no4-coup-tanks.html.

They look pretty smooth to me. Can you thin the footplate at all?

Mike

I can a little but will need to glue a big buffer beam on the front to cover the chassis. At the moment the bodies aren't cleanly fitted to the chassis so they're riding a little high.

Maybe just thin the edges, leaving most of the weight there?   Painted black, nobody will see the rest of the thick plate.

Ross.