This post is about my second Garratt.
It’s based on two Aristocraft US 0-4-0 mechanisms.
The model is intended to reflect the appearance of the Baddesley Colliery Garratt that is preserved at Bressingham in Norfolk.
I started the build after buying two Aristocraft locos one at the Henfield show last Autumn and the second at Ally Pally in March this year. Initially I’d thought about a GWR 0-4/0T conversion, but with acquiring a second one my intentions switched to the Garratt.
Construction started with trying to dismantle the locos. However it seems the body and chassis of these locos is based around a single moulding. Out came the angle grinder, hack saw and power file to remove most of the superstructure leaving just a basic chassis and the remains of a much reduced running plate.
On these two 0-4-0 units were built the front water tender and the rear tender that carried coal and water. The main material used was plasticard/styrene for the two body units.
The boiler section was built on s piece of steel plate recovered from a skip, which forms the necessary robust base for the cab/boiler/smokebox unit that bridges between the two power units.
This was built much as my previous models around a plastic pipe for the boiler, much styrene sheet and section and a few castings.
I hope the illustrations tell the story of the build
It’s based on two Aristocraft US 0-4-0 mechanisms.
The model is intended to reflect the appearance of the Baddesley Colliery Garratt that is preserved at Bressingham in Norfolk.
I started the build after buying two Aristocraft locos one at the Henfield show last Autumn and the second at Ally Pally in March this year. Initially I’d thought about a GWR 0-4/0T conversion, but with acquiring a second one my intentions switched to the Garratt.
Construction started with trying to dismantle the locos. However it seems the body and chassis of these locos is based around a single moulding. Out came the angle grinder, hack saw and power file to remove most of the superstructure leaving just a basic chassis and the remains of a much reduced running plate.
On these two 0-4-0 units were built the front water tender and the rear tender that carried coal and water. The main material used was plasticard/styrene for the two body units.
The boiler section was built on s piece of steel plate recovered from a skip, which forms the necessary robust base for the cab/boiler/smokebox unit that bridges between the two power units.
This was built much as my previous models around a plastic pipe for the boiler, much styrene sheet and section and a few castings.
I hope the illustrations tell the story of the build
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