Fowler Diesel Bash

[ge_rik]

More or less finished, just awaiting delivery of namplates ("Tollemache" - named after the line's hypothetical benefactor) and handrails.

My first fully scratchbuilt body (apart from the cab roof and headlight). Spot the bits of cheap Biro - there are four lurking on the model.

As before, a blow-by-blow account of my bodgelling can be found on my blog:

http://riksrailway.blogspot.com/2011/04/how-i-converted-playmobil-diesel-into.html

Rik

 

[yb281]

Very nice Rik. Great use of re-cycled bits and pieces .

 

[DoctorM]

A very nice piece of modelling there

...just awaiting delivery of namplates ("Tollemache" - named after the line's hypothetical benefactor)

Are you going for the full "Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache" or are you settling for plain "Tollemache"?

 

[ge_rik]

Very nice Rik. Great use of re-cycled bits and pieces .

Thanks Mel

I seldom if ever throw anything away - not quite as bad as Steptoe, but sometimes it feels a bit like it.

Rik

 

[ge_rik]

Are you going for the full "Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache" or are you settling for plain "Tollemache"?

I was going for "Lord Bentley Tollemache" but it wouldn't fit.
His full title was - Lord Bentley Lyonel John Tollemache, 3rd Baron Tollemache

Rik

 

[Bram]

A job well done there Rik, it really looks the business

 

[yb281]

Very nice Rik. Great use of re-cycled bits and pieces .

Thanks Mel

I seldom if ever throw anything away - not quite as bad as Steptoe, but sometimes it feels a bit like it.

Rik

Me too mate, I've got boxes of stuff that "might come in handy one day" - and it often does .

 

[Miamigo259]

just awaiting delivery of namplates ("Tollemache" - named after the line's hypothetical benefactor)

Sounds like you need a bottle of this to celebrate.............(22 years old, and still not opened!)
Tollemache and Cobbold (aka "Tolly") beer as brewed at Cliff Brewery, Ipswich. At least Earl Soham Brewery have started brewing beer there again now..........

Very nice Fowler, by the way!

 

[ge_rik]

Tollemache and Cobbold (aka "Tolly") beer as brewed at Cliff Brewery, Ipswich. At least Earl Soham Brewery have started brewing beer there again now..........

As a former East Anglian (hence GE Rik) I well remember Tolly Cobbold. Though maybe like the Sixites if I can remember it maybe I wasn't there ............

Rik

 

[gregh]

Great work. Thanks for taking the time to document the steps. I specially like the method for the drive shaft.

 

[trammayo]

Looks great - really solid and purposefull loco. You've captured the spirit of the Fowler!
Like the lining too.

 

[ge_rik]

Looks great - really solid and purposefull loco. You've captured the spirit of the Fowler!
Like the lining too.

Thanks Mick
It's a sort of compromise between their standard gauge and 2' gauge versions - both of which are well documented. I believe they did make a small number of three foot gauge versions but the only mention I can find is of a 2-4-0 - but no pictures. I'm working on the principle that if a railway wanted a 3' gauge 0-4-0 this is what they would have come up with.

I decided to stick with the same livery as the steam locos. I'm working on the assumption that the copper mine traffic is the main reason for my railway's existence and hence they would have brought the diesel into the stable along with the older steam locos. As my model is set at the end of the 20s/early 30s, this would have been a recent acquisition and still in good nick (which means unfortunately I can't hide some of my modelling errors under heavy weathering).

Rik

 

[ge_rik]

Great work. Thanks for taking the time to document the steps. I specially like the method for the drive shaft.

Thanks Greg
I must admit that your postings acted as the spur for me to have a go a scratch-building. I reckoned that if I could somehow get the mechanism cracked then I'd have a go at the body. I'm not sure how long the brass con rods bearing on whitemetal fly-cranks will last until they need replacing, but it has solved the problem for now.

Rik

 

[ge_rik]

A couple more pictures of the Fowler in action, with the latest rake of weathered LGB tipplers:

Rik

 

[trammayo]

They look good! In fact, very good!

 

[New Haven Neil]

Great stuff - always liked those Fowler diesels!

 

[mbiff]

very nice

 

[ge_rik]

Thanks fpr the encouraging comments chaps
Here she is in action ...................

http://youtu.be/RiOF5DQbuJE

Rik