Now this thread has its starting point in 1:1 Railways with a thread on Puffing Billy Downunder.
johnsaintjim requested some pics of my Clayton's 8A and the real 8A.
Now the building of this was covered in GSM so I will endevour to do a breif resume' on how it was done.
Here goes Graham this is for you.
Firstly you take an Accucraft Lyn painted in black with the Lyn nameplate on the cab.
The rivet counters will say that this will not be correct as NA's have 2-6-2 wheel arrangement and Lyn is 2-4-2.
Historically they were both built by the Baldwin locomotive works in 1898.
Well almost NA1 and 2 were built by Baldwin, subsequent NA's 3 to 17 were built by the Victorian Railway Workshops Newpert (Melbourne). 8A was built in 1908 and I did my conversion last year to co-incide with 8A"s 100th birthday.
Enough of the prattle you guys like pics.
Take a Lyn and rip the tanks off. Also change the nameplate for a VR manufacturers plate.
At this stage the interior of the cab had been changed from yankee green (no offence to our members in the US of A) to cream and r/c had been fitted into the cab.
I do mean in the cab, the whole lot batteries and all using micro servo's and 36mhz fm. This will soon be changed to 2.4gkz as I still have some glitching problems on the club layout.
johnsaintjim requested some pics of my Clayton's 8A and the real 8A.
Now the building of this was covered in GSM so I will endevour to do a breif resume' on how it was done.
Here goes Graham this is for you.
Firstly you take an Accucraft Lyn painted in black with the Lyn nameplate on the cab.
The rivet counters will say that this will not be correct as NA's have 2-6-2 wheel arrangement and Lyn is 2-4-2.
Historically they were both built by the Baldwin locomotive works in 1898.
Well almost NA1 and 2 were built by Baldwin, subsequent NA's 3 to 17 were built by the Victorian Railway Workshops Newpert (Melbourne). 8A was built in 1908 and I did my conversion last year to co-incide with 8A"s 100th birthday.
Enough of the prattle you guys like pics.
Take a Lyn and rip the tanks off. Also change the nameplate for a VR manufacturers plate.
At this stage the interior of the cab had been changed from yankee green (no offence to our members in the US of A) to cream and r/c had been fitted into the cab.
I do mean in the cab, the whole lot batteries and all using micro servo's and 36mhz fm. This will soon be changed to 2.4gkz as I still have some glitching problems on the club layout.
