peterbunce
1880's Colorado Narrow gauge on 45mm track
Hi,
I have a new loco, but it needs some backdating; you have already seen the new oil headlight for it; I had added a couple of pieces of brass strip for handles, but they would have ?been in the way? when I apply the transfers to it so they are now stored till they have been added. Whilst at the front of the loco a new chimney stack, which is larger than the Bachmann 4 4 0/2 6 0 size is needed; utilizing the ?as supplied? version for the internal size of the fixing plug, I went through the junk box (perhaps my wife?s description of it as a ?acquired scrap? heap would be better), and found a couple of small polythene funnels, a tube that held one of those drinks mixers, and the polythene tube from the interior of a firework, the latter being very useful for all sorts of things as the thickness of the tube walls make them very strong.
After some minor skirmishes with the bits, all began to come together following the side view I have; plasticard was also brought into the mix, for the central disk and for the myriad generic bolts ? I assumed that the nuts were uppermost so they are 1mm cubes, with half that thickness for the bolt heads on the underside; the center disk holds a bit of aluminum mesh for a spark reducer, and some bits for the lower pipe.
The section of a firework tube was internally tapered at the top to get the lower section of the funnel seating into it properly. The joint was later stiffened by a piece of 1/2mm plasticard. At the base is another piece of plasticard and a 3mm x 1.5mm sanded to a semicircle, bit of PVC solid foam, all of which are pre-curved by dragging them over a needle file handle.
The strips are from more aluminum foil, with one of those toothed wheel stitch markers used to get the small bolt heads; that did not provide sufficient definition, so having cut some new ones and on an old vinyl tile (my normal workplace cover) I enhanced the bolt depressions with a kids compass point, and replaced the original strips: all are held together with a combination of Evo-stik, and superglue to back it up.
I finally added another piece of aluminum mesh as the piece in the centre did not look right.
Here are some photos of the new stack -
two 'under construction' photos, the strips are the originals, but they were replaced
a Bachmann 4 4 0 stack and the new one side by side for comparison.
Yours Peter.
I have a new loco, but it needs some backdating; you have already seen the new oil headlight for it; I had added a couple of pieces of brass strip for handles, but they would have ?been in the way? when I apply the transfers to it so they are now stored till they have been added. Whilst at the front of the loco a new chimney stack, which is larger than the Bachmann 4 4 0/2 6 0 size is needed; utilizing the ?as supplied? version for the internal size of the fixing plug, I went through the junk box (perhaps my wife?s description of it as a ?acquired scrap? heap would be better), and found a couple of small polythene funnels, a tube that held one of those drinks mixers, and the polythene tube from the interior of a firework, the latter being very useful for all sorts of things as the thickness of the tube walls make them very strong.
After some minor skirmishes with the bits, all began to come together following the side view I have; plasticard was also brought into the mix, for the central disk and for the myriad generic bolts ? I assumed that the nuts were uppermost so they are 1mm cubes, with half that thickness for the bolt heads on the underside; the center disk holds a bit of aluminum mesh for a spark reducer, and some bits for the lower pipe.
The section of a firework tube was internally tapered at the top to get the lower section of the funnel seating into it properly. The joint was later stiffened by a piece of 1/2mm plasticard. At the base is another piece of plasticard and a 3mm x 1.5mm sanded to a semicircle, bit of PVC solid foam, all of which are pre-curved by dragging them over a needle file handle.
The strips are from more aluminum foil, with one of those toothed wheel stitch markers used to get the small bolt heads; that did not provide sufficient definition, so having cut some new ones and on an old vinyl tile (my normal workplace cover) I enhanced the bolt depressions with a kids compass point, and replaced the original strips: all are held together with a combination of Evo-stik, and superglue to back it up.
I finally added another piece of aluminum mesh as the piece in the centre did not look right.
Here are some photos of the new stack -
two 'under construction' photos, the strips are the originals, but they were replaced
a Bachmann 4 4 0 stack and the new one side by side for comparison.
Yours Peter.
The one with the red band would look just right on the new Bachmann C-19 #345 in the Bumble Bee livery as they have used a silver straight stack when it should be a black and red diamond stack .