More Exciting Adventures From The Goaty Works!

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The centre pair of wheels had their flanges ground off to assist the loco round my sharp curves...

The body was raised in height slightly as well as being milled out, and a test fit of the parts was completed.

More work milling and shaping getting things to come together so that they fit.

And progress commences. A new raised cab floor shaped and added...



And the steps thinned and strengthened where needed to fit my loading gauge so the loco can fit my lifting cradle.

The cab gradually built up and painted as it isalways easier to paint inside parts before one has finished building.



And internal cab fittings added made from pins and things....



And cut to size to represent switches and controls...



And that is the front and sides of the cab completed.
(I glued on the rear step later).

The rear of the cab was fitted and the fuel tank at the back had to be reduced in width so it does not overhang the chassis and bufferbeam...



And a look at the front... With window surrounds painted. (These will be touched up later).

Also fitted the windows after the black surrounds were painted, and now we are ready for paint!

Origionally I bought a lovely tin of metallic green but the paint was a dud batch depite its price and came out like water, so a re-think was needed.... British Railways blue was used instead as I had that colour!



And after a few coats it has turned out like this!



This is as far as I got as I was awaiting to add people before I added the roof and then add the buffers and couplings.

Is nothing safe in the Goaty model railway works.. Your poor mum, now she probably th8nks yoour house has giant dishcloth eating Moths?

Lovely piks of your Locos....... ,ty for sharing

I came across these farmyard boxes intended for kiddies to play with.



And as they were just the right size for old cast metal bogies, I did find due to the old bogies having been made some 60+ years ago, so they only occasionally can be found on old wagons, I decided to make copies instead (More on how to do this later). So with copies made out of resin for the axleboxes, I was now able to start making little waggons.



Now another thing I soon discovered was that I can cut these boxes in half and make two for every one, as there is just the exact number of parts when partly dissasembled so I can do this, making these six pack of farmyard boxes to be of reasonable value when made into twelve little waggons.







So next came to painting them and I wanted a semi battered look, as if they were fairly new but had gone through their paces.
I har at the time run out of matt grey paint, and as the black paint I had was a little too glossy, by patting the paint lots of times with my fingers, it soon gave me the matt and battered look that I wanted.

Good Job of Battering ..those boxes... .
At the rate you seem to be going MountainGoat....You might be in line to start making Hobby Trainsets..?

Haha! That would be fun!

Just think of all the little kiddies at Christmas time.......

Too highly regulated with kiddies.

Maybe good for Adults too... ..... ........ ..... .
And looks like your overhead for Production would be Low..

I am thinking of practical ways to make wheels.

make a negative casting of one of your bogie wheels in clay let it get hard, even baking them .Very slowly , so not to crack.
The use/ mix some Superglue and baking soda, and put some casting release spray of some kind, or improvised release spray ? Fill the negative casting allow days to dry. And remove somehow to get the formed bogie to release.
But this is just an idea .??. ..Good luck Mountaingoat .
Or check online for something from ebay or AliBaba? or elsewhere , made of wood or ?

Even a type of handheld feed through a heating pen to liquefy .the plastic feed line of hot glue , into the casting?
Seen these devises on ali baba. They use the same plastic line as 3 d printers. or a hot glue gun ?