So Ive decided to keep a log of the build here although it is going to be a very slow build as summers coming up, so me and my dad will be doing a bit of running at our local track with a 5 gauge City of Truro and a 3 1/2 King Edward VII.
I decided that I wanted to build something I could ride after finishing my hoglet (still trying to get the damn thing going) and I was very set on building a traction engine until we went to the engineering show in Doncaster and I saw the OLCO Lion stand bringing back memories of The Titfield and Thunderbolt Ealing comedy, one of my all time favourites and so my mind changed and I knew I had to build one.
Ive been acquiring materials and have the full set of plans as well as detailed ones of the full size one available through OLCO in the hopes of making a true scale model. The first issue is that the wheel castings available are not true to scale. The front 2 wheels have 18 spokes, the rear driving ones have 16 spokes, the trailing wheels have 10 spokes and the tender wheels have 11 spokes, so a big mismatch.
I am machining the wheels from steel, which I made a start on today but it is going to be a long and tedious process, only took a few pics but I will keep this updated! Sorry for the long initial first post.
Made a start on the back ready to machine the front and profile, then Itll be onto the rotary table to do the spokes.
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I decided that I wanted to build something I could ride after finishing my hoglet (still trying to get the damn thing going) and I was very set on building a traction engine until we went to the engineering show in Doncaster and I saw the OLCO Lion stand bringing back memories of The Titfield and Thunderbolt Ealing comedy, one of my all time favourites and so my mind changed and I knew I had to build one.
Ive been acquiring materials and have the full set of plans as well as detailed ones of the full size one available through OLCO in the hopes of making a true scale model. The first issue is that the wheel castings available are not true to scale. The front 2 wheels have 18 spokes, the rear driving ones have 16 spokes, the trailing wheels have 10 spokes and the tender wheels have 11 spokes, so a big mismatch.
I am machining the wheels from steel, which I made a start on today but it is going to be a long and tedious process, only took a few pics but I will keep this updated! Sorry for the long initial first post.
Made a start on the back ready to machine the front and profile, then Itll be onto the rotary table to do the spokes.
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