Monthly Archives: December 2018

DJH 4mm Scale Highland Barney Construction Finished

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Yesterday I pretty much finished the construction of the Barney. It still needs hand rails and the motor fitting sadly despite much grinding away underneath which allowed the motion to move freely as soon as I added the brakes to the chassis they created more clearance problems.

DJH 4mm Highland Barney Loco Almost Completed

I made up another vac pipe for the front.

Modified by CombineZP

And finally one of the quite prominent things on this particular loco are the injector(?) pipes that go into the top of the firebox either side of the whistle which were conspicuously absent from the kit.

DJH 4mm Highland Barney Scratch Built Injector Pipes

I did my usual trick of filing up thin walled tube tube to make the unions and added them to .8mm rod to make a representation of the pipe work.

DJH 4mm Scale Barney – Loco almost complete

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Another evening session saw the Barney almost complete. It still needs steps and handrails but for the latter I need to buy in some long handrail knobs because initially I had only bought shot ones. I also need to source some turned buffers for the Jones Goods so I have emailed Andrew Hartshorne to see if he has anything suitable in his range.

DJH 4mm Highland Barney Loco Body

DJH 4mm Highland Barney Loco Body

DJH 4mm Highland Barney Loco Body

DJH 4mm Highland Barney Loco and Tender

It looks like there will be plenty of hacking of the body to get the coupling rods to clear the foot plate but I also think that the oil pots on the coupling rods will benefit from a  bit of refinement too to make them a bit more scale. This should help with the clearance issues but before I start on that I plan to get the Jones Goods to a similar state of build.

DJH 4mm Scale Highland Barney – Tender Complete

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I cracked on with the tender and completed it apart from fitting the couplings

DJH 4mm Highland Barney – Tender Finished

DJH 4mm Highland Barney – Tender Finished

DJH 4mm Highland Barney – Tender Finished

DJH 4mm Highland Barney – Tender Finished

Next I started on the loco frames. They are made of substantial stuff for a 4mm scale kit – 0.9mm etch.

DJH 4mm Highland Barney – Chassis

DJH 4mm Highland Barney – Chassis

DJH 4mm Highland Barney – Chassis

 

 

 

A Slight Diversion – A 4mm Scale DJH Highland ‘Barney’

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A good while ago I was asked if I would do a couple of DJH 4mm Locos and having agreed I said that I would endeavour to have them finished by the end of the year. Well as you can see the end of the year is almost upon us so I have broken off the J6 to try to get them done over the Christmas break a couple of sessions have seen the tender well on it’s way for the first one

 

DJH 4mm Highland Barney – Tender

DJH 4mm Highland Barney – Tender

DJH 4mm Highland Barney – Tender

DJH 4mm Highland Barney – Tender

DJH 4mm Highland Barney – Tender

I scratch built a vac pipe as it wasn’t included in the kit and I replaced the brake stanchion with one that I had in my spares box because the cast one broke as soon as I looked at it.

DJH 4mm Highland Barney – Tender just needing Buffers and front handrails

DJH 4mm Highland Barney – Tender just needing Buffers and front handrails

DJH 4mm Highland Barney – Tender just needing Buffers and front handrails

Gladiator J6 – Valencing

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I spent 2 and 1/2 hours last night preparing the cradle for the foot plate which contains the valances….
Some this was my own fault because it’s quite thick nickel silver and like David found out when he built one recently, you need to file a lot out of either side of the fold lines to allow the valances to sit vertical.  I had attempted to fold up one side some time ago which needs a bit of brute strength but then found that it wouldn’t come to 90 degrees.
The first job was to straighten the side already bent enough to allow me to file out the fold line. I did this by annealing with the microflame and then using the vice to squash the etch back almost flat. Once I had filed the fold lines, I bent it as far as I could with one of the sides off a set of bending bars and then used a rubber mallet to bash it to the final 90 degree fold while the middle section was firmly gripped in a second set of bending bars to ensure that it stayed flat.
Hopefully I will get the footplate shaped and soldered on tonight so I will take photos after that.