{"id":1148,"date":"2014-06-29T20:29:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T19:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2014-06-29T20:29:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T19:29:00","slug":"connoisseur-nbr-tender-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1148","title":{"rendered":"Connoisseur NBR Tender Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been struggling to have the head space for much modelling for a couple of months due to a house move &#8211; I had forgotten just how much you need to do when buying and selling houses&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>This has meant that I started to make mistakes through in attention on the 06 so I decided that I needed something simple to maintain the mojo and this has taken the form of another of Connoisseur&#8217;s offerings. I collected this from Jim at Cleckheaton after enquiring about it late last year and then promptly forgetting about it until Jim reminded me a couple of weeks before the show. It is his recently released, former Majestic models NBR tender truck. &#8211; The plan is that it will run behind Nellie.<\/p>\n<p>Jim&#8217;s test build highlight a few areas where you need to do a bit of filing to make later parts fit and so far I have been doing this and making up some sub assemblies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_6539.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_6539.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6539\" width=\"800\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_6539.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_6539-300x226.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_6539-396x300.jpg 396w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the brake lever and guard as provided in the kit. I wasn&#8217;t too keen on it being cast in one piece, because apart from lacking fidelity I reasoned that it would also be quite vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_6537.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1149\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_6537.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6537\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_6537.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_6537-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_6537-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The lever guard is a Bill Bedford etch from the spares box, the lever I made from a strip of etch and the mounting was made from a piece of square bar that I cut to rough shape and finished with the Dremel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_6540.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1151\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_6540.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6540\" width=\"800\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_6540.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_6540-300x197.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_6540-456x300.jpg 456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The instructions suggest soldering the step brackets directly to the front of the sole bars and to strengthen them with .7mm wire. I chose to mount them through the base of the sole bars using the slots provided but I did strengthen them (albeit with etched strip not wire)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_6541.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1152\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_6541.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6541\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_6541.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_6541-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_6541-449x300.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe outer sides are done as per the instructions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_6542.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1153\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_6542.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6542\" width=\"800\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_6542.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_6542-300x233.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_6542-385x300.jpg 385w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t resist fitting them together loosely to see how they would look when fitted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been struggling to have the head space for much modelling for a couple of months due to a house move &#8211; I had forgotten just how much you need to do when buying and selling houses&#8230;. 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