{"id":3128,"date":"2017-11-15T18:28:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T17:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3128"},"modified":"2017-11-15T18:28:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T17:28:35","slug":"connoisseur-j79-a-few-more-body-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3128","title":{"rendered":"Connoisseur J79 &#8211; A few more body details"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-redactor=\"1\">A session last night saw further details added to the body.<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">The coal rails were fitted and a plated infill added. My reading on the subject has revealed that they were plated over right from being built. Jim supplies them as open rails. A piece of scrap etch provided the infill.<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">\n<div id=\"attachment_3126\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=3126\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3126\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3126\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3126\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_6722.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_6722.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_6722-300x236.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_6722-768x603.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_6722-382x300.jpg 382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">J79 &#8211; Plated in Coal rails.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">Handrails both sides were fitted but they needed bushing with a bit of tube over the base of the handrail knob to fill the slightly oversized holes\u00a0 &#8211; of course I then had to enlarge the holes again to get them to fit with the tube in place.<\/p>\n<p>In the instructions (like many of his kits) Jim suggests the use of split pins instead of handrail knobs. For the J79, looking at the photos I have, it seems that handrail knobs are a better fit to the real thing than split pins would be.<\/p><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">\n<div id=\"attachment_3125\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=3125\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3125\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3125\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3125\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_6716.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_6716.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_6716-300x182.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_6716-768x467.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_6716-494x300.jpg 494w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">J79 Handrails fitted.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">Finally the piano front was fitted after filing a piece of rod in the Dremel to make the quite visible knob for it.<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">\n<div id=\"attachment_3127\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=3127\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3127\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3127\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3127\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_6728.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_6728.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_6728-300x215.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_6728-768x550.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_6728-419x300.jpg 419w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">J79 Piano Front<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A session last night saw further details added to the body. The coal rails were fitted and a plated infill added. My reading on the subject has revealed that they were plated over right from being built. Jim supplies them &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3128\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connoisseur-models-j79-tank-engine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3129,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128\/revisions\/3129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}