{"id":3372,"date":"2018-04-30T17:17:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T16:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3372"},"modified":"2018-04-30T17:17:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T16:17:19","slug":"djh-tower-models-streamlined-coronation-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3372","title":{"rendered":"DJH\/Tower Models Streamlined Coronation Build"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-redactor=\"1\">On Easter Sunday afternoon I had a phone call from a gent that puts a lot of work my way asking if I could fit in building a DJH Streamlined Coronation as soon as possible. The Gent that I am building the J6 for is in no rush so I decided to have a bash.<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">The kit was dult delivered on Sunday evening and by bedtime I had the basic tender chassis together.<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">Another couple of hours on Monday morning had the tender chassis complete, so far so good.<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">\n<div id=\"attachment_3373\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=3373\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3373\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3373\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3373\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_8023.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_8023.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_8023-300x153.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_8023-768x392.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_8023-500x255.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3373\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DJH Streamlined Coronation Tender<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3374\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=3374\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3374\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3374\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3374\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_8031.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_8031.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_8031-300x153.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_8031-768x392.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_8031-500x255.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DJH Streamlined Coronation Tender<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3375\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=3375\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3375\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3375\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_8039.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_8039.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_8039-300x111.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_8039-768x284.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_8039-500x185.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3375\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DJH Streamlined Coronation Tender<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">To a degree I feel that any criticism that I make of this kit is a bit like sour grapes given that I chose the David Andrews kit over the Tower\/DJH version when I bought mine.<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">That said, hiding what I find doesn&#8217;t help anyone else who may decide to build one of these.<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">The key issue with the tender chassis is that the cross members that fit between the wheels are\u00a0 a single half etched layer in the middle section, which makes them very vulnerable to bending. This and other areas where key parts are a single half etched layer (more on that later) are particularly noticeable to me when this build comes right on the heels of building the MOK LMS tender which is prototypically similar in many respects.<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">Although I don&#8217;t know the name of the loco that the model is to ultimately represent I have been asked to build it as one of the double chimney red ones &#8211; Apparently there were some differences on the red ones over the first few blue ones (I had originally planned to build mine as Duchess of Hamilton in Blue when Coronation was masquerading as DOH while DOH went to America masquerading as Coronation, confused yet&#8230;..). Luckily the kit also came with a loan of the Wild Swan\/NRM Loco Priles book for the Coronation Pacifics.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Easter Sunday afternoon I had a phone call from a gent that puts a lot of work my way asking if I could fit in building a DJH Streamlined Coronation as soon as possible. The Gent that I am &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3372\">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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-djh-tower-models-streamlined-coronation"],"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\/3372","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=3372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3377,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions\/3377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}