{"id":4590,"date":"2021-05-08T10:08:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T09:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4590"},"modified":"2021-05-08T10:08:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T09:08:08","slug":"gcr-class-5a-chimney-troubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4590","title":{"rendered":"GCR Class 5A Chimney troubles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The build slowed down a little when I realised that the chimney\ncasting had the flare cast lopsided. This meant that when you had the chimney\nsat on vertically on the smokebox there was more flare at one side than the\nother. I tried to reshape it with bars rolling it over a former the same size\nas the smokebox but I couldn\u2019t improve it much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After some discussion with Brian, I emailed Laurie Griffin\nand Andy Beaton to ask them if they had anything suitable in their ranges that\nmight do (as long as it looked right it wouldn\u2019t matter which loco it was\noriginally designed to fit). Sadly the nearest we got to was an LNER standard\nchimney from Laurie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next step was to ask fellow Guild member Mike Hopkins\nwho has been posting some excellent stuff on the Guild forum where he has been\ndesigning in 3D then printing waxes and having them cast in brass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I supplied Mike with a drawing a couple of days ago and he went\naway to draw it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below are some photos of the wax prints prior to removing\nthe supports and sending them away for castings. Photo\u2019s copyright of Mike and\nposted with his kind permission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"644\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GCR-5A-002-644x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4589\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GCR-5A-002-644x1024.jpg 644w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GCR-5A-002-189x300.jpg 189w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GCR-5A-002-768x1222.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GCR-5A-002.jpg 943w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"726\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GCR-5A-001-726x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4588\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GCR-5A-001-726x1024.jpg 726w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GCR-5A-001-213x300.jpg 213w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GCR-5A-001-768x1083.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GCR-5A-001.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 726px) 100vw, 726px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The build slowed down a little when I realised that the chimney casting had the flare cast lopsided. 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