{"id":7188,"date":"2025-09-12T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7188"},"modified":"2025-09-12T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T14:40:00","slug":"fred-phipps-gauge-1-132-warship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7188","title":{"rendered":"Fred Phipps Gauge 1 (1:32) Warship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Something a little different from me. I have been quite for a few weeks because I was focusing on building this for delivery at Stafford. I started this way back in 2017 but the kit was supplied with came with ex San Cheng motor and gearboxes which were quite popular at the time. The minor issue with them was that the retaining collar on the final drive was very thin and in order to get the grub screw to clear the gear above you needed to file a slot in the axle. This is all very well if you are using solid axles like those provided with Slaters wheels but the kit came with Mark Wood wheels mounted on telescopic axle which are not good for filing slots in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_0001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"809\" height=\"717\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_0001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7189\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_0001.jpg 809w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_0001-300x266.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_0001-768x681.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_0001-338x300.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 809px) 100vw, 809px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">San Cheng final drive gear<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having discovered the issue I sent the motor and gearboxes back, explaining the issue and asking for some different motor and gearbox units which didn&#8217;t require a slot cut in the axle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After chasing it up a couple of times without response it was ultimately placed in a cupboard and forgotten. When I moved house I recalled that I still had it but it wasn&#8217;t until after covid that I got in touch with the guy and reminded him that I had it. It then took another couple of years or so to actually get suitable gearboxes (we had tried some Slaters axle mounted bogie units but they were not suitable either &#8211; for the life of me I can&#8217;t recall what the issue with those were now).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I finally received suitable units last year but I was in the midst of building the Princess and having waited so long I didn&#8217;t want to just drop everything to do the Warship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fast forward to about 4 weeks ago and I decided to try to get it finished for delivery to Stafford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had made the chassis and bogie frames back in 2017 so the first job was to fit the motor and gearboxes to make sure that they would indeed fit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1-Warship-bogie-Motor-fitted-underside.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"705\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1-Warship-bogie-Motor-fitted-underside-705x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7190\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1-Warship-bogie-Motor-fitted-underside-705x1024.jpg 705w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1-Warship-bogie-Motor-fitted-underside-206x300.jpg 206w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1-Warship-bogie-Motor-fitted-underside-768x1116.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1-Warship-bogie-Motor-fitted-underside.jpg 881w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Warship bogie Motor fitted underside<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I used the mill to neatly enlarge the slots for the motors and then heaved a sigh of relief when they went in as planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1-Warship-Bogie-motor-fitted.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"970\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1-Warship-Bogie-motor-fitted-1024x970.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7191\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1-Warship-Bogie-motor-fitted-1024x970.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1-Warship-Bogie-motor-fitted-300x284.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1-Warship-Bogie-motor-fitted-768x728.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1-Warship-Bogie-motor-fitted-317x300.jpg 317w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1-Warship-Bogie-motor-fitted.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Warship bogie Motor fitted<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something a little different from me. I have been quite for a few weeks because I was focusing on building this for delivery at Stafford. 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