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Here is a preview of a small 2 ft. Bagnall loco I'm building. It is based on drawings published on this site.



It still needs a coat of paint and some tweaking.

It is truescale, so something like the Pidlington Light Railway would be a nice route to run it on.

fG

Just logged in for five minutes to discover this.
Good God its ugly. AND I LOVE IT.
Certainly one for the Piddington loco fleet (such as it is)!
By the way, a quick check on my account reveals no less than 320 downloads for the Piddington!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cracking cheese Gromit!

Please make a 2x scale version... beg, whine, grovel, scrape...

FG -

A lovely model and a well over-due addition to MSTS!

Are you using the plans published in Narrow Gauge & Industrial Railway Modelling, Issue 53, pp194-195? These show Excelsior as built (as you have modelled her), as converted to 0-4-2 c.1886 and in her final condition c.1900. Will you be modelling these later versions as well? The plans also have a lovely colour elevation of the RH side - ripe for texturing, methinks!

Look forward to the upload ..

Patrick

FG -

Sorry, didn't see the link (pun not intended!) to Roy Link's site in your original message, I thought that 'this site' was, well, this site!

Patrick

That was one of the contracter locos on the lynton and Barnstaple wasn't it?
thanks colin

colinjamesporter wrote:That was one of the contracter locos on the lynton and Barnstaple wasn't it?
thanks colin

You are indeed correct Colin, a quick look in "The Lynton and Barnstaple Railway 1895-1925" by L.T. Catchpole reveals that the locomotive was was used by contractors Nuttall during the construction of the L&B.

Super model Jur, and in Canvas too...!

Bruce

A short history of Excelsior, as gleaned from NG&IRM and The Kerry Tramway by D Cox & C Krupa pub. Plateway Press:

1888 : Built Stafford, W G Bagnall Ltd Works No.970
1895 : sold to Nuttall's, contractors for the L&BR, possibly via Bagnall's
1896 - 1897 : Building L&BR
c.1900 - 1923 : Bought by F J Barnes for use in their Portland stone
quarries
1923 - 1932 : Stored at F J Barnes' yard at Easton
1932 : cut up for scrap

Which leaves a wee gap of about three years after the finishing of the L&BR and the sale to Barnes. This, with the 9-10 years in store at Easton, means Excelsior spent about 12 years of her 44 years possibly doing no work at all. So, perhaps a version of her rusty and weed bedecked would be quite prototypical!

Patrick

Well, I can see that you guys know a lot more about this loco than I do!
All I have is the drawing from the website. I didn't know it was later converted to a 0-4-2, nor that it ran on the L&BR.

I do have the coloured side elevation (green) and I am basing my skin on that.

Canvas ? Nah, good old TSM, displayed in Shape Viewer w/o a track base (there isn't a 2 ft track base in Shape Viewer, nor a 3ft one for that matter - Decapod, are you there? )

I'm not sure about a x2 version, will sfm convert the motion correctly?

fG

fadedGlory wrote: Canvas ? Nah, good old TSM, displayed in Shape Viewer w/o a track base (there isn't a 2 ft track base in Shape Viewer, nor a 3ft one for that matter - Decapod, are you there? )

I'm not sure about a x2 version, will sfm convert the motion correctly?

fG

It was the base which fool me I do believe decapod "borrowed" it from CD Canvas

Anyone with a 3D modeling prog could wip up a base plate - I'm sure Paul would gladly add it to next version of Shape Viewer.

x2 wise, SFM should be okay with Motion - I think Tim Elsby used it to make Monarch for x2. Should be okay.

Look forward to the finished product, with all these routes being built we could do with a contractors loco

Bruce

Paintwork done, all new and pristine:



Still to do is the eng file etc.

fG

Lovely stuff - will look very nice on the Rye & Camber. But I don't think I will punish her with trying to lift a train out of Smithfield Yard on the W&L!

Patrick

It can't go on the Rye & Camber - it is 2ft gauge, not 3ft!

I do use the 'Camber' eng file as the basis for this one, I'd think they were very comparable machines.

fG

I've now applied a slight weathering to make her look more like the working engine she was:



Here she is at work in the Penny Hassett quarries on the Piddington Light Railway:



Look towards an upload soon!

fG

Certainly looks at home towing those stone wagons,looks great!
Thanks
All the best
Chris