Class 22 Diesel (next project)

Hi Jeff,

Thanks, yes you are spot on I built a lot of airplane kits in my younger days and then started in R/C aircraft and gradually progressed into my own designs and scratch building a mix of scale subjects and sports models, did it for over 30 years so I guess I must have carried some methods of build into railway models.

Ron

It's like building a boat you never have enough clamps.

I suspect that home boatbuilding magazines and plan services are backed by a top secret international consortium of clamp manufacturing firms to sell millions of clamps!

Luckily the discount hardware stores near me have a sale on the lighter duty ones a couple of times a year. Great Christmas and birthday gifts too.

Just the two lower rails to fair in and its ready for the 1mm birch roof skin. I am going with 3 x 12 inch long panels a single 36 inch would be difficult. The centre panel has a 90mm hole for the cooling fan just hope it doesn't distort or lift when I curve it over the frame.

Very nice! Love the detail!

Don't cut the hole before fixing and put a complete 'hole' surround of shaped mdf in place first to glue to. Same as you would have done withthe cockpit hole in your model 'planes.

Thank Robert

Bazyle I was considering pre fitting a support but I tried a dry fit and it seems fine, thanks anyway.

Ron

Roof panels turned out quite well, just a couple of small adjustments needed for the fit to the body and then roof detail.

Sorry, double post.

Edited By Ron Laden on 28/10/2020 17:06:28

Still adding detail to the roof, I now owe our kitchen a new flour sieve ​​​​​​

Not had too much time lately but managed to make up and fit the cab side window frames, the end plate access panels, the head code housings (still to be finished) and the head lights. Pictures show the lights on I have gone with 12 volt 10mm ultra bright led,s which really are bright when viewed square on (couldn't quite capture it on camera)

A pair of red rear lights at each end still to be added plus some more hand holds and a few other small bits of detail.

That looks fantastic. The scale mesh on locomotives is so easy to get wrong, that just looks right.

this is looking the dogs

Looking great Ron!

Thanks guys it's obviously not a true scale model but if it turns out a reasonable representation of a class 22 then I will be happy. The main aim is to have a reliable good runner for the club track that looks half decent and doesn't need forever and a day to build.

I did think at one point that it would be nice to fabricate the whole body in aluminium but it would need a lot of sheet metal tooling and equipment which I don't have plus I don't have the skill, MDF and Ply I can just about cope with.

Ron

Ron,

I think you will hit your target admirably. You are making an excellent job.

Paul.

Thank you Paul, appreciated.

Just out of interest I have no drawings of the full size and no pictures showing much in the way of close detail so my main source of detail is a N gauge model which I have. Its only 3.5 inches long so a lot of it needs a magnifying glass to pull out the detail but it is amazing how much detail it has for such a tiny model. I think I would have been struggling for information in some areas without it.

Ron

Edited By Ron Laden on 21/11/2020 20:47:42

Vent grills added, 10 per side including the large one. I had them laser cut which I make no excuses for, they are far neater than I would have achieved from the methods I was considering plus they would have taken forever and a day.

Now it's 4 cab doors, 4 double engine access doors and 2 small panel doors. The doors I will be making and they are all glazed apart from the 2 small ones.

It's coming along, slowly.

Ron are you aware of this website for the 'new build' Class 22. It has some good detail and a side view drawing. It may be a bit easier than trying to scale an N gauge model which is already someone's interpretation of the original.

Image map | Project 22 (project22society.co.uk)

Edit at the bottom of the images page is the side view, not the one a the top.

Dave

Edited By Dave Smith 14 on 04/12/2020 18:42:03

Thanks Dave,

Yes I am aware of the Project 22 site but must admit I havnt kept up with it. It seems to have more information now then when I first looked at it.

My N gauge model is by Dapol and I dont know where they got their details from but I wouldnt be surprised if it was from actual drawings as the detail is excellent and comparing it to a number of pictures of the actual loco,s it seems to be very accurate.

Ron