Adler Locomotive by Kevin - FINISHED - OcCre - G scale - 1/24 - 1835

[Kevin]

here is the link to the wikki page

Adler (locomotive) - Wikipedia

 

i needed a short break from the Indefatigable so thought i would do a OOB kit 

 

here is a quick review of the contents

all the last cut material is quite good, in a few places the cut has not gone all the way through, so 9/10

the PE is chunky, and has been etched, and quite well detailed 9/10,

instructions, seam ok 10/10

casting need cleaning up to rid the seam lines 8/10

 

 

 

[Kevin]

started yesterday 28 December

the make up of the boiler was simple enough, as were the forward and after modules, all the MDF is covered in PE

[Kevin]

Day 2

the boiler colour was to light and now i have gone too dark, but will stay this way now, after all would not be a Kevin build if i kept to the correct colours

 

chassis, made up of wood, MDF, castings and PE

 

Tender

wheels need the most cleaning up, from the tabs

just a test fit of the wheels, these are still to be made up, boiler in her new colour, and matt black 

 

[RossR]

Really excited to see someone building one of Occre’s trains or streetcars.  The amount of detail on these models looks fantastic.  I suspect a lot of the passion at Occre is about this subject matter.   

[Kevin]

2 minutes ago, RossR said:

Really excited to see someone building one of Occre’s trains or streetcars.  The amount of detail on these models looks fantastic.  I suspect a lot of the passion at Occre is about this subject matter.   

more so than the maritime subjects they cover lol

[realworkingsailor]

Kev makin’ a choo-choo train?

 

I’m in!!

 

Great start so far!

 

Andy

[GrandpaPhil]

Looking forward to this build!

[Kevin]

good evening everyone, thank you for comments and likes, and interesting to see new followers to my ever continuing process of purchasing good kits and making them badly lol

day 3

 

ensuring the ends are flat to enable fitting into the chassis

wheels being made up

brass banding around the boiler, was a pain, trying to avoid marking the paint work

running gear

another test fit after chassis paint has dried

here she is for the another day tomorrow, nothing is fitted yet

 

[Old Collingwood]

Fascinating project  Kevin.

 

OC.

[Canute]

The brass banding on the green barrel looks spot on. The early loco designs for valve gearing are fascinating. Very nice work, Kev.

[Kevin]

good evening everyone, thank you for comments and likes

 

well i got to day 4 without any drama, unfortunately thats about as far as i got today

[Kevin]

good evening everyone thank you for comments and likes

day 5 tender

not much to say about this build, fits together ok, and satisfy my need to do something different for a short period of time, looking forward to get back to indy now, hope to complete this in next couple of days

rattle can grey primer

tamiya XF-5 base coat, top coat will be the same as the boiler

 

[realworkingsailor]

Happy New Year Kevin!

 

You’re doing a great job, but it’s a shame Occre made the kit wheels with those oversized “pizza-cutter” flanges. For a display model they could have been made a bit more prototypical.

 

Regardless, your efforts will result in a great model. Is there any track included in the kit for display?

 

Andy

 

 

[Kevin]

19 hours ago, realworkingsailor said:

Happy New Year Kevin!

 

You’re doing a great job, but it’s a shame Occre made the kit wheels with those oversized “pizza-cutter” flanges. For a display model they could have been made a bit more prototypical.

 

Regardless, your efforts will result in a great model. Is there any track included in the kit for display?

 

Andy

 

 

Happy new year to you as well

there is no track contained within the kit, but Occre go a diorama setting display board, but pricey, i have just made a fleabay offer on one and getting it for 1/2 the price, will allow me to put the 3 carriages on following the tender 

Edited January 2 by Kevin

[Old Collingwood]

Looking good  Kevin   -  looking forward  to  more.

 

Happy New Year   to  you  and  yours.

 

OC.

[Kevin]

2 hours ago, Old Collingwood said:

Looking good  Kevin   -  looking forward  to  more.

 

Happy New Year   to  you  and  yours.

 

OC.

Happy New Year OC to you the your wife, More of the train tomorrow

[Kevin]

Happy New year Everyone

[Kevin]

good evening everyone

day 7

 

struggling tonight, in trying to be clever and putting brass strips onto metallic paint, and its just not working, the C/A is staining the paint, so i may have to rethink it, but it looks like im going to have to strip the tender down and redo it

 

[Kevin]

good afternoon

 

my fix off wanting to do something different is already starting to go away, but i need to finish this project

from fleabay i obtained the diorama board, the full price is over the top, and contains boards, rails, rail fasteners, sleepers and lots of over sized gravel, i bartered and got a 50% reduction, which is what the true price should be

 

 

 

Edited January 12 by Kevin

[Canute]

Nicely done track-work, Kevin. 👍

[Old Collingwood]

That is  looking so nice Kevin.

 

OC.

[Kevin]

good evening everyone

thank you for comments add likes

well the desire to do a non ship quick build has been done, and for now the build is complete, i will come back to her one day and add the extra carriages, but this is what i wanted to do for now

 

vajello black primer

 

rattle cans

Halfords Red Primer

VW Mars Red No.2

Rover British Racing Green Metallic

Halfords Ford Arizona Gold

 

 

Edited January 14 by Kevin

[realworkingsailor]

Very nice Kevin! 
 

Looking forward to when you do get around to building the carriages. I know the feeling when you want to build something, but not the project you’re working on.  A much needed mental reset!

 

Andy

 

 

[Canute]

Nicely done, Kevin. Like Andy I'm interested in how these carriages turn out.

[Old Collingwood]

Make that  Three  Kevin.

 

OC.

[Landlubber Mike]

Nice job Kevin!!  Looks great!

[wvdhee]

Wow, really nice! I've been wondering if these Occre train kits were any good, but when you do them they certainly are!