WW1 Crewe Tractor
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22 18 April 2022, 10:39
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Very unusual indeed. I am looking forward to following this project
18 April 2022, 11:58
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You know it's kit-bashing when job number 1 is to saw off all the mudguards 🙂 road version is taking shape, more bashing to make it right hand drive... adding a few bits and pieces spark plugs, cables with styrene and brass. The last pic today is the one for motorising for rail use, so the engine is sawn in half too as that's where the electric motor will be.
8 May 2022, 15:18
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Thanks all, I will have more photos very soon.
@Ben M : it's 32mm gauge which is fairly close to scale as it was a 2 foot narrow gauge railway
1 June 2022, 16:13
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New pics added - my photo-etch arrived so I'm getting started on the rail chassis, so lots of soldering before I get back to the plastic bits. It's hard to work out what order to put stuff together 🙂
3 June 2022, 21:58
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Looking forward to see some more on this build very interesting
I just got 7 of the Gabriel kits myself and can relate to the flash lots of it
But very interesting kits 1975 and 76 very old
22 December 2022, 21:29
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Finished at last, it's been on the go over a year 😮 I kind of forgot to keep taking in-progress pics so there is a bit of a jump from raw brass pics to finished paint 🙂 now I seek a suitable driver figure, but 1:20 driver figures in WW1 Brit uniforms seem kinda rare, I wonder why...
13 July 2023, 18:08
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Great subject and impressively clean brass work. I pull my hat for your ability to turn these shapeless bolbs of white metal into an outstanding model.
13 July 2023, 20:17
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What a cool looking machine and a terrific result, you mastered that photoetch very well.
14 July 2023, 06:09
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Thanks for the comments, its been one of those builds that sometimes you have to just put aside and do something else for a while 🙂
@wilky I design etch kits as part of making a living, so I did CAD of the chassis then drew out the etch myself
14 July 2023, 12:17
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So, if your intention is to motorise the one on rails.
Does that mean you're going to make bomb wagons?
14 July 2023, 22:46
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I will do some artillery shell wagons for it, though they will be smaller ones than the photo in the album. That photo has been considered by minds greater than mine as having been staged for the camera, as that train would weigh far more than a Crewe Tractor could realistically get moving 🙂 there is a laser cut ply kit available of a tiny WW1 tramways wagon, so I will have maybe 3 of those on it.
15 July 2023, 09:54
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I would like to see that Dietmar! hopefully in 1/35 you would find more kit parts to use. I saw a resin of it but the design did not look correct to the historical photographs. If you need a drawing of it, there is a set of original plans in this book :
'Railways: A History in Drawings' by Christopher Valkoinen
15 July 2023, 15:04
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British WW1 narrow gauge supply railways had a quirky mode of transport - Model T Ford cars with a conversion kit so they could drive on the road, then in about 1 hour be transformed into a light narrow gauge 'locomotive'. I thought about making one that would actually convert, but as I want to motorise the rail-running one, I am just going to make two : one in road-mode, and one in rail-mode. I will be kit bashing the Model T parts from kits, and make the rest.
Named the Crewe Tractor simply because the rail kit was made at the Crewe locomotive works.