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LNER J39 O gauge Connoisseur kit build start to finish

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  • čas přidán 26. 07. 2014
  • Picture slideshow build of the fabulous Connoisseur J39 kit. This is a traditional etched brass and nickel silver kit soldered together then painted. The loco is based on J39 E4892 circa 1949 which was based at canal shed Carlisle. The last few pictures is of it running on our club layout CDOGG Carlisle called "kinchley lane" www.cdogg.org.

Komentáře • 57

  • @daveabbott
    @daveabbott Před 11 měsíci

    Nice to see an etched kit constructed by someone who can solder properly. Most leave gobs and blobs and never clean up properly. Kudos!

  • @garethmullins886
    @garethmullins886 Před 4 lety

    A lot of patience, a steady hand, quality soldering, enthusiasm and a crate of San Miguel. Superb loco. Wish I had the time to build my J10. Gazza, O gauge modeller.

    • @sopsax767
      @sopsax767  Před 4 lety

      Thanks Gazza, I really enjoyed building it ! I know what you mean, the way the world is just now it's hard to find the time to do anything ! Stay safe, Steph

  • @royfearn4345
    @royfearn4345 Před 3 lety

    Thank you for sharing your experience. A fine loco build from a splendid kit. Exemplary paint job/weathering and your observation on your selection and distribution of the coal load was the icing on the cake. She's now just waiting for her crew.

  • @sopsax767
    @sopsax767  Před 9 lety +2

    Thanks Dale ! They are great kits, they almost build themselves !! Much credit to Jim. From start to finished and weatherd took me a little over 2 months to do. Bearing in mind I work full time doing 12 hour shifts mostly unsocial hours. Enjoy your G6 you have picked probably the best range of kits on the market for dipping your toe in to O gauge ! hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed mine, the instructions and fit of the parts are second to none !!

  • @aponderousmindthinketh6482

    The is one of the best build video I've ever seen on CZcams.

  • @pmf2910
    @pmf2910 Před rokem +1

    Work of art sir

    • @sopsax767
      @sopsax767  Před rokem

      Why thank you 😊 it’s actually lady by the way 😉

    • @pmf2910
      @pmf2910 Před rokem

      @@sopsax767 very sorry. I’ll start again, work of art madam

    • @sopsax767
      @sopsax767  Před rokem

      @@pmf2910 Thank you very much 😊😂

    • @pmf2910
      @pmf2910 Před rokem

      @@sopsax767 wait in anticipation of next work

    • @sopsax767
      @sopsax767  Před rokem

      @@pmf2910 Sadly I’ve moved on from O gauge and I’ve started specialising in large scale live steam locomotives, this is a loco I’m in the middle of restoring for one of my club members
      photos.app.goo.gl/HinK9J5zS6ixUCWi9
      I am adding pics to the library as I go, so if you save the link and join the group then you will see the restoration as it progresses 😉

  • @nicksmith8604
    @nicksmith8604 Před 7 lety +2

    excellent presentation and of course the execution was world class.

  • @peterjhillier7659
    @peterjhillier7659 Před 7 lety

    A beautifully made Engine and Video, Jim's Models are some of the best especially with the superb Instructions makes it so much easier.

    • @sopsax767
      @sopsax767  Před 7 lety

      Peter J Hillier
      Thank you very much 😁 I totally agree Peter, Jim's kits and instructions are superb !!

  • @steamsearcher
    @steamsearcher Před 6 lety

    Lovely! I needed some details for my new part built Jinty so got one in O gauge.
    Nice size, The one I am building is in 5" gauge.
    Very clear photos all through.
    Thank you for posting!
    David and Lily Reading.

    • @sopsax767
      @sopsax767  Před 6 lety

      steamsearcher , Thanks David, glad I could help. If you click on this link it will take you to my personal Google album of this build. Feel free to download and print the pictures as you see fit, Steph 😉 goo.gl/photos/Tadi935oKa7K9QK57

  • @petercunningham4000
    @petercunningham4000 Před 7 lety

    Very nice build.
    Your soldering is especially neat and precise.

    • @sopsax767
      @sopsax767  Před 7 lety

      Peter Cunningham Thank you very much 😁

  • @neiltate6309
    @neiltate6309 Před 4 lety

    Very nice modelling, lovely soldering . Top marks .

  • @bewseybill3691
    @bewseybill3691 Před 8 lety

    Thanks for sharing your experience. True inspiration for any would be modeller. Great!!!

    • @sopsax767
      @sopsax767  Před 8 lety

      +Bewsey Bill
      Thanks very much !!

  • @rodfearnley2486
    @rodfearnley2486 Před 4 lety

    Great piece for reference, as I am building one, my first in O scale. Having to re learn soldering skills after some 40 years too.

    • @sopsax767
      @sopsax767  Před 4 lety

      Good luck with the build, it's a fabulous kit to build and well worth the effort. Here is a link to my personal photo album of my J39 build, plenty more reference to help you along ! goo.gl/photos/Tadi935oKa7K9QK57

    • @rodfearnley2486
      @rodfearnley2486 Před 4 lety

      sopsax767 your pictures have helped me a lot, especially with some unfamiliar casting placing, thank you. My tender is almost complete, then the psychological jump to the hard part, the loco.
      Onwards and upwards.👍🤞

    • @sopsax767
      @sopsax767  Před 4 lety

      @@rodfearnley2486 I'm so pleased that the pictures have helped you along Rod. I added a water scoop casting to my tender, this wasn't part of the kit. The loco itself isn't much harder, just make sure you have the running plate absolutely square before you solder on the boiler. A good tip is just to tack with solder and check it's all square before seam soldering everything. Have fun, Steph

  • @thurstablelane7567
    @thurstablelane7567 Před 4 lety

    Very Nice work, I am working on an LNER J68 from Jim at the minute been lovely to build.

    • @sopsax767
      @sopsax767  Před 4 lety +1

      Thanks 😊 all of Jim's kits are fabulous, great value for money !

    • @thurstablelane7567
      @thurstablelane7567 Před 4 lety

      @@sopsax767 Yes! I'm just waiting for him to bring out an LNER E4 2-4-0 now, from what he's said it's all in the pipe line.

  • @RailwayWorld
    @RailwayWorld Před 9 lety

    Nice build, you did a very nice job on that, very clean construction. I'll be looking to getthe J15 or D32 4-4-0 that Jim offers. Just getting back into O, tried HO, just doesn't seem right without the size of O :) Nothing like building your own rolling stock too !

    • @sopsax767
      @sopsax767  Před 9 lety

      +Railway World Thank you very much !! Jim's kits are second to none can't recommend enough. They go together well, are well detailed out of the box and lend themselves to any amount of super detail you want to add. You can't beat the presence of O gauge thats for sure, played around with 4mm for years but it just doesn't hit the spot !! Enjoy !

  • @Tom-Lahaye
    @Tom-Lahaye Před 5 lety +1

    Very nice build indeed! Very clean soldering and everything is perfectly square.
    I do also like the layout at the end, which club is this?
    Was the dummy inside motion included in the kit as well?
    And weren't the inside of the frames and inside motion red on the real ones?, or was that on other companies of the big four but not on the LNER?
    I bought several kits frim Jim, and started on a couple of the wagons, they build very well with generaly a good fit.
    Only on the Lowmac (GWR Loriot M) the top deck didn't have the etched groove for the bends at the ends in the right place, I fiddled the side frame rails to make them fit to the place the bends were, otherwise an easy build.
    So I look forward to start on my O2 from him, but in the meanwhile I'm torturing myself with a clasp brake 16 ton mineral from DJ Parkins, but those kits build very well too, it's just the sheer amount of detail that makes it an endeavour to build.

    • @sopsax767
      @sopsax767  Před 5 lety

      Thanks very much ! It was a lovely kit to build, as is everything else that Jim produces. Yes, the kit includes the inside motion, the only extras I added were sprung buffers, turned handrails and injectors under the cab floor. Inside the frames......there has been much discussion in our club about red inside of frames and the general opinion is that during service they were painted black and painting them red only started to appear on steam locos once they entered preservation, so I never paint the inside of frames red. The layout is our club layout, Carlisle and District O Gauge Group. It's a lovely layout based on the Great Central. Thanks again and happy modelling 😉

  • @AceBeer100
    @AceBeer100 Před 9 lety +2

    Very nicely built and beautifully painted and looks superb on the layout.
    Did you make any modifications to the kit during the build?

    • @sopsax767
      @sopsax767  Před 9 lety

      AceBeer100 Thank you very much indeed, you are very kind ! I only added a few small extra details to it. I used turned brass handrail knobs from slaters instead of the brass split pins in the kit. Also bodged up a pair of injectors behind the cab steps and used a lubricator box from Laurie Griffin on the right hand running board and made some pipe runs to the smoke box, other than that as the kit comes, more or less. The only slight discrepancy in the build is the holes for the handrail along the boiler were higher one side than the other, just a case of fill with solder sand flush then re-drill, otherwise a pleasure to build.

  • @Steelshadow104
    @Steelshadow104 Před 7 lety

    Beautiful

    • @sopsax767
      @sopsax767  Před 7 lety

      Steelshadow104
      Thank you very much !

  • @tulyar1043
    @tulyar1043 Před 5 lety +1

    Did you fit a flywheel to the motor?
    How did you isolate electrically the engine and tender as you used the " American system" of pickup?
    How many wagons can it pull?
    This is a very informative video on loco construction please do more.
    Thanks.

    • @sopsax767
      @sopsax767  Před 5 lety +1

      Hi, thanks ! Yes I soldered a flywheel to the motor shaft, it really does help with slow running. Isolation is achieved by using copper clad strip as a drawbar, just make sure you cut the copper halfway to break the circuit. You could use plastic strip, but I find that the copper clad strip gives more stability and strength. I have actually added plunger pickups to the loco and tender since the build for more reliable electrical pickup. Due to the added weight in the loco, it will happily pull a rake of 8 Heljan mk1 carriages, or 25 or so wagons, it is only traction that is the limiting factor, not the power of the motor.

    • @tulyar1043
      @tulyar1043 Před 5 lety +1

      @@sopsax767 Thank you for your reply.

  • @flippop101
    @flippop101 Před 8 lety

    Superb!

  • @Greebstreebling
    @Greebstreebling Před 2 lety

    would be great with some commentary

  • @daveday5507
    @daveday5507 Před 5 lety

    I enjoyed that, but it needs a voiceover.

    • @sopsax767
      @sopsax767  Před 5 lety

      Thanks Dave, glad you enjoyed 😉 lol I doubt anyone would like to listen to my voice though 😂

  • @mitchellwhittington2507

    Does Connoisseur Models ship to the U.S?

    • @sopsax767
      @sopsax767  Před 5 lety

      I'm sorry I don't know, you can contact Jim and ask him, his contact details are on the website.

    • @grahamdavies22
      @grahamdavies22 Před 4 lety

      Mitchell Whittington Yes Mitchell, they do. Just call Jim at Connoisseur and he will sort it out for you. I ordered one on Tuesday to be sent to NJ.

  • @taffytamuttonfudge5765

    Does it run?

    • @sopsax767
      @sopsax767  Před 8 lety

      Hi. Yes it does run and has DCC fitted.