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My 'Millie' is finished. (I hope!)
Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 12:01 am
by Bill/Rubery
Hello, This week I finished the last make-over of my somewhat well 'bashed' Roundhouse 'Millie'....other wise known as 'Jenny'. The last notable bits to get done was fitting a Regner steam whistle....a new better wooden cab floor and glazing the weather-shield windows.
Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 7:48 am
by Dr. Bond of the DVLR
coor! thats one modded millie, how did you fit the whistle?
Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 9:40 am
by SLRmidge
Very nice
Is it to 7/8th scale?
Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 3:52 pm
by taliesin001
I've seen this a few times in magazines. It's very nice and alot different to when I first saw a picture of it. looks much better!
Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 4:20 pm
by Jonnyb
Looking good,
some details on the whistle would be really helpful as Im making some changes to my millie at the moment.
Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 4:30 pm
by Endless, Nameless
That's brilliant- hardly recogniseable.
Nice to see a more workaday steam loco too- too many shiny locos out there
Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 7:09 pm
by SillyBilly
That's looking fantastic.
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 10:29 pm
by Bill/Rubery
Hello, Very sorry for tardyness...I dont come on here much! In reply to the lad who wanted to know about the steam whistle (unless you have fitted one anyway??!)....I use the boiler take-off that people use for a sight glass for a extra regulator that give great steam effects for photographs. I had the top blanking off bolt machined and silver soldered onto this.... the Regner steam whistle control body, The whistle sits under one of the side tanks. The feed pipe is insulated with string on the cab part BUT as the whisle itself in in a 'hot-spot' this is bare metal! The engine is now REALLY finished as I put extra coal bunkers on the tank tops to hide the lowness of the boiler
