Rebooting Bovvy

[TTHLRMatt]

Well, a time comes! Last night I was kicked from my normal workbench in my room after painting a swift sixteen bogie wagon as my mum in the next room was off to bed early as, despite me now having twelve weeks off, she still has to go in to school to teach.
I re located in the kitchen and decided to start a job that I have wanted to do for a very long while, rebuilding Bovvy. This loco was entered in the IP scrapbin challenge as featured in SMT. Alas I was very young then and so, now around 3 or 4 years on, I am not satisfied with what it looks like!
This is Bovvy as it stood.


After a dust down, I planned that I was going to:
1. Repaint
2. New Bonnet and/or cab
3. Chequerplate footplate.
4. Weathering
Last night, I made a start and removed the bonnet with great ease. I then tried at the wooden footplate but the whitemetal came unstuck on the chassis. There would be no way to get it out with out a full rebuild so I have decided to remove the seat and hand brake, put the chequerplate over the top and go from there.
The last job I did last night (not in photo) was re secure the battery boxes under the frames.

[Peter Butler]

Brave move to strip down something which has its own story to tell.
In the intervening years the experience gained will allow you to be more confident in the re-build and I'm sure you will be rewarded with the result.
Well done Matt.

[TTHLRMatt]

Well after I got in from working on this all day, I found a little time to work on Bovvy.


This is as Bovvy stood after last night

I had painted the swift sixteen plate last night and spent some time cutting it out of the fret.

With my dremel, I also removed the seat, handbrake and some of the glue.