Stuart 10V Vertical Steam Engine

[dhutch]

Just add steam!

Incredible work really. Very nice to see.

Daniel

[dudleybloke]

Very nice indeed!

[dr_gn]

dudleybloke said:

Very nice indeed!

Thanks very much!

[dr_gn]

Here are some better finished images:

















Thanks for watching. Next up for the model engineering side of things - a Stuart Twin Victoria.

[Turn7]

Stunning work Doc.......

[fourfoldroot]

Fantastic first build. Probably best 10V ever. I like the brass washers. Good colour too, there was me thinking they had to be green😄.
You will have great fun building Twin Victoria /Minnie..

[dr_gn]

Much appreciated T7 & FFR.

I thought the washers would set it off a bit, and of course it's often good engineering practice full size.

[dr_gn]

Here are some better videos. They are on my son's YouTube channel; if you stray onto his drawing videos, please turn the music down to avoid hearing loss or worse.

Slow/Medium speed, 10 psi (air)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du06dJGC89g

Fast/Medium speed, 30 psi (air)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWLn4vA27DU

Turning by hand, 30 psi (air)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEKk1IuWAYQ

Under light load, 30 psi (air)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOJRI2ZqE3w

Muffled exhaust (ie mainly mechanical noise), 30 psi (air)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiLlyRaA1mI

Thanks.

[Procule]

Fantastic build thread, Very impressive detail and process. Thanks for posting your progress.

[dr_gn]

Procule said:

Fantastic build thread, Very impressive detail and process. Thanks for posting your progress.

Thanks! No problem. It’s ‘proper’ modelling (in my opinion); everything that moves has to be made to the right size and tolerance, and everything needs to look good too. Pretty steep learning curve, and mistakes can be costly in both time and money, but it’s really satisfying when it all comes together and works.

[Yertis]

dr_gn said:

Thanks! No problem. It’s ‘proper’ modelling (in my opinion)

And that of my father. He thought plastic kits just a bit of a gimmick (compared with balsa wood) and Lego just a toddler's toy (compared with Meccano).

Your pics have inspired me to get out the Brasso...

[dr_gn]

Yertis said:

dr_gn said:

Thanks! No problem. It’s ‘proper’ modelling (in my opinion)

And that of my father. He thought plastic kits just a bit of a gimmick (compared with balsa wood) and Lego just a toddler's toy (compared with Meccano).

Your pics have inspired me to get out the Brasso...

Sounds like your Dad and mine were from the same mould. He was brought up on Meccano and always saw Lego as very much second best. Didn’t stop him getting me Technic sets though. He preferred metal model cars, but always encouraged me to build the stuff I liked from plastic. Said it was good for attention to detail. Then again if a plastic model was motorised, that was seen as a positive; I think Scalecraft was a favoured manufacturer.

[dr_gn]

I thought the 10V looked pretty good, and that I’d done it in a reasonable time etc.

Then today, while visiting the most excellent Maritime Museum in Hamburg, I saw this; a model I’ve seen many times before, but never really with a model engineer’s eye, and I would never have identified the 10V base model had I not built one:



This 10V is much more detailed, and just a tiny fraction of the whole model, which is this (10V circled in green):



Also some Stuart Sirius engines there I think:



I can now appreciate the skill and time that went into this amazing model.















Here are a few others:







The museum workshop:





And a tiny fraction of the number of exhibits. These are small scale Wiking models. There must be at least 20 metres of floor to ceiling cases full of these models:



There are hundreds of much larger scale ship models, all meticulously detailed. Thoroughly recommended to anyone remotely interested in ships and/or models. The largest model railway in the world (Miniature Wunderland) and the small but perfectly formed Prototyp car museum are all within about 20 mins of each other in the city.

[dhutch]

What an amazing amount of model engineering!

Thanks for sharing.

I'm aware of Miniature Wunderland but not the Maritime Museum, so will put in the mental bank should I ever find myself in Hamburg.