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Re: Märklin BR 38
« Reply #15 on: March 08, 2020, 11:38:01 AM »
Nice Jörg!  :biggrin:
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Re: Märklin BR 38
« Reply #16 on: March 08, 2020, 10:26:23 PM »
Hi,
a bit of progress was made today.
It was quite tricky to secure the body to the milling machine table as the locos body is round.
Nevertheless I manged to do some milling.
First photo lining it up.
Second photo starting to take shape.
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Re: Märklin BR 38
« Reply #17 on: March 08, 2020, 10:28:03 PM »
First photo checking for fit, got to get the curve right.
Second photo having a look how it all might come together.
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Re: Märklin BR 38
« Reply #18 on: March 08, 2020, 10:31:11 PM »
As can be seen by my red circles the loco body is quite a bit wider on the old Märklin model
so I will most probably have to trim the loco a bit.
Will take my time and consider how best to do this.
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Re: Märklin BR 38
« Reply #19 on: March 15, 2020, 01:21:18 PM »
Hi everybody,
managed to do a bit in the week and this morning.
I lightly glued the buffer beam and side parts to the body this week and this
morning I trimmed the chassis of the loco to fit.
Loosely fitted the drive wheels to place the loco on the track to check for correct height of buffer beam.
To high so back to the drawing board.
Photos are always nice.
First photo chassis in the body after trimming.
Second photo loco on my layout without the front bogie.
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Re: Märklin BR 38
« Reply #20 on: March 15, 2020, 01:24:24 PM »
First photo with the front bogie loosely in place.
I see I have to modify this as well.
Its actually a Fleischmann part of a BR 78.
Second photo a side shot showing what its looks like now.
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Re: Märklin BR 38
« Reply #21 on: March 15, 2020, 01:27:52 PM »
I have to cut off the parts on the Fleischmann bogie that I have marked with the black arrow.
These are on the buffer beam already on the new parts, green arrow.
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Re: Märklin BR 38
« Reply #22 on: March 15, 2020, 08:09:54 PM »
Awesome Jörg! :thumb:
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Re: Märklin BR 38
« Reply #23 on: March 15, 2020, 10:40:07 PM »
Good evening,
I did cut off the parts from the Fleischmann bogie.
See photo one.
I also just to look how it fit temporally mounted the piston push rod tubes.
Also to make sure these don't clash with the wheels in the corners.
Photo two.
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Re: Märklin BR 38
« Reply #24 on: March 15, 2020, 10:44:46 PM »
Next step is to remove the old cast on lights.
To be replaced by separate cast brass lamps.
Blue arrow.
Also the complete front section must be lowered, red arrow.
I will most probably have to scratch build a new front for the loco.
Then I will also reduce the cap at the black circle.
I will have to order more parts from Germany.
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Re: Märklin BR 38
« Reply #25 on: March 16, 2020, 02:56:15 PM »
Exactly how much of the original loco will be left I wonder... :peep:
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Re: Märklin BR 38
« Reply #26 on: March 16, 2020, 03:05:05 PM »
 :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:
Not much I think, lets see what happens.
In the meantime its giving me lots of pleasure.
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Re: Märklin BR 38
« Reply #27 on: March 17, 2020, 03:11:00 PM »
It's going to look so cool once done...... Really one BIIIIIG job......  :thumb:
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Re: Märklin BR 38
« Reply #28 on: March 30, 2020, 09:19:13 PM »
Hi,
no actual work has been done in the last few days on this project,
but some research and looking for suitable material.
I found two etched brass sheets that have a pattern on the one side.
Exactly as I need for this loco in front.  :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:
One is 0.3 mm thick and the other is 0.5 mm thick.
The 0.3 looks finer and I will use that.
Photo one the two sheets.
Photo two the part of the loco that has to be removed complete with the
old cast on imitation lamps.
« Last Edit: July 19, 2020, 07:35:10 PM by capeklr »
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Re: Märklin BR 38
« Reply #29 on: March 30, 2020, 09:21:47 PM »
Some more parts.
Lamps, these will have to be milled out a bit to make
space for some very tiny Led's.
Photo one.
Photo two shows a few other parts that I have here.

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