Hello all again, I've been off school due to the snow and I had decided to air out my international interests; this is what I found:
http://lima.hornbyinternational.com/all-products/locomotives/hl-2012/
I nearly feel off my seat! Wouldn't you know it, I guess the old chestnut 'As soon as I make it someone else starts selling it ring true.
Hello all, Scots Region from snowy Scotland, here with a winter update. I must admit I've been neglecting my blog due to reasons such as family, school, exhaustion, pain, misery, depression, alien abduction and a violent urge to re-programme my computer with a sledgehammer. Any way thats in the past. Now down to business.
this is part of my cunning plan to create another connection between the body of the shunter and the chassis. Through these squares of plasticard I will dril
Hello all again. If you have been reading my previous entires then you know of the snag upon which my project had caught, a buffer had broken off the shunter making replacement impossible, worse still I had removed the remaining buffers. This threatened to throw the whole idea into disarray. After weeks of staring at it, an email to the inspiration and a blog entry, both of which went unanswered, I honestly thought that my brief foray into modeling had ended in abysmal failure and that I had rui
Hello all, for this entry I'm going to have to ask you to use the photos from the entry which this entry derives its name, this is because my camera is out of battery and the charger has disappeared.
Anyway, the body of the Lima Shunter, which henceforth shall be know as an Ex BR class 94 shunter, is secured to the chassis via, what I call, Buffer Boxes, to which the body is held by small clips which fit under the BBs. I had planned to replace the molded plastic buffers with brass replacemen
Hi all, wouldn't you now it, SNAFU, as part of my shunter upgrade I planned to replace the molded plastic buffers:
as exhibited here:
I plan to replace them with brass buffers generously provided by a fellow modeller:
this left a rather convenient mount:
Unfortunately...
this is were the rear right hand buffer mount should be, it was broken off in an accident and has since disappeared, even more incensing, the replacements are a near perfect fit. so any h
Hello all just popping in to show you the progress I've made with the shunter.
This shows what I assume to be the forward access hatch, starboard side, I've drilled and cut out the molded grill and replaced it by gluing fine mesh behind it.
The main engine access hatches, starboard side, I removed the old mold by the same method as above and, as per above, glued fine mesh behind it, note the molded hand rail has been removed, somewhat crudely, with a craft knife.
Forw
Hello all just an update to show you the modifications I have done to my Lima shunter; I have since added, with the help of a friend, a front grille and brakets around the edge using plastic strip.
ScR.
Hello again, sorry for the lack of service (Exams) but I'm back and I am ready to press ahead.
As per the title I have a few questions
What type of paint striper should I use? I do have a bottle of Nail polish remover if thats any use.
how should I proceed with paint removal?
also what kind of glue should be used to seal the cracks I have...er...um...found?
any help will be greatly appreciated. sorry about the lack of pictures that should change soon.
yours
ScR
Here, fina
Hello all, as per the title I have made some slight progress today; I've now purchased some tools from squires and have prepared a list:
After much deliberation I've broken the work in two main areas, the body and the chassis. Body first, Chassis second
step 1
Finnish removing the printed decals
Repair the cracks
Remove the molded detail, handrails etc
modify the buffer beam
detail the body, wire handrails, mesh grilles etc
step 2(chassis)
modify the chassis appropria
Hello there, okay basically the situation is thus: about a year ago Model Rail's George Dent published an article called desert rat. Within it Dent converted an old Lima train set diesel shunter, formerly a fictitious dockside shunter, into army shunter. I decided to the same as Dent had done previously, i.e covert a similar model into an industrial shunter. I would like to stress at this point that this is my first modeling project proper.
Anywho I eventually choose a colliery shunter to b
