Looking good, both the old one and the new one!

Did Cavndish ever do a run of the mill Gresley open third...? Need to try and make a few of those from some components or other, though they would have to look good to sit in between my Dapol ones...

Looking good, both the old one and the new one!

 

Did Cavndish ever do a run of the mill Gresley open third...? Need to try and make a few of those from some components or other, though they would have to look good to sit in between my Dapol ones...

D.23 in printed sides and some Ultima etched conversions intended for the Minitrix ones. The printed ones look nice together but the really don't mix with the Dapol ones because there are subtle size differences and the printed versus moulded side is just too different.

I wonder if the etched Ultima/Minitrix ones could be coaxed onto the side of a Dapol model, to make something that looks more uniform with the modern stuff..

(I picked up a cheap, slightly battered second hand buffet car, which could supply the basic bits)

..were the old Minitrix ones made to scale, I have never seen one in the flesh?

I wonder if the etched Ultima/Minitrix ones could be coaxed onto the side of a Dapol model, to make something that looks more uniform with the modern stuff..

 

(I picked up a cheap, slightly battered second hand buffet car, which could supply the basic bits)

 

..were the old Minitrix ones made to scale, I have never seen one in the flesh?

The overlays are 124mm long and in two parts (overlapping) about 8.5mm high (top section) and 6mm high (bottom) if I measured it right.

Aha.. well on those measurements the length is spot on for the Dapol body.

Can you supply them, or do they now come via the Ultima site?

The Minitrix coaches are also to (1:148) scale and interestingly represent the slightly earlier design of Gresley with a turnbuckle, rather than angle truss, underframe. All three ranges basically stick to the earlier door-to-each-compartment design (except for catering stock) rather than the 'vestibule' open stock; these have only been available as etches. IIRC the CaveNdish Gresley's first came out around 1976 (the range having started with Stanier coaches in 1974). The printing was done by PC Models and is still outstandingly good thirty-odd years later.