Another distraction from my main modelling activities. And a first for me – I’ve never done anything like this before.

A customer presented an N gauge Bachmann ‘Plymouth’ diesel shunter, a sheet of plasticard, and extracts from an article which had appeared in Railway Modeller a year or so back. The author of the article had built a new narrow gauge style body to fit the N gauge chassis and this customer wanted to do the same ….only he was having trouble cutting the plasticard straight.

The article in RM was helpful but not exhaustive, the parts needed for the cab were drawn out with dimensions but were not to scale. And so a degree of modelling nous was needed.

Cutting a long story short and some plasticard nearly straight I ended up with, in my opinion at least, a passable representation of a narrow gauge diesel. Painting next – it’s to be maroon apparently.

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