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Modelling Foster Yeoman PTAs


The Fatadder

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Continuing from my thread on oldRMweb, I have made a little more progress on my rake of Foster Yeoman PTA

The underframe ribs are now completed, adding the reinforcements to the outer headstocks and the wider ribs over the bogies.

The headstock reinforcement was fabricated with the chopper set to carefully cut along its length to get the two heights (a further small step needed removing from one corner to allow clearance over the packing pieces which support the ribs.

Whereas the ribs themselves were cut from 60thou strip laminated either side of a further piece of 60tho to get the width. This ensured an accurate cut (the chopper dosn't like really thick plastic). Given that the bogie bolts go right through the middle of the rib, I fabricated it in 2 halves with a 3mm gap in the centre for clearance.

 

Once this was completed, the other major task was preparing the inner headstocks for Kaydees, In order that they could offer both inner and outer wagons, Lima moulded one headstock attached to the chassis, and the other to the body. The chassis mounted headstock was lost when I started this project (when the old chassis was binned) so to save time these were replaced with plasticard (with the kaydee hole cut off model). For the other end I kept the lima headstock (for strength), so it needed the holes cutting out. Thankfully the plastic used on these wagons is very soft, so it was a very quick job cutting out the five holes!

 

The below photo shows the current state of the work:

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The next job is going to be fitting the tops to the ribs (10 thou evergreen strip), followed by the underframe equipment. Once this is out the way the final job will be preparing the bogie retention bolts (which are going to be counter sunk into the floor of the wagon, then glued in place.) After which it will be ready for painting (or more to the point doing the other 5 wagons!) I've just dug out the bogies I brought for this rake a long time back, and they were a lot worse than I remembered. As such, its not going to be possible to finish until new bogies are available, which is probably the reason why I havent done much more on this.....

 

That said, I have been looking at how I am going to finish them, My link from Paul Bartlett may provide the inspiration to get another project finished. A long time back I brought one of the intercity Models etched kits for the second wagon in that set, while the floor is bodged beyond use, Im thinking about soldering up the sides and bogies and using with a plasticard chassis to add something a bit different to go with the rake.

 

I have been wondering what to do about the livery for them, it seems that there was a change of livery in 1989, but I was wondering if this version (Caib branding with the big Y yeoman logo) had appeared in 88...

My thinking at the moment tends towards an ex works set in the new livery and a very weathered set in the old. Or doing a set in Yeoman and a set in ARC...

 

To go with it I have a set of 12 POA boxes (in Yeoman and Tiger grey), a set of PGAs (mix of Hornby and Lima awaiting detailing, although the latter is very tempting for gunnul conversion.....)

 

And of course a couple of 59s which are part fitted with Bachmann 66 innards (and desperately want finishing...)

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