Work progresses with detailing the HST stock. With the progress on the boards and track, I needed a break and have kept work on the stock moving forwards.
The first power car is just about done and ready for storing until the rest of the stock is ready for painting blue. It'll all get painted in one go for consistency's sake.
The van door is 10 thou plasticard, a similar one has been made for the cab. The exhaust work mentioned previously here is complete, complete with struts inside the out
So after hours spotting places visited on holiday and local landmarks whilst dawing up, well, typing up I suppose, the artwork for the 150, it's just about complete now. The test print is purely to check the sizing, it's done on fast draft on the inkjet, whereas the final will be ALPS printed all being well, allowing the base paint colour to show through. It shouldn't take too much work to modify it for the 153, and the good news is that it sizes up perfectly.
Also got a test print of the m
Work continues with the Sprinters, both of which have gained new exhaust pipes to improve appearances. The first photo shows the work done to the 150, 1.2mm brass rod bent to shape, with the finest wire in my toolbox wrapped round and soldered to make the supports. The plastic underframes have needed to have a little bit of material removed to allow the exhaust to wrap round and pass into the bodyshell.
They will be painted silver and heat stain colour and glued on once the model is painted.
Here are the photos I promised in the original entry here, hopefully they illustrate my ramblings a little better
A comparison shot between a fully detailed Farish 150 with BSI and the Tomix Scharfenberg, hopefully showing why I am using the Farish BSI to detail the outer end of the class 153
Scharfenbergs together. The height discrepancy is nowhere near as bad as the photo looks, it's due to the 150's bogie pointing up slightly
Nice and close coupling. Although not illustrated here, t
So, over the last few days I took it upon myself to forcibly dismantle my 150 and 153 to see what was what.
After much sound of snapping glue and a stabbed thumb, they were apart - here's the 153
The general conclusion is that Dapol use much more glue than Farish, and the design of Farish models makes them much easier to disassemble to modify/ respray, not that that is what they were designed for of course
Anyway, at the N Gauge Show in September I bought a pack of the Tomix Scharfenbergs
So to kick off this new blog, here's some up to date pictures of some bits I've mentioned briefly on the other blog.
Both are development pieces, so progress moves both ways, working out what works and what doesn't.
This is a Graham Farish HST with a Dapol Mk3
Doors have been removed, and the chassis lowered, though there is still too large a bogie - body gap, I think that's down to the bogie being too shallow. Bits of metal have been filed off the underframe too, to improve the relief.
