For part three, pics with the temporary body fit
Bogies for the fourth part (this doesn't add much!)
And finally a couple of later photos, before I decided it had all gone pear-shaped (the 'meccano'
fixings between the coaches, and the electrical connections) and put this back on the shelf of shame.
Did I ever mention I hate people who create page layouts where you need the whole height of the screen to change things, and with ambiguous descriptions ?
These might be the pics of the painted compartment interiors for the second part
After failing miserably to reinstate the first photo, and noticing later entries did not even have the broken links, lemme see if I can add images in a new page.
First, compartments before painting - these should be 750 pixels wide
Sorted, at least in principle, the trailer bogies. At the last Epsom show I bought a pair of Replica B4 bogies (assembled, with wheels) and a pair of B5 kits (no wheels). Actually, I thought I'd bought more than that, but for the moment those two pairs were all that came to hand.
Looking at Replica's website the other day, only kits (without wheels) are available. So, for this first stab at getting it to run well (the DTC furthest from the MBSO) I've used a B4 at the cab end and a B5, with B
*very* grumpy now - prepared text for this post, went to attach photos, and lost it.
For some reason, Hornby didn't print the corridor rails. microstrip 20 thou by 10 thou seems the right size, painted silver. I had thought I could hold this in place with bluetack, then use styrene cement. Unfortunately, although the piece to the left of the door (on corridor side) looks ok, the rail came away with the bluetack between the windows, and on the other side of the door it came away completely an
Continuing grumpily (ooh, I do hate having to learn new workflows - I much prefer regular threads where attached pics appear in the preview and can have commenting text added), this is what they look like after painting.
Rail grey wall and second-class bulkheads, purple upholstery mixed from railmatch crimson and (less) rail blue - I think I'll use faded rail blue next time, and aluminium rack supports although those aren't noticeable. White antimacassars brushed on. For the moment, no
For me, there are several inadequacies of the blue Hornby VEP, but since it's a lot better than I will ever manage with an MJT brass kit, I figured I'd better put my money where my mouth is.
First up are the compartment sides. My skills are limited, and I don't have any quantity of spare 1st class BR Mk1 compartment interiors, so I've gone for cutting an aperture in the solid side, then putting a piece of 10 thou plasticard over it. I figured that cutting a series of rectangular windows woul
S'pose I'd better introduce myself. I came back to model railways about 4 years ago - initially for (mostly continental) narrow gauge. Trouble was, when I was last a modeller (early 1970s when I was a teenager), what I really wanted was Southern EMUs like I saw on the real railway. No money for what became the Phoenix 4-COR kit, and inadequate skills to try to make my own. And then Bachmann brought out the phase I 4-CEP.
Now, I've got adequate cash, but my skills are still limited. So, thes
