Pannier papers
Entry posted by Barry Ten
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Just a quick update on a couple of RTR-based projects that have featured on here recently and not so recently...
Work continues on my Tri-ang 57XX which as I mentioned a few weeks back has been fitted with a surplus Bachmann
chassis. The body is now in that state of maximum tattiness before - hopefully - things start moving in the right
direction again!
The top feed and associated plumbing has been carefully removed and the resultant scars addressed with sandpaper. Now. I'm going to be honest here and admit that I initially got it into my
head that the Tri-ang body was already non top-feed fitted, which was clearly not the case - 0/10 for observation! However since the handrails were already off, doing this backdating was
perhaps a bit less fraught that it would be on a Bachmann example. Paul Marshall-Potter has very kindly done one of these Bachmann conversions for me, and very nicely, but the Tri-ang
moulding is decidely more forgiving in that it doesn't have so much nice detail to begin with, so I felt more confident about hacking away.
Onto the other side of the loco now, and an attempt had been made to reduce the thickness of the visible part of the cab side sheets:
I'm pleased with the way this has come out so I'll repeat the exercise on the other side, before beginning to reinstate handrails and so on.
Cheekily photo-bombing the other shot is my 94XX which has been nearly finished for a year or two. It just needed some minor tidying up and then it was done. But, the cabside number plates I happened to have in stock were for a BR-built example without the solid extension between the front frames. I thought it would be a fun challenge to modify the frames accordingly:
Here the Lima moulding has been cut away with a razor saw, and the resultant rectangular gap in the footplate addressed with some careful work with plastic sheet and filler. The vertical part of the smokebox saddle must also be reinstated. Once all that's finished, the front bits of the smokebox saddle /frames will be added from two triangular pieces of plastic card, and the 94XX should be ready for final detailing. The white patches around the bunker are where I wasn't quite happy with the existing filling over the incorrect footstep recesses; I really hope these final layers will sand back sufficiently to hide the work.
That's it for your regularly scheduled dose of bodging - thanks for reading.
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