Brake Van for freight project
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Having got a decent enough test track to run things I've been adding to my freight stock. I need a couple of brake vans and in an exhibition a little while back (when we had them things) I bought a partly built Cambrian models SR brake van kit from a 'member sales' stand. The chassis had been assembled (as rigid) and the duckets had been glued to the mixed plank sides (great as that is the variety I'm modelling). Putting this together has been bit of a pain as the body interior is actually lower by 0.5 mm than the ends and fixing the doors should be done before attaching the roof (!) ... like I didn't and it shows. Also, being in P4 the long wheel base in a rigid chassis resulted in immediate derailment on my dodgiest bit of track. So I bodged a compensated axle using a Blacksmith internal compensation unit designed for compensating etched coach bogies . it worked a treat! Still a work in progress I need to attached the couplings (Dingham) and the steps and finish painting. Some photos of progress follows ...
Firstly body assembled with ends, having packed the centre compartment sides to raise them to meet the roof (!)
I was painting as I went along so the internal bits that would be hard to paint afterwards were done, but I wish I hadn't dome the sides ...
This is the underside showing the weight and the compensation unit
close up of compensation unit and a lot of fat hand / finger (Sorry)
now with doors and buffers replaced with Bachmann sprung loco buffers which might be a bit too long
and the other side
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