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37065 - Complete (for now...)

The Fatadder

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A couple of dry evenings has resulted in a lot of progress on 37065, which has now been fully resprayed into Mainline livery (using Rainbow Railways acrylic Mainline Blue, Model Air Grey Black for the roof and a mix of Model Air chrome yellow and Model Colour golden yellow for the ends.

After a coat of gloss varnish, Fox transfers were used for the body strip and silver numbers, it is an odd sheet as it includes numbers for all classes, two sets of stripes, but they sell different packs for different classes with the different sized Mainline logos (it turned out mine was for a 73 which were too big).  Also two big were the 37xxx numbers in blue (I am assuming the centre box locos had bigger numbers on the ends).  Thankfully a sheet of NSE coach numbers was the perfect size so I could add the end numbers (as ever regretting not sourcing some from Railtec while I was adding the numbers one by one.  With this done the model gained a coat of mat varnish before reassembling.  (It will get a set of rub down Mainline logos in the future to complete the loco)

 

full bufferbeam detail has been added (Intercity Models / Heljan), although it does still need a Dingham next time I build a batch.

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There are still a few jobs outstanding, it needs the lighting boards reconnecting to the main circuit, the lights all need glazing, and eventually it will need modifications to the fuel tanks and windscreen.  For the latter I want to see if any of the current laserglaze parts will fit (along with a silouhette cut window frame.)   Finally I need to find someway of securing the body and chassis as the body is missing its retaining screws (and the bufferbeams were cut away from the chassis block.  The most obvious solution is to do a chassis swap with another loco which does have the central body attachments, so one can be held on at the ends and the other in the centre.

 

All in all I am really pleased with this little project, which really should be the last class 37 added to the fleet.  I say should because the master plan would really need another 37/5 in Transrail (and LoadHaul 37s just look so good!)  It should at least be the last 37/0 at least, given how less frequently they would be seen in the SW relative to the refurbs. 

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Slightly less complete than I intended, as I have forgotten to add the orange cantrail line (and a window has fallen out.)  A couple of jobs to complete this evening.

 

I have a cunning plan using HMRS GWR loco footplate lining to add the cantrail line, seeing as for my steam period there is no need to line the footplates...

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