The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

I've absolutely zero interest in the prototype from a modelling point of view, but those etches really do look good. They'll transform the Limby 67, no doubt about that!

Really looking forward to getting them back from the etchers, hopefully wont be too long. For those who are interested, assuming this works I will have 4 locos worth going spare. Not going to know the price until I get the invoice back from the etchers, but it aught to be roughtly comparable to what Shawplan charge for a similar amount of parts (the development costs of doing these has been pretty substantial given the number of tests that have had to be done, Hoping that the sales of the 67 (and mk1 bits) will fund the development of my next couple of designs (which are being worked on at the moment.)

 

This includes etched walkways for the ex Bowaters china clay TTAs and ECC TDAs and hopefully PRAs, etched HST roof grills (which will enable the conversion of the Hornby model to the alternative types so that I can finally get the roofs of my HST fleet accurate to the numbers I have modelled!) and finally I am looking at doing an etched sprung chassis for both the Bachmann clay hood (which will be the first chassis I attempt) and the Cambrian Mermaid (more of a long term project that I'd much prefer to talk Pixie into doing!!!)

On the seriously long term project list is the plasser Network Rail track recording DMU, but I want to get a lot more experience of design work before attempting something so complicated.

 

I am also going to at some point have to etch a load of parts for the bridges on Bodmin.......

I need two sets of etches Are you doing etched wipers within the parts?

Any news on the etches?

Rich wouldnt mind a set if and when they do finally come out..

 

Ian

Afraid there are none left at the moment, more are in progress however at the current time I dont know how long this will take.

ok, many thanks.

Rich, I'm still interested in a set of the etches when they're available again. I missed them last time around.

 

Thanks!