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Things are beggining to come together

John M Upton

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Since the completion of the Jaffa Cake 4-CEP, attention has turned to a more modern EMU of Kent persuasion to which end I have been accumulating Hornby Class 466 Networkers and bits thereof with a view of eventually producing a four car 465.

 

I know this has been done before by others and compared with the hackery that I had to employ for the 4-CEP should be at least a bit easier! Result of all this at the moment is that my test plank resembles BREL Derby works.

 

I had forgotten about how bad the early Hornby Networkers were, one arrived off Ebay as a kit of parts by the time the Royal Mail muffins had dropped it several times but as this was one likely to be taken apart anyway, there is no great loss.

 

Also on my workbench and now nearing completion is the thorn in the side of the NWXX pool, Mk2d FK 13575* in Network SouthEast livery, this being based on a Airfix/Dapol Mk2d FO with the tinted window hiding the fact there is a distinct lack of corridor inside there...

 

Other forthcoming plans see a cheap Vi-Trains Class 47 due to arrive any minute for repaint as 47711 'County of Hertfordshire' and plans for a Cross Country air con Mk 2 rake with a Airfix/Dapol Mk2d FO planned to be converted into an RFB, ignoring the fact the latter was a Mk2f mind...

 

Pictures to follow!!

 

 

*Reportedly whenever this was formed in a NSE rake and there was a no heat/ETH loco on the front, the Guard would frequently say he was not working the train due to no power to the Air Con which although there were a few other Air Con's Mk2's on NSE's books in later years, probably explains why this was the only one to get as far as being repainted

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R.Langley

John,

 

I look forward to seeing those pictures.

And I once again should apologise with the length of time it took to get you the 466!

 

Richard

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I think the parcel waiting for me at the Post Office to collect on Monday afternoon may well be the aforementioned bits of Networker!!

 

Anyway, despite some awful lighting, I managed to get a shot of my completed Mk2d 'FK', apologies for the quality of the photography mind:

 

M2dFKNSE.jpg

 

As for the Vi-Trains based 47711, well it has arrived, been dismantled and is currently part way through the repainting process. When completed I intend to do a head to head comparison with my Bachmann based repaint 47579:

 

47579a.jpg

 

I seem to be building up an awful lot of locos for such a small layout! I hope to do some properly lit photography at some point to record the stock I have as I do need to work out a few things here.

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