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I thought I had a topic on either here, or indeed the old site, but it would appear not, so I shall bring you up to speed. I managed to aquire a rather cheap Lima Class 60, from a certain internet auction site, and thanks to a number of members of this forum, and some trade stands at exhibitions, have cobbled together a set of detailling parts. It was originally in Railfreight Grey with LoadHaul markings as 60050 Roseberry Topping, but with EWS vynils over the logos. I had originally intended to keep it in this condition, but have since decided to go for a full repaint into proper LoadHaul livery, but the actual identity, I'm not fully settled on yet!
Progress thus far has centred around the Shawplan detailling set (thanks paulscot) and has involved plenty of cutting and sticking of various bits of whitemetal and etche to the bodysides (grill surrounds) and interior (radiator assembly). The main bodyside grills will be fitted once painted, as will the roof fan assembly.
Here are a few photos of my progress thus far...
Next I need to fabricate some steps for the bogies, and fit the sprung buffers, although I might use the cast ones from the shawplan set, decisions, decisions!
I also intend to fit some better wheels and some sort of direcitonal lighting. I know express models do a kit for this but I was wondering how easy it would be to build my own. Can anyone help with that (or at least popint me in the right direction) please. I remember reading an article on it a while back, I think it was in Model Rail, but I'm not sure which issue it was in, but I'll no doubt have it somewhere!
Cheers
J
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