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A very interesting project!

The body is looking good if a little strange right now on Blomberg trucks!

Like many other I'm sure, I will enjoy watching this progress, Good Luck,

Harold.

Something to be careful of If doing D6323, It had both cabs rebuilt after collision damage, the headcode boxes sat a little lower and put everything else slightly out of position to the rest of the batch.

 

Shouldn't be a problem and an excellent choice.

Being an Atlas chassis it will probably have a nice smooth performance too.

 

Well done for sourcing it - I had forgotten that the 22 had the bogies deeply inset due to the front valence (?) wrapping the sides. Does the etch include something for that and the bogies or is it mainly the bodyshell?

Thanks everyone.

 

@Trevor: I hadn't noticed anything odd about D6323 but I will take a closer look at the photos - trouble is that none of them is particularly good because all are taken from some distance away or in poor lighting conditions (or both). I'm still hopeful of doing D6309 instead and D6315 also seems like a possibility - all withdrawn in green and known to appear in Cornwall. I have ordered some photos from Exe Rail who seem to have better coverage of the Devon and Cornwall class 22s, so hopefully these will help me to make the final decision.

 

@Pete: Yes I've been impressed with the Atlas stuff that I've had in the past. Shame that the inside of an MP15 is too small for flywheels which would make it even better. The valances are included in the kit but I haven't fitted them yet. There is an etched overlay available for the bogies (and you can now buy the kit with this included for a few pounds extra), but I bought my kit a couple of years ago, so I don't have the bogie overlays just now.

If you'll excuse the pun your work on the roof and the way this is coming together is excellent and giving me a 'Zest' for getting an order to Worsley Works myself - using this blog as my 'how to' (if I secured results half as good as you I would be pleased).

 

With regard to the MP 15DC chassis - did you order that from the Atlas Website in the States or a model shop out there ? And would I be right in thinking it cost somewhere in the region of 89 of the Queens pounds ? Excellent work though. Regards

 

Matt W

Headcode boxes were fitted a couple of inches lower, but It probably wouldn't even be noticeable in 2mm

 

Will drop you a pm.

@Matt: Thanks. I'm glad that my postings have sparked your enthusiasm. I ordered the MP15DC on eBay from Garden State Models but I don't think that this shop have any MP15s listed just now. It cost me about 100 dollars including postage which at the time worked out to about 65 of our pounds. I did try to find one in the UK at Osborns Models of Bideford but all of their non-DCC ones are out of stock. They do have a DCC fitted example for £83.74, so if you want DCC then that might be a good bet - you would probably get it delivered without such a nail-biting long wait. A couple of days ago I also found a company called Model Junction in Slough that seems to stock a lot of Atlas stuff but their prices seem to be rather higher than Osborns for the MP15.

 

@Trevor: Thanks very much for the photos especially the one of D6309 showing the boiler vent. It looks like I'll be building my first choice loco now (and probably ordering a nice print of that photo at St Blazey to go with it), so I can save deliberations about any oddness on D6323 for another time.