Hydraulic Heaven

The model has really come to life with a spot (or more) of paint. The white flecks should disappear with the weathering. This is turning into a superb model - far better than I had ever imagined possible considering the very basic etches you began with!

Thanks. I'm also thinking that most of the minor painting issues will disappear under the weathering... otherwise the paint stripper would have been deployed already.

 

It would be nice to think that I could produce an ex-works paint finish if I wanted to, but this is only the third model that I've painted with an airbrush, so maybe with more practice.

Looking very good, I have to keep reminding myself this is 2mm scale!

 

John.

Looks terrific Andy...

Just like "Turin 60" i browsed this part 10 and thought "hmm, somebody else who can't wait for the Dapol D63xx". Then I realised it is actually "N" !!! Excellent work D869 - very impressed, and imagine a trip to Highclere would put the "baby" right at home !!!!

Great stuff

Thanks all.

 

Rumour has it that Dapol may produce the class 22 in 'N' too but Mr Dave declined to confirm or deny this at the RMWeb members day.

 

Hopefully my version will hit the tracks first.

 

Andy

Thanks for creating this blog - I have one of these kits yet to build so your insights are very useful.

The nearly finished product looks very nice indeed.

 

Steve

Thanks all.

 

Rumour has it that Dapol may produce the class 22 in 'N' too but Mr Dave declined to confirm or deny this at the RMWeb members day.

 

Hopefully my version will hit the tracks first.

 

Andy

 

 

At least yours stands a chance of being reliable - my experience with Dapol products does not fill me with confidence.

Thanks for creating this blog - I have one of these kits yet to build so your insights are very useful.

The nearly finished product looks very nice indeed.

 

Thanks Steve. I'm thinking that you will be probably choosing a rather earlier date for your loco, so you can save yourself some pain by avoiding the headcode boxes altogether. Do avoid the prototype series locos because these had a different layout to the side panels (plus other differences), so the kit isn't right for them.

At least yours stands a chance of being reliable - my experience with Dapol products does not fill me with confidence.

 

I hope so.

 

BTW, I have recently improved the running of my (early) Dapol class 66 by hard-wiring the bogies to some tags screwed to the chassis block. This worked for me, but I gather that Dapol stuff uses a huge variety of mechanisms, even between different batches of the same loco, so it is probably not a 'cure all' for everyone.