Continuing with rolling stock, I won 3 Cavendish coach kits on the usual auction site, £25 for a 70ft compo, 57 FB and a Siphon H. There were one or two bits misplaced, but nothing serious. These kits are still available in improved format, from Ultima.
I thought I would start with the full brake. Here it is still in the box, carefully glued back together by the seller.
I laid out all the components, these use printed sides, which saved me doing the lining out and the lack of relief is less of a problem as you only notice in extreme close up. Ultima produce a range of bogie options if you want more detail.
I started by looking at the instructions, which were not too bad, a pleasant surprise. I stuck the main bits together, omitting the corridor partition as again this is invisible (to me anyway!) I will put one in the 70ft as it has more windows. I may even put an interior in that, we'll see. The roof has a white overlay with some surface detail printed on. This is best held by masking tape whilst glueing.
There were a few gaps around the white metal ends, but not too bad for the age of it.
Supplied under frame detail included the battery boxes and truss rods, fitted to the cleaned aluminium with super glue.
I then assembled the bogies, which was tricky as the axlebox covers were missing. At about 2mm square it was no surprise that they had fallen out the box at some point. Fortunately there were some in the siphon H, which I pirated as this needs a new end making so will be done later with Ultima replacements. A hold and fold would have been handy as the top fold is a little bit rounded. This were the first etched bogies I have attempted, so the learning curve was a bit steep at times. I painted them and did a basic highlight and weathering job on them, then varnished them prior to fitting up.
I was then ready to paint the body, including the roof as all mine are grey for wartime. I did the under frame dirtying again and weathered the ends. There is a bit of detail to add to the buffers and maybe some transfers later. The corridor moulding is basic, I will not be adding vacuum pipes as they get in the way of the DG couplings. All this got varnished yesterday.
This morning I cut out and fitted the printed sides. The colour of the top is a little yellow in pictures and I couldn't get the bottom to bend down much as the plastic had curled in a bit with age. I suspect this will be more of an issue on the 70ft. Any suggestions for contouring the plastic a bit would help. I also fitted the wheels, which was interesting as it was hard not to catch the truss rods with ends of the pinpoint axles. I did break 1 bit, how do you fit these, especially metal ones. Supplied were plastic thankfully. Do you do it when assembling the bogies?
A shot end on, not quite enough depth of field but you get the general idea.
Any comments or improvements that can be made would be welcome. I haven't worked out how to get any weathering onto the sides and make it stick yet, and the roof could do with a little soot streaking, but not sure what else needs sorting as coaching stock is not something I am very knowledgeable about.
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