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Back to my Lima shunter, I wasn't happy with the performance of the old ring field motor so I gutted the motor core, added a gear to the original shaft and made a machima motor on a worm gear fit. The result super slow speed running!

I have also been working on making my Lima class 60 more controllable, so far I've ditched the ring field motor and attached the bogie side frames to a batchman class 55 bogie. And used matching motor, pivot attachments for the bogie made from 2mm plasticard. Ideally I want another 55 bogie to come up so I can power the trailing bogie, but even without it runs much better than the pancake ever did!

OK so it's been a little while but I have manged to sit down and get a little modeling done, back on the class 31 theme, I have finished my scrap siding model, and it's a real parts mash-up. Triang body, latest horny super detailed buffer beam cowlings, 2 airfix trailing bogies, modified so the center wheels are correctly smaller. All weathered and rusted up

Something like this! Just got glazing , wire cab hand rails and couplings to add

Got that Lima shunted starting to look a little more like a British industrial shunter

Proper pigment powders purchased online, raw umber, burnt sienna etc. Make great weathering powders too.

Well I primed with halfords plastic primer and masked using frog tape and also sealing the tape with a clear acrylic mdf sealer which I also use to make my own acrylic paints with by mixing pigments in.

Thanks for all the positive words guys, sure beats the attitude I get at my local model shop, all I get there is you can't do that!

more lima shunter butchery

No not upset at all, i knew all that was wrong! and i may still make some small plates to stick on over the top of the boiler filler hatch. The next 31 will ave this aswell as the horizontal bearing removed. Colours where: Ford Dove grey - bottom halford enamel ral 7005 - mid rover hurricane grey - roof

not one of my 31's but i had the sudden urge to cut up this old lima shunter!

a couple of better pictures

weather the chassis and bogies