Trevor H

Hope this link to an image by Grahame Wareham is OK to copy. Although a bit dark, what It shows is the side of the cab on D9500 is clearly the same Sherwood Green as on the class 47 behind it. Hope it helps.

I felt the one in the video looked closer to the right colour than the later, but as others have said it looks darker on the model than on the screen. Sherwood Green I believe was used, which was used on the Brush type 4's and type 2 Bo-Bo's.

It may just be the light. but whats going on with the cab colour.

Liking the Mermaid

Remember doing a couple of these myself in 4mm, after following Jim;s article. So can imagine completing one in 2mm must be really satisfying, excellent work.

Thankfully you found the problem Brian, you could of gone a while without noticing.

Looking good Brian, I'm sure I'll be able to make use of some of those bits. The snapped lug on the fork leg is something that happened to me many moons ago. Difference was it was the old drum brake and when it broke the drum spun around, coiling the brake cable around with it and applying the front brake rather sharply, hasten to say I never stayed on the bike

I would explain better with overlays of actual prototype images and go into better detail, but every time I try to save work, all locks up. Meanwhile if you can overlay the two images, the differences are easily identified and will give you an idea of what I'm trying to say. But basically I have moved all the nose furniture at the upper half to correct placement, which was all to low and the centre lamp bracket should be a shorter version than outer ones. Other thing that also needs rectifying that I didn't do on cad image, is the lower discs all need raising, they should be central of bottom plate. Trevor

If anyone is interested Antic's are selling all their ViTrains locos off at clearance. Looks to be through their online site only and not their shops. http://www.anticsonl....uk/1475_1.html

Hope you don't mind Dave, I added your front end drawing with several revisions, seems easier than trying to explain. Also be careful when choosing which models to do, some had minor revisions done to the front end around 1964/65, some examples been D6327/28/32/33.

To add to above, their are NBL oval lamps mounted on the lamp bracket plates under the discs. When locos received yellow panels only part of the closed disc was painted yellow to match panel. A fault carried over from the first release, is the top two circular nose vents are much to low and would improve appearance if corrected. Also can you get the buffer beam hoses corrected, they seemed to of got this backwards on the first batch. Trevor.

Nothing posh, just small, simple and to hand.

Nidge, I'm not even bothering to go through it Well done though, I'm sure it will be helpful to a lot of people. Trevor.

I was going to say the cogs in my head, but their not broken

Their was quite a lot of differences between the two classes, not just the front ends. So I imagine one will be done first, then followed by the other, much like the disc headcode D63xx. I guess with the interchangeable slides this shouldn't be a problem. I'm sure Dave will be along to explain all.