exet1095 Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 Seeing a couple of these coaches pictured on RMWeb over the past few weeks reminded me that I bought this kit from Roger Slade at an exhibition in Southampton back in about 2008, and it has been sitting in a cupboard ever since. In fact, very few of my kit pile have been built since I became a father in 2009... It is the hardest coach kit I have ever built. I have been following the instructions, and am now concerned that it will be almost impossible to glaze, And pretty hard to paint. I have avoided fitting the guard’s projections as I didn’t want to fold up the body with big chunks missing. Not decided on the bogies yet. It has nice w/m Americans in the box, bu they may get swapped with the 9’ ones on an old Airfix Siphon G. Apologies in advance, but I don’t seem to be able to caption the pictures. I’ll try when it’s all uploaded. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted April 29, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 29, 2020 I will follow this with intrest as I have several Dreadnought kits to build from the same source. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_mcfarlane Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 How do you form the tumblehome on a one piece body like that? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exet1095 Posted April 29, 2020 Author Share Posted April 29, 2020 27 minutes ago, pete_mcfarlane said: How do you form the tumblehome on a one piece body like that? I just folded the sides up using the end on an engineer’s square to put the fold in the right place, and the tumblehome sort of formed Itself against the partitions. I used garden wire and clothes pegs to get it all home and as straight as possible before soldering. It’s not going to win any prizes, but it was a fun way of hiding from the rain yesterday, and I’ll try to finish the soldering today. Steps and footboards to add, along with the lamp irons, grab handles and door vents. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exet1095 Posted April 29, 2020 Author Share Posted April 29, 2020 Today has been busy with lots of things, but I have finished the soldering on the coach. The end steps are fitted, the lampirons are not. None of my other coaches have them. The step boards also went in nicely and I made up and fitted the Frogmore battery boxes. These had no instructions , but go together easily. Finally, I fitted the door vents. Some came off during the scrub, and needed refitting. Not so the mistakenly placed one, which defeated a 40W iron and refused to come off at all. Afterwards, lots of hot water and a toothbrush, followed by the last of our Viakal “Shiny Sinks”. Later in the week I shall look at bogies, fit a floor, mark out the roof and glue on the whitemetal and plastic parts before attempting to paint, glaze, fit an interior, and giving it a run! 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exet1095 Posted April 30, 2020 Author Share Posted April 30, 2020 247 Developments brass buffers fitted and Airfix Siphon G bogies added with an M4 screw protruding down through the floor. I need to take the moulded collar off the bottom of the bogie stretchers, but an M4 nut and one washer gives a good ride height. The E82 is shown next to the last coach I started (in 2008...), a GWR C81 - Comet apart from Hammond sides. I may put the body on a Mainline Collett underframe and use the Comet chassis for a Sunshine Brake 3rd for which I have finished the body, but have no running gear. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exet1095 Posted May 5, 2020 Author Share Posted May 5, 2020 In the paintshop. First coat of Halford’s primer applied. The old tin had lost its propellant, and the replacement came this lunchtime. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted May 5, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 5, 2020 Very nice, but it looks as if you have a couple of dinks in the turn under, one in the middle and a further one to the right hand end both are just to the right of partitions. This is not a criticism of your build, just pointing out where a little bit of filler is needed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exet1095 Posted May 5, 2020 Author Share Posted May 5, 2020 4 hours ago, Siberian Snooper said: Very nice, but it looks as if you have a couple of dinks in the turn under, one in the middle and a further one to the right hand end both are just to the right of partitions. This is not a criticism of your build, just pointing out where a little bit of filler is needed. Yes, you’re right. It was very difficult to turn up the sides around the partitions, but that is the way described in the instructions. I do wonder, were I ever to build another, whether it would be better to build it like a Comet kit, cutting the sides from the floor, and adding brass right angle strip to strengthen the floor and give something to seat the sides against. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted May 6, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 6, 2020 Sounds like a good idea to me. if the dinks are not to deep you may get away with using water based correction fluid as a filler. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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