Cheesysmiths OMWB quick DMU update

[cheesysmith]

Just start a workbench thread with whatever I`m upto now. These are the lastest things I`ve been doing.

 

 

This is a replica suburban body with a DC kits cab added, my attempt at a class 116 DMU. Under frame and bogies to be decided, but probably use a Hornby motor bogie.

Edited September 3, 2020 by cheesysmith
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[cheesysmith]

As my parcel has arrived today with more supplies from replica, lets continue.

 

 

I want a DMBS so lets compare the drawings with the suburban brake coach. The guards door is in the right place, but it is a pair of the double doors, not a separate pair like the model has.

 

 

Cut the body along the door shut line, then cut the piece removed along the double door shut line in half.

 

Glue them together the opposite way round to what they were

 

 

 

Re-attach to the body shell. This makes the join line along the double doors, so is one less cut to fill and rub down. Also note, the window needs filling in on this side.

 

 

Attach a pair of doors from a scrap/spare body to the DC kits cab, leaving a extra bit behind to help attach to the body.

 

 

Cut the end off the body roughly half way along the first door. Cut the extra bits behind the cab at roughly the same point.

 

 

Glue the cab end onto the model. As to how much/how long? Compare it to a untouched body shell. It needs to be the same distance (or a fraction more) from the first door to the end of the coach as a unaltered coach, as we will be using a replica under frame.

 

 

Here it is compared to the DMS I did earlier. Remember when I said you need to compare to a untouched shell?

 

 

Yes, I made it too long, by about the width of a compartment door. So, out with the saw and glue

 

 

Both now the same length. Now covered in filler, so when set tomorrow we will rub down, and if the weather is good enough, a coat of undercoat.

 

 

 

[cheesysmith]

And this is it with the first of the fill/rub cycle. I usually put a coat of primer on at this stage to see how much more needs doing for the smooth side look.

 

 

And you can see, still more work needed.

 

 

Here is all three coaches together.

 

And as for the fill/rub cycle

 

 

A silver fox conversion on Bachmann bodies.

 

 

[cheesysmith]

Almost there, only got a few bits still to do. Like buffers, couplings, exhausts, glazing, handrails, interiors and pick ups. Not long then lol.

 

 

[cheesysmith]

And whilst I was waiting for parts/drying etc, to stop me getting board, I started on a 304/0, the small window version.

 

 

 

[John Tomlinson]

Very rapid progress.

 

What have you used for the chassis and underframe detailing on the 116?

 

Many thanks,

 

John.

[cheesysmith]

The underframe is replica with the trussing removed. The engine bits are from the Heljan sprue for the 128, but put on a bit at random, or, a impression of what needs to be there lol. The bogies are Hornby spares.

 

[John Tomlinson]

Thanks, that's a really clever idea to use the Heljan parts.

 

John.

[cheesysmith]

This is a quick upgrade of the old Hornby OAA wagon. Got to this point after watching the F1GP last night.

 

 

The metal weight is the only thing I have reused from the old under frame. 

 

 

The air tank is from stephensen models, the loops for the brake rodding on one side are from BB etch, the brake levers are from the cambrian tube kit, the W iron from BB and the springs from cambrian spares. The sole bars are the spares from the cambrian SPA.

 

Left to do are the buffers (using the 16" sprung from accurascale, needs 18 but 16 easier), couplings and air pipes with paint.

[cheesysmith]

Whilst waiting for pay day for bits for my DMU, I have not been lazy.

 

 

Although I did make a mistake, in that i forgot to mount the buffers higher, as Hornby made them too low to compensate for the too high underframe. Still, it will work as is, just a little low.

[cheesysmith]

And some others I dug out of the "awaiting me to get on with it pile".

 

 

This I started many years ago. Don`t even know why, as the era is wrong, so is the location. IIRC it was because it was different.

 

Edited August 11, 2020 by cheesysmith

[cheesysmith]

And on the DMU front, 2x DC kits plus half a silver fox model.

 

 

The wavey sides of the silver fox one go away when attached to the under frame and glazing strips added. Trust me to have just run out of primer lol.

 

And a quick question, does anybody know the colour codes for the old SYT chocolate and cream colours? Want to paint one of my !!$ in the SYT colours.

[cheesysmith]

I have a old lima suburban DMU, but the class never got as far north as yorkshire, so useless for me. What to do with it?

 

I then worked out the 127 DMU is one compartment longer in the saloon and the same shorter in the brake area. A quick cut out of the compartment size off the brake, and the roof added back into the body, with the sides replaced with evergreen 4061 clapboard, and some 10 thou for the windows.

 

 

Very rough and ready ATM, but the weather is too poor for the sprays.

[cheesysmith]

 

A quick update.  The 116 has had paint added, and the destination box modified with a piece of 10 thou added to bring it forward and down to the gutter at the front, which looks better to me.

 

Needs a quick touch up, then this bit is done.

 

As for the other DMUs, the 105 is drying as I type, but the 127 parcels unit is due a visit to the DOT paint stripper after the masking failed whilst spraying.

 

As for the paints used, the yellow is vauxhall mustard yellow and the roof is plastic bumper grey from halfords, but the blue is from autopaints huddersfield

 

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