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Hilux5972

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Hi all.

 

I am looking at repainting some of the Mk2A coaches shortly and I was hoping that someone that owns some can break one down for me and post an image showing the different component parts that make it. I want to know how much masking I need to do lol.

 

Thanks in advance

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I am buying 5 in a few weeks. I was asking on the off chance that some fellow modeller would be kind enough to offer some help. Obviously thats not the case with you so i dont really see why you felt the need to put that sort of comment.

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From what I remember of dismantling a Mk2a for a SRPS repaint 6 years ago (is it really??), the key parts are:

bogies (obviously - unscrew)

chassis (clips into bottom of windows glazing - prise the sides apart slightly and it should unclip),

Interior (screwed to chassis I think)

roof (single piece in between the domes - unclips carefully)

 

Then on its gets more complicated, with glue holding things in place, care needed

Window glazing (one strip on each side, with some bits better glued than others).

Corridor doors (glued in to corridor))

Corridor windows (glued in, sometimes impossible to remove)

 

I think that just above covers the key components. To say nothing of the battery boxes and brake parts on the chassis (all separate).

 

I stripped everything back to the chassis, but left the end doors in place, masked off the corridor connections and the roof domes (which were the right colour for me). Window bars were a pain to paint. I masked the horizontal bars (much easier with the glazing out), then the vertical bars also carefully masked (about three hours work on windows alone).

 

Hope this helps

 

This is what it looked like when I put it back together.

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/411/entry-1769-mk2a-tso-br-maroon-new-fleet-addition/

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