Shed Driver Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 Hi, I am building an LNER triplet restaurant car set; Kirk sides, Comet Solebars, MJT details and ABS Bogies. The details for the roof trunking are not very clear in the Comet instructions and the Nick Campling Historic Carriage Drawings Vol 1. The Comet instructions show a single straight trunking on the open first and second with no trunking on the Kitchen car. Nick Campling's book shows trunking on all vehicles and of different lengths. Is there trunking either side of the roof vents, on two or three vehicles and how is it raised of the roof? Does anyone have any drawings or photos of the roofs on these coaches? I have the 2 Harris books on LNER coaches and the drawing books by Nick Campling. Thanks Norman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted July 9, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 9, 2022 Is there anything useful here? https://www.steve-banks.org/prototype-and-traffic/292-lner-restaurant-triplet-sets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micklner Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 (edited) This may help https://www.wizardmodels.ltd/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/e22.pdf Similar Ventilator Cowlings on the Comet drawings I have seen on Shapeways , not cheap !! Edited July 9, 2022 by micklner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
45568 Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 I realise you should never make a 'model of a model', but these pictures were either on RMWeb or another forum, and I saved them for my eventual model triplet, using the Kirk kit. They may be be useful. Apologies to the original builder if they recognise their work but I cannot attribute it as I cannot remember who it was! I also have pictures of the undersides if you require chassis details. Cheers from Oz, Peter C. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shed Driver Posted July 11, 2022 Author Share Posted July 11, 2022 Hi All, Thanks for your replies. I agree that you shouldn't build models from models but, these look right compared to the Nick Campling drawings. I was not aware of the S Banks web site, looks like a lot of useful info. I'll put some photos up when I get the set finished. Coaches always take longer than expected to build! Thanks Norman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTrice Posted July 11, 2022 Share Posted July 11, 2022 Look closely at the Campling drawing. He shows the correct shape of the main ventilators which Comet and the above model get wrong. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 As Mike is to modest to post, here are his 3D printed Restaurant Car vents, which are the correct shape as far as I can tell: https://www.shapeways.com/product/KYXFLPQC4/lner-restaurant-ventilators-18?optionId=59976012&li=shops 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shed Driver Posted July 13, 2022 Author Share Posted July 13, 2022 I had read comments about the price increases from Shapeways but I had not really paid much attention to them. I was about to order some vents but $18 for posting to the UK seems excessive. Looks like I have a bit of scratch building to do. Thanks Norman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 I read a comment on here that Shapeways are trying to discourage retail business and they're certainly succeeding in my case. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTrice Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 If you want to scratchbuild your own (and I don't blame you) the attached should prove useful. Restaurant Car Vent.pdf 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shed Driver Posted July 13, 2022 Author Share Posted July 13, 2022 Thanks Brilliant Norman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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