RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted April 29 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 29 This week I am mostly building this Derby Cross Country DMU kit. The vac formed seats, bogies, chassis’s and rubber corridor connections will be discarded. Cheers Darius 12 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted April 29 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 29 Hi Darius I have one, and I am sure by the end of this week it won't be any different to how it is now. Here it is coupled with my "I started so I might finish" conversion from a Hornby 110. I also have a Craftsman etched overlay somewhere. Living in Lincolnshire you can't have too many Derby Long Underframe units. I look forward to seeing your model progress. 8 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post giz Posted April 29 Popular Post Share Posted April 29 I built mine using a Craftsman kit on a Lima 117. 17 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted April 29 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 29 Doors scribed in place and white metal ends cleaned up. Ends glued in place and left to cure. Cheers Darius 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37Oban Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 Hi Darius, I've just bought the DC Kits version of this from Ebay, for what I consider a good price! Like Clive. I live in Lincolnshire, although the northern part, and these were my local dmu's so, although not relevant for the areas I model I wanted one for sentimental reasons! A 114 was the only dmu I managed to snag a cab ride in way back in 1976! The kit comes with a Black Beetle power bogie which I'll put back on Ebay as I model in EM and, unless I can find a suitable power chassis in my boxed stash, I'll use you method to build one. Looking forwards to seeing this build with great interest! Roja 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halvarras Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 28 minutes ago, Darius43 said: Doors scribed in place and white metal ends cleaned up. Ends glued in place and left to cure. Cheers Darius Waiting for that glue to cure must be torture for you! Those vac-formed seats take me back (to 1975!) IIRC on my '119' I covered the aluminium floors with 10thou plasticard - almost certainly attached with Evo-stik as it didn't matter if it melted it a bit, I just felt gluing that many plastic seats to plastic would be better than gluing them to the alloy floor individually with stringy Evo-stik. MTK kits were ingenuity tests in many ways*, as the instructions assumed everything fitted together like Airfix kits and you could just 'fit this to that' regardless of the materials involved - those rubber corridor connections being one such example! Watching progress as usual.... *which you regularly pass with flying colours 😁! 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted April 29 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 29 (edited) Roof ribs scribed and cab/ends blended in. Vents and filler pipework fitted. I also took the opportunity to remove the cast lights and lamp irons from the cab fronts. The units didn’t have cab front lights but did have a central roof light above the destination blind box. MTK incorrectly provides the former and (also incorrectly) omits the latter. Cheers Darius Edited April 29 by Darius43 11 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Robert Shrives Posted April 29 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 29 Darius, great work, as ever sharp modelling. Also as ever I a part started one and even a part started Craftsman etc. I used to enjoy guarding TO23 from TS depot back in a past time, smooth comfortable units - I guess the length might have helped, big van as well. I got bikes, push chairs and proper prams in with ease. Too slow for Cross-city work unless the cupboard was bare. i enjoyed it on the Darkside on Shirley shuttles. The lima pancake motor was too rough but now a modern Limby bogie would be fine. hope to enjoy rest of the build. Robert 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted April 29 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 29 Primer on. Cheers Darius 14 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_mcfarlane Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 I remember these going past my house as a kid in the 1980s. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted April 30 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 30 Day 2 Driving motor coach chassis constructed. Cheers Darius 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted April 30 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 30 1 hour ago, Darius43 said: Day 2 Driving motor coach chassis constructed. Cheers Darius Have you had time to sleep, eat, go to the bog etc? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted April 30 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 30 16 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said: Have you had time to sleep, eat, go to the bog etc? I take it that’s a rhetorical question? Cheers Darius 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted April 30 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 30 Trailer coach chassis completed. Cheers Darius 11 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted April 30 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 30 Main painting completed. Cheers Darius 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted May 1 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 1 (edited) Day 3 Glazing and buffers fitted. Cheers Darius Edited May 1 by Darius43 12 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halvarras Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 Good ol' BR blue - saves a lot of messin' around, dunnit?! I note you've headed the latest instalment 'Day 3' - I can't decide if you're engaged in a personal challenge or just showing off now 😜! Of course, unlike the Ultrasonic Test unit, this one requires a full interior so there's still stuff to do....... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted May 1 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 1 Buffer beam hosiery fitted, courtesy of Craftsman. Cheers Darius 12 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted May 2 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 2 (edited) Day 4 Driving Trailer interior constructed using plasticard sheet and chopped up Southern Pride seats. Cheers Darius Edited May 2 by Darius43 13 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted May 2 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 2 Interior painted and upholstered… …and installed within the Driving Trailer. The curtains are tissue paper with orange enamel airbrushed on. Cheers Darius 10 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium MJI Posted May 2 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 2 I am planning on a 114, but can't find my spare underframes. Going to use Lima shells, DC cabs, my domes, craft cut side overlays 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
45125 Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 Looking very good. Just a few inaccurate bits, exhaust system going the wrong way from no2 engine, heater control panels on trailer car never fitted. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted May 3 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 3 (edited) 3 hours ago, 45125 said: Looking very good. Just a few inaccurate bits, exhaust system going the wrong way from no2 engine, heater control panels on trailer car never fitted. Hi - grateful if you could point out the errors on the photos I’ve posted and I will make the corrections. The underframes on the photos I looked at on the web were indistinct so it was a matter of guesswork. Useful to have help from someone that knows where stuff should be so to speak. Cheers Darius Edited May 3 by Darius43 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted May 3 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 3 (edited) Day 5 Driving motor coach interior constructed. Cheers Darius Edited May 3 by Darius43 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flood Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 2 hours ago, Darius43 said: Driving motor coach interior constructed. Cheers Darius You've changed the exhaust on one side already. Lovely stuff. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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