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Brave move Sean.... hope the results are worth the effort - expect they will be. Which 55 bits did you stock up with - all of them? Hope Brian was suitably impressed! Must finish mine - and move on! A 47 awaits... and my 37 is already re-wheeled (getting ahead of myself there I think)

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Hi Sean & Jon, yes brave move indeed Sean, I was aware of the slight nose/sand filler descrepency on the new 37, however it's not as noticable on the GSYP version so didn't worry sbout it :no: . Nice work on 55020 Jon, the weathering sets it off a treat. No work done on my 37, been collecting some last minute detailing bits together (oh and playing with a couple of new toys I acquired :jester: ). Got the brake levers & chain to fit them with, when I work out how ?? Will post progress on my thread when I get round to it! As Jon said, Sean, hope the extra work pays off, and am sure it will. Looking forward to seeing the end results.

 

Cheers Phil.

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Oh, and I've been doing a bit on the split headcode Deltic as well..... Bet you'd all forgotten about that one?..... No photo's of that though, as I feel I'd spoil the suprise if I peaked too early with pictures!

 

Sean.

Spoilsport!!!!

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Hi Sean et al, you've got a lot on at mo Sean!!

Quote: 'The other one will be KOYLI. Well, I'm a Yorkshire lad after all.....'

Once upon a time I detailed a Lima Deltic as KOYLI for the same reason, when it went to meet its maker I stripped the plates off but you can't see them very well hung on my wall!!! :jester: .

Keep up the good work.

 

Cheers Phil

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Hi Sean, coming along nicely, I was wondering what those things were my self, as D6801 has them fitted as supplied! There's a shot of them among Jon's photo collection that he posted here earlier.

 

Cheers Phil.

Phil..... they are Brian Daniel's photos ... not mine; I just supplied the link.

 

Nice photos Sean... coming along well

 

Jon

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quote:-I'd just like to say thanks to all the contributors to the thread and wish you all a very Happy Christmas and I'll catch up with you all in the new year.

 

Hi Sean, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year & best wishes to you and your's, have a good time :jester: .

 

Cheers Phil.

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.....You'll see that the Craftsman overlays are too short as they were designed for the Lima Deltic. I have seen a conversion which has split the sides into four and filled in....

 

I initially thought you could split the overlay in the middle, and your infill would then be a vertical section measuring 2 to 3mm wide.....but then I realised that the error is not constant across the right-hand half of the overlay!

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Hi Sean

I'm interested in your 40 as I'm detailing a few Lima bodies as well at the moment.

What do you intend to use as a power unit? I've used an adapted Bachmann chassis, a couple of Limbys and I'm going to double motor a Lima chassis. The Limby chassis has poor pulling power, and needs ballast, not really what i expected. By far the best is the Bachmann chassis but they are quite hard to come by. Over on the Kier Hardy site they've used double-motored Lima 37s and 40s so if it's good enough for those exhibition standard layouts it's good enough for me.

 

Neil

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The biggest challenge was scratch building the tanks, (water tanks for the steam heating?), but I drew a template and worked to this each time.

I've bought them as spares from Bachmann in the past to fit to Lima locos!

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