Replacement Hornby Class 56 sanding pipes & Buffer Beam Steps ?

[richierich]

I was just wondering whether anyone has come up with a cunning solution to replacing the sanding pipes, particularly from the sand boxes under the cabs. These are individual mouldings so if they where available from Hornby it would be easy to replace them. I have tried using some brass wire but the curvature is quite sophisticated to replicate.

 

Similarly the the buffer beam steps seem to replicate the a 'T' section, but to scratchbuild some could be interesting! So wondering anyone has come up with a source of replacements?

 

Thanks,

 

Rich

[James]

With a little bit of work you could remove the buffer backplates and use etchings for these combined with the steps from Shawplan's range - you could also substitute a set of Class 50 buffers too - the Class 31/56 buffers always look a little 'weedy' to me.

 

Have you conatced Hornby about the sandpipes, or someone like East Kent Models?

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Was looking at the Shawplan bufferbeam/steps packet. Does the buffer beam just glue to the existing buffer beam? Anyone know of a replacement for the sandboxes. 

[richierich]

I could do with a bag full of outer sanding boxes, compressor details and cab interiors. Sadly Hornby don't supply these parts. So only solution I can think of is casting replacements from resin.

[NickL2008]

I've got a spare 56 chassis which could be canalblised for parts?

 

NL

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Wonder if someone could either cast them or maybe have them 3D printed ? 

[richierich]

I think casting would be easier.

 

3D printing requires the part to be drawn, or a 3D scan to create the image to print.