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[Guest baldrick25]

Try the book:_

A pictorial record of British Railways Diesel Multiple Units by Brian Golding, published by Cheona Publicastions.

 

Dont know the current price but my copy has £19.95 and worth every penny if that's you interest . 4mm side, front, top bottom drawings for every clas and csub class of DMU's and a load of illustrative images.

[mark54]

Here is a pretty good shot for underframe detail, of a class 112 made up with 2 brake vehicles courtesy of Robert Carroll's Flickr site.

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertcwp/5186970529/sizes/l/in/set-72157603648796702/

[robertcwp]

Try the book:_

A pictorial record of British Railways Diesel Multiple Units by Brian Golding, published by Cheona Publicastions.

 

Dont know the current price but my copy has £19.95 and worth every penny if that's you interest . 4mm side, front, top bottom drawings for every clas and csub class of DMU's and a load of illustrative images.

The Cheona book contains various errors so needs to be treated with some caution. There are a fair few published photos but these do not always identify the vehicles correctly.

 

I have a few images in my collection:

 

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertcwp/5399333776/in/set-72157603648796702/

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertcwp/5186970529/in/set-72157603648796702/

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertcwp/3202416508/in/set-72157603648796702/

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertcwp/3032341437/in/set-72157603648796702/

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertcwp/5264663938/in/set-72157603648796702/

[clowe999]

Just picked up this thread today.

 

I am making one each of DC Kits Cravens RR-powered twins. The 105 will translate OK, having the earlier GUards door arrangaments.

 

I have also found the Cheona book quite inaccurate on underframes in places, and similar findings on PH books of DMU plans. It seems these people get the main underframe types right on long-lived mainstream types, but do not translate accurately to offshoot variants like the Class 112 and 113. The same happens with the BRCW 64' parcels vans - the underframe is not the same as the similar passenger vehicles. I have found the BR diagrams useless, as they do little more than cut and paste older variants of 105 for the 112 and 113 diagrams. 

 

Further to the above, I have found three other sources of Class 112/113 side views :

 

Railcar Association website on type histories (good view of a 113 LH side, although a bit blurred)

 

'BR First Generation DMUs in Colour' - Stuart Mackay - side view of a 113 set (thus showing both sides of U/F) on page 51 - as good as it gets

 

'The Decline of Bristish Railways - Bury & Rossendale', Andrew Coward isbn 978-1-62407-915-3,  many views of the 112s and 113s in their NW habitats, some not previously published. New book out only a couple of months ago, and exxcelent value. Very good if your modelling Bury L/W Metcams, Class 112, 113s, Derby 108 power twins with 4 digit headcodes, 105 power twins (ala Bachman model) or Bury electrics (DC Kits Class 504)

 

Last but not least, the Class 127 had essentially the same RR 8C engines, and the Railcar website have a few excellent close-ups of preserved 127 engine installations - one being shiny new..   Note the RR 8c engine block was a vastly different shape to the DC Kits standard white metal casting of 6 cyl leyland and AEC engines provided in all DMU kits, and Im afraid scratch building is the only option. Digressing slightly, Railcar also have very good shots of the Class 110 RR 6cyl variant for those wishing to improve their Hornby models with better details, or building a DC Kits MetCam Class 111.

 

Hope this is helpful if not too late. If you are also building 112s and 113s, I would appreciate seeing you post a picture fo the completed models.

 

C