I am repainting/upgrading a couple of B-sets for a friend - a couple of things I found:
The 'short' buffers are right for the outer ends (brake ends). The inner ends generally did not have outside buffing gear, but often a single centre buffer (like older SR EMUs had) and were coupled with a variety of bar couplings
Bogies also vary with possibly three different types on different batches and during the vehicles' life
BR livery is as already stated on your thread - the issue is weathering especially of red paint
So I am keeping the short bogies (rewheeled as you have), I will weather the underframes and roofs, the bodies are already repainted and renumbered and we've installed a few passengers
I found (on Google) a couple of cracking photos of the variation in coupling arrangments - type in b set couplings into Google (images) and towards the top are two really useful photos...
The other thing about these ex-Airfix coaches is the generic underframe - lacking full brake gear and dynamo...
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I am repainting/upgrading a couple of B-sets for a friend - a couple of things I found:
The 'short' buffers are right for the outer ends (brake ends). The inner ends generally did not have outside buffing gear, but often a single centre buffer (like older SR EMUs had) and were coupled with a variety of bar couplings
Bogies also vary with possibly three different types on different batches and during the vehicles' life
BR livery is as already stated on your thread - the issue is weathering especially of red paint
So I am keeping the short bogies (rewheeled as you have), I will weather the underframes and roofs, the bodies are already repainted and renumbered and we've installed a few passengers
I found (on Google) a couple of cracking photos of the variation in coupling arrangments - type in b set couplings into Google (images) and towards the top are two really useful photos...
The other thing about these ex-Airfix coaches is the generic underframe - lacking full brake gear and dynamo...
Nice job on yours btw. Hope that's helpful
Nick