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Thanks for the headsup on the current Nu Cast situation. Will report back in due course. It seems from the previous posts that the major issue will then be finding a powerful enough driving bogie for a whitemetal kit, if they are reissued. . Tony Have now bought a new Nu Cast kit so thanks very much for the advice folks. Am going to try to fit a double power bogie using two Tenshodos, to compensate for that heavy metal kit being underpowered by fettling the underframe and also amending with a few extra bits. Nu Cast very helpful in sorting out additional bits needed and think it ought to work.. Here's hoping..

My Triang OO railcar, much kitbashed, has been configured by its last owner to LNER Sentinel Diagram 89 - one of their earlier railcar types. The model is Triang, the Sentinel type D89. Hope that clears up the shorthand !

Hi Richard.... just Ebay watching Sentinels just the last two or three weeks... Average Nu cast build Sentinel - £156 (not a runner) Good quality built Sentinel - £250 Sentinel kit unopened - £190 I'll give the contacts a try.... Tony

I'm looking for a set of instructions for this kit. Can anyone help ? cheers

My old Triang model had already been bashed to Sentinel D89, pretty accurately dimensionally, using lots of odd bits from other kits or models, but with only the louvre doors and driving cab windows needing starting from scratch... I do not know what it was originally as the paintstripped superstructure is 25+ bits of plastic pacthed together. But the paint job was really poor, the styrene strip for the panels and windows way overscale, and there was lots of glue on the glazing, so it needed stripped back to basics with that one for the rebuild. I'm more than happy to restore this as a project, and should have only mentioned it in passing as I was more wondering how I might complete one of the 3d printed shells for a second railcar and this was what I was finding the challenge. Aye, my original post doesn't make this clear ! I have got a copy of of the Isinglass dwgs, (eyp.. 4/280) which is very helpful, for Dia 97/96, but what type were the bogies marked as 6'6" and 7' on the dwg ?. Other underframe bits are identifiably from the Isinglass dwg. Did Sentinel use one of the Fox variants, or some other type ? This is where my ignorance of the technical details really kicks in.. These shells have been noted in another thread as being very expensive, but the increasing price and scarcity of Nu cast kits on Ebay makes building from a shell look like a much more reasonable value for money option. There's a classic pic of a Sentinel crossing Durham viaduct which was one of the inspirations for me to get into LNER modelling, and both they and push-pull autocars have become special interests. Dunno quite why... The pushpulls are equally complex ..but that is quite another story !

I've really enjoyed this thread. Brilliant to see the highly professional step by step approach. Nu cast Sentinel kits - built or unbuilt are very difficult, and increasingly expensive, to source and I'm a NER/LNER branchline person.. so the Sentinel railcar is essential for my modelling period. I have an old much bashed D89 Triang to rehab, though it is pretty accurate, but this needs massive work to restore.. I like the 3D printed shells and want to build a "North Briton" from one of these, but then completing the chassis, underframe and drive units, especially with ornamental bogie fronts is tricky for a well meaning amateur like me... I assume I can get Isinglass dwgs to show me what is needed underneath.. (any reference or index numbers going ) ? but any advice on how to proceed would be gratefully received.