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A quick update (at last). Pictures show a standard, out of the box, lima TEA followed by one of my remodelled ones. Replacement bogies - may change these in the future as been unable to get the correct ones so far but think the Y25CS2 bogies will do for now. Ladders replaced with etched items, fully repainted and a combination of transfers from Fox, Railtec and some home produced on an ALPS printer. Couplings replaced with body mouonted kinematic sliders and NEM pockets.

Stensons don't have any of the suitable bogies in stock, nor will they until next year . I think I'll go with the Y25CS2 ones I already have from Kernow and consider changing them later. Thanks for all the advice.

Thanks for replies so far. A quick update. Still filing/sanding/priming to get rid of the ugly seams on the original lima mouldings....having stripped the models down and glued the two halves together, none of them are a perfect fit and some are way out. Nearly there though. I have one left unstarted so I will post some pics as I progress that one to catch up with the others. I ordered a set of Cambrian Gloucester bogies but they just don't look right - wheelbase seems too short. I think I will look at Stenson models but not sure which options would be correct, so any advice would be appreciated. And finally, I hope to start work on producing the transfers this weekend.

I have a few sets of Y25CS2 bogies from Kernow model centre....although not prototypical, they do look the part and I'm not a rivet counter, and after all, they will be running on my layout. I'll compare how the Gloucester bogies from Cambrian look and decide which ones to use then - either will be a huge improvement over the ones originally fitted. I'll post a few pics when i make some progress.

Thanks all.... I 'he ordered the last pair of C37 bogies in stock plus wheels and bearings to match. If they work for me, I'll order another 17 pairs. Unfortunately, I've already binned the old Lima bogies. I'll post some pictures at some stage to show how I'm getting on.

Hi....first time post so apologies for kicking off with a question! I have a large rake of 18 Lima TEA wagons that I'm rebuilding. I've stripped them down, reassembled the bodies and filled the joint gaps ready for sanding/priming. The existing bogies are junk so will be throwing them away, but I'm after some advice on suitable replacements. I'm not a, so called 'rivet counter ', but would like something better than originally supplied. Thanks in advance - only recently got back into the hobby, in the middle of layout planning now and looking forward to contributing here in the future.