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  1. macgeordie
    I've finally managed to get somewhere with this project. I started it over a year ago but it has taken much longer than I expected. I decided to build Dynamometer car 3 after I completed the Brake coaches for the Mobile Test Unit train last year, here is a link to that workbench thread if anybody is interested. http://www.rmweb.co....t=29552&start=0
     
    I had been using Dynamometer car 1 which was a Stevenson carriages kit, but later found a few pics showing DP1 and the Fell on the S&C under test and they were pulling Dynamometer Car 3 not Car 1 with the brake coaches, so I had to make one.
     
    Fortunately, the coach still exists at Barrow Hill Roundhouse near Chesterfield in Derbyshire so I was able to go down there and photograph it inside and out as well as measure everything up, which made life much easier than than it was for the Brake coaches project.
     
    There is a picture of the coach taken about a year ago below.
     
     
     
    I've had the etches made for me by PPD of Lochgilphead. The following pictures are from the third test build which is now nearing completion.
     
     
     

     

     

     

     
    I've still got the roof to finish, lots of shell vents and pipework, but fairly straightforward, then of course painting etc. I've asked Frank Warner of Scale Model Transfers to make some transfers for it, so hopefully they will arrive soon.
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    Here are a couple of pics of the internals of the coach in the 'as built' format. If the weather warms up a bit I'll be able to get the thing painted in etch primer but until then it will just have to wait. I want it finished by the middle of February as we are exhibiting at Doncaster and I'd like it running then. There's nothing like an exhibition deadline to focus the mind.
     

     

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