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They are on my layout thread.......I think it starts here http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/75679-kensington-olympia-in-n-scale/page-20&do=findComment&comment=3124325

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It pays to check drawings against pictures....... after printing off the outline drawings for the 4TC I found some big errors on the TBS vehicle. It’s basically a Mk1 BSK but the SR panelled in one of the large brakevan windows....the drawings show three panelled windows. Oooops! Photographic evidence shows only the one window panelled over. Tomorrow will see me dismantling the two TSOs, BSK and FK....yes I’m having to use one of my Motorail fleet. Today I dug out some road vehicles that had been partly completed. I should have some photos later in the week. But it will see the Harrods van finished as well as the Hall and Co Leyland Ergo 6 Wheel tipper and the Leyland Ergo Octopus flatbed.

A couple of pictures of the completed LS Leyland Nationals, one with open doors and sans LT roundals........and also the reassembled DMS bus, now with a paint job to match the rest of the fleet. A missed opportunity by Cars Workshop not to do UK versions of this bus, they would have cleaned up.

Today I are mostly been putting buses back together........ The second Leyland National is now finished apart from any black bits as I forgot to take the fine Sharpie with me....so grills and blinds to be done. The DMS has been reassembled after its repaint.......again black bits need doing. I’ve also made a start on marking out the sides for two SNCF Ferry vans to diagram E304 http://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/frenchferryvan

Another NGS meeting tomorrow. I’ll be taking the Leyland National to finish off and the DMS to reassemble. I’m waving between taking the Mk1 vehicles for the 4TC conversion or starting another ferry van. I’ve printed off plans for an SNCF one and a JZ one.

The doors for the second LS have been made and fitted. I now have one with closed doors and one open. Both are the Farish model. I’ll need to order some more LT roundals from Mabex as I’m out of stock after one set disintegrated when trying to move it off the backing paper. From the slight yellowing to the decal I’m guessing they are probably old stock. Another of the difficult to find Oxford Diecast Routemasters with LT Roundal has joined the fleet, £1.20 from eBay...there’s still the odd bargain out there....even including the postage it was under a fiver.

The Interfrigo ferry wagon is now completed bar a light weathering. Thanks once again to LongRail for the decals. I’ve just noticed there is a buffer missing, no idea where or when that happened as I haven’t dropped it. Will have to look in my bits box for a replacement.

The wagon has Piccolo 8335 marked on the chassis....it was a wagon like this. https://www.ebay.de/itm/Fleischmann-Spur-N-8335-Schiebewandwagen-der-DR-in-OVP-LZ9815-/362114983989 This was cut in two and stretched to size with a new plasticard section in the middle.

The Transfesa ones use a Fleischmann van that were split from a starter train set by DM Toys.....chassis has kinetic couplers but body is very basic, don’t know what model number it is but you can see pictures from this post onwards http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/75679-kensington-olympia-in-n-scale/?p=2388107These wagons have a shorter wheelbase than many. You need a wagon with a 45mm wheelbase and 76mm over the headstocks. For the Interfrigo van I used a cheap van picked up at a swap meet, no idea what it was. These have the ‘standard’ 8000mm wheelbase. So you need something with a wheelbase of around 54mm and 86 mm over headstocks. I’ll take a photo of the underneath as I think it shows a Fleischmann serial number. Hope this helps.

The second batch of transfers arrived today and have now been added to the Interfrigo van. I’ll add some photos tomorrow. As expected yesterday the PC fell over at 81% with its windows updates but has rebooted OK. Hopefully I should get the Leyland National doors finished tomorrow.

Finally the class 25 pictures.

The nearly finish Interfrigo van alongside the last of the Transfesa ones.

Blooming auto correct! No it was somewhere near West Chiltington. Where you on the one I set that had as one of the clues the East Quay cannon at Newhaven....what I hadn’t taken in was that it was on the West Quay. Nearly everyone that eventually found it then got trapped as the swingbridge opened. We were waiting at the Tiger Inn at East Dean which was halfway.....most were over an hour late getting there.

Both my Viva HCs were 1300s so fast wasn’t in the spec! I did get the first one off the ground momentarily on a Brighton Model Railway Club treasure hunt I hit a hump back bridge a bit too quickly and neither of my passengers including my sister were belted in, both banged their heads on the roof! Dukes of Hazzard it wasn’t!

My reference sources are for Plans the Barrowmore MRG BR Folio books they have a pretty complete set.http://www.barrowmoremrg.co.uk/Prototype.html There are two volumes of International vehicles. You will need to calculate the dimensions. The drawings are basic so photos, photos, photos required. Paul Bartlett’s wagon website http://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/paulbartlettsrailwaywagons Get David Radcliffe’s book International train ferry wagons for the modeller......Amazon sell it. Pick your wagon of choice! My Interfrigo van has a stretched Fleischmann wagon chassis under it, or you could go down the scratchbuilt road like Paul has done in post 569 http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/75679-kensington-olympia-in-n-scale/?p=3164148 The Interfrigo van is really just a plasticard box, two layers of 20 thou, with a 10 thou skin for the plug door and sides. The roof is layers of plasticard then filled and sanded to shape. You’ll need to get a good selection of Evergreen plasticard, planked, strip, rod, H and L section for any other wagons. The end platforms, which are to big, and ladders are from Peedie models. Paint is white primer from Halfords then clear lacquer.

RailNscale are now doing the Kadett in 1/148....two door saloon and coupe. https://railnscale.com/2018/05/15/opel-kadett-c-british-n-1148/ Maurice is working on the Chevette, three door hatch, four door saloon......and estate/Chevanne or maybe both. Below is his email........ Meanwhile I've upscaled the Opel Kadett 2-door saloon and coupé into British N 1/148th scale: https://railnscale.com/2018/05/15/opel-kadett-c-british-n-1148/ The 2-door being the most sold Kadett version, and the Coupé was unique to Opel, as the Vauxhall Chevette didn't come as coupe. Regarding the Vauxhall Chevette. I am anticipating on a 4-door saloon version and the 3-door hatchback, as they must have been most popular in the UK. Still working on the nose job. In between I am working on the original Renault Trafic van. Furthermore I was thinking about the Bedford Chevanne panel van. Would that be something of interest?

The Interfrigo van has had its underframe details and brake details added, plus some pipe work on the ends that I presume adds coolant. Long Rail is kindly doing the decals I missed the first time round so these should be added by the weekend....another NGS meet too. I’ll get photos of that posted later along with the finished 25083.

Sunday the second of the Leyland Nationals got its red paintwork. Yesterday I went to refit all the windows as they hold up the now modified seating unit. All the side windows and the rear window went in without a hitch, the front screen dropped through the body and vanished into thin air.........thirty mins scrabbling around on the floor, checking the baseboards, my clothes no sign of it.....B*gg*r! Lots of muttering by me I walked into the lounge and passed my dilemma on to Mrs G......no sympathy there....have you checked your clothes......yes says I. She gets up to walk to the dining room and bends down in the Lounge and says is this it! FFS!! The windscreen is now where it should be in attached to the bus. I’ll try and post some progress photos later but my PC is yet again trying to load a windows 10 update.....gets to about 80% usually then locks up.....currently at 39%.

Longrail of this parish kindly offered to print my decal set using a laserjet printer, this arrived today and what a difference it makes from the inkjet equivilent. They are so much thinner than the inkjet ones as you don't need to spray varnish them. Here is the Interfrigo van now with decals.......the INTER and FRIGO were done using the font Bolts SF on word then made bold and italicised. This is very close to the correct typeface. The rest of decals were just resized from a set of downloaded pictures of the wagon which can be found HERE To fill up the sheet of decal paper the bus adverts were rerun but it looks like I've cocked the sizing up as they are a bit too big, but they did trim down OK and now adorn the RM's Once again many thanks to Longrail for the doing the business.

Many thanks for that Paul, where do you get your parts from are they 2FS items?

Yes please Paul.

Knew these were coming. This seems to be a good range but you would need quite a lot of windows for most buildings and there’s not many in each pack, the multi pack is a good idea.

Well the Arnold wagons won’t be the donors as the method of construction appears to glue them together and the middle part of the chassis which is screwed on contains the close coupling system. So it’s back to searching for cheap wagons at swopmeets or eBay.

I was thinking about the next ferry van project yesterday and trying to source a suitable chassis......then remembered that I have about a half dozen Arnold European vans as ferry stand ins...Doh! Use the chassis from these! Not sure what wagon will come next, something common that I can batch produce.