Test Car 3 - Mentor

[Darius43]

RTR as supplied by Britannia Pacific Models - with the following additions by me:-

- Cab front pipework

- Etched ladders

- Cab and bogie step boards

- Pantograph gubbins

- Roof spotlight arrays

- Horns

- New couplings

- Light weathering to chassis.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cheers

 

Darius

Edited May 16, 2022 by Darius43

[Oldddudders]

Brief footage of Mentor in action here, from 12.38.

 

 

[Darius43]

Great footage - I have that film in the BFI dvd British Transport Films.  
 

Cheers

 

Darius

[Mike_Walker]

Haven't watched the video but imagine being allowed to erect a signal like that today!

[Stretch37266]

Hi

Where did you get the small spotlights on the roof from please,or how did you make them

Regards

Paul

[Darius43]

Hi Paul,

 

The spotlights were made from non-shouldered brass wheel bearings (available from Peter’s Spares).

 

The bearing is placed flat end up in a hole in some thick card and a blob of solder applied.  The end of a 0.5mm dia. brass rod is then soldered on at an angle and then trimmed to form the completed spotlight.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The light is then primed and sprayed black with silver paint applied to the concave end to form the bulb/reflector.

 

You then make 15 more and glue them in to holes drilled in the coach roof.

 

Cheers

 

Darius

Edited May 20, 2022 by Darius43

[Stretch37266]

Thanks that's great

 

Regards

 

Paul

[Trog]

On 16/05/2022 at 12:47, Mike_Walker said:

Haven't watched the video but imagine being allowed to erect a signal like that today!

 

You should have seen the sort of things the PW got up to. Myself and a gang once carried rails out over a long timber bridge with no decking fitted. We walked out on the long timbers carrying the rails between our legs/feet using rail dogs, clipped the rails up and started running trains. Quite what they would make these days of a section of track where with no warning or lighting  you could walk off the end of a bridge abutment and find that the 4' and cesses are a 12' drop into a canal I do wonder.

[Michael Hodgson]

On 22/05/2022 at 21:08, Trog said:

Quite what they would make these days of a section of track where with no warning or lighting  you could walk off the end of a bridge abutment and find that the 4' and cesses are a 12' drop into a canal I do wonder.

Back then if you had to to do a risk assessment, it's simple ... "You can swim, can't you?"

[Chas Levin]

Lovely vehicle all round - especially those spotlights! Before I saw Paul's question I was wondering how you made them too.