Not me. My J77 has not yet got beyond this stage...
Arthur may have illustrated his?
Dave Alexander does a Worsdell cab version which I quite fancy. Maybe later in the year.
Edit: Earlswood, you're not wrong. The more I model the more interesting I find the workaday little locos which kept the system running rather than the fancy 'namers' which they paid for.
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If you ever decide to take up kitbuilding, Blackout, don't whatever you do start with one of these.
As Dave says, you only need swap the wheels between gauges - the vehicle remains the same size (and the axles the same length) whatever. Some people say you need to compensate or spring for P4 but I have no intention of getting into that argument. Almost everything I build is OO.
I thought the brake van might excite more comment, but perhaps I'm the only one sad enough to notice these things... after I'd built it, when I engaged my brain, I realised that what it looks like is a Toad B with Toad E duckets. So today the iron came out again and we set to making it look like something which might have been seen in reality.
The duckets were replaced with more accurate cast ones (these courtesy of Scottiedog, which seemed apt as he sold me the kit in the first place). I'd already decided that filing down the brass bar provided for the end uprights was too much of a mug's game, so I made those out of 60 thou square Evergreen. The insides of the verandah have been filled in with scribed plastikard, the extra side handrails removed, strapping added and the buffers replaced with something more accurate from ABS. The rest of the handrails and lamp irons and we won't be very far away.
I haven't dared measure it, though.... after all, under all that, it's still a Jidenco kit....
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That looks much nicer now, though I admit that with "earning a living" and those damned GC bogie wagons taking up my time I hadn't paid close attention to the original version of the model. As it stood, could those blank areas above and below the pressed ducket have represented plain panelled-over sections on a Toad B latterly modernised by the fitting of new duckets? I have a VERY vague idea that such things happened in certain cases. Probably no good for the LNER period though, so your modifications are a much better idea.
PS - You and that Gilbert boy are excused lines, cane or detention this time, but don't do it again. I'll deal with Tan separately........
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