Atlantic 3279 wrote:Our Grantham mob (plus a man who is an expert in building locos and taking photographs) was discussing Z's and S3's a couple of weeks ago, specifically the problem of the cylinders being in the way of the bogie on DJH models. It occurred to me that whilst it would be a bit of a faff to do it, were you to cut away the whitemetal running plate above the cylinders and slidebars, replacing this with flat sheet plus thin strip for the valance, you could then move the cylinders up until almost 50% out-of-sight behind the deep valance (like the real ones) and potentially have more room for the bogie wheels.
I do wonder if it doesn't help the cylinders are in the wrong place on the kit...far too low but it's how the kits been designed.
Atlantic 3279 wrote:Our Grantham mob (plus a man who is an expert in building locos and taking photographs) was discussing Z's and S3's a couple of weeks ago, specifically the problem of the cylinders being in the way of the bogie on DJH models. It occurred to me that whilst it would be a bit of a faff to do it, were you to cut away the whitemetal running plate above the cylinders and slidebars, replacing this with flat sheet plus thin strip for the valance, you could then move the cylinders up until almost 50% out-of-sight behind the deep valance (like the real ones) and potentially have more room for the bogie wheels.
I do wonder if it doesn't help the cylinders are in the wrong place on the kit...far too low but it's how the kits been designed.
The DJH version footplate is almost as thick as the side view in the photos , I decided that the body is so poor it wasnt worth anymore effort. It also has 12mm bogie wheels (DJH sell them with that size) not the correct 14mm . I tried a set of 14mm and they will not even clear the footplate let alone turn into a bend.
Delayed from last year waiting for the Smoke Deflectors. Brassmasters steps and other detail parts. Numbers line up on model presumably lens distortion.
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Sir Ronald Matthews looks excellent Mick. Pleased to see one of my conversion etches see the light of day elsewhere. It looks like I may have some of etch 3 left after I've finished the first round of orders this week, so if you want more cab spectacle etches drop me a line.
Lining in red - GUARANTEED COLOUR MATCH - ALL ON ONE SHEET 20 Fine lines, 298mm x 0.35mm Plus Radius Corners, 3 sizes (72 x 1mm, 36 x 2mm & 20 x 5mm approx)
Code: FG1596 @ £11.80
There are other shapes/sheets depending on your needs . Look at General purpose Lining section then click colour you need. Compared to some of Fox items they are quite tough and fairly easy to use, as usual with Fox a tad expensive .
I havent found any anywhere thinner in width than these sheets, these are useable the only other ones which are thinner in width are HMRS sadly they are so opaque on the LNER lining sheet to be useless.
I also used the Fox Silver version on my Silver Jubilee coaches from a while back.
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