Re: Make do and Mend - Inspecting on Six Wheels
Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2021 7:33 pm
For some time I have been hankering about building an NER Inspection Saloon.
Having left it until a time of lockdown, when the NERA archive and the Search Engine at York are unavailable, I've had to assemble what information I have in my library, and what can be found on-line. To avoid cluttering up the modelling forum, I've posted most of this story ... in the Locomotives and Rolling stock forum....
(There is a good story about Gresley and Aerolite and a wheel falling off!)
Some of the excellent modellers on this forum have used the D&S kit of a Type B vehicle. I did see a such a kit on Ebay last week for over £100!
My plan has been to use the drawing of the Dia.85 Saloon shown in 'NER Diagrams of Passenger Train Vehicles’ Book No.2 (published by NERA).
I have a stock of the old-type Triang-Hornby clerestory vehicles. These are useful because they have round-cornered panelling as used by the NER, and I have used them before for NER vehicles as ...here...
So, I scanned the drawing and printed it out to scale, and then started 'cutting plastic' here:
with a moulding cut to length.
Then the structure above the waist-line is cut away:
and then re-assembled from otherwise scrap parts of the moulding. (I also had some 'spares' left over from previous conversions.
There then has to be quite a lot of scraping and filing and letting-in of small plastic sections. The cross-bulkheads and ends have to be worked out an set in. (Cardboard templates are always useful and cheap!) There may need to be more work after an initial coat of paint.
The underframe is being constructed on the same lines as my NB six-wheel van described ...here... using re-cycled Bachmann wagon underframe parts. I'll post more about that later - when I've started w0ork on the springs!
At the moment, I am not sure about the mouldings on both ends. The Dia.85 drawing is different to two of the surviving Type Bs, and I don't know when the rear window was cut in. I have asked some questions on the Locomotive and Rolling stock post. If anyone can help, I would be be grateful.
Having left it until a time of lockdown, when the NERA archive and the Search Engine at York are unavailable, I've had to assemble what information I have in my library, and what can be found on-line. To avoid cluttering up the modelling forum, I've posted most of this story ... in the Locomotives and Rolling stock forum....
(There is a good story about Gresley and Aerolite and a wheel falling off!)
Some of the excellent modellers on this forum have used the D&S kit of a Type B vehicle. I did see a such a kit on Ebay last week for over £100!
My plan has been to use the drawing of the Dia.85 Saloon shown in 'NER Diagrams of Passenger Train Vehicles’ Book No.2 (published by NERA).
I have a stock of the old-type Triang-Hornby clerestory vehicles. These are useful because they have round-cornered panelling as used by the NER, and I have used them before for NER vehicles as ...here...
So, I scanned the drawing and printed it out to scale, and then started 'cutting plastic' here:
with a moulding cut to length.
Then the structure above the waist-line is cut away:
and then re-assembled from otherwise scrap parts of the moulding. (I also had some 'spares' left over from previous conversions.
There then has to be quite a lot of scraping and filing and letting-in of small plastic sections. The cross-bulkheads and ends have to be worked out an set in. (Cardboard templates are always useful and cheap!) There may need to be more work after an initial coat of paint.
The underframe is being constructed on the same lines as my NB six-wheel van described ...here... using re-cycled Bachmann wagon underframe parts. I'll post more about that later - when I've started w0ork on the springs!
At the moment, I am not sure about the mouldings on both ends. The Dia.85 drawing is different to two of the surviving Type Bs, and I don't know when the rear window was cut in. I have asked some questions on the Locomotive and Rolling stock post. If anyone can help, I would be be grateful.