Re: On my Workbench - scratchbuilt LNER Fish van.
Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 2:28 pm
I think I'm right in saying that Dave Scott of Stainsby fame (scottiedog of this parish) used to have 51L kits? What their path has been since then I don't know.
Too cold here for modelling in the attic so I've retreated to the lounge, lit the fire and started contemplating a few projects. One of them I've already had a discussion with Graeme about. I need a brake van for the Continental freight we run on Thurston and fancied backdating the Dapol kit to an LNER build. As far as I can see I need to do the following:
Shorten footboards
Different handrails (small grab handles at the base of each verandah opening, three horizontal side handrails)
Different lamp irons
Roof layout different (almost reversed)
Solid verandah door (two panes in later builds)
No visible end weights
RCH type W irons instead of the plate ones.
Upright vac pipes.
Can anyone come up with anything I've missed? I thought I'd seen a thread here or on RMWeb where someone did this but I can't find it this morning.
As a longer term thing for a future layout, I was contemplating an F3. There is no kit (the Coopercraft one is the only one I'm aware of and after their B12 I'd be wary of it). Two routes came to mind; an E4 or an F4. The E4 I could get from the new Alan Gibson, but there's a wait, it's expensive and I'd be left with the tender and other bits. The F4 I can get as a body only from Falcon Brass for half the price. Given that I was expecting to have to make/commission the frames anyway that isn't a problem. I have the GER drawings CD with the F4 and I've just ordered the Isinglass drawing for the F3 to compare the two. Anyone else have a twopennorth to throw in?
Too cold here for modelling in the attic so I've retreated to the lounge, lit the fire and started contemplating a few projects. One of them I've already had a discussion with Graeme about. I need a brake van for the Continental freight we run on Thurston and fancied backdating the Dapol kit to an LNER build. As far as I can see I need to do the following:
Shorten footboards
Different handrails (small grab handles at the base of each verandah opening, three horizontal side handrails)
Different lamp irons
Roof layout different (almost reversed)
Solid verandah door (two panes in later builds)
No visible end weights
RCH type W irons instead of the plate ones.
Upright vac pipes.
Can anyone come up with anything I've missed? I thought I'd seen a thread here or on RMWeb where someone did this but I can't find it this morning.
As a longer term thing for a future layout, I was contemplating an F3. There is no kit (the Coopercraft one is the only one I'm aware of and after their B12 I'd be wary of it). Two routes came to mind; an E4 or an F4. The E4 I could get from the new Alan Gibson, but there's a wait, it's expensive and I'd be left with the tender and other bits. The F4 I can get as a body only from Falcon Brass for half the price. Given that I was expecting to have to make/commission the frames anyway that isn't a problem. I have the GER drawings CD with the F4 and I've just ordered the Isinglass drawing for the F3 to compare the two. Anyone else have a twopennorth to throw in?