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Sanding the plastic really is the trick to it. Sanding both the spot on the bogie and the Kadee coupler box gives a really good bond.

I attached all my Kadees and NEM pockets to the bogies with Superglue (cheap stuff) after abrading with sandpaper. That was about 10 years ago and they're still attached!

Newer adhesives like Plastic Magic from Deluxe will work. Also, if you roughen the surface with fine sandpaper or a file superglue works very well. They look very good! I don't think I could be that brave with the close coupling space on my layout!

For when they were made the Lima coaches are fine. They have better details than they’re given credit for and can be made to look even better with detail parts. I have quite a few in British liveries and they happily run behind my modern locos. My layout is all code 100 so the wheels give me no problems and I have switched all the couplers for Kadees or magnetic ones. Although they're obviously not the most detailed models they can be made to look pretty presentable and they run very well.

Dug out 4 Dapol Tank Wagon kits and got them assembled, painted and weathered over the weekend. Happy with how they look although 2 of them are not good runners! Think I’ll have to investigate but I’d say the culprit is a warped chassis. Also got some silvering of the decals but I don’t think that looks too bad and adds to the ramshackle look! Besides, some more weathering would cover that….

A tired looking F7A unit near the end of its life…. This is an Athearn Blue Box unpowered unit, although I did fit it with a decoder to power lighting. I also fitted flush glazing and wire handrails. Weathering was mainly MIG and AK washes with some airbrushing using Tamiya paints.

Is the NEM pocket at the correct height? Also sometimes the Kadees droop a little in the pocket and that can be helped by inserting a small shim under the coupler.

Not as simple as that. He's looking for engagement on Youtube, and that's it. His ragebait thumbnails are proof enough. Now I know that's part of the game for content creators but his reviews are pure pants. He's always glaringly ignorant of the prototype being modelled, and his barely-contained glee at finding a problem with the product being reviewed is grating. His standards also seem to shift from model to model, and I'm sorry but I refuse to take seriously a review of any loco that has been ran on that layout of his. I don't care how many times he says he hoovers the carpet, it's still track poorly laid on carpet with loose ballast all over it! End of rant.

Good to hear it! Treated myself to a class 47. Delighted with it.

Yeah, I watched the original video and I was cringing by the end of it. I actually like Jenny Kirk's videos, she produces pretty decent reviews of rolling stock and other products, nothing like the crap Sam's Trains vomits out on a daily basis. But that video devolved into nothing more than a rant.

Hey cudf, sorry for the late reply. I don't own any Genesis coaches myself, but from what I see they are fitted with kinematic NEM pockets, so any of the standard NEM Kadees (size 17-20) will do the job. The exact ones you use will depend on how close you want the coaches to be coupled and how tight your layout curves are.

OK. I must have mis-remembered that one!

I seem to remember at least one poster here who used the MM 141 chassis under a Silverfox body, personally I would'nt have the heart to butcher a 141! In the past I used an Athearn F7 body with Co-Co trucks from an Atlas loco under an A class body. I think one of the small shunters like the SW1500 might be a good fit, and as was mentioned easy to convert to P21. I have a few spare Athearn parts floating around at home, I could look through them and see if there's anything of use to you if you like.

Wonderful finish on the print! It certainly looks the part. What are you planning to use for the chassis?

This is an important point.... which I will develop into a bit of a rant! Model Railways IMHO has always suffered from its older demographic being reluctant to move forward and embrace technology. I mean look how long it's taken DCC to be as widely adapted as it is now. I think a big part of its more widespread acceptance is the likes of Accurascale offering premium light and sound on their locos. Fear of missing out has resulted in many diehards dragging themselves into the 21st century. My point is the hobby, or more specifically those in it, need to adapt as best it can under the circumstances, ALL retail is moving increasingly online and model railways won't be able to resist it for much longer. Also, we can deny it all we want but the hobby is in decline to a certain extent when it comes to the sheer numbers of hobbyists.