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  1. That price isn't bad considering it has DDC sound fitted. FWIW I bought a Lima one in perfect nick about a year ago for something like €70 including shipping.
  2. Don't get me started on Specsavers - I've to get injections in my eye soon. A blood vessel started leaking and the resulting oedema is pilling the retina away; caused by high blood pressure and a blockage in a branch vein. In fairness to Specsavers if it hadn't been for them I'd have gone blind - and if it hadn't been for the eye dept. in Waterford doing some blood checks I might have ended up with a stroke. Happily it's all fixable and I can stlll build models with mu good eye until they fix the bad one!
  3. A while back I made a passable representation of a CIE brake van by cutting and shutting two old Hornby ones. I'd like to do another but I see that the BR Shark is pretty close as far as door and window positions are concerned. If I got one and did a repaint as well as some fiddling with the under frame detail would a man on a galloping horse see the difference?
  4. Yep - some of the primer did come away as the model was handled. I wonder if anybody does overlays in thin plastic as opposed to brass? That'd be far easier to work with. I don't mean those pre-printed vinyl overlays; just ones made from plasticard or similar.
  5. I used Evostick contact adhesive. It's done the job well enough and doesn't cost a fortune. I must try out the varnish trick - I wonder what kind of varnish it was? I'll also try the hair dryer thing next time. One of the chaps in the club has offered me some transfers but I'll buy them from Fox or somewhere as I'm going to need more anyway. I repainted a few old Triang and Hornby coaches in the black and tan livery and it looks the part even though it's not quite prototypical.
  6. Almost done. I left it for a while as boring stuff intruded into my life and interfered with my modelling - weddings, holidays and so on. Anyway one of the guys in the club had given me some photos he'd taken of a gen. van and I was able to put these to good use - he gave me a fine shot of the roof detail taken from a footbridge. This was duly modelled with bits of plasticard: Here's the van with its overlays fitted and primed for painting: All was going swimmingly until the painting stage - I'd scrubbed the brass clean, sanded it and primed it. The paint went on ok but the fun started when I used Tamaya masking tape. When I peeled the tape off it took away not only the paint but also the primer underneath. Things were getting slightly messy and I was obliged to paint it by hand, getting the different colours on as neatly as possible by eye. I've no doubt that this paint will also peel off if somebody slams a door or sneezes and I'll have to research better methods but the final result isn't at all bad considering there will be some weathering going over it anyway. All that remains is some detail work - door handles, numbers and of course a man leaning out one of the windows. There's always a man leaning out the window on these things.
  7. I've had some great fun with the Parkside cordless multitool from Lidl - it's cheap and comes with a range of cutters, grinders and so on. It comes into stock every now and again - you have to keep on your local store to see when they're in. Be careful when you're cutting into the plastic as the stuff will sometimes melt from the friction rather than simply getting a clean cut. This can be messy to file off afterwards.
  8. Here is a pic with one of the sides glued in place. The clamping devices were sourced by Mrs. Boxcar from China where they are used widely in the domestic laundering industry:
  9. Well, I've managed to cut the Lima coach up so that the overlays have the correct apertures. I then glued some thin glazing material to the coach with Revell Contacta Clear. It sets so clear that it doesn't really matter much if you splash it about. I plan to glue the brass overlays on top and a cut down sweeping brush handle will do to roll them so that they match the contour of the coach sides reasonably well. In the meantime a pair of B4 bogies arrived this morning and I'm quite pleased with them; they're just about brand new and the steel wheels that came with the coach fitted in perfectly. I also gave the brass sides a good wash before spraying them with a coat of Halford's grey primer; this would have been difficult with them glued to the coach and with the glazing underneath. I'll paint them by hand after assembly and will thus avoid the difficulty of masking the glazing.
  10. Well, I started cutting chunks out of the coach and what a job it's been. The plastic is very thick so I got at it with my trusty Lidl multitool thing with a cutting wheel attachment. As the wheel cuts the friction also melts the plastic a bit; this leaves a heavy residue of stuff to clean away from the cut edges. It took me the best part of an hour just to prepare one side; I filed away all of the surface detail as well - door hinges and so on. While I'm at it I was wondering what I should do for glazing. I was thinking of glueing clear glazing material to the body before fitting the overlays. This would give a finish, while not exactly flush, that would be a distinct improvement on the old Lima glazing which, incidentally, is part of the same moulding as the roof and actually fits down behind the body sides. In the meantime I was able to source a pair of Lima B4 bogies for a few shillings on E-Bay. Further carnage to follow...
  11. The brass sides have finally arrived after a polite e-mail was sent inquiring as to their whereabouts; I will now set about carving up the Lima coach with a view to fitting the overlays. They are actually very nice etches.
  12. Well, they did say to allow 28 days for delivery.
  13. No sign of my brass sides yet. I'll keep yiz posted...
  14. Well, I've made a start and ordered a pair of etched brass sides from Mousa; I'll have a rummage around in my spares to see if I can dig out a pair of B4 bogies before I order any. Underframe and roof components can be scratch built. One of the guys down at the club has one that he made from two Mk I brake thirds that he cut and shut; he has the roof detail correct so I can use his model as a template as well.
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