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Cab front and door handrails fitted.  I used 0.45mm dia. brass wire for the door rails and 0.7mm dia. nickel silver wire for the cab front rails.

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Cheers

Darius

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Acquired recently in a part assembled state - an MTK Class 45 kit.

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The body side parts were carefully separated and the original adhesive (looks like Evo Stick) removed.

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The bodyshell was then reassembled.

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Gaps and joints were filled and left to harden.

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Plan is to mate the shell with a Mainline chassis.  The original chassis weights are probably not required…

Cheers

Darius

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1 hour ago, Darius43 said:

 

Primer on.

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Test fit to chassis.

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Body lowered to final position.

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Further fettling required at the roof to bodyside joint.

Cheers

Darius

Hi Darius,

Leave the original weights in place and have a 1:1 scale 136 tons !

Gibbo.

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8 minutes ago, gibbo675 said:

Hi Darius,

Leave the original weights in place and have a 1:1 scale 136 tons !

Gibbo.

And watch the smoke from the motor burning itself out as the loco moves not.

Cheers

Darius

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Dunfetlin…

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I have temporarily fitted the MTK buffer beams to the bogie fronts.  There are some 3D printed versions on there way from eBay…

Cheers

Darius

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1 hour ago, Horsetan said:

How does it compare to the oul Mainline and current Bachmann bodies?

Comparison with Bachmann 46…

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And with the Mainline 45 body - I used the chassis for the MTK model.

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The Mainline body is slightly shorter than the other two, doesn’t have flush glazing and has an incorrect body-mounted buffer beam.

Cheers

Darius

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26 minutes ago, Darius43 said:

Comparison with Bachmann 46…

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And with the Mainline 45 body - I used the chassis for the MTK model.

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The Mainline body is slightly shorter than the other two, doesn’t have flush glazing and has an incorrect body-mounted buffer beam.

Cheers

Darius

Hi Darius,

An interesting juxtaposition there. I have a Mainline class 45 that will be subject for modification sometime in the future. The obvious fault are the buffer beams, although the cab front windows require a slight reprofile and opening out and also the the nose end is not quite high enough and requires building up by about .040".

The MTK kit does show certain improvements over the Mainline model and I think it is a better looking representation as a result.

Top work as ever,

Gibbo.

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That’s most interesting. I’d forgotten some early DMUs had these, and you inspired me to have a quick web trawl. Apparently these vehicles were supplied to be inserted as required and featured on such services as Newcastle/Carlisle. What a lovely thing it is to have on train catering - even the most dismal cup of tea somehow takes on a magic of its own when consumed onboard a moving train. My favourite DMU journey in the 90s was the Newcastle-Stranraer through train, which I boarded at Waverley. Cup of tea in hand, even the early morning Scottish industrial landscape of Lanarkshire had a charm…

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My favourite train trip had a Stranraer connection.  I had been shortlisted for a graduate civil engineering sandwich placement with BR in February 1982 and was provided with a cardboard return ticket from Belfast York Road to London Euston to attend an interview.

The ticket included the Larne-Stranraer Sealink ferry trip and I made it as far as Carlisle before the trip went awry.  The overhead wires were down in Cumbria and the London bound train was delayed.  I spotted a train with aircon coaches that looked like it was departing, asked a BR person if it was going to London and jumped aboard when told yes.  

The train pulled out heading south and duly followed the Settle and Carlisle route - spectacular in clear blue skies and recent snowfall.  We eventually arrived at Hellifield  and stopped for a time before heading to Preston via Clitheroe.  We pulled into Preston in the darkness (I had left York Road at 06.30 ish) and then headed south, arriving at Euston at 9pm.

I didn’t get the BR job but enjoyed the train trip.

My next and most recent trip over the Settle and Carlisle was in 1985 behind Lord Nelson and Flying Scotsman.

Cheers

Darius

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Started this morning.

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Plan is to adapt these Hornby chassis to fit the MTK bodies.

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Sides and roof parts joined together with plasticard reinforcement.

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Whilst gluing, I lined the roof edges and tops of the sides against a steel straightedge to ensure that these edges were true.

Gaps have been filled at this stage and the bottom edges of the bodysides tidied up.

Cheers

Darius

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