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On 24/12/2022 at 6:25 PM, MOGUL said:

Here’s a few pics of the real deal for you.. I have three packs on pre-order but haven’t got hands on yet..

All their equipment is LEG1 these days or variants thereof, so 45ft PWHC, 9ft 6 high and 2.5m wide.. The dapol tooling is correct for this.. 

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HI All

 

Hows the Printing this time ?

 

Regards Arran

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20 minutes ago, Arran said:

Hmm Leave that one with me on the Bell logo 

Can you email me the full file pic please at arranaird@gmail.com as i may be able to get that added on here .

 

Regards Arran

Was kinda hoping you'd say that about the bell logo Arran, thank you.👍

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57 minutes ago, Arran said:

Hmm Leave that one with me on the Bell logo 

 

Can you email me the full file pic please at arranaird@gmail.com as i may be able to get that added on here .

 

Regards Arran

I’ll be in the PC tomorrow and will stick the book on the scanner Arran..

 

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DAPOL COBELFRET 45ft Containers.

Just arrived yesterday from Hattons the Cobelfret 45ft containers.

They are nice containers but the printing is poor, it's ok from a distance but the technology

is there to do it much better.

I put the locking bars on the wrong way, they should be done like the one's in the last 2 pic's.

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4 hours ago, popeye said:

DAPOL COBELFRET 45ft Containers.

Just arrived yesterday from Hattons the Cobelfret 45ft containers.

They are nice containers but the printing is poor, it's ok from a distance but the technology

is there to do it much better.

I put the locking bars on the wrong way, they should be done like the one's in the last 2 pic's.

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Ah no, will have to ONLY get two packs now..

wouldn’t stress too much about the door handles, here’s some pics of the real deal, the handles on the CLDN boxes are like you did them.. Obviously dapol tooled it to match your pics though

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Also more random doors( have a few hundred of these)..

There seems to be a mix 

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3 minutes ago, popeye said:

Not to bad from a distance or run the trains fast. 😁

The locking bars were painful. Six cuts per bar so 24 cuts per container.

The sprues are stronger than the bars, so one of mine ended up in three pieces, roughly glued back together before fitting, and many of the others still have bits of the sprues attached.

I was afraid to try clean them up as the bars themselves are so weak compared to the sprues.

They'll be grand running around on 47' Flats but not great for yard photos or anything.

I did all of the locking bars as per the photos from @MOGUL and @popeye but was thinking afterwards that I should have done one or two differently as if the containers had different doors or something.

I have loads more of these locking bars to fit, and the blue Ferrymasters boxes (I think) seem to come with blue locking bars...

Is that right or should they also be bare metal colour?

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Yeah, real pain. Seriously, how the Hell are you supposed to clean the bits of the sprues off the bars without breaking the bars?

To avoid gluing my hands to anything, I just used a cocktail stick to put a tiny drop of glue into each of the four holes for one bar, dropped that into place, then repeated for the next one. It was less dangerous than gluing the protrusions on the bars themselves, but did lead to glue splodges on a few doors.

Just checking, and the blue Ferrymasters boxes definitely came with blue locking bars. Should these ideally be painted a metal colour?

 

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7 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

Yeah, real pain. Seriously, how the Hell are you supposed to clean the bits of the sprues off the bars without breaking the bars?

To avoid gluing my hands to anything, I just used a cocktail stick to put a tiny drop of glue into each of the four holes for one bar, dropped that into place, then repeated for the next one. It was less dangerous than gluing the protrusions on the bars themselves, but did lead to glue splodges on a few doors.

Just checking, and the blue Ferrymasters boxes definitely came with blue locking bars. Should these ideally be painted a metal colour?

 

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Never seen a box with painted bars, they are normally just cast iron..

Also, the way the bars are made, they can only be done correctly the way you have done them.. The other way doesn’t work.. Will take pic’s tomorrow to show you what I mean

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5 minutes ago, MOGUL said:

Never seen a box with painted bars, they are normally just cast iron..

Also, the way the bars are made, they can only be done correctly the way you have done them.. The other way doesn’t work.. Will take pic’s tomorrow to show you what I mean

 

Grand, I was looking for an excuse to not do any more of them tonight.

I couldn't figure out another bar combination that would have looked prototypical. There's no way to get four handles the same height onto a container with two handles facing left and two handles facing right.

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9 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

 

Grand, I was looking for an excuse to not do any more of them tonight.

I couldn't figure out another bar combination that would have looked prototypical. There's no way to get four handles the same height onto a container with two handles facing left and two handles facing right.

Exactly that,  I only figured it out after I had glued all 4 bars on! 

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5 minutes ago, popeye said:

There will be blue bits showing when you cut them off.

I know, but I reckon I can touch those bits up easy enough. Even the metal coloured ones are made of a blue-ish plastic. You can see it in my zoomed-in photos on a few of them, where the grey paint has come away.

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