Colin Parks wrote:Hi Barry,
The Brighton Belle project sounds interesting to say the least. Rather you than me with all the lining out on that Pullman livery. There are still some Hornby BB motor bogie side frame components (original suspension) available here from Peter's Spares if you wanted them:
http://www.petersspares.com/hornby-x643 ... e-frame.ir All the best,
Colin
Hi Colin,
Thank you about the idea of using Hornby BB bogie spares, the model is still fitted with the same motor bogie when I first built the model. it is also the same type of Triang motor bogie that I had used on my 6-Pan, 4-Cor and 4-Buf emu models. which have stood the test of time and worked very well for me over all these years.
On these 3 emu models I used the old Triang motor bogies with the side frames filed off and replaced with the appropriate emu side frame detail, and on each motor bogie, I replaced the original Triang 3 pole armature with a (M and W, I think) replacement 5 pole armature. Later when converting these motor bogies to work of DCC, all I did was to isolate the brushes from the motor frame and solder the DCC grey and orange leads direst to each carbon brush assembly. They are a very robust and reliable motor bogie when coupled to a 5 pole armature.
For the painting and lining of the Pullman set I am hoping to use a the decal sheets from Precision Labels which consist of the complete brown painted panels, lining, crests and name on one decal sheet for each coach side. Failing that I still have a full set of Pullman lining, crests and name decal sheets from PC/Historical Model Railway Society but that will involve spray painting and masking the cream and brown panels on each carriage first.
The roofs of each coach are made out of balsa wood, so to replicate all the roof rivet detail I have purchased some of the rivet decal sheets by an American company called Micro-Mark. I might seem like rivet counting but it is surprising how much rivet detail there is on each Brighton Belle Pullman car roof.
Gee even to me, this is is starting to sound complicated. Can you see why I have put off completing it all these years.
Hows your model of Newhaven Harbour progressing, are you going to just replace the OO track with P4/S4 track like for like, or completely re-build it ?
Best regards
Barry