Class 40 square headcode boxes

[ColinK]

I’m slowly trying to make models of locos which have special signifigance for me. During many years trainspotting I struggled to find 40062, it’s one of the batch with the square cornered headcode boxes. I do remember getting a call from a friend in a phone box in Edinburgh late one evening ‘Colin, I’ve just gone past Haymarket and its sitting on the depot’. Shame I was 200 miles away, but I did eventually track it down.

 

Recently I picked up a almost new Bachmann 40169 (centre headcode box but no boiler tanks) which I intend to make into a model of 40062.

 

In the last few days I got a copy of ‘Seventies Spotting Days on the ECML’ on page 86 there is a great photo of 40062 clearly showing the square headcode box.

 

Now I’ve got the model and a good reference photo, I’m ready to go at making 40062. But can anyone please advise me on the best way to make the square cornered headcode box? Plus where can I get the boiler tank mounding?

 

Thanks

['CHARD]

To add to the to-do list, you strictly speaking need to add the bulge that would have been beneath the doors along the bottom of the nose.

 

https://c1.staticflickr.com/6/5250/5273494500_450018c560_b.jpg

 

compared to this:

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/eighties_british_rail/14502013191/in/photolist-2bUbE1A-6SdEXb-dsn6ZK-NdmhoZ-dwTgJB-o6uBhc-oPgrtm-eW1CRA-qBDGDX-96WD1m-214V1ge-dEQXcS-qJ7LMe-T7mK5W-dEKy7R-geF3Hx-k1Xxv7-VFyr58-oPjq2B-JLYBVo-e9EwfS-MRBFbD-afJydh-VBqYCJ-dGp8Gb-dEKxgH-nHfz6d-dLECZo-dLECj5-knC6Fp-dpxL3z-bw9xbD-28U5UUx-qTj3AY-N3QQbR-Xazwx9-dEQX1s-cvkyP3-qyJeDs-eMwLkk-gcPjDY-fx1Ver-a2H2kr-rvQrKc-eCxXfw-k3MVjz-9MsFme-rdz3Yi-251Hicb-dLEgAL

Edited November 26, 2018 by 'CHARD

[giz]

Limas used to do the square headcode version:

 

https://www.ebay.ie/itm/351729151342

 

It may be possible to graft the nose of one onto the Bachmann model.

[johnb]

A good few years ago I put square headcode boxes on a old Hornby 37. I had a good photo and proportioned the size from that. I made them from plasticard. It was rather fiddly but looked the job, at least to me. I used 20 thou card for the top and bottom and filed another section to fit neatly as the outer edge. Once I had an open ended box I filed and fiddled with it until in sat snugly in the right place. The panel itself was thinner plasticard with an outer frame. I painted the 'glass' black, put some transfers on and gloss varnished it to represent glass.

It took a while but looked ok.

 

Sorry I cannot provide photos as I sold it years ago!!

[luckymucklebackit]

Limas used to do the square headcode version:

 

https://www.ebay.ie/itm/351729151342

 

It may be possible to graft the nose of one onto the Bachmann model.

 

I have a green version of this model. and the headcode panel is very small compared to the Bachmann model

 

 

Jim

Edited November 26, 2018 by luckymucklebackit

[giz]

I have a green version of this model. and the headcode panel is very small compared to the Bachmann model

 

D262.jpg

 

Jim

Does look rather small. Perhaps not one of my best ideas!

[ColinK]

Thanks everyone, especially for the pics.

 

I had forgotten about the bulge, hopefully fairly simple with a strip of plasticard.