RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted March 9 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 9 I acquired this brake van with a group of assorted wagons off eBay - it came along with the wagons I wanted. It has been hanging around the place for a few years now so I decided to improve it in order to get my Mojo back into MTK mode. I replaced the plastic wheels with metal ones, carved off the chunky tension locks and replaced them with NEM versions and removed the chunky moulded brake gear from the chassis. A repaint followed with decals added from the spares box. Not strictly accurate but hopefully better than the original. Cheers Darius 11 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted March 10 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10 I see you've sliced off the oversized lamp, which on most models lit up. Better off without it! If I remember correctly, that was the old Hornby Dublo body that Hornby Railways used on their standard LWB chassis and fitted the light, in 1974 I believe. http://www.hornbyguide.com/item_year_details.asp?itemyearid=957 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted March 10 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 10 I did slice off the light, as it was a tad overscale, and filled in the resultant hole. The moulded box behind presumably contained the bulb but was empty on my example. I was going to remove the box but needed to remove the roof to get at it. The roof was well glued in place and I was fearful of breaking it on a removal attempt. I painted the light box black to make it less noticeable. The model had plastic tension locks with solid webs connecting them to the chassis - looks like it dates to 1981 with this feature. It is really satisfying to restore old models back into service. Cheers Darius Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 2 hours ago, Darius43 said: The moulded box behind presumably contained the bulb but was empty on my example. It does on one I've got, but I think they also used the same moulding for a (cheaper?) version without the light and pickups 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butler Henderson Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 If only one side of the brake van is normally seen on the layout suggest fitting a guard figure in front of the light box on the side that is seen 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 17 hours ago, kevinlms said: If I remember correctly, that was the old Hornby Dublo body that Hornby Railways used on their standard LWB chassis and fitted the light, in 1974 I believe. http://www.hornbyguide.com/item_year_details.asp?itemyearid=957 Same length as the HD model, but a new tool. The HD LMS brake van used GWR partitions as did their BR brake van. Hornby 1974 Hornby Dublo circa 1960 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butler Henderson Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 The 1974 Hornby tooling made use of an adaption of their GWR Toad chassis. The lit light only existed on models made 1974-1976. Source: The Story of Rovex Vol 3 1972-1996 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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