DC Kits Whitemetal EM1 Instructions

[Emery Hill Station]

I recently managed to pick up the old DC kits EM1 (Before the switch to resin) for £20 but it is missing the instructions, does anybody on here have them or have built one before?

[Lee-H]

I have an old MTK white metal EM1 but that’s probably not going to be much help to you.

[dave75]

Is it the one with two piece bodysides and the separate cab fronts? 

If so I'm trying to build one like that but it way out of kilter.

 

[Emery Hill Station]

2 hours ago, dave75 said:

Is it the one with two piece bodysides and the separate cab fronts? 

If so I'm trying to build one like that but it way out of kilter.

 

Yes, yes it is.

This is the one I've got

[Darius43]

Assuming that the photo shows the total number of parts that you have, the side illustration on the printed card gives a useful guide.
 

- The  sides go together with the cabs at the outer ends.  

- The cab fronts go on the front.

- The three roof parts go on top:  the rightmost roof part in the photo is the central one; the other two are on each end with the sloped edge being the cab end.

 

The plastic bogies shown in the photo are coach bogies (possibly Lima) and will be of no use as the axle centres won’t match those of the cast white metal bogie sides provided with the kit.

Does your kit come with a chassis or are those the only parts that you have?
 

Cheers

 

Darius

Edited April 2 by Darius43

[Emery Hill Station]

8 hours ago, Darius43 said:

Assuming that the photo shows the total number of parts that you have, the side illustration on the printed card gives a useful guide.
 

- The  sides go together with the cabs at the outer ends.  

- The cab fronts go on the front.

- The three roof parts go on top:  the rightmost roof part in the photo is the central one; the other two are on each end with the sloped edge being the cab end.

 

The plastic bogies shown in the photo are coach bogies (possibly Lima) and will be of no use as the axle centres won’t match those of the cast white metal bogie sides provided with the kit.

Does your kit come with a chassis or are those the only parts that you have?
 

Cheers

 

Darius

Those are the only parts I have as I think it was designed to use a Hornby Chassis (I think the class 90?) which I don't have. I'll probably have a go at making my own chassis using spare parts or 3d printing

[Trainshed Terry]

11 hours ago, Emery Hill Station said:

Yes, yes it is.

This is the one I've got

 

I wish you good luck with that as the casting are not very square, but I look forward to seeing the finished model.

 

Terry.

[Anadin Dogwalker]

I built one of the resin EM1s around 1988. By that time, assembled chassis in brass (and with spoked wheels) were provided but a year or two earlier in a Practical Model Railways article, the recommendation was to use the bogies off a Lima class 52 minus the middle axle. The motor bogie was to be attached to the roof by a  popper stud. 

[Emery Hill Station]

Finished the bodyshell, now just trying to source a chassis

[John Tomlinson]

On 02/04/2024 at 12:58, Anadin Dogwalker said:

I built one of the resin EM1s around 1988. By that time, assembled chassis in brass (and with spoked wheels) were provided but a year or two earlier in a Practical Model Railways article, the recommendation was to use the bogies off a Lima class 52 minus the middle axle. The motor bogie was to be attached to the roof by a  popper stud. 

 

IIRC the Lima Western bogie was used on most if not all the EM1's on Deepcar, and they seemed to run fine!

 

John.

[John Tomlinson]

14 hours ago, Emery Hill Station said:

Finished the bodyshell, now just trying to source a chassis

 

Judith Edge kits do pantograph etches/kits for these, if you were wondering what route to take.

 

John.

[dave75]

And Michael has a thread on here, where he displayed a chassis he built for his fleet of EM1s think it's on the Wentworth Junction thread.