Hello,
I am slowly building up my collection of 009 equipment and have recently bought a DB 261. Has anyone used the chassis from this as a base for a model? I am looking for inspiration so any suggestions will be gratefully received.
Duncan
Had to do an internet search to find out what that looks like (also known as a V60 class) and discovered it's an 0-6-0 with a jackshaft drive within the wheelbase, not unlike the BR class 14 from Graham Farish.
Can't think of any kits for this specific chassis, but it might be a good basis for a kit bash using the Dapol/Airfix Drewery shunter kit or the Kinightwing diesel - the freelance one though the sentinel kit might make something different. Equally some of the white metal diesel 0-6-0 kits could be bashed to fit.
I made a loco on the farish class 14 chassis using 2 A1 models body etches of the same kit to make this
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7342/9674029126_4160711068_z.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mozzer36/9674029126/)
007 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mozzer36/9674029126/) by Mozzer models (https://www.flickr.com/people/mozzer36/), on Flickr
& heres part of the build
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2818/9590636822_5a419e4fa1_z.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mozzer36/9590636822/)
001 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mozzer36/9590636822/) by Mozzer models (https://www.flickr.com/people/mozzer36/), on Flickr
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2808/9590636060_13b4db148e_z.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mozzer36/9590636060/)
002 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mozzer36/9590636060/) by Mozzer models (https://www.flickr.com/people/mozzer36/), on Flickr
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7421/9589115963_3d690ed695_z.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mozzer36/9589115963/)
005 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mozzer36/9589115963/) by Mozzer models (https://www.flickr.com/people/mozzer36/), on Flickr
so you could do the same
I may be wrong but I think it's smaller than the Farish chassis.
Difficult to tell from the photos but I suspect that might be the case.
This is the N gauge loco in question:
(https://forum.009society.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ftrains.manvell.org.uk%2Fn-scale%2Flocos-diesel%2FDB-BR261_626-6-Ep4-MTR2024.jpg&hash=249e260df0facfe0efb7d433556365fd7dba6857)
(Originating web page: http://trains.manvell.org.uk/n-scale/locos-diesel-elex.htm)
I cannot think of a narrow gauge prototype with this configuration.
I think Phil Savage
Good afternoon,
Thank you for your replies. Cutting it down sounds interesting and it might look more prototypical. I will look into that.
Duncan
Quote from: Hobby on August 11, 2014, 08:30
I may be wrong but I think it's smaller than the Farish chassis.
but by using 2 sets of etches you can make the body any size you want which was what i was trying to say