Hi everyone, just thought I would make a quick post to show a little project that I'm working on at the moment.
As the name of this post might suggest, it's an A1 Models kit on a Farish chassis in this case the class 04 diesel.
I've used a modified bonnet from a MK1 kit and a modified cab from the MK2 kit and built the footplate and buffer beams from styrene.
Darren.
Hi Darren,
This looks really good. Is it the same model that you have shown on the ngrm-online forum or is this yet another variety?
I haven't got one of these diesel kits......yet, but looking at your models has certainly caused me to put at least one on my shopping list!
Mick
Quote from: MickT on October 12, 2009, 12:14
Is it the same model that you have shown on the ngrm-online forum or is this yet another variety?
Hi Mick, it's the same one I'm affraid.
Darren.
Quote from: MickT on October 12, 2009, 12:14
I haven't got one of these diesel kits......yet, but looking at your models has certainly caused me to put at least one on my shopping list!
Mick, you might be interested to know that after seeing my center cab bo-bo conversion, John at A1 Models has decided to produce it as a proper kit. Not sure when expected release date will be, he has quite a number of other projects in the development stage right now, some of them are 009 :)
Darren.
Centre cab Bo-Bo conversion? Oh - very nice! (http://www.draiggoch.fotopic.net/p59331633.html)
Though now I'm wondering what other versions of that could be build by using the new kit, and perhaps rounding off the tops of the bonnets like you've done above.
Is that a Kato chassis under it?
Quote from: zabdiel on October 13, 2009, 09:43
Is that a Kato chassis under it?
It's a life like SW8 and it's almost a perfect fit, it's almost as though it was designed to fit it.
Very simple conversion, not much more difficult than the standard version on the Plymouth chassis, the principles are the same, cut off parts of the body and use the original footplate.
Don't want to go into too much detail here as there should be an article describing the conversion appearing in the news shortly.
Darren.
I look forward to reading it!
I bought one of the center cab versions, and very nice kit it is too, just need to make a foot plate to fit a tomix chassis!
martin
Quote from: millsie on April 08, 2010, 22:06
I bought one of the center cab versions, and very nice kit it is too, just need to make a foot plate to fit a tomix chassis!
martin
You mean something like this? :)
(https://forum.009society.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.fotopic.net%2F%3Fiid%3D115v46%26amp%3Boutx%3D800%26amp%3Bquality%3D80&hash=3be98befa7f7e1deccc642f949958429e0b5534b)
Although this is on a Fleischman bo-bo chassis not a tomix, but the principle is the same. This is a great little scratch aid kit and highly recomended.
Darren.