A couple of weeks ago the 1/24th Lister made it back to the workbench and I gave it a look over to see what needed doing. At some point I had narrowed the frames slightly and the couplings looked a little un-Lister like. These were removed and replaced with new scratchbuilt items.
I decided to make the body from a tripple layer of 20 thou plasticard, this would have strength through thickness and the tripple layer would hopefully prevent warping. The 20 thou thickness could be used to effect around window, grille and door openings. The added bonus is that all the inner layers are actually recycled from supermarket ice cream carton lids! Working from the drawings by Roy C Link in the Railway Modeller, I produced the outer layers first:
Inner layers were stepped to allow easy joining at the corners:
The body went together easily, with triangular fillets in the corners of the bonnet and cab roofs:
Fitted to the chassis, which shows off it's new coupler pockets and ballast weights:
The cab roof and bonnet top have now been fitted, along with edging and the distintive front panel to the bonnet top. All corners have been filled and smoothed and generally the body is ready forr finer detailing:
I'll update this thread as the project develops. Sorry some of the pictures a bit murky, I'm still getting used to a new camera
Colin
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. Good luck with the front bonnet catches, I can still remember the frustration of making them in O scale years ago, I dont think it will be any easier in the larger size, as you can see them more clearly. Have fun.