conversion

dapol / lima conversion

That looks a very interesting, and convincing might-have-been.

Can you tell us a little more about what went into it and how you went about it?

Well if you can have a 'Baby Deltic'. why not a 'Baby Clayton' !    Great job on this model. :thumbs

Cheers, Gary.

The kits (still available from the Airfix moulds - still available from Dapol in the UK) are used with a lima shunter chassis the same as I used for my railbus build. The bonnets where shortened and filled with lead shot.

Hi Ian

If you hit Enter twice after each bit of text, or after each photo; it will make a bit more sense. 

I've fixed your posts for you.

Cheers

thanks max i thought i had messed up - can you let me have your e-mail  - Ian

Think you may be making your email address viewable around the web Max.

Ed

Thanks for posting the extra details, Ian, it looks a fascinating conversion and also very imaginative (something I tend to lack!).

:thumbs  :cheers

Max, I use shift + enter twice at the end of each line to force the line breaks as the interface otherwise seems to ignore the second 'enter'.

Enter twice works for me with Firefox, Jeff.

Hi Cobach47

Inquisitive me would like to delve into your project a little more and, possibly, copy it. Could you give us a little more detail of exactly what the donor loco is (manufacturer, model, model number if you've got it, etc) and what Dapol kit you used for the rebuild - (Is it the Drewry Shunter kit??).
I'd like to cost it all out, work out exactly what is required in the skill level department and then… make my decision.

Thanks…..

i used two drewery shunter kits and a lima 4-wheel shunter basically shortened the bonnets to fit the lima chassis frame

Thanks Ian… I'll have a look…..

A nicely made bash. No seams where they'd look out-of-place.