Sonic 51xx Large Prairie - Disappointing Runner

[Southerngooner]

Like @Cols I wanted some Maunsell high windows in BR livery so bought a four car set in SR green from Rails for £69.95 if memory serves me correctly. That's a bargain by any standards in my book. The coaches came apart really easily and I have just completed spraying them into BR green. The only slight error is forgetting to order numbers for them when I ordered some from Railtec a month or so ago. Ho hum.

I model a few years either side of 1960 so most of the stuff I need is now available RTR, bar suburban EMUs which I've got round by using 4CEPs and Worsley Works sides. I wanted some Maunsell Nondescript coaches as these were often seen in boat trains, so another couple of Dapol Maunsell have been converted using more WW sides. As far as NPCS goes I'm not sure that there are many widely used items that can't be found now in RTR or kit form, but am sure there are some less common ones not available yet.

It's so much better now than ten or twenty years ago.......!

Dave

[Cols]

  Like Southern Gooner, I am also resorting to respraying Maunsell High Window 1934 stock with BR(S) Green. In My case, I need a Maunsell 2P set (Set 29), formed (by BR in 1949) with a six  compartment (high window) BTK/BSK and a six compartment low window BCK - both coaches are from Dapol. As I don't like the Dapol interpretation of BR(S) Green - much too light - it's rather anaemic in my opinion, and it most certainly doesn't match the Precision BR(S) Stock Green enamel I'll be using- so both vehicles have had to be dismantled and then resprayed. Only got as far as the dismantling so far...

[Adam1701D]

Can any Southern Region experts suggest any potential numbers and set numbers for the high-window Maunsells in BR days, please?

Just out of curiosity, obviously...

[martyn]

Contact cols by PM......he's a mine of information.

Martyn

[martyn]

Could we take the coaching topic to a new thread, please?

it's getting way off topic now 

Martyn

[Cols]

You're absolutely right, Martyn - We've drifted too far away from the Sonic Large Prairie thread. It's probably my fault...