SMORNIN ALL! Now ive been having a little look at the cab ends of me 31 looking at the real beauties they are flat fronted i think  ???yet these farish models look slightly rounded which takes away  what the 31 is im wondering if there are any goodlied peeps out  there in in  :NGF:land  that know if you can get replacement real looking cab ends
now im not greedy i only want 2, it would mean altering sister dora but bless her, i dont think she would mind she told me on many many occasion that she wanted plastic surgery

Quote from: BROADTRAIN1979 on March 13, 2011, 08:52:05 AM
Thanks immensly zunnman tis all ways goodlied to knowledge there are plentieth out there  

My brain hurts.......................

BT are you related to prof Stanley Unwin by any chance

Don't be so impatient.     I've been waiting 7 months for one of my models!  Still painting it. 

Issues with the Bachmann class 31;

* Printed cab-side handrails and front headlights. It would have been nice if Bachmann could have made a few tweaks to the tooling to incorporate these as raised mouldings.

* The roof panel lines are rather weak and the body-side panel seams including the prominent horizontal one that runs completely around the locomotive at sole bar level are missing.

* The four corners of the roof appear to be far too angular and not sufficiently softly rounded.

* The locomotive is fitted with crude plastic buffers with moulding lines across the front faces.

Good things about it;

* The class 31 is one of the few Farish diesels with moulded quarter light cab-side glazing bars

*  The glazing seems clearer and sharper than the original as well as giving a fairly convincing flush glazed look.

* Excellent rendition of the roof mounted fan grill with impression of the fan below. The overall plastic body is possibly crisper than the Poole produced models due to the higher moulding pressures used in China.

* Chassis has twin flywheels providing an enhanced performance over the old Farish chassis although no provision is made for DCC chip fitting and conversion.

* The bogie side-frames are particularly good representations of the class 31 and, unusually for Farish, include cab steps.

*  Fitted with the now standard blackened low profile wheels.

* Better paint finish than the Farish Poole version.

HTH.
H.

eh up H
your first name would not be graham would it

Quote from: cloughie on March 19, 2011, 08:43:04 PMyour first name would not be graham would it

graham? Nah.

H.

Learn to spell his name right BT, you're nearly there.   

BT
you send it i`ll eat it
as for the 31 you can mod the front by doing what they did to that class 70 and throw it at a ship
cloughie