It took quite a bit of work to carefully remove the incorrect parts and replace them, but fortunately Rowmark is a very forgiving plastic. However subsequent study of prototype photos showed that the doors are central. As I mentioned earlier I originally started working from the kibri DST plan, and on this model the door was offset to one side similar to the Windhoff MPV. The last two photos show the rear cab bulkhead. The buffers, hoses, and wipac fronts are from Shawplan and the horns which are just visable are from a Hornby class 60. Then add to this the fact that when travelling the frames are lifted up at an angle to the track, means that its all too easy to assemble them back to front and upside down. This is because each frame is mounted on four lengths of 1mm x 1mm suqare micro strip with a tiny length of round rod on the end to represent the ram. The front and rear measurement frames (thats what i've been calling them) were the single most fiddly bits to put together. This area had to be worked out almost entirly by guess work and reasoned logic, but with the help of photos kindly supplied by Demu members, i think it looks plausable. Here are a few pictures of the underside of the tamper pre primer.

Now you really should market that as a kitĭepends on the level of interest and the rights holder e,g Plasser & theurer given that it is a model/likeness of one of their products - thinking of the current issues with DB and licence of graphics for EWS decals. The next job will be to apply Testors glosscote as a base for the decals, then weathering. The final two images are of the model to date posed on a fellow SHMRC club members layout. The results were reasnoble with some blue overspray which proved quite a challenge to correct (weathering will help). To get the stripes I went back to the cad drawing a designed a stencil which I cut from Tamiya masking tape on the laser and was able to lay on the sides and spray thorough For the yellow I have used rail match sunshine yellow, the best colour match for the blue was NSE dark blue. The livery for the tamper is present day Amey Rail, yellow with a serves of the blue stripes on the sides. Skip forward a few months and with the construction broardly complete the model was given a coat of primer. Armed with a collection of parts the basic super structure went together very quickly. I also found assembly diagrams from an OEM parts supplier for the tamping head, so I was able to work from that information and photos both form Flickr, and DEMU members to produce a 3d cad model.įrom here the parts were cut out on my laser cutter. Being a similar outline to the 08-16 I took a copy and dropped it into AutoCAD and used it a s a template for the overall proportions. I started by scouring the web for any suitable plans and after much hunting arrived at the German language site for Kibri, where they have the instruction sheets for their DST.

I'd been given some auto ballasters for Christmas so thought a tamper would be an ideal candidate. The genesis for the project was a desire to build something quite different. Those of you who are members of DEMU might have been following the project over there. Over the last 8 months I have been working on a Plasser 08-16 tamper.

Supercal decal film