Class 76 (EM1) model

I discussed the prototype in a previous post.

This was my first successful attempt at printing a loco. The big issue are firstly finding a suitable chassis, and secondly getting your model to fit said chassis... It took me three prints before I got that right.

As usual, it was designed in Blender, and is not that complicated a model. It is basically a box, with slightly thinner boxes at each end, and a curved roof.

The chassis is a Dapol Hymek, and is no a great match, the class 76 had very long bogies, but it is the best I am going to get, and is acceptable to me. Dapol sell them without the body. For new , it is not great; it is a little temperamental until it gets going, and quite noisy. 

The pantographs are from Kato and only a couple of quid for the pair.

The windows are "Glue n Glaze", which is great, but there is quite an art to using it. The black version has blobs where I added a little too much, but mostly on the other side!


The blue and yellow are Ammo paints, sold in a pack specifically for UK trains. I am not entirely convinced the blue is quite right, but after weathering is okay. And I realised as I painted it I had missed the connecting cables, which were added to the prototype later, and absent from the example I saw in York. I will update that next time I do a print.



Not worked myself up to numbering them yet.

Now I just need a suitable layout to run them on. And maybe a class 506 EMU... Hmm, need to get better at the "Glue n Glaze" for that!

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