GNSR Diagram 47 six-wheel coach
By Ken Clark and George Mitcheson
Base model
None. This was constructed mainly from etched brass parts from Worsley Works.
Body work
Etched brass parts (sides with separate door droplights and ventilators, ends, end footsteps, solebars and top footboard, headstocks, floor pan and roof).
Chassis
Etched brass parts to make a dynamic chassis using the Cleminson system that allows easy movement of six-wheel vehicles through small radii curves.
Wheels
Gibson 4011. 12mm Mansell wheels on 24.5mm axles.
Paintwork
Undercoat is Halfords grey primer. Halfords Daewoo ruby red for the lower panels. Peugeot antelope beige for the upper panels. Polly Scale Paints PRR Tuscan red for droplight window frames. Polly Scale Paints tarnished steel for the roof, footboards and chassis. Final coat of Humbrol Enamel matt varnish.
Markings
Waterslide decals designed on computer by Lorenzo Ricotti and produced on an ALPS printer.
Couplers
Kadees will be used when the model is finished.
Detailing
Axle boxes, small coach buffers, and T-shaped handles from the Wizard Models 1:76 scale range. Grab rails in brass wire. Other details in plastic rod and tubing.
This project is described in full in issue 68 of Satellite 1:87