Issues 1-5 Drivers Cabin and Boiler



The first thing you'll notice is that this one is not made of metal entirely like the D51, but instead uses cheap plywood to provide the structural base upon which then sheet metal is glued and/or nailed.

This is a wise decision as it inherently maximises the potential of parts not fitting which is a great and accurate way to display German precision machinery. The sentence before may have been sarcastic.

Sure enough after building up the drivers cabin with the supplied wood and checking and rechecking every angle with a precision instrument, the whole thing is crooked by several millimeters. Turns out that not only do the left and right side walls differ from each other in thickness, they're not entirely uniform within themselves either. And I don't mean warpage. Prodigious use of files and sandpaper remedies that problem.

The brass sheeting goes on afterwards. Eaglemoss lists the strength of the brass sheeting at 3mm, which is easily reached. If you put ten of the sheets on top of each other.

The side sheetings are too short to cover the wood entirely as intended, so again out comes the sandpaper and filler will be needed to close the gap in the front.

Also if you're building this, please don't try to put on the window frames in their correct positoin, you'll cover up the tiny holes for the sun blinds and will never be able to fix them correctly. Instead place the window frames a millimeter below where they should sit then file the windows to size. You'll thank me later.



The build continues with the boiler again built out of wooden ribs like a ship stranded on a railway track.

Things to note:
- the grooves cut in the spars are too shallow and will not allow the spars to rest stably against each other. Deepen the grooves with a needle file to get an actually stable frame instead of a woodenized flip flop circuit.
- now that you've deepened the grooves, congratulations, the spars ends are not flush with the discs rim anymore. But you need them to be flush later, so hope you've got some spare planks to use as filler, maybe from DeAgostinis Victory. Build the Victory, it's a cool ship.
- When fitting the braces to the discs make sure they're flush against the discs rim. Yes I know they don't reach the the center point where the spars cross. Yes, it looks wrong. Do it anyways.

And that's issue 1-5. I now need to find a way to store about a dozen as yet unused occassionally tiny metal sheet parts in unlabeled flimsy packaging.

Eaglemoss!

Looks an interesting build and I'm not surprised to hear of the poor fit and quality issues of this Eaglemoss part work. I only have my Nissan GTR Eaglemoss build to relate to and that has been a total joke, so much so that I am still waiting on a part that I am missing! This for a series that finished lat the end of December, oh and I still get the odd delivery for parts that I have never requested

Will watch this build with interest as I have been thinking about another train probably the D51 but not just yet as I am just finishing the Jupiter and am all trained out at present. It has been a challenging build !!!!!!!!!!!!

Still look on the bright side Carl, after the Jupiter build any other kit should be straight forward. Will be adding the Lamp to the front of my Jupiter today so watch out for the pictures

My next build is the Artesania Latina Arab Dhow which will be a filler whist I wait for the parts from Eaglemoss for my Orrery. Some of the above comments do not fill me with confidence about delivery from Eaglemoss but I guess I will just have to wait and see

Gil

Yeah, this. I've never seen anything even close to approaching the D51s quality and fit. It's on a whole other level.

I really should move to the UK to take advantage of the broader spectrum of DeAgo models.

You can buy decal rivets that work very well.You can get them from Micromark.I used them on my Jupiter chimney and they came out pretty good

Carl

Thanks Carl, I'll have a look at these.

This one has a reputation in Germany that's kinda as bad as the reputation the James Bonds DB5 build has in the UK. At least it's not pre-lacquered.

But I'll turn it into something alright. If the kit should turn out to be unrecoverable at some point, I'll just built it up into the fruitiest little big train one's ever seen. I'm thinking pink and glitter and unicorns here.

Now that would be something to see.I don't think the German people would be too happy with you though.Kindo of like painting the MALLARD to loo like Thomas the tank engine.

Carl

OH My!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA