CME & Bottlewasher
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Hi Guys :wave:
I have recently dusted off an old project - a part-built Slaters Shoc-Van
I had built the majority of it and then the project stalled whilst I decided which coupling system to use - I have since decided on Winterleys.
So, I have the bodywork completed and the chassis almost so.
The van is the four shoe Morton type - I have yet to add the brake tie-bars - strangely on the box lid the phot is of an eight shoe clasp type vehicle/model :scratch:
I also recently purchased an eight shoe clasp version Shoc-Van kit from JLTRT.
Both models have their strengths and both have their weaknesses - maybe more on that latter (on the workshop thread/front).
I had roughly started to paint/weather the bodies ready to accept the transfers when I clocked a note on the additional instruction sheet from Slaters which stated that there were two bufferbeams/headstocks for the kit and the longer type should be used for such, when I put the chassis together - a few years back - I had used the shorter version :scratch: :scratch:
:vista: 
So I decided to have a look on Mr Bartlett's site.
It appears that the eight shoe vans have a headstock which is level with the van's sides and the four shoe versions seem to have headstocks that are inboard of the van's body (this seems the same for the GW/WR vans too) :scratch: This would correspond with my two models (and if correct would save me having to modify the Slaters chassis
)
I used the brown moulded - shorter - headstocks which just happens to be the same colour as the chassis mouldings etc....it also means that the support brackets/'gusset brackets' fit better to these headstocks than they would to the longer versions.. :scratch:
Therefore I wonder if the Slaters note referred to the model on the box lid, i.e. the eight shoes version.
Any thoughts/comments would be gratefully received.
Cheers,
CME :wave:
N.B
B851313 looks to be a very similar vehicle to the Slaters kit the main difference being that it is planked and the model is plysided.
I have recently dusted off an old project - a part-built Slaters Shoc-Van
I had built the majority of it and then the project stalled whilst I decided which coupling system to use - I have since decided on Winterleys.
So, I have the bodywork completed and the chassis almost so.
The van is the four shoe Morton type - I have yet to add the brake tie-bars - strangely on the box lid the phot is of an eight shoe clasp type vehicle/model :scratch:
I also recently purchased an eight shoe clasp version Shoc-Van kit from JLTRT.
Both models have their strengths and both have their weaknesses - maybe more on that latter (on the workshop thread/front).
I had roughly started to paint/weather the bodies ready to accept the transfers when I clocked a note on the additional instruction sheet from Slaters which stated that there were two bufferbeams/headstocks for the kit and the longer type should be used for such, when I put the chassis together - a few years back - I had used the shorter version :scratch: :scratch:
:vista: So I decided to have a look on Mr Bartlett's site.
It appears that the eight shoe vans have a headstock which is level with the van's sides and the four shoe versions seem to have headstocks that are inboard of the van's body (this seems the same for the GW/WR vans too) :scratch: This would correspond with my two models (and if correct would save me having to modify the Slaters chassis
)I used the brown moulded - shorter - headstocks which just happens to be the same colour as the chassis mouldings etc....it also means that the support brackets/'gusset brackets' fit better to these headstocks than they would to the longer versions.. :scratch:
Therefore I wonder if the Slaters note referred to the model on the box lid, i.e. the eight shoes version.
Any thoughts/comments would be gratefully received.
Cheers,
CME :wave:
N.B
B851313 looks to be a very similar vehicle to the Slaters kit the main difference being that it is planked and the model is plysided.
