Prairie Tank
Western Thunderer
I have been busy making lamps for my new loco's. I like to be able to change the lamp configuration on each loco depending on what job she has been assigned.
My favourite lamps are by Lee Marsh however their lenses, as fitted, have in my opinion to low a profile. They also have another problem, this one is caused by the same thing that gives them a slimmer profile than their Masterpiece Models counterparts, the side brackets that fit over the lamp irons are very thin and thus not far from the lamp body.
The first problem is the quickest to solve, a little fiddley but nothing that I can not cope with (which means it must be easy).
Luckily for me, Modelu produce a very nice range of lamps and also sell the lenses separately. These lenses fit the Lee marsh lamps perfectly and have a higher profile. Perfect
The lense is removed from the lamp using a sharp blade, just carefully slide it under the edge of the lense and work it lose. It will then just lift away.
I made a blutak picking up tool by placing a piece of the stuff onto a modelling knife. Modelu lenses come attached to a sticky pad so gently remove a lense and pick it up with your blutak tool, place a tiny drop of super glue in the now empty Lee Marsh lense socket and place your Modelu lense in place and hold there until glue dries before with withdrawing your blutak tool.
John
My favourite lamps are by Lee Marsh however their lenses, as fitted, have in my opinion to low a profile. They also have another problem, this one is caused by the same thing that gives them a slimmer profile than their Masterpiece Models counterparts, the side brackets that fit over the lamp irons are very thin and thus not far from the lamp body.
The first problem is the quickest to solve, a little fiddley but nothing that I can not cope with (which means it must be easy).
Luckily for me, Modelu produce a very nice range of lamps and also sell the lenses separately. These lenses fit the Lee marsh lamps perfectly and have a higher profile. Perfect
The lense is removed from the lamp using a sharp blade, just carefully slide it under the edge of the lense and work it lose. It will then just lift away.
I made a blutak picking up tool by placing a piece of the stuff onto a modelling knife. Modelu lenses come attached to a sticky pad so gently remove a lense and pick it up with your blutak tool, place a tiny drop of super glue in the now empty Lee Marsh lense socket and place your Modelu lense in place and hold there until glue dries before with withdrawing your blutak tool.
John
