@RailRide posted:Okay, my adventure into Lima O scale isn't quite finished, after I found this three-car set of UK Mark 1 coaches in the Intercity paint scheme on Ebay at a good price:
That's some gap between those coaches, eh?
I actually had these since the 01/15, but my regular day off and a lightly cloudy day in mid-afternoon provided enough diffuse sunlight to provide nice even lighting in the driveway. All three cars are the same road number and product number (6619), as multiple car numbers weren't a thing back when these were made, hence my handwritten tags intended to tell each car apart from another.
Two of these had their original boxes as shown in the pic and both of those show water damage, that's probably why the seller said in the listing that the third box was too badly damaged and had to be discarded. The corrugated cardboard inserts in the remaining boxes show that they got wet as well, with the cardboard delaminating and the tabs intended to hold the carbodies thoroughly smashed in a way that could only happen while wet. Good thing Lima used almost no metal in these cars (seriously, the only metal is the rivets holding the trucks and couplers)
I've been thinking about how to keep the wheelsets on these 2-rail cars from climbing my tubular railheads, and am exploring a potential workaround. Since Lima wheelsets are a one-piece plastic molding the wheels and axles cannot part ways, I thought of cementing a thin plastic disk to the back faces of the wheelsets, acting as flange extensions. To that end, I've acquired some 10-mil (0.25mm) clear stencil sheets to use with a circle cutter and 4mm punch tool. Wish me luck
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absolutely gorgeous.
