Hornby Large Prairie

[George Stein]

OK, I give up. Even after removing the shell from the chassis I cannot figure out how to get the Modelu figures into the cab. Any help appreciated.

George
North Carolina

And, condolences to Bufferstop's friends and family, His comments wre always helpful. His insights and humor will be missed.

[Bigmet]

This is a 'luck of the draw' job - assuming here that this is the current version. I put a crew in a friend's model, but the supposedly 'tacked on' and thus should be easy to remove cab roof wasn't... Gave the body a couple of hours in the freezer, put it in hand hot water, and it was persuaded to come away. But there's no guarantee this will work, and when checking out what others had done, cutting through the cab floor was the option some had used - very neatly. HTH.

[aleopardstail]

This is a 'luck of the draw' job - assuming here that this is the current version. I put a crew in a friend's model, but the supposedly 'tacked on' and thus should be easy to remove cab roof wasn't... Gave the body a couple of hours in the freezer, put it in hand hot water, and it was persuaded to come away. But there's no guarantee this will work, and when checking out what others had done, cutting through the cab floor was the option some had used - very neatly. HTH.

this is a reasonably standard method in wargaming for dealing with superglued components, uses expansion/contraction then thermal shock to crack the glue. note you don't need the water either, freezer for a bit (can be in a bag with the desiccant crystals to avoid moisture freezing, you just want it cold) then a hair drier will do it - indeed for some glues just the hair drier is enough but a lot of models use some sort of superglue

[Phred]

Hmm. I wasn't aware of the cold/hot superglue trick.
I'll store that away for future reference, which is to say I'll tell my wife. She'll remember.

[Dad-1]

Fair point there Phred,

My large Prairie needs attention and that means taking it apart.
It's only been waiting 10 years, may get around to it soon.

Geoff T.

[Peterm]

Wish I'd thought of that before cutting the roof off of my 0-4-0 B4.

[aleopardstail]

Hmm. I wasn't aware of the cold/hot superglue trick.
I'll store that away for future reference, which is to say I'll tell my wife. She'll remember.

comes in handy when buying cheap, badly assembled, models on eBay

[George Stein]

As the temperature in my shed today is 28F /-4 C, surprise, surprise. Slight lifting with Xacto and fingernail the cab roof popped right off. Didn't need hair dryer. Seems cold weakens even Hornby factory glue. Thanks for the idea - it works.

George
North Carolina