Well my wee Hymek arrived a few days ago and after a bit of roughing up, detailing, chipping and helpful advice from this thread it now looks like this:
I must say that the one bulb in the headcode doesn’t really cut the mustard because it only really lights one side up properly and it’s too bright.
I settled for 1A69 as the headcode in the end and I toned the LED down slightly so it wasn’t so garish.
I’m thinking about doing a representation of the air tank you can see on the real thing in front of the bogie at some point.
At the end of the day the Dapol Hymek is quite an old model now but it still captures the look of the prototype really well and it’s a nice little addition to fleet.
I must say that the one bulb in the headcode doesn’t really cut the mustard because it only really lights one side up properly and it’s too bright.
I settled for 1A69 as the headcode in the end and I toned the LED down slightly so it wasn’t so garish.
I’m thinking about doing a representation of the air tank you can see on the real thing in front of the bogie at some point.
At the end of the day the Dapol Hymek is quite an old model now but it still captures the look of the prototype really well and it’s a nice little addition to fleet.