The BM kit does provide etches for the marker lamp brackets but does not mention anything about the marker lamps themselves. I looked everywhere to find a 7mm scale lamp that resembled the South African ones i'd seen pictures of on the engines but none seem to be availaable commercially. There is a solid outline of the marker lamps on a couple of the drawings in the plan set i have so i decided to scratchbuild a set of four lamps based on those outline drawings.
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| Marker lamps outline from NG/G16 plan set |
The lamps were made from brass square tube, round tube and plate. And there are about 16 parts in each lamp housing. The handles are thin copper wire and i drilled out the front lens holders to accept MV Lens lamp lenses that will be added once the LED lights are in place.
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| The four scratchbuilt marker lamps |
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And this is how they look for size in my hand.
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| An indicator of their actual size |
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