When I'm building models to order I always do my best to try to meet my clients requirements, even when it sometimes makes things a little more awkward.
Take the case of the couplings on the latest batch of wagons which are just about finished.
The customer has standardised on couplings designed by PECO for their ready to run range of rolling stock..
Standardising in this way makes things much easier - but fixing plastic parts to brass? Not so much...
The etched bogie frames I use on my kits work best with the brass Greenwich couplings, which can be soldered direct onto the tongue which extends out from the middle. Or failing that the Bemo ones with a long shaft which gives you plenty of surface area to glue them on.
These PECO couplings are designed to slot into NEM pockets, and have almost no shaft on them.
They're also made from the kind of plastic which doesn't work with Superglue.
So the solution I've had to adopt is, firstly, to solder on a brass extension piece onto the bogie, and then use epoxy resin to attach the coupling, which is less than ideal because it takes an age even for the rapid stuff to set hard.
It's done, however, so now all I have to do is fix on the resin detail parts on the side of the bogies (it seemed sensible to wait until I'd finished the soldering work) and then spray them.
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