Frichs type My N scale

Part 1 of 2 of N scale kit for building a Frichs type My (not to be confused with Nohab type My)
the kit is made to fit on a Minitrix regular nohab chassis.
Dremmel work might be needed to make some Minitrix chassis fit snugly as there can be a slight tollerance and some make a really tight fit.

This is part 1 of 2 of the 3D printed parts, the unpainted body for the engine.
For Part 2 of 2 click here.

It is recomended to use these buffers when building the model, But other buffers with an ø 1mm mounting shaft that protrudes at least 3mm into the model can also be used, this is nessacary as the buffers works as the pin that keeps the skirts in place.

Extra details etched in sheet metal can be ordered from me, they cost 100 kroner or 14 Euro including shipment to Denmark or 16 Euro for adresses outside Denmark.

Decals can be obtained through Skilteskoven.dk

These parts comes with no instructions and requires some level of skill to put together propperly at the builders own risk.

The real locomotive was build in only two examples My 1201 and My 1202 nicknamed Marilyn Monroe and My Fair lady. They were build in 1957 and 1960 by Danish locomotive manufacture Frichs A/S in Aarhus. Due to political pressure from the government on the Danish state railway that they should let a Danish manufacture compete with producing their prime mover at the time, which was the Swedish Nohab build type My. Hence the Danish build locomotives received the same name, but different running numbers to distinguish them.
A nohab build type My would be numbered starting at 1101.
These Frichs type My would be numbered starting at 1201.
Unlike its successful Nohab counterpart the Frichs My was plagued with problems, no more than two was ever build and in 1971 both of the two prototypes were scrapped.
Sadly non survived into preservation.

Due to their short servicelife they were always colored in RAL 3005 with stribes along the sides as seen on the picture. They never got the modern ruby-red and black livery that their Nohab counterparts got in the 70's. Yet fictious illustrations of them in this livery exists and the model can be painted in it to make a fictive "what if" model.