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57. 'Inter-frigo' : first attempt at a scratch-built wagon body.


C126

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In an effort to provoke the Fates into an announcement of a ready-to-run new 'OO' wagon, instead of all these high-spec. re-releases, I have made a model of an IIB 'Inter-frigo' ferry-wagon to convey (under Rule 1) meat and fish to and from the Sussex Weald.

 

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Unworthy of close examination - owing not least to my unsteady hand and unwanted ability to glue tiny pieces of plastic to everything except where wanted - I am content with its capturing the likeness and romance of the real thing for me.  I just wish someone did decals of its singular livery.

 

Hacking the body off a Triang-Hornby VIX, picked up for a fiver at an exhibition, it took two attempts to build a plasticard 'box' body (the first, built around balsa blocks, looked too low).

 

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The (erroneously shaped) roof is balsa, the door fastenings and access steps rails plastic-coated garden wire, and the ladders Ratio signal parts.  Only after clearing away the remnants of this project, did I discover some lengths of finer wire for the door-fastenings.  Perhaps I will try a door with these on the other side of the wagon when feeling brave.

 

If it can be done in 'HO', I hope someone will now release a model of this soon for us.

 

 

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Excellent!

 

There are indeed 1:87 models of lots of continental UK-loading-gauge ferry wagons but nothing in 1:76, despite the hard work having been done (witness Modellbahn Union producing the same models of DB and DRG ferry vans in 1:87 and 1:160). I did write to MU and ask and (to paraphrase freely) the polite response was that I should ask the right people for the scale. Thing is to judge from what's on the packaging of the H0 models they are working together already. Hey ho. Or should that be H0...

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4 minutes ago, readingtype said:

Excellent!

 

There are indeed 1:87 models of lots of continental UK-loading-gauge ferry wagons but nothing in 1:76, despite the hard work having been done (witness Modellbahn Union producing the same models of DB and DRG ferry vans in 1:87 and 1:160). I did write to MU and ask and (to paraphrase freely) the polite response was that I should ask the right people for the scale. Thing is to judge from what's on the packaging of the H0 models they are working together already. Hey ho. Or should that be H0...

 

Not quite - there was the Tri-ang Hornby ferry van and, more recently, a couple of more detailed versions of the same subject from newer producers.

 

CJI.

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12 hours ago, cctransuk said:

 

Not quite - there was the Tri-ang Hornby ferry van and, more recently, a couple of more detailed versions of the same subject from newer producers.

 

CJI.

 

While the VIX is much appreciated, it would be good to have some 'foreign outline' wagons in OO that came across on the Train Ferry.  I still live in hope.

 

Incidentally, can @cctransuk do decals/ water-slide transfers for this 'Inter-frigo' wagon?  I have a Shocvan kit awaiting construction, and was going to ask when ordering transfers for it.  Do hope so.  Thanks.

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38 minutes ago, C126 said:

 

While the VIX is much appreciated, it would be good to have some 'foreign outline' wagons in OO that came across on the Train Ferry.  I still live in hope.

 

Incidentally, can @cctransuk do decals/ water-slide transfers for this 'Inter-frigo' wagon?  I have a Shocvan kit awaiting construction, and was going to ask when ordering transfers for it.  Do hope so.  Thanks.

 

Sorry - one-offs are just not practicable for my set-up.

 

I would recommend an approach to Precision Labels or Railtec.

 

John Isherwood.

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On 30/08/2023 at 20:38, cctransuk said:

Not quite

 

I wrote badly, but intended to say: nothing that represents a non-British prototype in 1:76. That's what my comment was founded on, the fact that there are several recently produced non-British ones in other scales and so it's a pity the work done will not be redirected into models in 1:76.

 

Ben

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