Earlier this year I purchased a Gramodels Warflat from the Doncaster show, and I've finally got around to putting it together (after eventually getting the wheels for it) and I must admit, it's a nice easy build and certainly is well detailed. The one piece resin cast deck/solebars needed a soak in some hot water to straighten it out a little (but nothing major and that could've happened with it being stored amongst other bits and bobs for quite a while!) The whitmetal castings for the bufferbeams/jacks and the separeate buffers required very little tidying up with needle files and were a good fit onto the body. The Ratio diamond frame bogies had their axle-boxes drilled out and fitted with brass bearings and spoked Hornby wheels and run nice and freely.
Only one of the buffers was a little damaged, but that won't be too noticable once it's painted and marshalled in a train
This brings me onto a problem I have. I built a couple of Parkside LNER bogie bolsters (minus the bolsters) as warflats a couple of years back. Many of them were actuallyt converted to such use so it is a sensible starting point. The only problem is the heights of the two wagons is different, I'm not sure if it's the bogies themselves, or the riding heights, or a combinaiton of the two!
Can anyone advise where the error may be? I'm considering getting a couple more flats at Donny next February, and hopefully the planned ramp wagon isn't too far away either! I'm also quite tempted to get ane to be built as the later version without the end jacks as that would make an interesting wagon to shunt on Whitborough (without load of course!)
Any advice about the ride hieghts will be gratefully recieved as ever
J
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