Horse drawn wagon
While I was at the Telford O gauge guild show last year I spotted some rather nice horse drawn wagons. They were manufactured by a company called Parliamentary trains http://www.parlytrains.co.uk/page10.html who specialize in early LNWR stock, but also do horse drawn road vehicles. I bought examples of their "One horse wagonnette" and their "One horse Brougham" thinking they would look good positioned in the station forecourt at Sherton Abbas. As an aside to working on the main layout I decided to make a start on one of these kits.
The kits are laser cut from various thickness's of a sheet plastic material along with pieces of brass tubing and pins. The parts are all numbered and accompanied by clear instructions on how to assemble all the component parts.
I assembled the parts using cyanoacrylate which seemed to give a strong bond with the plastic components
Rear axle and front wheel pivot
Although the kit is made up from a surprisingly large number of parts everything fits together very well with minimal adjustment. I think the way that the kit is manufactured lends itself to finer detail than that achieved by white metal castings and I'm generally pleased with the end result. I need to find a suitable horse to pull the wagonnette, it's Wells show next month so hopefully I'll find something there:-)
On a completely different subject I need to obtain some gas lamps for my platform. The ones from Kemilway look promising, but I've had no response from either e-mail or phone calls, so I'm not sure if the business is still going. Any pointers in the right direction would be much appreciated!
Best wishes
Dave
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