"Jurassic Models" ? Well Almost !!
My Blog tends to chart my workbench activity. With more than a few wagon builds as I needlessly add
even more to the overall collection.
I've decided to try and clear some inherited kits which while very good at their time of issue are now
beginning to fall short of later models. However first I thought I'd add a picture of the Cambrian Dogfish
in it's current decaled but not weathered state.
Right, next I started was a very old Ratio kit, one of a few that have disappeared from the Ratio range.
The Ratio GWR Open 'C', LWB timber/pipe wagon - kit number I don't know, not bothered to search for that !
The kit has the modern Ratio problem of 'W' irons being rather too far apart for modern wheel sets. You need
to add plasticard, or any other material spacers between the ledge of Top Hat bearings and the axle hole. Here
you see before & after.
Having got this far I realised I had much missing, the 'V' hangers in particular, although mouldings were there for DC III brakes
there were no levers. Add to having no instruction I asked and will be getting instructions in the near future to back into a box !
O.K Ratio kit number 1501 from the 'New' 1500 series. My packet had the original wrapping from Ratio at Chorleywood on it
there was a pre-decimal postage stamp. As Decimal currency was introduced in 1971 this kit must be OVER 50 years old !!
I started without any searching and when built I thought I'd look to see if there was any information On-Line for a 5 plank
Coke Wagon ? Nothing !! As coke was light the problem was volume not weight so all the information I could fine referred to
7 & 8 plank wagons - Why would you uses only a 5 planker ?
Markings will have to be fictitious, my thoughts are of a small towns gas works P.O. wagon.
Any suggestions on this would be welcomed - but not scrap it !!
My problem now is getting Bachmann narrow couplings, where I need the NEM pockets for my Peco PA34 mountings. I have good
rolling chassis, but to test will need to rob couplings from existing stock.
Geoff T.
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