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On 15/04/2021 at 06:24, Ben B said:

 

The Triang/Hornby loco looks more Germanic to me, hints of the BR80? I wonder if you'd do better with the Joueff/Playcraft clockwork tank loco, they turn up on ebay very frequently, and have a vaguely USA-tank look about them.

The electric versions have masive motors in them!

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A bit like this.....?                                                                                                                                                    20201013_023856.jpg.7c8833525ef6568544370aaea526caba.jpg

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On 22/04/2021 at 21:44, ianmacc said:

Edit! Sorry just realised this is in the wrong thread guys!!

 

Two eBay items. A lovely veteran locomotive and a ghastly beyond words 3D printed campervan! Don’t know how to link but you can search the listings 

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Which is the thread with eBay abominations  please? 

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On 22/04/2021 at 21:44, ianmacc said:

Edit! Sorry just realised this is in the wrong thread guys!!

 

Two eBay items. A lovely veteran locomotive and a ghastly beyond words 3D printed campervan! Don’t know how to link but you can search the listings 

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Which is the thread with eBay abominations  please? 

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3 hours ago, Martin S-C said:

And it has four-wheeled coaches... but not as we know them.

 

Is that what this is?

http://www.tramz.com/br/rj/vj/vj.html

 

On 23/04/2021 at 15:48, Your neighborhood GWR diesel said:

Wow, that van!  Maybe it should be put on a motorized chassis like on top gear?

 

Or like this?

 

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It's an 009 rail-van - basically a Kato 11-104 with the ends chopped off and then stuffed into the body of a Triang Minix Ford Thames van. It awaits a slightly more detailed and realistic paint job but runs reasonably well. Amazingly the 11-104 wheelbase is the same as the van's wheel arches.

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There are steps at the back of my streamlined tender, and I have some 3D printed knobs for handrails. My first set of knobs were too fragile, and also a little too tall, so I redesigned them. The new ones (a little bit shorter and fatter) are on the right.

 

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The new ones are also rather delicate - one was missing from the flat plate "sprue" when they arrived (I had to override Shapways' we-won't-print-this-it's-too-flimsy).

 

Each row of four knobs has holes in a line, the idea being to thread the handrail through the four holes before snapping them of the plate, thus:

 

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The handrail in this case is a musical instrument string (a mandolin E string, I think), which is thin enough to go through the holes and suitably springy. The purpose of the string at this point is to stop me from losing the knobs, and to hold them in rough alignment when I fit them into the holes in the tender (after drilling out the holes).

 

This string may or may not actually become the handrail in the finished tender - I might go for the slightly thicker A string.

 

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On 25/04/2021 at 14:54, 009 micro modeller said:

 

Is that what this is?

http://www.tramz.com/br/rj/vj/vj.html

 

 

Or like this?

 

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It's an 009 rail-van - basically a Kato 11-104 with the ends chopped off and then stuffed into the body of a Triang Minix Ford Thames van. It awaits a slightly more detailed and realistic paint job but runs reasonably well. Amazingly the 11-104 wheelbase is the same as the van's wheel arches.

Beautiful!  Kind of looks like the VW bus rail maintenance cars in West Germany.

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10 hours ago, SteelAndSoot said:

My lil wing tank Bealie (shared her before) kept doing wheelies, so today I gave her a rear wheelset to fix this

 

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fits snugly and rolls well, has lots of side play too for tight bends

 

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Can I just say, that’s a fine pair of steam roller wheels? :laughclear:

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