Trams in tinplate 1/32 & 1/43

[PaulRhB]

I came across these while searching for something else.

 

This is a fairly good model of a Lisbon 4 wheel tram, sold as one of those rough tinplate decorations and found on a clearance shops ebay site. It scales out at roughly 1/32 so 32mm track is pretty good to represent the 900mm gauge. It comes in the green tourist city tour livery but I prefer the service liveries so I will repaint one in each.

I removed the incorrect representation of 4 axles using a screwdriver and cutters to break the spot welds and I'm going to build a rc chassis using Darstaed coarse O gauge wheels and Tamiya gearboxes. The chassis will be attached with magnets so it can swap between the two of these and a powered van I use for my O gauge tinplate.

 

Seen with a 1/87th diecast version

 

 

 

 

The first of the two repainted and waiting for some distressing to match the original look.

 

 

 

 

Darstaed wheels fitted to the Tamiya 3v gearbox. The insulated bushes were turned round to get a back to back of 29mm

 

Edited June 17, 2018 by PaulRhB

[PaulRhB]

The other find were these, Paya tinplate, on eBay for £5 each including post. I ordered them separately so they all came under the threshold to get the parcelforce tax!

They come with a crude tinplate tyred wheel chassis so that was removed and they will get the same Tamiya gearbox as the larger tram but only a single axle powered on these.

They look great alongside normal Hornby O tinplate too.

 

 

[PaulRhB]

The red liveried tram gets the right (ish) roof colour

 

[PaulRhB]

Both trams now repainted to the more common liveries. I'm going to weather them to match the antique finish as it looks good with this rustic construction

 

[PaulRhB]

Finally I got these motorised and ran them at a friends garden railway open day. 

 

 

 

 

 

[Nearholmer]

Very characterful!