Why no 00 / 4mm tube stock?

[Patrick Blake]

I personally find any attempt in motorizing 4mm scale deep level tube stock to be an arduous process, whether it be EFE, Metromodels or Radley.

Bachmann's low floor motor/shaft arrangement works really well, pity they didn't make an additional power car from one of the 4 add-on cars you could buy.

In the mean time, for what there is that isn't Ready-to-run, we're stuck with Blackbeetle and Tenshodo motor bogies which are neither cheap or easy to come by and from my experience not very reliable either.

[Lord of Narnia]

Just a few more photos of the finished 1967/72 tube stock which is going off to the manufactures on Monday. There is also flush glazing to go with it. Phil says there has been quite a lot of interest. 
 

I will be making a set up as 1972mk2 stock refurbished. 

[jcm@gwr]

On 05/10/2019 at 07:44, Patrick Blake said:

I personally find any attempt in motorizing 4mm scale deep level tube stock to be an arduous process, whether it be EFE, Metromodels or Radley.

Bachmann's low floor motor/shaft arrangement works really well, pity they didn't make an additional power car from one of the 4 add-on cars you could buy.

In the mean time, for what there is that isn't Ready-to-run, we're stuck with Blackbeetle and Tenshodo motor bogies which are neither cheap or easy to come by and from my experience not very reliable either.

 

Is it worth considering the very good motorised chassis's by Replica Railways?

[Metr0Land]

I've had a couple of Endo power bogies from Metromodels which I find very good, though they don't seem to be on his site any more.

[Erixtar1992]

If you pair tenshodos up in a single car and a single dcc chip they run very well.