Collette 60' coach bogies

[george stein]

Leaving aside the otherwise good & bad of the Bachmann 60' Collette coaches, should the bogies have a "strengthening bar" linking the wheel boxes added to improve the basic looks of the model. 

 

Thanks,

 

George

North Carolina

 

[Darius43]

Apologies for not knowing the answer to your question, but shouldn’t that be Collett (GWR CME) rather than Collette  (or Colette, French writer).

 

Cheers

 

Darius

[MPR]

Not for these coaches - they were built with 9’0” wheelbase pressed-steel bogies, which did not have a tie-bar between the axle boxes, they would have been much stiffer than previous designs

[george stein]

Thank you both for the helpful replies.

 

George

[MPR]

On 17/09/2021 at 17:08, george stein said:

Thank you both for the helpful replies.

 

George

I’m working on one of these at the moment - they are reasonably good models, if not to the latest standards. I’ll put some photos and description in my “Torre” thread in the near future. If you have access to “The 4mm coach part 1” there is a good description of a similar project.