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First 2mm wagon test print. It's a NBR 3plk what do people think? The other wagon is a 4mm LBSCR 4ton ballast for scale

Everything that is available in 4mm is printed. Some should be ok to reduce in scale but others might end up a bit thin. I have scaled a NBR 3plk centre door. Marc

I will have a go at printing a NBR wagon this evening. You can only try and see what happens.

Yes, tried it with no couplings, 3 link and my own Flippems couplings. The automatic couplings are clear and not binding. The bigger the loco the bigger the problem. And according to the BR track manual and scaling them down the should be 56mm long and Infront of the frog. I get away with it as I have my ballast so high it acts as a check rail.

Yes I did and then I designed some auto couplings to operate with the curve. I'm not going to use them again. They need bigger check rails.

I made a similar change to the points I used on W C Boggs I'm still using dead buffered stock shorter than 15ft6 LOH. The problem isn't the frog or the reverse curve it's the size of the check rails and where they have been positioned with respect to the frog. They should be about 3x longer and be in advance of the frog so they guide the wheels round the curve. Marc

If you want to buy RTR track the streamline point's are ok. If you want to build your own then Greenwood pint kit are not bad. Rule of thumb for 0 gauge standard locos and stock 6ft radius points minimum radius. You can go down to 4ft but you're looking at industrial layout and short 4 wheel stock. Marc

Only advice I would give is don't use peco o gauge set track. They are far to tight for anything other than small dead buffered stock and the check rails are in the wrong place and about a 1/3rd of the length they should be. I used them on my current micro and I'm wishing I hadn't. Marc

Never tried but I can't see why some can't be done in 2mm. Marc

My wagon range now contains 7 NBR wagons with another 2 in the design stage. They are available as kits in 4mm and 7mm and bodies in HO, S, G1, G2 and G3. Available wagons 1) 1plk 2) 3plk fixed side 3) 3plk drop-side 4) 3plk centre door 5) 4plk Drop-side 6) 4plk fixed side 7) 4plk centre door Under development Cattle van 8t box van Marc Pre-Grouping Railways

LSWR wagon transfers are available on the HMRS Southern wagon sheet. Marc

They are a version of the Ellis axle boxes but with a round bottom rather than the usual flat bottom. Apart from them being fitted to some PO wagons the highland used them on their 12ton loco coal wagons. Marc

All my terriers are quite runners. I have 10 of them. Marc

A bit of a field trip today, Beamish open air museum. Their P5s and a bit different.

The 6th van could be either GWR or GER there is only the axle boxes and buffer beam which is different. The vents on the 1st on ook like Cally ones. Marc