Kubes
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I changed to 0 gauge some years ago because I couldn't build decent models in 4mm and the manufacturers weren't producing the prototypes I wanted. Such as ex LBSC E4s,SER C classes, Maunsell carriages, birdcage sets, Brighton Atlantics ...oh!
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Very nice Lido too! Mrs Kubes & I used to go swimming there some cough cough years ago when we were younger and fitter.
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It's been some time since I built a Slater's wagon but I think the chassis framing on the real thing is fabricated from some form of shaped beam which would be awkward to replicate in a one piece moulding. It is quite invisible unless you invert the model and I never bothered with it. Kubes
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I have both books and they are truly excellent productions. Kubes
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Thank you both for your advice. I shall check out the Mike King drawings. I only wish he had published them in a book similar to his superb tome on Southern loco hauled stock. Sadly I fear that another lesser production has ruined the market for a book of EMU drawings. Kubes
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Hi I am scratchbuilding a 4LAV in 7mm and I wonder if anyone can advise on the appearance of the corridor partition on the trailer composite (lav). I read somewhere that there were double sliding doors to the compartments. With the high corridor windows the partition detail is going to be quite visible so I would like to get this bit right. Thanks, Kubes
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As far as I am aware there is no reason not to - the locos would have the necessary pipework on both bufferbeams.
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Parkside Dundas have never to my knowledge supplied 7mm kits to retailers in any other standard than 7mm fine scale. I can't see Peco doing anything else. Kubes
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No the Jinty will not have working inside motion as they were too far down the design and tooling path to include it.
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As far as I am aware these kits were originally in the Chowbent range which had a very good reputation for accuracy in their day. JLTRT have updated them I think but they will be complex kits nonetheless. Kubes
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Compressing trains to fit the space.
Kubes replied to MJI's topic in Modelling Questions, Help and Tips
I find that odd numbers of coaches make a train seem longer. I run a four coach SR Maunsell set and even adding a 4 wheel van makes a marked difference. Kubes -
There is, I think, a fairly substantial building on the platform so it would need to be quite wide.
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I believe it's a speaker housing.
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Of course they could have chosen the first Bulleid coaches which actually were 59ft long! Kubes
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I can sort of see why they have chosen this prototype given the nature of the coarse scale market - to the casual observer one post war steel carriage looks much like any other and the extended bodyside differentiates it. I guess the models will be shorter than scale to cope with sharp curves but then so were the final Hornby-Dublo models and they were much more "railwaylike" than any other coaches even twenty years later. Kubes
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Agh! My autocorrect didn't recognise Bulleid!
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Eleven six car dining sets nos 290 to 300 were built for the Bournemouth services with extended bodysides over the solebar except where there were stepboards. I don't know if/when this was removed but I don't think any other Bullied carriages except the Tavern cars shared this feature. The BRCW built sets were visibly different with shallower windows and no sliding ventilators fitted in corridor windows. David Gould's book published by Oakwood Press gives full details. Hope this helps! Kubes
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Hi as far as I can remember the window frames were painted blue. They were used on the Portsmouth services via my local station Sutton and as a young boy I was most dismayed to see how drab they looked!
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Sadly I believe a careless retailer has used pictures of the OO setrack points to illustrate the very different O gauge Streamline points and people have jumped to the wrong conclusion.
