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Ta-daah! One stage coach - although I think it's probably a bit too American looking. I wonder where Bachmann got their dimensions for the coach body from? It would be a bit of a squash to get four H0 bodies in there as far as I can see. I've still got three more coach bodies to deal with so now I'm in search of more horses, H0 size.
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Looks like I've got another project. I'll let you know how I get on.
George
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Brilliant. Do you know if the cart wheels are available separately? I have loads of the Bachmann coach bodies - the chassis do make excellent wagon underpinnings, so now I can perhaps create a little 1840s traffic jam!
George
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I thought he was a guerrilla boss, not a true aristo.
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King Kong strikes again! Fabulous modelling. You need to invent an aristocratic title for that monogram now.
George
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Mudeford sandbank - a friend bought one of the beach huts there back in the 70s. It was nothing more than a ramshackle garden shed. He paid £10k. We all thought he was mad. I wish I'd been as mad as that!! Fascinating journey around the Forest, thanks.
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I'd like to think that your hands are the size of King Kong's. But I suspect this is not so. That's amazing modelling. Can't wait for the next update.
George
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Fantastic modelling. Perhaps you might like to give us a step by step guide to how it's done? Although I suspect infinite patience has a lot to do with it. Wonderful.
George
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I notice your fireman's nipped off down the pub. I'm sure we all agree that having crew on these wide-open cab locos is a must, but even allowing for a fall plate between loco and tender there doesn't seem to have been much room on the footplate for them. Superb modelling.
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Found a pic of my ex John Bull 2-2-0 in its finished state. It was quite easy to do. It isn't powered as I have some powered carriages based on cut down 5&9 Models' London and Brighton 3rds covering the John Bull mechanism to push it along. The sharp eyed will note I swapped the John Bull firebox for a Rocket one. Sadly I still can't work out a way to produce the flared tender tops that locos of that era all seemed to have. I'll stop hijacking your thread now, Ian.
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Thank you! I must get round to taking a pic of the finished article.
George
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Re the Dublin and Kingstown's Hibernia (or indeed any early 2-2-0), doing something like this is with the John Bull is pretty easy (if I can do it...)
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The backscene looks good. Where did it come from?
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Well, that's astonishing. What is he made of?
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For anyone looking for early carriages in H0 I can report that Chris's London and Brighton 3 compartment second/open third is (within a millimetre or so) the same size as the Bachmann 'Prussia' carriage. Presumably these new offerings are much the same size? (thinks: must resist...)
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5 hours ago, Ian Simpson said:
I've found the DeWitt Clinton barrels are separate items held in place with (rather tight) pins, not an integral part of the tender chassis. All that's needed is a pair of pliers and the brutal determination of a medieval dentist.
Egad, why didn't I try that before? Thanks very much for the advice. Now, where are my pliers?
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Excellent work. That spear fencing is very useful for models of early locos, and the Rocket kit likewise, if only for the tender. A question - how did you manage to cut the barrels off the DeWitt Clinton tender without getting metal filings in the motor? I tried dismantling the whole thing but then couldn't get it back together in working order.
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A Bachmann carriage into a stage coach
in Modelling the 1840s in HO
A blog by Ian Simpson in RMweb Blogs
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I suppose people were smaller then, or perhaps that's why so many people opted to sit on the outside. Next one will have the top taken off, I think.
George