Bristol_Rich

Apart from a wagon being pushed with a finger....errrr YES!

I noticed that the front wing looked a bit heavy around the lamp bowls...I can think about reducing them down a bit and assume they should look something like this?

Yes the tyres are definatly not your traditional radials! I'm gonna persevere with it as there ain't nothing else out there other than the Citroën Avant...

Thanks...bar the wheels (Slaters) and the axle boxes/brakes (Parkside) the rest is all scratchbuilt. I cant believe its taken this long. Its been over a year in the making (with a break to make sure the body was stable) but its been a lot of work. Just when you think you are near the end, more detail jumps out the photos with more work lining up.

As for locos... a Z4p is currently in construction at the moment and is currently at a motorised chassis stage. A Y01p railcar cab former and mould has been completed...we just need the warmer weather (now here) to cast the ends.

The holy grail would be a steam loco, however pretty much all of them have very complex valve gear...perhaps a job for the future....maybe.

Thanks Jim, super stuff...

This helps!

The model is of the rear split window variety and fits nicely right into the period I am modelling. The fact that its a "Police" variant is neither here nor there as by the looks of the kit contents its a simple hole to fill in the roof for the beacon.

Of course the other thing that I need to consider is that until the 1960's, the Swedes drove on the left hand side of the road as we do here in the UK.

Being that the assumption that the Beetle was delivered to Sweden prior to that date would have been delivered LHD or RHD?....

The 'baseboard' is nothing more than a display/test track. As the method of construction for the track uses pins a 'soft' base material is required to push and hold the pins in place.

Through experience, we have never found sundela to be reliable enough not to warp or distort, therefore we now resort to fixing (glue or screw) onto a ply structural sub base.

Forgot to add that the shell is constructed using Photo Mount card. I had thought about using foam board however I was keen to use the cavity for routing of the fibre optic leads.

The only thing I will need to be careful of is that the board does have a tendency to warp and bend so some careful bracing and lamination is required.

In terms of scale, its not much larger than 7mm - 1/35 scale equates to 8.71mm/ft aposed to the 7mm/ft for O Gauge.

As the majority of the prototype rolling stock was a scaled down version of standard gauge equipment, this meant that things like wheels etc were also smaller in diameter than the standard gauge counterparts.

So by scaling up we were are able to use O gauge wheels which scaled out as near as damn it 1/35. Coincidently the track gauge of 891mm also scales out at exactly 1inch.

To help visualise it here are a couple of quickly grabbed pics...

A Chivers Tunny for comparison

Chivers Tunny loaded with 1/35 barrels (WIP) and a set of Slaters Open Spoke wheels re-gauged for 891mm. These will be used for another van later in the year.

Rivets can be obtained from Archer Transfers http://www.archertransfers.com/. Various sizes and pitches available and although they are in the states they will arrive in no time. When I ordered a sheet last I couldn't believe how quick it was - 3days/ No Tax.

The only thing I would recommend is using Microsol and Set on their application and once laid up use minimal handling until you are ready to paint.

They are defo worth the effort

A Z4p (as attached) is in early build - the chassis is pretty much nearly finished and powered so that it can run under its own "steam" so to speak...

But then the real challenge begins of building the body!

The next pics will include it along side the Op and hopefully on some track!

Archer Transfers do a whole raft of gauge decals

Some good work...

The benefit of the prototypes is that in 1/1 scale they arnt very big so lends itself to the larger scale. The overall length of the Op is only 8m so a perhaps unfair comparison with the OBA proportionally. The loco in build at the moment -'Zp' is small and compact at half the length of the Op. Thankfully they designed it around a great sounding Deutz engine

On the flip side the YO1p Railcar - in early development - will come out scaled at nearly 2' long...

Hi Josh

Yes, we still have Frampton and will always ensure that there is stock to run on it. The problem I am having at the moment is work...no time to play trains

The SR proj is on hold for the time being. There are some things we wernt happy with and some steps that we needed to get over to make it into a reliable exhibition performer.

The swedish proj has helped me re focus my modelling again and is also providing some excellent challenges, certainly from the research aspects.

Rich - that van looks pretty amazing - what is the prototype - and is it really 4mm scale??!!

The prototype is a 'Gp' van used on the Swedish 891mm lines. On the formation of SJ and the inhertance of over 2000km of old narrow gauge lines and their stock it soon became clear that the stock was unsuitable. These vans were built in the late 40's and early 50's built on common underframes to replace the older stock.

The layout will be 1/35 scale so comes out at 8.71mm/ft.

I agree about the scope for crossover. I'm also really impressed at how much extra stuff you usually get in kits from some manufacturers - figures, stowage, tools, etc. etc. Great for layout details, and the figures are often a lot better (in terms of poses and proportions) than the railway ones, particularly in larger scales.

Yes, even with the Blitz kit and admittedly it's been civilianised, I'm left over with driver, navigator, pick, spade, 4 oil drums, crate, hand pump, water stand pipe, jack, jerry cans... It's a comple seperate sprue to the kit.

Ittaleri also do a kit for the Blitz, although I'm not sure on the scales and avaliability... It might be worth a look. I think there are many techniques we rail modellers can learn from military modelers, although I have never been a military modeller, the range of detail components is wide, varied and usually of very high quality.