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On 05/01/2021 at 19:16, icphotos said:

I've had a few models from Elhiem who make wargaming vehicles. The scale is 1/72 but as they are 3d printed they can do them in different scales and have a range of landrovers and other exotics. Some have metal wheels which might not be suitable for rescaling but a loot are just 3d prints.

 

 https://www.elhiem.co.uk/ourshop/prod_6970467-VBA11-WOLF-LR-110-latest-version-of-the-Medium-Utility-Truck.html

 

My current work in progress is PSNI landrovers

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Oooo good find, I see they do a Foxhound too, ideal to go on your KWA Warwells accompanying the Cavalex KFA Warflats.  I'm going to order one to see how it looks..

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17 minutes ago, rob D2 said:

Looking good.

I was thinking of seeing if any of the 3D printing companies would be interested in doing some vehicle chocks for warwell and warflats. They’ll look odd loaded without .

 

There may be something in the works...

we are looking at the costs.

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1 hour ago, Trains4U said:

Coming soon...!

 

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A full update will follow shortly.

 

1 hour ago, Trains4U said:

Coming soon...!

 

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A full update will follow shortly.

They look excellent and seeing this reminded me to call up to add an extra couple of wagons to my order. The guy I spoke to on the phone was very friendly and added a couple on for me. The chocks will be a very useful addition too if these can be done and I’m certainly interested in getting them.

 

A pleasure to do business with.

 

All the best

Mark

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2 hours ago, Trains4U said:

 

There may be something in the works...

we are looking at the costs.

Loads too? Spartan / Scimitar / Landrover Wolf / Jackal?

 

The warflats look very good, space created in fiddle yard already...

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On 02/02/2021 at 13:56, KDG said:

Loads too? Spartan / Scimitar / Landrover Wolf / Jackal?

 

The warflats look very good, space created in fiddle yard already...

That’d be a lot of tooling !

build the kits I say , they take about five minutes and although not finescale  good enough for loads 

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18 minutes ago, rob D2 said:

That’d be a lot of tooling !

build the kits I say , they take about five minutes and although not finescale  good enough for loads 

Hi Rob, I have done, was posing the question on behalf of others. :D Although with advancing years, and deteriorating eyesight, I find painting and decaling kits increasingly difficult.  

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1 hour ago, KDG said:

Hi Rob, I have done, was posing the question on behalf of others. :D Although with advancing years, and deteriorating eyesight, I find painting and decaling kits increasingly difficult.  

Very true.

I think the sheer scale of researching , tooling, producing military vehicles , would dwarf the original wagon project,

unkess they are in contact with a third party who may be able to provide, these little AFVs would be ideal for 3 d printing I’d think 

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On 02/02/2021 at 11:49, Trains4U said:

 

There may be something in the works...

we are looking at the costs.

 

One of my staff (John) got a resin 3D printer for Christmas and has been putting it to good use...

 

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these wheel chocks will be available very soon to buy separately.

 

Available as packs of 12 for £10 painted or £7.25 unpainted.

 

If you want to add any to your order, let us know!

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Trains4U said:

 

One of my staff (John) got a resin 3D printer for Christmas and has been putting it to good use...

 

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these wheel chocks will be available very soon to buy separately.

 

Available as packs of 12 for £10 painted or £7.25 unpainted.

 

If you want to add any to your order, let us know!

 

 

 

Oh well done, those are just the job - thank you.

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On 22/02/2021 at 14:49, WILLIAM said:

Just found this picture I took at Eastleigh back in 1998. Looks to be a mix of warflats with yellow ends (at the front) and those without. Gives me enough of an excuse to order some in both liveries.

 

There were still green end Warflats around in 2003, I've got shots of seven rolling into Didcot that September and every one is green. 

 

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There is quite a bit of variation in the KFA liveries, with plain green and yellow ended KFAs knocking around today as far as I know.

 

some of these variations will be picked up in future runs of the model.

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5 hours ago, Trains4U said:

There is quite a bit of variation in the KFA liveries, with plain green and yellow ended KFAs knocking around today as far as I know.

 

some of these variations will be picked up in future runs of the model.

You need to be careful with what’s used for traffic and some that transported back from Germany for internal use. I don’t know if they ran on a one off certificate on the mainline or not but I know the guy in charge of Marchwood MOD rail said some came back for internal use. I’d look for pics of them loaded as I don’t remember seeing any plain green ones come out of the military port when I was Signalman there ;)  I saw some very dirty yellow ends but there were bits of yellow showing. 
 

WILLIAM’s photo above looks like some are indeed green and as they are inbound to Marchwood look like they will be loaded up. Unfortunately I’ve mislaid my original photos in a move so my only copies are in b&w that were used in the Oakwood book. 
 

Isn’t photo research fun ;) 

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4 hours ago, PaulRhB said:

You need to be careful with what’s used for traffic and some that transported back from Germany for internal use. I don’t know if they ran on a one off certificate on the mainline or not but I know the guy in charge of Marchwood MOD rail said some came back for internal use. I’d look for pics of them loaded as I don’t remember seeing any plain green ones come out of the military port when I was Signalman there ;)  I saw some very dirty yellow ends but there were bits of yellow showing. 
 

WILLIAM’s photo above looks like some are indeed green and as they are inbound to Marchwood look like they will be loaded up. Unfortunately I’ve mislaid my original photos in a move so my only copies are in b&w that were used in the Oakwood book. 
 

Isn’t photo research fun ;) 

Weren’t the ones brought back, out of gauge older style ones ? Not the same wagon type ?

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1 hour ago, rob D2 said:

Weren’t the ones brought back, out of gauge older style ones ? Not the same wagon type ?

 

1 minute ago, markw said:

Yes the ones brought back from Germany were the ww2 type that had been re-bogied with Y25s and widened, but at least some of them were cut back to UK gauge and ran on the mainline.

 

Most of the 81 ended up at Marchwood (and possibly other sites?) as internal users. I believe two went to E G Steele to have the side extensions removed.

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Yes a mix of types and as I understood it at the time some of those only ran on the mainline once so you have to be a bit careful taking a photo of an empty one as absolute proof it was in general use ;) 

The older wide ones were out of gauge so wouldn’t have been able to run on the mainline. 
As the photo above proves they did run mixed so as long as you’re not too worried about the numbers it’s not a problem but generally they seem to have gone all yellow ends by around 2003-5 from what I saw past the window on Ludgershall and Marchwood trains. 

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14 minutes ago, Simon Bendall said:

Those are all Shildon-built ones in that photo, there are no ex-BAOR in that train - the latter are entirely different with their fishbelly solebars and ribbing.

 

Matter of seconds to find a green end watflat in 2020 http://www.flickr.com/photos/kl47576/49617517972

Interesting to see a military train in east anglia in 2020... where was going , Dereham ?

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4 minutes ago, rob D2 said:

Interesting to see a military train in east anglia in 2020... where was going , Dereham ?

Disregard , I see he has an album . It was a ludgershall - Dereham 66778

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