Show me your guards vans..

TheChestnutLine · Post by **TheChestnutLine** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 11:29 am

Here's mine

Also the first kit I built

WVLR · Post by **WVLR** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 1:53 pm

I've only just started in this hobby and here's my first attempt at scratch building a brake van, please be kind to a newbie.

Mike

TheChestnutLine · Post by **TheChestnutLine** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 2:10 pm

Mike you've done a fantastic job there! Are those laser cut parts you've made yourself? I really like the hinged door, very smart!

tom_tom_go · Post by **tom_tom_go** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 3:08 pm

TheChestnutLine:49349 wrote:Mike you've done a fantastic job there! Are those laser cut parts you've made yourself? I really like the hinged door, very smart!

Great effort, puts us kit bashers to shame

WVLR · Post by **WVLR** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 4:17 pm

Hi, thanks for your kind comments, the parts are cut out using a cnc gantry router with a 2mm bit,
3mm ply for the main body and roof, 1mm ply for the framing effect and the chassis is one piece cut from 12mm ply.
IP engineering wheels, axle boxes and buffers.

Mike

METHSSNIFFER · Post by **METHSSNIFFER** » Fri Sep 27, 2013 1:34 am

Swift have one out

SapperAnt · Post by **SapperAnt** » Fri Sep 27, 2013 10:18 am

Here's mine. Scratch built. Based on Irish 3' prototype. Nice and chunky to go behind my Ragleth.

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Post by **Andrew** » Fri Sep 27, 2013 1:29 pm

SapperAnt:89736 wrote:Here's mine. Scratch built. Based on Irish 3' prototype. Nice and chunky to go behind my Ragleth.

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Very nice, I like that very much...

I'm a fan of guards vans generally, although I only have two non-passenger ones at the mo, and one of those - this Brandbright kit - is a model of the dual-piped example that ran on early Welsh Highland passenger services:

The other is my trusty old Mamod van, with a few minor mods and a coat of paint. Not highly detailed and a little tatty, but I'm very fond of it...

Thanks Mr Meths for reviving this thread on your worthy crusade to re-invigorate the forum - any more guards vans out there folks?

Cheers,

Andrew.

SapperAnt · Post by **SapperAnt** » Fri Sep 27, 2013 3:26 pm

Aww, thanks ANdrew. Ive got another one on the go based on an LMS Northern Counties example.

I do want to add some more interior detail to my "grey" van. Its got working doors and a suggestion of internal fittings. But needs more.

williamfj · Post by **williamfj** » Fri Sep 27, 2013 5:01 pm

Here are my four, in order of construction all from IP Engineering;
1st is an Ezee kit (early 2011), originally it had a lamp iron but it was replaced with a tail lamp kit, only used when River Ankh is out (once this year)

The 2nd (mid 2011), originally part of the P-Way fleet, upon the acquisition of Minnie it became part of the main line fleet until the construction of E.11. It's now in storage under a constant threat of sale.

E.11 (Autumn 2012) is included as it is used on freight workings, and on passenger trains when extra luggage space is needed. Often used and somewhat abused!

Finally (May 2013) there is another Ezee kit for use with the Shed, which itself is seldom used.

Peter Butler · Post by **Peter Butler** » Fri Sep 27, 2013 10:23 pm

I do like your stock Williamfj... the items are varied and interesting and the paintwork always crisp and well finished.

williamfj · Post by **williamfj** » Fri Sep 27, 2013 11:25 pm

Peter Butler:89780 wrote:I do like your stock Williamfj... the items are varied and interesting and the paintwork always crisp and well finished.

Thanks Peter, although I dare say they're a bit bland compared to the magnificent models you produce.

Peter Butler · Post by **Peter Butler** » Fri Sep 27, 2013 11:47 pm

You're too kind! However, I can put up with that kind of response all day long!!!
It seems you are near York? If so, did you see the exhibition at the NRM (some ten or more years ago now) which included a model of the 'Far Twittering and Oysterperch Railway' after Rowland Emett? If so, it was one I designed (the layout, not the exhibition) and was built along with coleagues from the Warley MRC, of which I am still a member. The exhibition was a commemoration of the railway preservation movement and lasted for 6 months.

williamfj · Post by **williamfj** » Fri Sep 27, 2013 11:58 pm

I do indeed live in York, although I would only be about 10 when the exhibition took place and if I did see it I don't remember it

RylstonLight · Post by **RylstonLight** » Sat Sep 28, 2013 9:55 am

On Weighton Bank on the Rylston Light

and under repair:

ruby · Post by **ruby** » Sun Nov 03, 2013 4:25 pm

Hello colleagues! I really like guard wagons. Here is my latest work.

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Mounted lighting of the two LEDs. The quality of the set is very good. The quality of construction could be better.

I built earlier Guards wagon PI-based kit. The body and roof made from a sheet of plastic Tamiya.
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laalratty · Post by **laalratty** » Sun Nov 03, 2013 9:06 pm

Very nice, like the extra detail you have added

oscillator · Post by **oscillator** » Wed Nov 06, 2013 1:18 pm

My first brake van was a 16mmscale L&B inspired 4 wheeler built mainly in wood around 1976 when i was still at school. The running gear was hornby gauge O, which had awful very coarse plastic wheels. It was not very free running. The brake van was sold in the early 1980s. Does it still exist?

tom_tom_go · Post by **tom_tom_go** » Sun Dec 01, 2013 5:14 pm

My first one is on it's second rebuild:

The lamp works and is powered by a CMOS battery located under the wagon (same type of battery you find on a computer motherboard):

jim@NAL · Post by **jim@NAL** » Sun Dec 01, 2013 9:43 pm

it looks very very oo/ho like

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