Garden Railway Forum

Posted: **Sat May 11, 2013 4:30 pm**

Hi All, I am just at nearly the end of re-building a Tenmille L and B Coach [ which has been kicking around half built for about 20 years!] I improved it know end by laser cutting the outside framework and am thinking I should do another three, I was wondering if anyone knows if the kits are still available? I can see the white metal parts listed on their website but the L and B coach kits are not specifically priced up.
If not I will probably have to create my own wooden laser cut parts and use the parts that are available.I will post a picture when finished.

Posted: **Sat Jun 01, 2013 10:59 pm**

Only the white metal parts are available now.

If you could produce them laser cut how much would production cost? I'm looking to have a rake of them

Posted: **Sat Jun 08, 2013 7:32 pm**

LnBmad:84263 wrote:Only the white metal parts are available now.

If you could produce them laser cut how much would production cost? I'm looking to have a rake of them

I'm probably not going to produce any more than the three I need, as its quite a lot of work to produce the parts and from experience the cost one could reasonably charge would barely cover the material costs.

John

Posted: **Sat Aug 03, 2013 4:09 am**

Any progress at all

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2014 10:00 pm**

Here is my coach finished and now I have made a start on a further three laser cutting out the sides in 2.3mm ply and 0.8mm ply for the frames.

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Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2014 10:10 pm**

Great work!

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2014 10:22 pm**

VERY nice!

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2014 10:35 pm**

That's a beautiful coach.
Look forward to seeing your progress on the next three - should be a lot quicker than mine !

Brian

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2014 11:56 pm**

Superb workmanship. Quality rolling stock!

Posted: **Fri Mar 14, 2014 8:34 pm**

The next stage... the sides have been primed and painted but the laser cut outer framing has yet to be glued on.

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Also Lew has arrived! from Track Shack Actually I think this may be the very last one.
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Posted: **Tue Apr 15, 2014 11:14 pm**

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Posted: **Tue Apr 15, 2014 11:30 pm**

Wow! What fantastic interior detail - the number of windows will show that off nicely

Posted: **Wed Apr 16, 2014 12:49 am**

That's looking great.

Just one point - shouldn't the doors in the centre partitions be offset in opposite directions instead of the doors opposite each other ? i.e. the nearer partition in the second picture should be the other way round.

Not wishing to criticise such a lovely job, just trying to stop you making a mistake before it's too late to put it right.

Brian

Posted: **Wed Apr 16, 2014 8:10 am**

Yes Brian, you're dead right, They're not glued in yet I just propped the side up with them and are mirrored so when I glue them in I will correct it!

Posted: **Wed Apr 16, 2014 8:53 am**

I thought that might be the case, but I know from bitter experience how annoying it is to do something without thinking and not realise I've made a mistake until it's far too late to rectify it !

Brian

Posted: **Wed Apr 16, 2014 9:07 am**

I've been fighting the temptation to abandon my 2' 6" W&LLR prototype and base my adventures on the L&B instead...you're not helping

Posted: **Wed Apr 16, 2014 10:06 am**

Fantastic work. Can´t wait to see the finished result!

Posted: **Sun Jul 13, 2014 11:34 pm**

What did you user to glue the framing on to the painted (?) Coach side? I have made up some Brandbright ones and stage is giving me problems!

Posted: **Tue Jul 15, 2014 10:02 pm**

Yes it caused me problems too! I used epoxy resin [ araldite] [ very carefully, the slow one,] Its reasonably good but not perfect and I found on some loose bits I had to scrape back to the wood and sand the back of the strip and use white wood glue which of course is the best way to glue wood when Its unpainted.
I suppose It was the price to pay so that I didn't have to mask which never looks totally crisp.
I've done more of the centre saloon but am on holiday so will post some more pictures later this month.

Posted: **Tue Jul 15, 2014 10:46 pm**

cncmodeller:102693 wrote:Yes it caused me problems too! I used epoxy resin [ araldite] [ very carefully, the slow one,] Its reasonably good but not perfect and I found on some loose bits I had to scrape back to the wood and sand the back of the strip and use white wood glue which of course is the best way to glue wood when Its unpainted.
I suppose It was the price to pay so that I didn't have to mask which never looks totally crisp.
I've done more of the centre saloon but am on holiday so will post some more pictures later this month.

Thats really helpful. I too used araldite in the end, and applied it very carefully with cocktail stick to the framing. It was very fiddly.
I wondering whether to use a fine syringe next time, but fear the araldite might be too thick to suck into the syringe. Anyway, i am happy with the result and now have two more coaches in build. Heres a picture of the first one.

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