Semi-scale BR: low cost tank wagon

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Re: Semi-scale BR: low cost tank wagon

Post by Andrew » Wed Apr 08, 2020 8:08 pm

That looks just right!

My family drop similar hints, but I just get better at hiding things... My line can only manage 6 average length wagons, but the more I have the more variety I can have...

Keep squirreling 'em away Bertie!

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Re: Semi-scale BR: low cost tank wagon

Post by LNR » Thu Apr 09, 2020 12:23 am

Those van bodies have come out very well.
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Re: Semi-scale BR: low cost tank wagon

Post by Sylvian Tennant » Fri Aug 14, 2020 6:12 pm

Lovely work, would you able able to do me and favour and give me the lenght, width and height of your tanker. I just want to compare to the rest of my stock before i look to buy some.

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Re: Semi-scale BR: low cost tank wagon

Post by BertieB » Fri Aug 14, 2020 9:59 pm

Sylvian Tennant wrote: Fri Aug 14, 2020 6:12 pm “...length, width and height of your tanker? I just want to compare to the rest of my stock before i look to buy some.
My pleasure.

Newquida tank wagon sizes (in millimetres). A bit plus-or-minus, as I’ve just held a ruler up to it.

Length 258 (ex buffers, couplings)
Width 113-ish (across access ladders)
Height 148 (from rail to top of tank filler. I removed the ‘continental fencing’ up top)

Buffer beam width 92
Tank diameter 82
Tank length 225 (excluding that thing sticking out of one end)

Buffer and coupling height as LGB, etc.

Hope this is helpful.
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Re: Semi-scale BR: low cost tank wagon

Post by Sylvian Tennant » Fri Aug 14, 2020 11:57 pm

More than helpful, thank you my friend. Please keep this up, i love what you've done.

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Re: Semi-scale BR: low cost tank wagon

Post by Phil.P » Mon May 09, 2022 10:07 am

Having discovered who produced the YouTube videos of dodgy, but inspiring, railbuses et Al..
I have rummaged for other nuggets from the same source, and found this. - I have not rummaged very far yet. ;)

Could you enlighten me, as to the provenance of the tank engine in the very first photo of the thread please?

I am hoping it is a cunning conversion, and not something commercial gauge 1.. :dontknow:

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Re: Semi-scale BR: low cost tank wagon

Post by Peter Butler » Mon May 09, 2022 11:07 am

Phil.P, I can offer the info you need on this tank wagon as I have modified one myself. It is from Newqida and looks something like this...
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Mine came used from ebay and ended up looking like this, mounted on a transporter wagon...
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Re: Semi-scale BR: low cost tank wagon

Post by BertieB » Mon May 09, 2022 12:54 pm

As Peter rightly explains, the tank wagon’s from Newqida. He’s achieved a rather more comprehensive reworking of it than I managed.

The tank engine pictured at the beginning of the thread – the cartoon scale Pannier tank – is a plasticard, scratch-build (with some G3 white metal fittings), on a Piko motor block. It’s not running at present as I don’t have enough Deltang or LocoRemote to go round.

It’s bigger than Gauge 1. Essentially, as with my other earlier builds, it was built to provide a UK outline loco to pull mildly adapted, G-scale rolling stock (like the tank wagons above). I kind of pretend it’s a UK metre-gauge railway (well, 3’11”) at something like 1:26 – but really I just like seeing approximately familiar looking stuff trundling round the garden – scale is not at the top of the list.

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Re: Semi-scale BR: low cost tank wagon

Post by Phil.P » Mon May 09, 2022 1:06 pm

Gentlemen,
Thank you both..

A Newquida tank wagon, razor saw, and a bad paint-job (mine, not yours) I can probably manage..

A scratch built pannier tank, is well beyond my abilities. - Maybe one day?

Now, where is that mangled Faller railbus?
But I have a crane to build first..

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