Fixing a 16mm scale train wreck

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Fixing a 16mm scale train wreck

Post by laalratty » Wed May 06, 2009 9:43 pm

Well my rolling stock project for the early summer was decided for me good 'n' proper at PTLRfest (looks like the Ffestiniog barn car is going to have to wait). One carriage to fix and one to totally rebuild. This is what happen when a live steam loco drops on your coaches from great height!

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The wreckage. On the left is number 4, the model of Welsh Highland number 24. The end has been totally ripped off, the near side has lost everything above the waist and it has also been cut right through a couple of compartments down. The far side is pretty much unscathed. On the right, the WHR gladstone car has also had everything above the waist removed at one end, and the roof needs replacement (the removeable roof for the ashbury is completely unscathed). This has turned it into a carriage with one open, one closed and one semi open compartment. I think someones missing a trick here. The Ravenglass and Eskdale has coaches of each type :lol:

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Repair of the Gladstone has started, and will be quite quick. As soon as Urien is finished I'll rip off the old roof, glue these bits back on, replace the missing glazing piece and replace the roof. The ashbury will require more thought, i'm thinking of going for a rebuild using only the roof, floor, ends and seats. it could be based on any of the 7 compartment ashbury carriages, FfR 21 or 22 (rebuilt or unrebuilt), WHR summer coaches, WHR 23 (summer coach cut down), or rebuild as WHR 24 as it is now.
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Post by SillyBilly » Wed May 06, 2009 10:34 pm

That's such a depressing scene. I'm, sure it would have made an awsome video.

I told my dad and he thinks that you probably just look at this as an opertunity to improve, I think that's nuts.
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Post by laalratty » Wed May 06, 2009 10:48 pm

aye, pretty much everyone has said afterwards just think of it as an opportunity to come up with an even better coach, if it had been the Gladstone i'd been in problems, as that was the first one I felt I got really right. However the ashbury never looked right to me, as dad had made quite a bad job of the windows and it looked wrong with the other Welsh Highland coaches

as for a awsome video, I don't know. I looked away when Tal went!
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Post by riveresk » Wed May 06, 2009 11:03 pm

You can now do a scale railway version of the Doctor Who episode Planet of the Dead. Instead of a bus - railway coaches! Shame that I have the TARDIS at the mo.
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Post by SillyBilly » Wed May 06, 2009 11:19 pm

Riveresk, that's just silly :smilebox: ...............
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Post by Matt » Thu May 07, 2009 8:06 am

no I think it's a good idea. I've got a 10th doctor model and a dalek model which are about 16mm scale, so we could remake the episode how it should have been.
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Post by MuzTrem » Thu May 07, 2009 5:14 pm

But you'll also need an engine to risk the trip into the great unknown...how about Taleisin? :P
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Post by Matt » Thu May 07, 2009 7:17 pm

No it's not red. How about the Lady Ann?
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Post by laalratty » Thu May 07, 2009 8:33 pm

Is this send the moderators topics off topic week??? :dontknow:
:scratch: ACLR have your topics been bungled this week?
No i'm not going to trash my engines to do a recreation of planet of the dead! Havn't you got a red mamod anyway Matt?
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Post by Matt » Thu May 07, 2009 9:17 pm

Yes, but unfortunatly, I don't have the technology to create a wormhole in time and space to linkl this world with a desert world.

My friend Duncan knows how too, but he needs a few dozen Nukes to make his theory practical.
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Post by pauly » Thu May 07, 2009 9:28 pm

I do!

the electrics in our landing light is a bit funny so when you switch it on and off too fast it greates a wormhole, happens all the time :) :lol:
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Post by riveresk » Thu May 07, 2009 10:32 pm

Lol, with your Dai Station figure - regulations clearly state that engines do not travel through wormholes to other planets.

I'm sorry laalratty, I'll be good now. *is contrite*
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Post by mhlr » Thu May 07, 2009 11:35 pm

Suggestion for a new forum word? "rivereskified" - e.g. topic ends up with Doctor Who! :lol:
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Post by SillyBilly » Thu May 07, 2009 11:47 pm

I'm sure we've allready had this term invented or a similar one with the same meaning?
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Post by bungle80a » Thu May 07, 2009 11:49 pm

didnt we already have a term 'riveresked'? Although I do believe that was its meaning anyway! lol!

anyhoo, to de bunglify/rivereskify this topic, I just wanna say that I hope you get the carriages back in running order. On another note, you want to be glad you looked away when Taliesin took sky diving lessons.

Will you be fitting the coaches with a bit more weight underneath?
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Post by SLRmidge » Fri May 08, 2009 9:50 am

bungle80a wrote: Will you be fitting the coaches with a bit more weight underneath?
I've given laalratty a sheet of lead, that should do it !
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Post by laalratty » Fri May 08, 2009 8:53 pm

bungle80a wrote:didnt we already have a term 'riveresked'? Although I do believe that was its meaning anyway! lol!

anyhoo, to de bunglify/rivereskify this topic, I just wanna say that I hope you get the carriages back in running order. On another note, you want to be glad you looked away when Taliesin took sky diving lessons.

Will you be fitting the coaches with a bit more weight underneath?
aye, i've already come up with riveresked, this is topic sent off topic on a doctor who or torchwood tangent (these are her favortie topics of conversation y'know!)
The lead from Midge will probably be going to other coaches, there is not enough for the whole fleet, but when number 8 and number 4 return they will be suitably leaded. It was the buffet car that started the whole thing off I seem to remember because it was loose on its bogies
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Post by mhlr » Fri May 08, 2009 9:50 pm

SillyBilly wrote:I'm sure we've allready had this term invented or a similar one with the same meaning?
must have missed it then somewhere while I was on "leave".
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Post by ptlrcecil » Mon May 11, 2009 1:41 pm

Ok we have already established bungle points now riveresk points
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Now who is going to invent cecil points :D
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Post by SillyBilly » Mon May 11, 2009 1:49 pm

Cecil points are awarded for establishing awarding schemes I presume?
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