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..
Thank you,
Phil.P
Semi-scale BR: low cost tank wagon
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Re: Semi-scale BR: low cost tank wagon
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...
Mine came used from ebay and ended up looking like this, mounted on a transporter wagon...
Mine came used from ebay and ended up looking like this, mounted on a transporter wagon...
The best things in life are free.... so why am I doing this?
Re: Semi-scale BR: low cost tank wagon
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.
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.
Re: Semi-scale BR: low cost tank wagon
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..
Phil.P
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..
Phil.P
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