Yet another new carriage scratchbuild

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Post by laalratty » Tue Sep 07, 2010 8:56 pm

The carriage did make the steamup, but only just about! The roof decided to be a right sod despite the use of my IP engineering roof jig (the coach was a bit too long for it!) Anyway, it was just about held down enough for a run during the second half of the afternoon. Since then I have slowly been completing the carriage with more painting, and adding of the vacuum pipes

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The vacuum pipes still wern't fitted for this pic

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The coach has 3 back2bay6 figures, these are becoming quite well known on garden lines because they are ready painted and extremely good value, I picked up 4 for £10 at Llanfair

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Another test train, but this time for something completely different - A wagon that has been waiting for completion for 3 1/2 years!

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Dad built the body for this way back in 2007! It took untill Stoneleigh this year to get some appropriate bogies (ie for the right price, dad is extremely thrifty!) and then untill now for me to get round to fixing them on. It is based of Ffestiniog waggon 63 alas after all this time the body looks out of proportion to the bogies to me and I'm not that keen on it :roll:
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Post by Pendo Pilot » Tue Sep 07, 2010 9:08 pm

laalratty wrote: It is based of Ffestiniog waggon 63 alas after all this time the body looks out of proportion to the bogies to me and I'm not that keen on it :roll:
Hey the CVLR will have it if you don't like it... :D  :D  :D

Coach is looking fantastic, very nice indeed. Glad to see the same passengers travelling in yours as is in mine...B2B6 finest.

Oh & stop posting pics of the diesel, I already want one along with about 4,000 other items of stock... :roll:  ;)
I will be dead long before I've saved up enough money for them all!  :|
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Post by Dr. Bond of the DVLR » Tue Sep 07, 2010 9:43 pm

Fantastic carriage there Laal,
Rather than fit normal vacuum pipes to it why not fir BOND BRAKES air pipes? easy to make and cheap too. Also interconectable!
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Post by 90733 » Wed Sep 08, 2010 6:46 am

Very, Very nice :D
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Post by taliesin001 » Wed Sep 08, 2010 3:45 pm

That carriage is looking superb!
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Post by SillyBilly » Wed Sep 08, 2010 8:02 pm

It'll never look like 63, it isn't long enough and has the wrong body, you want to be trying for more of a 68 look.
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Post by laalratty » Wed Sep 08, 2010 9:00 pm

SillyBilly wrote:It'll never look like 63, it isn't long enough and has the wrong body, you want to be trying for more of a 68 look.
Probably misinterpreted what dad was trying to build then, it will explain why it looked wrong to me then
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