G64 Troublesome Truck Conversion

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CoggesRailway said:
Hi Mel, I have just chucked it in the boot, so it's there when we drop by. I am afraid a couple of downsides- i can't find the roof any where,but will look again in the daylight. worse ALL four of her buffer discs are gone - I am irriatated about this as that smacks of vandalisim on the part of one of the boys :angry: Anyway it is a rolling chassis so I am sure you will be able to do something with it.
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No probs mate.
 
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serves me right for not reading all the posts! If you think you would have a use for a wagon chassis let me know. I need the body but not a chassis so if I mfind a home for the chassis for say £10 then the project is worth while.
 
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hornbeam said:
serves me right for not reading all the posts! If you think you would have a use for a wagon chassis let me know. I need the body but not a chassis so if I mfind a home for the chassis for say £10 then the project is worth while.
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PM sent. :thumbup:
 
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As per Simon's previous post, another Troublesome Truck chassis arrived recently and was shunted into the works today for conversion. Quite a simple one this time - based on an ex-GWR CARFIT flat (ish) wagon.

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Construction of the body (such as it is) is from ply and plasticard. If it looks familiar then you may have seen something very similar in the August Railway Modeller. ;)

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I've got my eye out for a suitable piece of agricultural equipment for a load. A 1/22nd Massey Ferguson 135 would be nice, but I'm not holding me breath. The only things left to construct are the shields over the buffers before a coat of grey paint ................... and you know what Gareth. :bigsmile:
 
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jameshilton said:
Another interesting conversion - are you sure the 64mm line isn't going to be expanding soon?
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Never say never James. ;);)

With 5 wagons and a loco the 8' long siding is certainly getting pretty full. I've got another Annie coach chassis in the workshop too. :bigsmile:
 
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Mel,

I seem to remember you thinking about something portable in G3 (although I could be having a "senior moment").
Have you looked at the late Carl Arendt's site for inspiration? I'm sure some of the micro-layout schemes could be worked up for your "big boys scale" ....

http://carendt.morphoist.com/scrapbook/linkindex/index.html
 
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All done now pending on finding a suitable load (an ebay bid has been submitted - 4 days to wait).

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The chained sleepers work like chocks on wheeled loads. I'm really glad I used real wood (or at least, ply) for the main deck rather than plasticard. The texture is so much more interesting.

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Granitechops said:
Is this going to be a case of

"The tail wagging the dog" Mel? :rolf: :rolf: :rolf: :rolf:
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I must admit it's looking a bit that way at the moment Don. I promise that I will find some narrow gauge projects to do again sometime soon. :bigsmile::bigsmile:

I blame all these nice people sending me Thomas stock to modify. :thumbup::thumbup:
 
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I assume you saw the G3 layout in Railway Modeller a couple of months ago, Mel?
(I'm sure you have the odd 25' of space spare...) :)
 
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Next gauge 3 project is going OK. This time it's a BR standard brake van mounted on the chassis from the Annie coach that Ian kindly gave me. Here are the component parts from various ply wood and plasticard.

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I've had to take a few liberties with the length of the bodywork, but I think it should turn out OK. Here it is all put together. The duckets were a bit of a nightmare.

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Once again getting the proportions right to fit an existing chassis works just as well as merely following prototype dimensions.

You'll be needing a point soon for that second siding ;)
 
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