Bachmann bogie coach bashes?

[garrymartin]

I have some of these coaches that have been lurking at the back of the shed for ages, unused and unloved. I am looking for a use for them and I was wondering has anyone ever used them as the basis for a bash into something more British ( or even European) in outline ?

 

[alec dawe]

You could give them to me?
That would be REALLY useful!

 

[GJFREESTONE]

Hi Garry
A Bachmann lil with tender a long coach will give you a Australian steam out back runner.
Keep the roof as it is shorten the body by a 5th and keep the base full length and take the front boggies off and attach parts of lil.
Graham shrewsbury.

 

[JonathanJ]

I've got some tramway coachs that are a long long way from completion - nothing worth photographing yet, basic sawing done, and that's about it - but essentially the idea is to shorten them by about 20% rearrange the windows so that there are just five larger ones, use a simple arc roof and dump the clerestory and maybe change the trucks for plate frame ones. Might make some progress in the near future, once there's enough for a mockup, I'll post something..

Basic idea was copied from some bogie coaches I saw (by MRRail maybe) that were a pair of LGB toytrain 4-wheelers back to back on a bogie chassis.

J.

 

[trammayo]

There were plenty of prototype clerestory roofed stock on British railways (including Pullman cars), you could make them into electric stock (UK or US interurbans)

 

[philg]

These Bachmann coaches make wonderful cheap bashing material - here's a couple of mine you might be interested in. I haven't posted these before because they're getting rather scruffy from quite a lot of service, and also I've never got round to lettering them ! Now the weather is improving they won't get an overhaul until next winter so here you are anyway. They're not too bad if you apply the "eight foot rule", but a little TLC is definitely in order.

Phil

 

[MRail]

A couple of pics from a friend's line.
The coaches are Bachmann bashes.

Can't make them any bigger, they're from his Flickr account.

 

[JonathanJ]

Very cunning conversions both those last two. My planned tramway conversions are similar to the one in MRails post, but shortened to 5 window instead of 6, and with a plain roof, no domed ends.
J.

 

[CoggesRailway]

OK, a little left field, but my baggage/driving car is a bachman el cheapo coach. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtPZFCwd_qA

 

[Woderwick]

http://www.smegworld.org.uk/spaf/cb/cb.htm

 

[garrymartin]

Thank you all for your wonderful replies lots of food for thought there, I have subsequently discovered another coach in kit form too so the idea of an Austrailian style railmotor thingy is filed away, I think enlarging the windows is the simplest option and then see where that leads me.

 

[Bredebahn]

Basic idea was copied from some bogie coaches I saw (by MRRail maybe) that were a pair of LGB toytrain 4-wheelers back to back on a bogie chassis.

J.

Wot - like this old favourite from the Bredebahn????

 

[MRail]

Naw!!
He meant these:-

Not forgetting the combine version:-

There's also the shortened 5 window version on the 32mm line.