Cattle Wagon

[Martino]

Just thought this was now in suitable state for some photos.

A cattle wagon for the South Bucks Railway Co.

It's on an LGB four wheeled coach chassis. The chassis has some added brake detail - there may be some more to come on that.

The body is mostly coffee stirrers, with added rivets in the form of dressmaking pins.

The cattle (Charolais cows and calves) are from Michael's the 'art store'.

Transfers are GRS, vac pipes are bent brass rod with black heat shrink tubing as the flexible pipe.

Awaiting the chopper couplings before we can have a test run.

Oh, straw is from a straw broom I 'acquired' - should be enough in that for a whole rake of wagons plus the cattle dock (when I get around to it!).

 

[Spule 4]

Great work Martin!

Consider bringing it to the contest at the SEGRS?

http://www.segrs.com/

 

[gregh]

That's a great model. The bits of straw are a brilliant detail.

 

[JRinTawa]

Great wagon, nice bit of weathering too.

 

[brianthesnail96]

That's brilliant!

Can I ask what you've done with the swivelly wheelset thingys, as they attach to the coach body normally?

 

[3Valve]

Martin you've gotta stop flaunting these excellent scratchbuilds at us mate. I feel so inadequate.

Brilliant work as usual.

 

[yb281]

Another excellent job Martin.

 

[Dave Hub]

WOw thats Gr8.

It could easily pass for an off the shelf model.

Well done that man.

 

[Martino]

Thanks all - still looks like a bodge to me!

Matt, I used the whole chassis, so created a plywood floor for the body to which the chassis is screwed - just like the body normally screws to the chassis. The swiveling wheelsets just sit between the chassis and the body and pivot (actually are free to wave around!) like they did with the original coach.

The whole body simply unscrews from the chassis.

The only 'destructive' technique I used on the coach was to cut the coupling off and to cut the buffers off. The buffer beams are underneath somewhere and the new beams are part of the body.

The coach donated it's doors to become the guards doors on my chinese coach bash into the brake compo.

The cattle are very impressive I have to agree - they are made by a french company (i'll see if i've got the label in the workshop) and come from a whole range of farm and wild animals sold by a US based company (http://www.michaels.com/art/online/...pbooking stuff - I have to go in in disguise!

 

[yb281]

I have to go in in disguise!

As what? Not a lady surely ..... or should I say, Shirley .

 

[Bram]

A first class job there Martin, what would we do without coffee stirrers

 

[Martino]

I have to go in in disguise!

As what? Not a lady surely ..... or should I say, Shirley .

..only on a Saturday evening, when I'm wearing my heels......

 

[simon@mgr]

Nice work, I can almost hear them moo.
Not to mention the smell

 

[Martino]

The cows were from a company called Safari Ltd website and store: http://www.safariltd.com/mm5/homepa...teresting figures, so it may help some folks.

 

[Spule 4]

Thanks Martin, may have to check out some of their figures. The Mrs. wanted to go down there to check out some cartridges for her Cricut. Very cool tool, basically a cross between a printer and a CNC.

....hmm, maybe I can do something with the Cricut while she is out of town today....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irTrlaiqJHc&feature=related

 

[Martino]

Never seen one of those.....what's it do?

Does it have a garden railway application............................

 

[Spule 4]

Never seen one of those.....what's it do?

Does it have a garden railway application............................

Technically, it is a two axis CNC for paper, stickers cloth, etc, really cool to watch.

http://www.cricut.com/default?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

I am sure it has garden railway potential. They are not cheap (the wife got hers for a smoking deal on Black Friday at 03:00 or the like) so I was told not to find out if it does in fact have garden railway potential under penalty of death....:thinking:

 

[corgi]

That's a corker!

 

[pugwash]

Everything has garden railway potential, it's just up to us deviants to realise it
Aargh! Just watched part of the promo vid, it's like a Tupperware party! :bleh: Machine looks nifty, might be eBay scanning time...

 

[gregh]

You can load your cattle car at my cattle yards any time!

And yes the cows do moo - you can hear them in this video at about the 30 sec mark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKfl6gvWjkc&feature=channel