Cattle Wagon

[Martino]

I've been looking for a plan for a cattle dock......

Now where did you get the figure of the Jackaroo in the Driza-bone?

 

[corgi]

My eyes must be shot, it took me two looks to see the jackaroo.

 

[gregh]

I've been looking for a plan for a cattle dock......
Now where did you get the figure of the Jackaroo in the Driza-bone?

At the time I was building it, our local $2 (ie bargain) shop had sets of "cowboys and indians" and cows and horses. Just lucky, as I've never seen them since. Cows were all B&W but I painted the Herefords. The yards are just split oregon timber. Take a 3"x2" piece and a chisel and a seat in the sun and start splitting.

So how come an English Floridian knows about jackaroos and Drizabones?

 

[peterbunce]

Hi,

For cows in the UK I think that Schliech or Papo are the only ones in G scale available.

Safari horses and mules are sold but not the cows.

The web has quite a few suppliers, and locally they are sold by Toymasters.

I have some of the Safari mules being made into a mule train, and they are the only makers of them.

Yours Peter.

 

[Martino]

I've been looking for a plan for a cattle dock......
Now where did you get the figure of the Jackaroo in the Driza-bone?

At the time I was building it, our local $2 (ie bargain) shop had sets of "cowboys and indians" and cows and horses. Just lucky, as I've never seen them since. Cows were all B&W but I painted the Herefords. The yards are just split oregon timber. Take a 3"x2" piece and a chisel and a seat in the sun and start splitting.

So how come an English Floridian knows about jackaroos and Drizabones?

I was involved in a travel company in the UK for 15 years that specialized in travel to Australia and New Zealand, and we owned a tourist ranch near Alice called Ross River Homestead. I used to spend a fair bit of time downunder. So I've got my own Driza-bone and a snowy river hat which prove good for respectively wearing in hurricanes and keeping off the Florida sun!

 

[Martino]

Chopper couplings arrived from GRS yesterday, so the cattle wagon is now operational.

Can't make up my mind if the next project is another cattle wagon, a milk churn wagon (four wheel syphon), or if I should hack the GW box van/brake to make it look more like a narrow gauge Toad. What d'yall think?

Here's the cattle wagon on a freight this afternoon, running off the newly laid and ballasted section done yesterday.

 

[Neil Robinson]

Can't make up my mind if the next project is another cattle wagon, a milk churn wagon (four wheel syphon), or if I should hack the GW box van/brake to make it look more like a narrow gauge Toad. What d'yall think?

FWIW the whole train looks delightfull but as the van looks less British than the rest I'd go for a Toad like conversion before the other ideas.

 

[mike]

toad!!

 

[Martino]

OK - looks like a Toad then.

Found details of an outside frame GW brake van that could look suitably narrow gauge-ish.

Thanks Chaps. Reports later.