Coach projects finally finished

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Tim Brien

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Several years ago, I built these cars but did not paint and finish until recently. All are fantasy cars with no prototype. They are based on LGB starter set coaches. The centre access car has a full chassis and uses 25mm X 13mm angle aluminium as longitudinal support each side to represent the side skirts and entry step.
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Not being a fan of the DB but having "looked at pictures" id say they look as if they could well of excisted and be LGB original models,
Id be very pleased with what you have done :thumbup::thumbup: PS ssshhhhhhhhhhhhh tiny little bit of red showing under roof from original colour but i wont tell anyone and i bet it doesnt show in reality......... Top Job

Tony
 
Tony,
the 'under roof' colour is actually the brown that I usually spray the underside of my coach roof, representing a 'wood' colour. The roof is primed both sides, then placed on its top with underside upwards. The brown is sprayed and then when dry, the roof is revolved and then the top colour sprayed. This does lead to traces of underside colour showing as I see little need to mask off for the top colour application.
 
Nice coaches. Many German railways build thier own and/or cobbled up coaches from old chassis, so your examples could easily be like some originals.
 
Like 'um....
 
Those from the old MAD forum may remember the basic construction of these cars. They languished unpainted until this weekend. Spurred by the painting of the previous cars, I decided to put an end to their waiting and finish them off. They are just finished assembly tonight (local time).

These are purely fantasy 'romantic' cars, inspired by coaches from the 1870's/1880's in rural Germany. I will run them as my 'historic' set. An accompanying fakultiv car is next to be painted and will be finally finished off. I do like to build, but I really need to be in the right mood to paint and actually finish a model. I am enthused by the 'build' part rather than the tedious finishing bit.

First off is a four-axle third class sitting car. Minimum diameter ten foot. The two centre axles are unconnected, but travel laterally across the car. The underframe rails required 'notching' to allow sufficient sideways movement to allow even ten foot capability. This required the stock frame rails to be beefed up.
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Second is a three-axle second class dining/sitting car with enclosed toilet. Centre axle construction similar to above. Remember that these do not represent a prototype but are simply 'inspired' by the type of car run in the late 19th century.
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Nice. The three axle version looks good. Germany had many similar mainline coached built after the war. I have 6 of them in scale 1 from Marklin:
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Nygma,
I am a fan of the rebuilt postwar three axle coaches as released by Piko and as you have portrayed by your Marklin gauge 1 version. From memory, the three axle cars survived on suburban 'worker' carriage duties up until the mid-1980's.

I have only seen a drawing of a four-axle coach.
 
Some other projects recently completed that have languished unfinished for a few years. First off is a sitting coach that combined two LGB #3006 cars. I built two identical units of these.
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Second is a 'fun' theme car that combined a dining( alcohol drinking) car with a sponsor beer company car. Basically, I had a few cars that were useless to me in their stock guise. I 'creatively' co-joined them for a bit of fun.
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nice pictures, good modelling, maybe no prototype but plenty of atmosphere. great stuff.
 
Very nice modelling but I bet you don't use R1's!
 
Tim Brien said:
Nygma,
I am a fan of the rebuilt postwar three axle coaches as released by Piko and as you have portrayed by your Marklin gauge 1 version. From memory, the three axle cars survived on suburban 'worker' carriage duties up until the mid-1980's.

I have only seen a drawing of a four-axle coach.
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Yes, Piko released the same in G scale. Germans call them Umbau-Wagen which means re-built. As it was made by re-using some old stock. Wikipedia has a really good article on this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbau-Wagen
There is a bogie version from these. Hubner used to manufacture them in 1:32 scale but now they are also part of Marklin and it was one of the new releases for 2010 (2011?). Nice piece with recessed middle door.
 
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