Miamigo259
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Finally managed to give my latest project - an IP Engineering Tram Loco kit - a test run in the sunshine this afternoon.
They were selling the body kits off for £20 each on their stand at the Peterborough 16mm show back in April, so I bought one and fitted it to one of their "budget" chassis that I had bought some time ago for a "project" and never actually used (or built the loco I was going to build either...).
I've made a few changes to the finished article from the original kit, such as fitting dummy end doors to the cab ends (which the GER/LNER/BR originals had) and adapting the chimney to a more prototypical appearance as well. It still requires some details to finish off, but the intention is for it to be the colliery yard shunter on my line, so metal bar couplings have been fitted to enable stock fitted with LGB/HLW style couplings to be used.
It seems to dwarf some of the 16mm scale stock I have accumulated and looks better with the more "mainline" style stock that I own.
The bungallow it is passing is another recent build, using the statutory coffee stirrer/corrugated paper method I have used on other scratchbuilt buildings. The outside toilet & fence are constructed from coffee stirrers as well.......
They were selling the body kits off for £20 each on their stand at the Peterborough 16mm show back in April, so I bought one and fitted it to one of their "budget" chassis that I had bought some time ago for a "project" and never actually used (or built the loco I was going to build either...).
I've made a few changes to the finished article from the original kit, such as fitting dummy end doors to the cab ends (which the GER/LNER/BR originals had) and adapting the chimney to a more prototypical appearance as well. It still requires some details to finish off, but the intention is for it to be the colliery yard shunter on my line, so metal bar couplings have been fitted to enable stock fitted with LGB/HLW style couplings to be used.
It seems to dwarf some of the 16mm scale stock I have accumulated and looks better with the more "mainline" style stock that I own.
The bungallow it is passing is another recent build, using the statutory coffee stirrer/corrugated paper method I have used on other scratchbuilt buildings. The outside toilet & fence are constructed from coffee stirrers as well.......