Sixteen Mills Van

Gareth

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I have been toying for a while now about building a new Lazer wood cut kit . One of the firms I had been looking at was with Sixteen mills kits or I.P engineering ! Now Dave Mills is an old mate and I had seen his work and also new his manufacturer who was also a good mate . Well my other half pushed the matter as for my Birthday hey presto a sixteen mills kit !!! What a kit after studying one evening I decided to build the frame if nothing else .
I ended up building the whole kit !!! What a kit . I assembled the frames first superb fitting so good I forgot to glue it !! It just slotted together with ease ! I changed the wheels as I felt the wheels with the kit were a bit small and would bounce through frogs on LGB Pointwork . Also I felt it looked better and by putting bigger wheels on it made putting LGB couplings on easier!! So I will get another one and his unusual open wagons and a brake van . VerdictDSCF6393.JPG t !!! An excellent DSCF6398.JPG kit !! 9 out of 10 brilliant find enclosed photos of van varnished !!! Hope you enjoy !! here is website www.sixteenmills.co.uk
 
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Paul M

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Nice looking kits, and good prices. How did you fix the roof? I always struggle with roofs!
 

Chris Vernell

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Nice looking kits, and good prices. How did you fix the roof? I always struggle with roofs!
Stick to open wagons ;)

... but seriously, a couple of those kits tempt me ...
 

musket the dog

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I built a couple of their open wagons last year, I was really pleased with them. As Gareth already mentioned they go together really easily. I kept the original wheels and had to do some cutting to get the LGB couplings to fit. Will definately be picking up a few more when I've cleared some more projects I've got on the back log.

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Fred Mills

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Seriously; could you really squeeze 16 "Mills" into that van, and still have room for refreshments...?...!!!

Fred Mills
 

PhilP

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Seriously; could you really squeeze 16 "Mills" into that van, and still have room for refreshments...?...!!!

Fred Mills

Be careful what you ask for Fr Fred! :eek::eek:;)