pugwash said:
It's a restaurant car, but they've run out of stakes (groan from the audience)
cap, waterproof, door...
"Coat for Pugwash, coat for Pugwash".
The face end of Annie was damaged, so (after sawing her nose off!!) I built a new end panel out of plasticard and glued it over what was left of the original end.
As you can see, she's also had a re-paint. Have to get some Rover Damask Red tomorrow.
One thing I have found out is that the Hartland flat car has a slight bow built into the load bed. If you really tighten the screws holding the coach body, this straightens out this bow, but the wheels then catch on the underframe when running over the slightest undulation in the track. There are two solutions - one is to insert a washer between the bogie and the frame to give more clearance. I tried this, but it tends to make the bogie pivots stiffer. So, I tried the second method which was to make some plasticard spacers which fit between the body screw mounts and the wagon deck. This maintains the bow in the flat car and seems to have done the trick.
the chassis is a definite possibility for re-gauging as the basis for a standard gauge summat - so the question is what to do with the body and I'm thinking Camping Coach?????
