HO Some British H0

[Jordan]

Dounreay should feature in the February 2025 issue of Railway Modeller, to tie in with the Glasgow show where the layout will be exhibited.

Won't make the Show, but will look out for that issue!!

 

[cloggydog]

Today's plasticard wrangling...

A pair of Lima 12t vans with all the side detail taken right back, then overlaid with new sides and doors in Evergreen #2067 Car Siding. Futher detailing in microstrip. Ex-LMS d2039 and ex-LNER dig 116 Not intended to be 100% accurate, more to give some noticably different vans to run among all the BR standards.



There's a Vanwide also underway, just drafting the doors up to be cut on the Silhouette.

 

[cloggydog]

Vanwide close to completion. Annoyingly, I accidentally let a drop of Revell Contacta fall on one side, so have added a 10 thou patch repair, as was often seen on the prototype (it's on the other side)


Also closer to completion is a scratchbuilt Lowmac, from Evergreen 4mm channel and assorted plastic sheet and strip. This may get a cradle to take ISO 20ft containers, or maybe just a suitable vehicle (and I'll make another for use as an ISO conflat conversion)


These, along with the earlier pair of vans and a LMS 42ft bogie CCT (scratch body on a shortened Rivarossi chassis) are soon for priming and paint.

 

[cloggydog]

Latest build is a BR ferry van, TOPS code VIX.

Core from 40-thou sheet, scored in panel lines and bracing/strapping locations, using a scaled-down copy of the drawing in an MRC annual.

This can see use on my British and German H0 layouts

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

DB Fährbootwagen are/were available from Liliput and Roco - which you cab run on a British HO layout.

 

[cloggydog]

DB Fährbootwagen are/were available from Liliput and Roco - which you cab run on a British HO layout.

Indeed, I have a DB ferry low stake wagon already running on Dounreay and am keeping tabs on a Tcefs van from Modelbahn Union - available in DB brown and DB blue Transfesa liveries

Güterwagen Tcefs H0 | MU Spur H0 | MU Exklusiv

Güterwagen Tcefs 845 - Das Vorbild:Um den Transport von Güterwagen im Verkehr nach Großbritannien zu erleichtern, waren Güterwagen erforderlich, die dem kleineren britischen Lichtraumprofil entsprachen. Zusätzlich zu den vertrauten Druckluftbremsen mussten sie auch über das in Großbritannien gebräuc

www.modellbahnunion.com

 

[cloggydog]

Found another spare Lima chassis in the H0 stashbox and decided I needed another ply van, so scratched up a diagram 195 12t van, LNER clasp VB.

Body is 40 thou sheet, with assorted styrene. strip and section. A enjoyable hour or so on this one. Chassis modded with cobbled-together bits from the scratchbox, still some minor bits to do, then a blast of red primer.

Oh... And a roof, obviously.

 

[Lacathedrale]

@cloggydog I think this is genuinely one of the most interesting threads and subjects I've seen in years, thank you so much. I would love to see the layout in wider scope - whether by exhibition footage, scenic photographs, etc. please?

 

[cloggydog]

@cloggydog I think this is genuinely one of the most interesting threads and subjects I've seen in years, thank you so much. I would love to see the layout in wider scope - whether by exhibition footage, scenic photographs, etc. please?

Thanks, it's been a fun project, both layout and the ongoing stock builds.

Dounreay has it's own layout thread here: Dounreay - a Far North micro terminus in H0

I'll do my best to add more photos of the layout in there soon.

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

My dad managed to capture at least two Fährbootwagen in this photo of 5018 St Mawes Castle at Reading in 1963. One FS and the other behind the loco could be SNCB, SNCF or FS - I can't quite make it pout but is does have the DB white corner markings.



Years ago I did convert the Electrotren Schiebewandwagen Hbis - Transfesa van (1481K) to British HO loading gauge. http://www.euram-online.co.uk/railways/euro/transfesa/transfesa.htm