Hi there,
Does anyone know where I would be able to find some dimensions for building a OO9 coach, the same as the RTR Peco Composite Coach or very similar? I'd like to have a go at building one out of styrene as I have a few spare N scale bogies lying around.
Cheers,
Kyle.
Rule of three
six foot wide (24mm), six foot high, as long as you like (minimum compartment size four foot six inches max could be seven feet)
door width two foot wide first class and second class one foot ten inches.
Smaller lengths look better on small layouts.
Be happy in the thought that whatever you design there will be a real one to match!
Whereas the information as to dimensions is sound, I do wish people would refrain from stating, erroneously, that there is a prototype for everything just because it is narrow gauge. There is not, although there are many different prototypes but repeating this inaccurate statement just fosters the belief that anything goes in narrow gauge modelling. Anything does, of course, go in any modelling but it doesn't mean that it looks convincing, let alone accurate.
Quote from: Goosey on February 15, 2015, 14:28
Hi there,
Does anyone know where I would be able to find some dimensions for building a OO9 coach, the same as the RTR Peco Composite Coach or very similar? I'd like to have a go at building one out of styrene as I have a few spare N scale bogies lying around.
Cheers,
Kyle.
One could be somewhat facetious and suggest that buying one of the Peco coaches and measuring it might be the way to go.
Equally as the Peco coaches are models of the Lynton & Barnstaple railway stock perhaps looking for information on the stock of that railway might be a viable alternative, especially as plenty of scale drawings have been published both on paper and online. A good place to start would be an online search (google for example) for "Lynton and Barnstaple Railway scale drawings" which should reveal lots of coaches that will look very similar (even the same) as Peco's offering.
Continuing from that one could expand the search to Narrow Gauge Railway coach / carriage drawings to get an idea of the wide variety that is narrow gauge around the world, and also an idea of what might look convincing in order to make accurate model of it or be inspired by it, rather than following the strange 'it's narrow gauge / oo9 so it doesn't really matter' route.
Thanks for that D J Mason!
Julien W, I'd really like to get a few Peco coaches as they're perfect for what i'm planning for my layout but the problem is i'm in Australia and the coaches are $115 each (About
Quote from: Goosey on February 19, 2015, 07:36
Thanks for that D J Mason!
Julien W, I'd really like to get a few Peco coaches as they're perfect for what i'm planning for my layout but the problem is i'm in Australia and the coaches are $115 each (About