Does anyone make Decauville or similar toast rack coaches for H0f/006.5? They are for a quick project and I think if I convert 009/H0e coaches they will be too big.
The Jouef coaches are too large for H0 scale and are closer to 00 scale in height and width, but they are also one compartment too short! So as you say not at all ideal for H0 scale 6.5mm gauge.
There was a brass kit available for these coaches in H0 scale, the same firm also made it 00 scale as well, but this has not been produced for a few years now.
However this kit was based on the 600mm gauge coaches and I think that the 500mm gauge coaches were smaller, but I could be wrong??
Brian Meldon
If they were the right size for 60cm gauge in H0 that would be OK because in H0 6.5mm is closer to 2ft/60cm anyway, in 00 they would need to be a 50cm gauge design. I am not hugely concerned about the difference because I am making a fairly freelance beach railway diorama (for the Dave Brewer challenge at Expo). I wanted to try out the (static) loco I built a while ago as well as the Auhagen track. Originally I was going to make it a British minimum gauge sort of feel (think Fairbourne), but with inspiration from Portuguese 60cm gauge lines and some plastic palm trees still left over from another project I'm going more towards that. They don't have to be Decauville coaches but just something along those lines rather than the mines coaches by Busch etc. Obviously I could just make it 9mm gauge and be done with it but I want to try out the H0f stuff.
Wolsely works have them in brass
Quote from: Alan Feldon on September 04, 2017, 15:57
Wolsely works have them in brass
I have looked at those. I could work with them but I was thinking more of the toast rack type ones. Perhaps the answer is to rebuild a Jouef coach for the narrower gauge.
I have looked at those. I could work with them but I was thinking more of the toast rack type ones. Perhaps the answer is to rebuild a Jouef coach for the narrower gauge.
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That could be expensive. I want about four of these for a conversion project, but they are going for over
Would 009 Society toast rack carriages suit?
I'm not sure if there are any left though. Perhaps there may be some unmade kits lurking somewhere in members' work boxes?
Quote from: GraemeD on September 11, 2017, 14:01
Would 009 Society toast rack carriages suit?
I'm not sure if there are any left though. Perhaps there may be some unmade kits lurking somewhere in members' work boxes?
Actually I think I still have one complete one, but since it is complete I was going to build it as intended. I could use the leftover bits from my previous conversion to create some sort of toast rack coach. The difficulty is making it different from (and smaller than) 009, otherwise what's the point of the smaller gauge?