Meridian MM3 Ruston chassis

[Oscar Rogers]

From what Rod has said, if the tsugawa chassis isn

[JulienW]

Oscar, I think that really one needs to define what is meant by "good" in this context.

The various Arnold Kof chassis are not bad. One of their good points are that they have a 12 volt motor, which will be more powerful than the smaller motor in the Tsugawa chassis and probably easier to control with the majority of 12volt controllers. On the minus side though is that I'm not sure if they are available new anymore, (making spares hard to get) and second hand they seem to attract

[Graeme Dunbar]

I'm sure many of us have bought loco kits in the hope of finding a chassis. I know I have something languishing somewhere, bought many years ago at an exhibition on a whim,  that was designed for a Farish HST bogie. Elsewhere online there was a very nice scratch-built body being sold, not because the builder built it without a chassis, but because the chassis he intended to use failed and he did not have the heart to hack the body to fit a different chassis and was thinking of scrapping it for parts when it was suggested by a friend that someone might buy it.

It is an individual choice on how far away from the kit designer's intentions they wish to go and how much hacking of a chassis or the body they are willing to do. There is also the matter of how far one wishes to stray from the supposed prototype. It is not unheard of for the design of the model to be stretched or squashed in various directions to fit a commercial chassis and then by fitting different chassis the result may be closer to the original or even more of a compromise of a compromise.

[Oscar Rogers]

I think I

[Oscar Rogers]

Hi everyone, after careful consideration I