Rolling stock for the Kohei line

[David Weber]

No diesel railcars as by the period modelled the whole line is electrified. There will be some electric railcars converted from diesel railcars though.

Here are a couple of larger wagons.



These flats are made from the chassis and bogies of two Chivers Innisfail Tramway coach kits. The bodies I tried to make into one big carriage but it was my first attempt at carriage bashing and I bungled it very badly. Bearers are just plastic strip, and the brake gear (on one side only) is modified 009 Society wagon kit brake gear. I found a way to mount Peco NEM pockets onto Chivers bogies to accommodate the couplings.

Meanwhile, the tanker wagons now have some friends, and all of them fitted out with improved wheels, couplings and weights using the Tomytec running parts sets.



(Phone camera, 1970s space probe quality.)

Some people who bought these tankers have balked at the instructions telling you to remove the tank from the wagon and open it up to put the ballast weight inside. I found it surprisingly easy and at no point was I worried that something was going to break.

[David Weber]

My first carriage was completed at last. Brush painting did not give a good enough finish so I stripped it down and completely repainted it with spray cans, replacing the roof in the process.



Lettering and numbering is a mix of homemade KDK initials cut out on the Silhouette cutter from self adhesive label sheet and everything else a mixture of Aru Model and World Kogei rub-down transfers.

I also finished this large open wagon with brake compartment. It started out as a Berliner Bahn German TT wagon body but was bashed so extensively that almost nothing remains. There are also bits of a Chivers Innisfail Tramway carriage kit, the doors from a Minitrains F&C passenger car, and the bogies are Peco.



I also lettered and numbered a pair of wagons made from Dundas WDLR D Type bodies on Bachmann American N gauge bogies. Markings from same sources. They still need loads.



Well advanced is a second 4 wheel carriage. Body made from layered plasticard cut on Silhouette cutter, roof is the clerestory from a Minitrains F&C passenger car grafted onto a Ninelines van roof, chassis is a cut down Lilliput Austrian coach chassis.



Equally mongrelised is this old wooden passenger car project. Dundas WHR Bro Madog carriage sides with special window conversion inserts made up on the Silhouette cutter, ends and floor and roof and balconies from Minitrains F&C passenger cars, Peco bogies.

[David Weber]

You have seen this first four wheeler before, but now it is complete.

[David Weber]

Here is a newer picture of the old wooden balcony coach project, together with a newer steel balcony coach.



And here is another coach being bashed from a spare Tomytec diesel railcar body.



Completed pair of scratchbuilt vans.



And a pair of Tomytec vans repainted and refinished to match. The dimensions just so happen to match my scratchbuilt examples so they all tag along very nicely.