A forestry railways open summer car (from Colin Ashby kit)

[Gerd Ziller]

Hello group,

my name is Gerd, I'm from Germany and I'm new to the 009-society.
Together with my first 009-news and the welcome package, I got a Colin Ashby kit for a planked single open coach. Many thanks at this point. Now I like to show you what I did from this car.


I followed the instructions very close, spend some old Liliput couplers and some masking tape to give the roof some texture.
I've to say, that I was afraid of the kit once I checked all the parts. But it was very enjoyable and it took just 2 hours to get the car build.



The car will be used as open summer car on my modular forestry railway or behind my Welsh steam loco.

More photos of the model during construction are shown here.
http://bilder.gerds-modellbahn.de/Ffestilyn-Coal-Tramway/Open-Wagon

Regards, Gerd

[MickT]

Welcome to the Society Gerd and thank you for showing your Colin Ashby open coach. It has made up into an excellent little model. I wish you all the best for a long and happy membership.

Mick

[Elmgate]

Strange - I cannot see your picture, unless I log in?

[Gerd Ziller]

Sorry, my mistake - I accidentally renamed the folder on my gallery.
Now the pictures are there again.

Many thanks for your welcome.

I'm still not sure with my self what to model around this little car. I've one Welsh steam locomotive in my collection and also a 5-pack of unbuild Ffestiniog slate cars (Parkside Dundas), but I'm not sure with this theme at all, since I've no experience with British/Welsh railroads and I determined by now that they are a much different from German railways and much more from forestry railways.

Gerd