Yugoslav 76cm gauge rolling stock

[Chris Veitch]

I've recently bought Keith Chester's excellent book on narrow gauge railways in Bosnia-Herzegovina, but was slightly disappointed (probably too strong a word, for such an brilliant book) at the relative lack of rolling stock details.

Does anyone know of a source of drawings - however rough, as weight diagrams would probably do - of any of their rolling stock, especially some of the more modern bogie coaches used on the long distance trains? I've seen photos of some preserved examples on railfaneurope.net, but nothing in the way of drawings. I've had a good deal of help from other 009ers in finding loco drawings (thanks to all who helped last year) but haven't had any luck with stock.

Failing that, can anyone suggest any other forums or groups where I might find someone who would know? (already tried the NarrowGaugeDiscuss Yahoo group).

Thanks

Chris Veitch

[rhydddu009]

Oh Chris, please extend your range of FR kits first please - your barn kits are superb - why not extend them to the barn first obs?  102 would make a lovely model.

Colin

[Chris Veitch]

Colin,

(...we may have to change the subject line here...) And who said I wanted the details for a kit anyway?

However, don't think I haven't considered it. I've actually started work on another FR bogie coach kit - prefer not to say which one at the moment - but my "real" job tends to get in the way. Regrettably, I can't keep myself in Brandy and Havanas by my FR coach profits alone...

There are a couple of problems as I see it:

1. Almost everything is already covered by Worsley Works scratch-aid products. I know that it's comparing chalk and cheese as Alan's products are not - and aren't intended to be - complete kits, but I'm sceptical about the demand for a fairly expensive kit that's already produced by someone else, albeit possibly aimed at a slightly different market sector.

2. Look at the roof - it's domed at the end, like many FR coach roofs, and is not something you can do yourself from a sheet of Plastikard. If someone's paying good money for a kit of one of the modern FR coaches you'd probably expect the manufacturer to get the roof profile right, or at least give you a hand in doing so. The domed roofs of the FR cars would have to be resin, and to be consistently well cast. This has to be put alongside the fact that the bogie coaches aren't very profitable, and paying a professional caster to produce a separate roof would probably take the kit into the red unless the price was hiked significantly.

Sorry if this is a bit negative. It might happen but I'm loath to say too much in case I get people's hopes up.

Regards,

Chris

[rhydddu009]

Allen is a mate and a supplier of many a kit to me, so I'm grateful to him and I wouldn;t wish to create competition for him, but.....

the way I see it is that I would certainly pay quite a bit more for a kit of your quality above those from WW: not just for the roof, but also because you include bogies, wheels, interior detail, glazing etc etc.  Even the way that the kit is constructed helps the builder - the extra roof profiles for example help align the roof correctly...

Allen's kits are about

[vulcan]

I may be talking like an idiot here :-[, but what about vacuum forming for roofs (rooves?), should be able to produce quite a few different profiles. It would also prevent stock being top heavy. Or is the difference in cost prohibitive?

Ken

[Chris Veitch]

Re vac-forming - not an idiot at all, I did consider this but it doesn't seem to be accurate enough for what I needed. Many years ago I actually tried doing it myself, before I realised that a vacuum cleaner and hairdryer do not constitute a vac-form plant...

Chris