Dapol (Airfix) Lowmac conversion

[Stephen Rainsbury]

Has anybody tried converting the Dapol (nee Airfix) Lowmac to 009?  At £9.99, not including wheels and couplings it might be easier to start with a Dundas chassis and just make sides.

[Alan Feldon]

Or if you want something similar a Triang TT bogie wagon and replace the bogies

[Stephen Rainsbury]

Or if you want something similar a Triang TT bogie wagon and replace the bogies

That's probably easier isn't it.  Thanks.

[JulienW]

I've done one of the Triang TT bogie well wagons (bought cheaply from the 3 mm Society - they only steel sell to members so if you wanted a lot of wagon bodies for conversion fodder and access to useful castings for locos it might be worth joining?) where I used a pair of Farish LMS tender chassis as bogies to make something for carrying big loads on the Nechelles Govt. Railway.

With something like the Dapol (ex Airfix?) OO kit it might need something cutting off the width for 009, and I might be tempted to look at making it into a bogie vehicle (which may need a cut-out in the Dapol sides, but as you'll be removing the mounded axleboxes anyway...).

[Stephen Rainsbury]

With something like the Dapol (ex Airfix?) OO kit it might need something cutting off the width for 009, and I might be tempted to look at making it into a bogie vehicle (which may need a cut-out in the Dapol sides, but as you'll be removing the mounded axleboxes anyway...).

I am still some way of being ready for that model, but needed to make up an Amazon order to £20 t get the "free" postage so nearly went for it.
I have several projects that could use something like that including my Titfield Thunderbolt NG "Tribute"



And I am toying with the idea of recreating some of these for my "Evil Scientists Lair" layout, which is actually my Inglenook.

[Peter Boulter]

Yay! Battlespace!!  :)  That brings back memories.  I've still got the missile launcher wagon, the one with a turret that had four missile launchers on it. I wanted the anti-aircraft search light and helicopter wagons, but they were too expensive and my pocket money wouldn't stretch that far.  :(

[Hobby]

they only steel to members

Mmmm...  :o

[Simon Hargraves]

This thread has given me an idea...somewhere I have a Cambrian kit for (I think) a GWR sleeper wagon which I'm unlikely to use...it may have possibilities for an 009 conversion as I have a need for a well wagon.
Now I just need to find it!

[JulienW]

they only steel to members

Mmmm...  :o

Damm spool chukka!

::)

[MikeC]

Yay! Battlespace!!  :)  That brings back memories.  I've still got the missile launcher wagon, the one with a turret that had four missile launchers on it. I wanted the anti-aircraft search light and helicopter wagons, but they were too expensive and my pocket money wouldn't stretch that far.  :(

Somewhere I still have that Turbo Car -- with a slightly perished nose.

[Tom Haythornthwaite]

BATTLE SPACE - Oh my goodness!  Fifty years or so ago I craved all that stuff but my bloody pacifist parents wouldn't let me have them....

[Stephen Rainsbury]

Somewhere I still have that Turbo Car -- with a slightly perished nose.

I have already started looking for bits to make an 009 one of them. I just need to source a decent propeller that is enough to make it go, but narrow enough to go through my bridge supports.

[Peter Boulter]

BATTLE SPACE - Oh my goodness!  Fifty years or so ago I craved all that stuff but my bloody pacifist parents wouldn't let me have them....

My parents wouldn't buy them for me as birthday or Christmas presents because they weren't "proper" railway models. Which is why I only ever managed to get the missile launcher wagon, I had to save my pocket money for ages to get it!

[Hugh Norwood]

Someone - Adrian Ponting, I believe, made a prop-driven 009 vehicle. I'm sure there's a photo somewhere...

[Hobby]

He did, photo c/o Mick and Adrian! He handbuilt the propeller as well, I believe, took a few goes to get it right!