Has anyone cut down a big hauler passenger coach down to 1:29? I have a car I am thinking of cutting down to that scale. Any ideas or pictures would be helpful.
Hi Todd,
I think you will find the length is a bit short for most passenger cars built after 1899. I spliced a few of them together in my collection, but as you can imagine they look quite tall because of the big windows and height. I have plans to scrap the car bodies and using the elongated roofs and floors, and trucks for custom cars. I wonder if 3d plastic car sides would make sense? Even if they were short sections bonded together to form a full length car side…
Ah, perhaps a touch too long even. Think I made them with the same number of windows as an Aristo heavyweight thinking they would appear to be a slightly larger scale.
(http://gold.mylargescale.com/s-4/rebuilds%20004.jpg)
Your picture helps. Looks like it would be a big job. Maybe make it an open air car maybe another option. Still run those B&m heavyweights? Thanks for the help.
I was thinking of shortening a car, making it less tall, for 1:24th scale. After being at Strussburg, I see that I have to lengthen them a bit too.
todd whittier said:
Your picture helps. Looks like it would be a big job. Maybe make it an open air car maybe another option. Still run those B&m heavyweights? Thanks for the help.
Hi Todd,
I had them out around Easter for the last run of the old layout.
Hope to have them out this weekend for the first continuous ops on the new layout. I have about 200ft of track left to install before I have a complete circuit of track. All the roadbed is in place, just a matter of connecting the tracks and setting the bridges at this point.
Rockwall Canyon Jeff said:
Hi Todd,
I think you will find the length is a bit short for most passenger cars built after 1899. I spliced a few of them together in my collection, but as you can imagine they look quite tall because of the big windows and height. I have plans to scrap the car bodies and using the elongated roofs and floors, and trucks for custom cars. I wonder if 3d plastic car sides would make sense? Even if they were short sections bonded together to form a full length car side…
Ah, perhaps a touch too long even. Think I made them with the same number of windows as an Aristo heavyweight thinking they would appear to be a slightly larger scale.
(http://gold.mylargescale.com/s-4/rebuilds%20004.jpg)
Todd,
I had success using a mini table saw to slice down the side of a Bachmann hopper car. I suspect you could do the same thing with the passenger car. That would take out the upper windows and lower the whole thing.
The Delton/Hartland cars are 1/24 scale, so I wonder if they would be a bit easier to make look right?
Well I have 3 long Heartland coaches, and some old Delton coaches. I was just thinking.
Pete Thornton said:
Rockwall Canyon Jeff said:
Hi Todd,
I think you will find the length is a bit short for most passenger cars built after 1899. I spliced a few of them together in my collection, but as you can imagine they look quite tall because of the big windows and height. I have plans to scrap the car bodies and using the elongated roofs and floors, and trucks for custom cars. I wonder if 3d plastic car sides would make sense? Even if they were short sections bonded together to form a full length car side…
Ah, perhaps a touch too long even. Think I made them with the same number of windows as an Aristo heavyweight thinking they would appear to be a slightly larger scale.
(http://gold.mylargescale.com/s-4/rebuilds%20004.jpg)Todd,
I had success using a mini table saw to slice down the side of a Bachmann hopper car. I suspect you could do the same thing with the passenger car. That would take out the upper windows and lower the whole thing.
Whats really needed and could be done via 3D printing is to create an enclosed vestibule insert for the Bmann car ends, that would do alot more to bring them in line with standard heavyweights.
I did the same as Jeff - Combined 2 Bachman cars to create longer cars more towards 1/29th size (lengthwise atleast)
(https://scontent-a-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t1.0-9/1966794_1464865610408478_420491442_n.jpg)
as far as lowering the cars, ehhhh
they do have some variation in the prototypes
test printing this insert tomorrow
(http://thingiverse-production.s3.amazonaws.com/renders/d5/27/e9/d7/c3/coach_end_preview_featured.jpg)
before I add any detail to it, i’ll test fit that arch and see what it looks like first
So what is the official scale of the bachmann cars and what era?
Mickey Kelley said:
So what is the official scale of the bachmann cars and what era?
1/22.5 narrow gauge, probably late 19th century vintage but they would’ve been in use through the 20th century (since narrow gauge railroads didn’t update rolling stock as often as mainline standard gauge).
TJ Hickman said:
Mickey Kelley said:
So what is the official scale of the bachmann cars and what era?1/22.5 narrow gauge, probably late 19th century vintage but they would’ve been in use through the 20th century (since narrow gauge railroads didn’t update rolling stock as often as mainline standard gauge).
But they are selectively shortened, so they appear squashed next to a scale coach.
Mark Dashnaw said:
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test printing this insert tomorrow
(http://thingiverse-production.s3.amazonaws.com/renders/d5/27/e9/d7/c3/coach_end_preview_featured.jpg)
before I add any detail to it, i’ll test fit that arch and see what it looks like first
And to think i spent a couple of weeks making a new coach end door and wall for my Observation from styrene . . .