I am reminded by my smart-ass Son Martyn that I did in fact drop an LGB Carriage from some height when trying to put it on a high shelf . To make matters worse , it was a special “Arosa” model . The body cracked quite badly , minor parts of the roof pinged off attacking a passing bird , and I was quite alarmed to see bits of Arosa Blue plastic scattered liberally across the concrete .
I picked the bits up and studied them for some time through a veil of tears (not really , my glasses had steamed up) then carefully put all that I could find in a box .
I bought a replacement because it is a very attractive train , and then PING!!! came a thought . One thing missing from the train was the parlour car (for want of a better description) .
So , armed with a large saw , copious amounts of glue and a large glass of something I cut the body apart making the long windows that the prototype has . This worked very well , parts of the offcuts were used to fill the gaps where it cracked . Same colour you see , and when smoothed with wet or dry , you literally could not see the join . It wouldn’t have mattered if you could because the Arosa coaches have flowers painted on the side so I painted them on as required . The result (shown on here many years back) was very pleasing . I suppose I should take some more pics to show you .
I fitted out the inside with seats recovered from the original , made a bar , shoved some bottles in and hey presto , a new carriage . I think I may have the only one in that scale in existence .
Waste not , want not
Mike
