I was looking back over your site and i came to this video. I have a large fleet of the old Thompson coaches. Like yours they were just a shell, but, i thought, they gave them potential. I built interiors for them, turned one of them into a dining car, put new wheels on them and gave them a coat of Seraphim Serpia wash. They have made reasonably good models. I know not everyone has the time to do this and i've not done all of my fleet yet, but it might be worth a try for you in the future to turn your old empty Thompsons into something quite presentable. In the meantime, thank you for your videos, they are very much appreciated.
What's Next? Why, surely it must be to install your new chicken sheds on the layout! I'm not a modeller either, but I'm getting a lot of pleasure from watching your work and remembering the days when I was.
I was given several of these but have never liked the clean, plastic look compared to real teak coaches. One day I decided to do something drastic with an old tin of varnish. I quickly gave a coach a thin wash of this old varnish, rubbing the varnish off the numbering and lettering with tissue. I was amazed at the result of 5 mins of effort so repeated the procedure with the rest. Unfortunately the old tin had lost its paper cover so I can't tell anyone what I used but it is a huge improvement.
Those square-axled 'Silver Seal' wheels can suffer all sorts of problems. I've found some where the soft plastic axle has bent, so the stock wobbles about violently, and the back-to-back is so far out (too close together) they won't pass through modern PECO points. (Discovered this on my layout after I had replaced two worn-out PECO points with new ones! Very depressing, as the Silver Seal -fitted stock rides up and derails at the new points.) Modern metal wheels sets from Hornby, Bachmann or Dapol is the way to go.
Compared to real life, what would be scale weight of a train unit? If a loco weighs 100 tonnes what maximum load could this pull and how would that translate to a model weighing say 300 grammes? Is this something that anyone has tested or am I just being silly? By the way I am 71 yrs and was brought up in the steam days of the GWR in Cornwall. I am not a modeller, just interested. Love your videos.
Better to fit actual metal wheels those square axles cause a lot of problems I replaced a whole rake of Gresley coaches with metal wheels and on removing the metal rimmed wheels two sets of wheels were split in two metal every time
I tried to make my Hornby railways BR maroon mk1 coaches and I accidentally snapped the Coupling hook off completely at one end but The coaches are Completely fine just one coach is missing its coupling hook but the good news is that I can still use the Coaches I can still use the coaches
I was looking back over your site and i came to this video. I have a large fleet of the old Thompson coaches. Like yours they were just a shell, but, i thought, they gave them potential. I built interiors for them, turned one of them into a dining car, put new wheels on them and gave them a coat of Seraphim Serpia wash. They have made reasonably good models. I know not everyone has the time to do this and i've not done all of my fleet yet, but it might be worth a try for you in the future to turn your old empty Thompsons into something quite presentable. In the meantime, thank you for your videos, they are very much appreciated.
Great video......
I was thinking, as you said about swapping wheels, "I hope they fit!" Hahaaaa.
What's Next? Why, surely it must be to install your new chicken sheds on the layout!
I'm not a modeller either, but I'm getting a lot of pleasure from watching your work and remembering the days when I was.
I was given several of these but have never liked the clean, plastic look compared to real teak coaches. One day I decided to do something drastic with an old tin of varnish. I quickly gave a coach a thin wash of this old varnish, rubbing the varnish off the numbering and lettering with tissue. I was amazed at the result of 5 mins of effort so repeated the procedure with the rest. Unfortunately the old tin had lost its paper cover so I can't tell anyone what I used but it is a huge improvement.
Those square-axled 'Silver Seal' wheels can suffer all sorts of problems. I've found some where the soft plastic axle has bent, so the stock wobbles about violently, and the back-to-back is so far out (too close together) they won't pass through modern PECO points. (Discovered this on my layout after I had replaced two worn-out PECO points with new ones! Very depressing, as the Silver Seal -fitted stock rides up and derails at the new points.)
Modern metal wheels sets from Hornby, Bachmann or Dapol is the way to go.
Well, to be fair, those elderly Triang's seem to be trying to model Thompson-era steel-bodied coaches, rather than Gresley teaks.
That’s one hell of a noisy Scotsman, but an excellent job with the coaches
Good idea, hope they don't derail going through points 😭
Compared to real life, what would be scale weight of a train unit? If a loco weighs 100 tonnes what maximum load could this pull and how would that translate to a model weighing say 300 grammes? Is this something that anyone has tested or am I just being silly? By the way I am 71 yrs and was brought up in the steam days of the GWR in Cornwall.
I am not a modeller, just interested. Love your videos.
Better to fit actual metal wheels those square axles cause a lot of problems I replaced a whole rake of Gresley coaches with metal wheels and on removing the metal rimmed wheels two sets of wheels were split in two metal every time
I tried to make my Hornby railways BR maroon mk1 coaches and I accidentally snapped the Coupling hook off completely at one end but The coaches are Completely fine just one coach is missing its coupling hook but the good news is that I can still use the Coaches I can still use the coaches
Erm..ok? And?
nice work Bro!
What no sleeping car..... :)