Heads Up - New 0gauge LT models from Radley Models

The test build of 0gauge WPW1000 is finished though, as we speak, the model is rather cleaner than the prototype today. Picture attached of a newly painted well wagon sandwiched between the LTM's L35 and B584. The model gets its first outing this Saturday at the 0gauge show at Reading.

Yes that early 23-25 batch had all the rivets standing proud on the body. Perhaps there are some photos from the Isle of Wight kicking about.

Whoops I forgot the text! This is the 3D Autodesk Inventor screenshot of the 1931 trailer - well, half of it anyway. Apart from the seats which shouldn't take very long, and the floor needing to be raised to clear the wheels, it is more or less ready to go off down the phone line to the 3D printers.

Arun

If only I had more room. I love the idea of O Gauge, but I think it would have to be a garden railway.

Yes Paul Moss has included some great photos in his book. The 1923 motor car photo would be an excellent reference.

Those lamp shades would be pinched I'm sure!!

Phil Radley and I have hunted around for years for an 0gauge version of a SPUD/Black beetle type generic motorised  bogie where you just have to change the wheel dimensions and/or move the wheelsets further apart to adjust the wheel base. However, no joy so we use a finely detailed outer cosmetic bogie frame and, clipped within that, a generic motorised chassis of the appropriate WB. This is OK for battery locos, 1905 District Rly locos, standard stock, L8/9, L11, class 487 W&C line stock where the vertical motor [usually a 16xx] is inside a contactor compartment and thus invisible. For 1935/8/49 stock with its much smaller wheel diameter what is required is a small motor [12xx or 14xx] mounted parallel to the axles and driving an axle via a spur gear system. Bespoke versions of these can be readily [and are] manufactured as one-offs by ABC gears but are made to order only. The critical measurements are the distance from the axle to the centre negative return rail as that dictates the max. gearwheel diameter and whether the motor is contained wholly within the bogie frame envelope as that dictates how the bogie is pivoted and whether the motor is likely to protrude into the passenger compartment.

All of the above directly influences which stocks I design in 0gauge. Fortunately my long term love affair with Standard stock is entirely compatible with that.

It is entirely possible that sooner or later I will think about designing such a motor bogie since it will work just as well under any DMU/Diesel and/or electric loco as LT stock.

Arun