mattman Posted September 30, 2013 Posted September 30, 2013 Howdy all, From my previous posts you can gather that I don't do normal trains at all :) Well, nothing has changed! This one started off as a static peice for a fairytale land in a local show. MOC carriage basically on an undercarriage ripped from the Lone Ranger set. We since decided to make our scene much larger and cooler for the next show... so stuff had to move - including the carriage! The biggest challenge is getting it to blend/hide with the 9V train motor, but I think that worked out ok. Took quite some rearranging of particularly the rear axle and had to be rebuilt from scratch. Horses up front track ok, bit of grease fixed the squeaky wheels :p They do wear a bit not being proper train wheels but nothing problematic. First pic is when it was a static part... sorry for nasty low res pic. Pumpkin Carriage by Matt_Henry_Aus, on Flickr Second is how it is today - in running form (though i just realised the plant on top fell off, imagine a broad leaf plant :D) 9v Pumpkin Carriage by Matt_Henry_Aus, on Flickr Show is on this weekend... so I guess we will see how the public react as well :D Thanks, Matt Quote
mattman Posted September 30, 2013 Author Posted September 30, 2013 Thanks :-) it's always the "out there" ideas I am chasing! Quote
kieran Posted October 3, 2013 Posted October 3, 2013 What a nice idea, layout looks good as well Quote
mattman Posted October 4, 2013 Author Posted October 4, 2013 Thanks guys, glad you both like it! Quote
Hrw-Amen Posted October 6, 2013 Posted October 6, 2013 That is really cool. I may borrow it for some of my cavalry steam tanks. Quote
mattman Posted October 12, 2013 Author Posted October 12, 2013 Cool. Do the horses move up and down? No they don't. It's not impossible to do, but they would have to be a fair bit higher off the ground. The reason I went with the small wheels up front was to keep it closer to the ground and more realistic. Maybe something to explore for future versions :-) M. Quote
zephyr1934 Posted October 15, 2013 Posted October 15, 2013 No they don't. It's not impossible to do, but they would have to be a fair bit higher off the ground. The reason I went with the small wheels up front was to keep it closer to the ground and more realistic. Maybe something to explore for future versions :-) M. I bet that it wouldn't be that hard to do and you could keep roughly the same clearance... though the far horse in the picture might have to lose its right rear leg. Quote
kermit Posted October 15, 2013 Posted October 15, 2013 Cool idea to put train wheels on the coach. I fear for the horses and their hooves on those tracks though. Quote
mattman Posted October 20, 2013 Author Posted October 20, 2013 No problems with that. Look at 2nd pic again and you'll notice that there's a small platform with wheels under the horses. Quote
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