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The Lynton & Barnstaple bogie wagon is a little stumpy in G over the show of old's G1 scale I admit but i'm surprised i've not seen anyone adopt Accucraft's 16mm release of it and even more so concerning their Welshpool & Llanfair brake van used in the later CGI era. The 45mm track wheels are small due to them being for narrow-gauge but it would be easy enough to swap some bigger diameter ones in and then you just need to alter the bufferbeam area, or not as the case may be
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It's cool that you made the L&B long wagon and the W&L brake van the same hight as Thomas and Scruffy,
it really brings out the realism of standard gauge railway operations.
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Aye it's nifty way into the larger scales (even if it is a little time consuming). I still need to find some appropriate G3 scale bogies but the three bodies are mostly done now and i've just secured a forth for rebuilding 
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Managed to get another of these cheap secondhand but I think I better finish the first one before I split it down the middle as well.
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Top plank oooa, all curve
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oh yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah
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How Thomas and the red utility wagon jumped that gap in the rails, I'll have no idea.
But I really am loving the look of that L&B wagon; would certainly look pretty awkward against other stock and locos whether it was raised like that or kept low to the rails as per the show's version.
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Lol I really wasn't expecting people to comment more on the track than the narrow gauge stock. The L&B wagon does actually look pretty small in the pic there but it's not so bad side on, though probably they do look better in a rake and not next to any typical length bogie stock
I'll post a pic of the W&LL brake soonish but not yet as it's got a few more evenings worth of re-paneling to go, really happy i've widened it out though as it does look much more the part
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I guess sometimes, you gotta just expect the unexpected these days.
Yeah, that's probably why you never really saw them with anything other than, well, a fleet of red L&B long open wagons back in Series 3.
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You occasionally saw one by itself in S2 and same for the CGI era I think but because G1 is 10mm to the ft they worked quite well regardless. G3 is 13.5mm to the ft, so the 16mm to the ft NG prototype becomes about a 1/3 smaller. Basically I had to insert new ends and floors to make them wide enough but to lengthen them as well would of left me with nothing other than perhaps the strapping, but they can be difficult to remove without destroying them and anyway long lengths are difficult to model without the material bowing so yeah it's something of a compromise but one i'll take over nothing
Many Happy Returns btw
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Yeah, I knew about the odd CGI one appearing in the Nitrogen/Miller-era on their own, but I never knew they appeared in S2; certainly the smaller L&B wagons were a frequent sight in the Clay Pits and various shunting yards throughout that series, but I always thought the longer wagons appeared in S3 only, might have to peruse the wikia on that note.
I can imagine your time spent modifying it must've given you a sense of just how careful the show's crew had to be when modifying theirs; though, to be fair, they only had to change the gauge of their L&B models (correct me if I'm wrong though).
Also, thank you very much.
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I didn't realise they were in S2 for a long time either. They were only ever static dressing back then but from what little we do see they were brick red all over and then in S3 they became maroon with black interiors. I would have to watch the series again but it might be there were only two of them bought/constructed originally and then that was doubled for S3. Anywho from what I can gather all they did was replace the bufferbeams, buffers and draw gear. The wheels and bogies had to be ordered separately anyway so the SM45mm option may of been taken for them or possibly they went straight for standard gauge fittings (can't tell as the camera shots are never that clear).
My adaption is more involved but like you say trying to emulate even some of what they put together has made me appreciate just how much work went into the production, especially when you consider the time limit between the seasons and the temporary sets on top of that!
No worries, hope you have a good un
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Ah, so maybe they had a "blink and you miss it" kind of appearance, at least that's what it sounds like to me. Nonetheless, I'm gonna have to look pretty hard to find them if they were background stock originally.
Yeah, that's the issue really, you can never quite tell what they did to it (which, aside from the camera angles, probably shows their skill level when it comes to modelling or customising things). Oh absolutely, thank god I wasn't working on the set of the show at the time 'cause, knowing my inability to keep to a schedule from time to time, I'd be having a right old nightmare just trying to keep up with them.
I did indeed have myself a good'un; perhaps, sometime in the future, I may splash out on some modelling kits for myself as a Birthday present.
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"Thomas, looks like the tracks between the Bloster Wagon and S.C.Ruffey have come apart."Β
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Yeah itβs nice to see you shopping around for more rolling stock. Plus I like how you found a large scale narrow gauge break van you want to remold for a wider loading gauge. As for the the Andrew Miller CGI era. I went for the seasons 13 to 17 more for their entertainment factor than than trying to find real life blueprints of the vehicles and rolling stock Magic Railroad onwards. Itβs just that that when the Island of Sodor becomes too much of a toy cartoon world. You loose that compromised balance of adult realism and small child appeal when replicating a Thomas in Model Railway form in a main island Britain Stephenson loading gauge environment.
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Yeah the weathering and colour schemes in the later seasons really took a Hit. It's been a long time since i've seen the whole of S5 and beyond so I can't really recall much of the pre S17 stuff in detail to be honest but S1 and S2 must be the most realistic looking and then the higher charm and saturation started to creep in (though it worked wonderfully for the SR & MSR sets in S4).
The brake I got cheap off eBay as its listing seemed to fall between more obvious key word searches
but there had to be a catch! Compared to the drop wagons from the same railway it's narrower, which is about acceptable amongst Bachmann's bastard gauge stock but for true scale it's just short of the mark.
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Quite madding and being honest I could just about jam small buffer housings against the outer stanchions but I think i'm gonna try and widen it by a cm or so to make it look like a proper standard gauge design.
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Good to know man
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Hey, Thomas, there are two things you need to know. One, when you move, you'll fall off the cliff, and two, some of your cars will come off the rails. (The gap in the track)
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Holy heck, these look like the actual models from the show!
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"This is the worst permanent wayΒ I've seen!" 
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