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Miniatures Adventure => Railway Wargaming => Topic started by: bandit86 on August 25, 2008, 11:04:38 AM
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I have started and old west Trian made from a toy set I picked up at Toys are us for around $30. I wanted a Mail car but it did not come with one so I made this from a passenger car. Its a WIP but close to finished. The train set comes with a Steam engine,coal tender,2 passenger cars, a cattle car and a caboose
(http://i38.tinypic.com/2s8jpmf.jpg)
(http://i36.tinypic.com/f9ehir.jpg)
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very nice You have this mailman impress.
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Beautiful interior detail! :-*
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Very nice. :D
Now if only we could get such trains available in the U.K. :?
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That's a superb work! :-*
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Looks fantastic and a good game-able space too.
I can see the bandits riding alongside the train, climbing in through the door and having a shoot out with the guards now. :)
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Great train! Lovely details!
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very nice work bandit ;D
i recognise the frontline stove, but where did you get the other accessories from? like you, i love doing interiors and am always on the lookout for bits and bobs.
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Great work Bandit it looks awesome
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Excellent work! Is it a soft plastic type or harder plastic? I occasionally see similar toy sets in clearance however have steered away due to the softness of the plastic.
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That's great! Love the attention to detail - where is the safe from?
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Toys R Us you say?
What train set is this?
It is an awesome looking mail car, if there can be such a thing.
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Toys R Us you say?
What train set is this?
It is an awesome looking mail car, if there can be such a thing.
Its from FastLane, some kind of Toys'R'Us home brand. bandit86's mail car is a highly customized model. I wouldn't have recognized it as a FastLane car if not for the handrail. Now that reminds me of painting up my rail set...
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Is it really an old west train, with the flaired smokestack on the engine?
SteveN
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BOH that is amazing !!
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Excellent work.
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Thanks for all the feed back. It’s a really nice toy train and pretty inexpensive for what you get. Track and a small train station (not terribly usable) are also in the box.
http://www.toysrus.ca/product/index.jsp?productId=2950601
Muleskinner: The wall rack, mail bags and box are from O scale RR companies (Berkshire valley or Schomberg) the desk is from the Cowtown play set and the chair is from a doll house company. The Safe was scratch built from plastic card.
I find that the railroad accessories are invaluable if you’re doing interiors but the scale can sometimes be off.
http://www.berkshirevalleyinc.com/detail.html
The Dozing Dragon: This particular set is of a very hard plastic not the soft toy stuff it was from a company called fastlane, they do a lot of toy cars.
Supercollider: I made that safe but if you want one that’s made already I can suggest Old Gory Miniature. Look in the Old west accessories section they have a bank set that is really nice with a great safe. Actually all the sets are pretty nice if you’re doing old west interiors, they have a store set, bank and a Saloon set that has a really nice piano.
http://www.oldglory25s.com/index.php?page=3&cat_id=83
Tom Reed: Yup, Toys R Us, fastlane is the company and it's called the “western express”
Glitzer: Thanks and your right. The original was a passenger car and completely reworked. The outside walls are plastic card as well as the sliding door and were left unattached so you can gain access.
Snate56: Yes it is the old steam engine with the big flared stack, like in the old west movies.
Thanks again everyone for your comments they keep me building.
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Excellent stuff. :)
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Toys "R" Us ?
What was the name of the toy train please.
TBC has one that we're working on. It's rather old, and had a name something like "The Goldie Locks Xmas Train Set." It camewith; locomotive, tender, 2 passenger cars, 1 flatbed, and no caboose.
The locomotive is around the right scale/size, but the cars/coaches are all about half the length they should be. This is not a bug, it's a feature. It means that the train is smaller on the table, and when we move figures inside we use a paper map.
Our train has been; robbed twice, blown up once, and machine gunned once by mysterious Mexican hit men.
Our biggest problem is that we lost the plastic tracks. So now our train seems to drive about the old west like some sort of decorative long haul semi. (Lorry for the UK)
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Whoops,
Forgot to compliment you on the fine mail car.
Too enthusiastic about tracking down tracks.
Major Weenie
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Its by fast lane here is the link. Thanks for all the comments
http://www.toysrus.ca/product/index.jsp?productId=2950601
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Grand 8) 8) - very nicely lightly weathered paint job too.
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Major Weenie
here is a picture of a section of track. It comes all black I painted this
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