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Offline Wargame4fun

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Re: Old west Train Mail car
« Reply #15 on: August 26, 2008, 01:22:39 AM »
Excellent work.
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Offline bandit86

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Re: Old west Train Mail car
« Reply #16 on: August 26, 2008, 05:44:10 AM »
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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Offline Malamute

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Re: Old west Train Mail car
« Reply #17 on: August 26, 2008, 07:34:31 AM »
Excellent stuff. :)
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Offline Major Weenie

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Re: "Toy" Western Train
« Reply #18 on: September 12, 2008, 07:50:12 PM »
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)

Offline Major Weenie

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Re: Old west Train Mail car
« Reply #19 on: September 12, 2008, 07:51:56 PM »
Whoops,

Forgot to compliment you on the fine mail car.

Too enthusiastic about tracking down tracks.

Major Weenie

Offline bandit86

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Re: Old west Train Mail car
« Reply #20 on: September 13, 2008, 04:45:04 AM »
Its by fast lane here is the link.  Thanks for all the comments
http://www.toysrus.ca/product/index.jsp?productId=2950601

Offline Vanvlak

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Re: Old west Train Mail car
« Reply #21 on: September 13, 2008, 06:09:09 AM »
Grand  8) 8) - very nicely lightly weathered paint job too.

Offline bandit86

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Re: Old west Train Mail car
« Reply #22 on: September 14, 2008, 10:02:19 AM »
Major Weenie
here is a picture of a section of track. It comes all black I painted this


 

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