I would like to model British OO scale. I find myself (see my first blog) trying to improve off the shelf items from the two big manufacturers.
Then I ask myself the same question I asked myself back in the 1980s. Why? Why do I need to fiddle with Hornby railroad coaches when if they had bothered to model the buffers retracted they could have halved the distance between them for no extra cost?
Why did the Bachmann MK1s have a flawed close coupling system (and still do) making it hard to
Welcome to my Blog.
I start this Blog on a subject close to my heart. Passenger coaches.
The Hornby Railroad MK1 in my opinion is a great addition to the range. It is finer looking than the Bachmann equivalents. One BIG draw back was the lack of close coupling. I tried various nem couplers and came up with the option shown in the picture. A Roco coupler and a Hornby (Roco type) coupler.
One is short the other longer. Now the problem is buffer lock on radius 1 & 2. Solution?
1/ Cut the
