Garden Railway Forum

Having discovered who produced the YouTube videos of dodgy, but inspiring, railbuses et Al..
I have rummaged for other nuggets from the same source, and found this. - I have not rummaged very far yet.

Could you enlighten me, as to the provenance of the tank engine in the very first photo of the thread please?

I am hoping it is a cunning conversion, and not something commercial gauge 1..

Thank you,
Phil.P

Phil.P, I can offer the info you need on this tank wagon as I have modified one myself. It is from Newqida and looks something like this...
Mine came used from ebay and ended up looking like this, mounted on a transporter wagon...

As Peter rightly explains, the tank wagon’s from Newqida. He’s achieved a rather more comprehensive reworking of it than I managed.

The tank engine pictured at the beginning of the thread – the cartoon scale Pannier tank – is a plasticard, scratch-build (with some G3 white metal fittings), on a Piko motor block. It’s not running at present as I don’t have enough Deltang or LocoRemote to go round.

It’s bigger than Gauge 1. Essentially, as with my other earlier builds, it was built to provide a UK outline loco to pull mildly adapted, G-scale rolling stock (like the tank wagons above). I kind of pretend it’s a UK metre-gauge railway (well, 3’11”) at something like 1:26 – but really I just like seeing approximately familiar looking stuff trundling round the garden – scale is not at the top of the list.

Gentlemen,
Thank you both..

A Newquida tank wagon, razor saw, and a bad paint-job (mine, not yours) I can probably manage..

A scratch built pannier tank, is well beyond my abilities. - Maybe one day?

Now, where is that mangled Faller railbus?
But I have a crane to build first..

Phil.P