For the 8 new carriages i have for the layout, built by Colin Lea (www.rhydddu.blogspot.com) originally were going to be put on modified Lima n gauge bogies. That idea, soon went through the window, they where only chosen in the first place as I was given quite a few of them.
Instead, I decided try out the Parkside Dundas 'Standard Ffestiniog 3' 6" w/b bogie' kit. One was bought from the FRs shop and assembled. It took a while to figure out how many 10 BA washers the bogie needed underneath for the bogie to have adequate swing, and not look silly, but eventually I settled for two per bogie.
Some 009 couplings were superglued on to the bogie frames, which resulted in a coupling which is the perfect height. The pictures are of carriage 112 with the bogies, parked against Cricieth Castle and the modified Lima bogie.
More of the bogies and couplings will be bought tomorrow, so all of the carriages that I have will be rolling by the end of the weekend.
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