I've another little commercial project to round off a busy year of casting.
This time a customer has asked if I can help him improve the bogies on the Farish chassis under his SAR Funkey diesels.
These have very big chunky bogie frames, but the N gauge model not so much...
It should be simple enough for me to copy and cast the same solution we used on our own models which was to divide the bogie frame into a top and bottom half.
The lower section, with the axle boxes and the suspension, is attached to the model's bogies which have been cut back at the sides.
The upper section, with the brake control gear and the sandboxes, is fixed to the metal chassis block.
Only when the model is going around a very tight curve are you likely to notice that only the bottom half is moving.
Once the masters are made it's a simple task to run off four copies.
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