16mm scale wooden coaches

 

My personal modelling has been very limited recently, but fortunatly, my Dad has been busy. We felt we needed some rolling stock to run behind the Peckett, and other steam locos, and while there's a lot of 45mm stock on the shelf, it's mostly LGB Toy Train, or Playmobile. Fine when running with plastic locos, but it just doesn't seem right to couple them to real steam. 

Anyway, the couplings are wrong. 

Luckily, he had three IP Engineer freelance short coach kits to hand and fancied having a go. The first was built as a test, worked out well, so he moved on to the others, which is what we'll be writing up here. 

The models are standard IP style laser-cut MDF and plywood. To get to the stage shown above, you make up an MDF box, and glad it with ply framing. I'm told, everything fitted well, with just a little care required to line things up properly. PVA was the glue of choice, and many clamps were used as well. 

The results are nice and solid, ideal for haulage with a steam engine.