Coachs should run without people, so I picked up a pile of the cheapest mouldings I coould find, from Modeltown. And before someone says you can get really cheap figures from China, you can, but I like the cartoony style of these, and they fit in with the other miniature people on the line.
Looking through the windows, you can see faces, which is how we need things as the coach rushes past, hauled by a stream engine.
An interesting (= "curious") seating arrangement.
ReplyDeleteMay I ask if it has any prototype inspiration?
Christopher Payne
Honestly, no idea. It's what the kit came with.
ReplyDeleteWeren't FR Bug boxes built with edge seating though? I know the workmen's coaches at Devenport were.
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ReplyDeleteFR "Bug Boxes" only had one door each side - did they not? And therefore more space for seating.
Having looked at the IP Engineering web site, I think I have found an explanation. This kit seems to be a shortened version of an L&B corridor carriage which did have a significant length for longitudinal seating. The other kits in this L&B "inspired" range are two and three compartment carriages - as such they make more sense to my mind.
The kit provides a vehicle that looks marginally bigger than a GVT two compartment carriage, but with slightly less seating capacity.
It is, however, freelance and thus whatever the purchaser wants to make of it.
Christopher Payne