Flat wagons

[joe123]

Hi lads, I have 20ft and 40ft containers 00 gauge. And I am looking for suitable flat wagons to accommodate same. Would anyone have any ideas what I could use? Thanks for your help regards.

[DJ Dangerous]

On 10/11/2020 at 7:30 AM, BosKonay said:

You can grab 8 wagons for a deal (last one too) https://irishrailwaymodels.com/collections/ie-spoil-wagons/products/cie-ir-42-flat-spoil-wagons-bundle

Is there actually only one Spoil bundle left in stock, or are there more?

[DJ Dangerous]

IRM's Spoil Wagons should do the trick.

Pop the spoil trays off and the containers should sit on the empty flats.

C-Rail 40ft's should sit perfectly on the lugs.

Edited November 9, 2020 by DJ Dangerous

[joe123]

Thanks DJ, They would be perfect. The only problem would be the price. As I have 8 containers, so your talking about the bones of €400. For the wagons. Anyway thanks again.regards 

[patrick]

For four wheel container flats Provincial Wagons have a nice looking kit. Before they were available I used the Dapol Prestwin underframe with some modofications adding styrene rectangular "plates" to the side frames, substituting Dart Castings 8 inch heavy duty buffers (#2350), and omitting the brake shoes to the end side of the wheels. The are really just approximations of the prototype but to my eyes the pass the two foot test. The floor of the kit has a raised moulding which is a pain to remove but the floor of the C line containers is easily removed allowing it to be mounted with a spot of glue. The photo shows one with a scratch built back to back flat.

 

Edited November 10, 2020 by patrick

[BosKonay]

9 hours ago, joe123 said:

Thanks DJ, They would be perfect. The only problem would be the price. As I have 8 containers, so your talking about the bones of €400. For the wagons. Anyway thanks again.regards 

You can grab 8 wagons for a deal (last one too) https://irishrailwaymodels.com/collections/ie-spoil-wagons/products/cie-ir-42-flat-spoil-wagons-bundle

[DJ Dangerous]

4 hours ago, BosKonay said:

You can grab 8 wagons for a deal (last one too) https://irishrailwaymodels.com/collections/ie-spoil-wagons/products/cie-ir-42-flat-spoil-wagons-bundle

I was just gonna say that!

The bundles are great value, saving you 10% on all eight wagons.

For the quality, both aesthetically and physically, you're not going to find better ready to run flats for the 40ft containers.

Hattons have used Hornby 60ft flats every now and then, but they don't look very Irish.

47ft flats pop up on eBay every now and then, possibly IFM flats, for €50 or €60 each.

Shapeways offer 3D printed flats which you then smooth and paint yourself, then add bogies etc.

Somebody, possibly Robert, recently posted a thread of all of the different container flat kits that he built.

There may be some inspiration and advice there if you'd prefer to build some instead of buying ready to run.

Edited November 10, 2020 by DJ Dangerous
Yes, it WAS Robert

[Railer]

22 minutes ago, BosKonay said:

You can grab 8 wagons for a deal (last one too) https://irishrailwaymodels.com/collections/ie-spoil-wagons/products/cie-ir-42-flat-spoil-wagons-bundle

The stock counter must be off?

[DJ Dangerous]

1 hour ago, Railer said:

The stock counter must be off?

Yeah, doesn't it usually say "Limited" when there are more than 75 available?

It's a brilliant tool for budgeting, working out which ones to buy, first.

[joe123]

Thanks for all your replies and help. Cheers lads.

[DJ Dangerous]

Just saw these two on Hattons website.

Not very Irish but still, cheap flats for your containers.

[leslie10646]

On 9/11/2020 at 9:09 PM, joe123 said:

Hi lads, I have 20ft and 40ft containers 00 gauge. And I am looking for suitable flat wagons to accommodate same. Would anyone have any ideas what I could use? Thanks for your help regards.

OR, for your 20ft flats I'll sell my CIE 20ft container flat kit  (easiest kit in my range) - see 

http://www.provincialwagons.com/cie-wagons/

send me a PM if you want more info.

[DJ Dangerous]

Is the stock level indicator gone from the IRM website for good, or is it just taking a break?

[BosKonay]

2 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

Is the stock level indicator gone from the IRM website for good, or is it just taking a break?

 

I'm working on an upgrade akin to what we've done at https://accurascale.co.uk which will make life easier.

[DJ Dangerous]

21 minutes ago, BosKonay said:

 

I'm working on an upgrade akin to what we've done at https://accurascale.co.uk which will make life easier.

Wow, that looks excellent!!!

[BosKonay]

Updated now - https://irishrailwaymodels.com/

[DJ Dangerous]

Looks really awesome, and I never noticed the category tiles on the home page before. They are also excellent!

[BosKonay]

11 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

Looks really awesome, and I never noticed the category tiles on the home page before. They are also excellent!

Lots of small little changes

[Robert Shrives]

Great changes and I guess the selection buttons  can easily be resised to take Railcars ? ... thanks and I guess a lot of back room geeky stuff we can only imagine about but worthy of a suitable after hours beverage..