Electric Volks-Wagen from 1883

[Fritz]

In 1883 Magnus Volk introduced his first Ottomotor electric tramway in Brighton / UK
http://www.whitstablepier.com/volks/History.htm

I happend to find a cardboard kit in 7mm scale in my files today, so I enlarged it, to use it as a plan for a Gn15 passenger coach. Unfortunatly I forgot, where in the WWW-world I found it.



Mounted it on some Pepper 7 / Steve Bennett bogies for the moment. Will substitute the paper curtains with thin silk nd the roof with canvas.

It was quite easy to built from Balsa, Cardboard and some Stripwood. Invested about 3 hours so far.

Have Fun

Juergen / Fritz

[Fritz]

Meanwhile I found the page in the net, where to download the cardstock kit:


http://www.whitstablepier.com/volks/models.htm

Looking on my own intepretation for Gn15 on daylight, I have the impression, it is too small.
The dashboards look too low, compared to the scale figures, and I can´t place passengers at the benches, facing each other.

I enlarged the original kit by 220%, but I suppose, 250 - 260 would have been better.
That makes the modell very much too large for Gn15, but a good candidte for the 32 mm folks.



Have Fun

Juergen / Fritz

[dmaynard]

So raise the dashboards. It looks great so I wouldn't let a pesky detail or two deter you