O-16.5mm Narrow Gauge Project

This will be a future project for added interest to the last scenic board I plan to build on the O Gauge extension to LSD.

Having seen some of the excellent narrow gauge modelling on the forum I fancied having ago but wanted to be able to incorporate what ever I built into my existing O Gauge plans, hence O-16.5mm.

So the plan is to build two locomotives, one from a Smallbrook studio kit and the second a scratch built one (yet to be decided on). Smallbrook Studio recommended the Electrotren 0-6-0 chassis as a worthy candidate for the conversion so a quick call to Ellis at Ellis Clark secured 2 models. At £45 each, these really are nicely detailed models and they run extremely well, DCC ready with a six pin plug and they will run very slowly on dc without any trouble. Well done Hornby, now why can’t all your 0-4-0 / 0-6-0 locos perform like this?

The Smallbrook body kit “Echo Et” plus some wagon arrived safely from the UK.

Plenty of added weig modded into the tank sides. There does not look to be much cleaning up to do..

Now does anyone know of a nice chassis to fit these bodies for a 00-9 narrow gauge layout ?

 

Hi Ed, the bodies a oo scale, so if fitted with an n-gauge chassis they would run on n gauge track which would give you a oo narrow gauge loco .. 00-9mm (9mm being the track width)
Kim