{"id":2472,"date":"2023-03-26T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=2472"},"modified":"2023-03-26T08:15:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T22:15:00","slug":"slaters-o-gauge-conflat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=2472","title":{"rendered":"Slaters O Gauge Conflat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well the last few years have been pretty hectic with moving around – we have moved again and it is our 3rd home in 3 years. However – the best news is – this is our forever home – or at least our very, very long term home. The bad news about this move is that – my time has been sucked away into house repairs almost continually! This has left little time for modelling. The other very bad news about the house move from a modelling perspective, is that although I have lots of opportunity for a modelling room – I do not currently have a room where I can operate my layouts.\u00a0 This is limiting layout progress, so I am currently focusing on building some wagons.<\/p>\n

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Built Conflat A ready for painting.<\/div>\n

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The latest off the workbench is a Slaters Conflat A wagon. This wagon has pretty terrible instructions – and the break gear is a nightmare to assemble, as shown in the picture instructions. I pretty much had to rebuild the wagon underframe part way through – which was a bit of pain, but finally it has been finished off. I am now building a Slaters Lowfit wagon and I am trying to assemble the brake gear first, before gluing the completed assembly to the wagon – I think this will work a lot better.<\/div>\n

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The completed underframe of the Conflat A wagon.<\/div>\n

Alongside the Conflat A\/Lowfit I have been tinkering with a Parkside Fruit D in OO gauge.\u00a0 This will be onw of the final wagons to go in my engineering olive green train. It is interesting how small I am finding the OO gauge wagons now – they are tiny in comparison to the O gauge stuff. I think that once I have finished the detailing on Pottington Quay – I might solely focus on O gauge – as I am finding it a much more enjoyable scale to model in. However – I will keep the Pottington Quay layout for running trains in OO gage as I have previously finished off so many trains and kits! There has also been a little painting going on recently – the O gauge class 25 is nearly completion, amongst other projects – so some little slow, but steady progress.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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