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TO ACHIEVE A ‘MAKEOVER’, ETC. ......

The following is intended as helpful general guidance for internally decorating and adding ‘little folk’ to a Passenger Coach.

YOU NEED TO BE AWARE......

This can be a very ‘difficult area’ for modellers and ‘fraught’ with problems for any beginner.....!

As a general ‘principle’, most (if not all) Replica, Mainline and certainly earlier Bachmann coaches are very difficult to take apart without any damage being incurred, and they all have little or no ‘footwells’ available for the ‘little folk’. If you succeed in getting one apart, the passengers will need to be ‘severed’ at the waist, in order to fit them onto the seating.....!

Fortunately, most Hornby coaches have a footwell except for the restaurant car, and will ‘accommodate’ the Preiser range of seated figures...! However, you then need to establish whether the coach was manufactured in England or China....! Why, you ask...? Well, two very different methods of assembly have been used by these two countries’ factories....!

ATTEMPTING THE IMPOSSIBLE......


Hornby Coaches - early models

Hornby Coaches - China series 1 models

Hornby Coaches - China series 1 models

Hornby Coaches - images of work in progress