Zillertalbahn coach

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This coach is based on a Zillertalbahn carriage on the Welshpool and Llanfair railway. It is typically Austrian to run with 699.01 (see elsewhere) This is a 2.5ft gauge carriage and I have taken liberties with scale to run it on 16.5mm gauge (2ft 3in) so the width has been slimmed down a bit to fit my loading gauge. The parts printed well and, amazingly, the body printed without support for the window apertures. I forgot to select it and I don't know how I got away with it. The inside is recessed to take 1mm acrylic glazing. The underframe includes the end gates frame but the grille is made from mesh used to sell garlic on a thin polystyrene inner frame. (I stretched a ring of the mesh over a wire frame to give the openness I wanted and stuck the frame to it with poly solvent - I then cut it free and epoxied it inside the outer. The ends include tubes to hold the stanchions. I used MIG wire for the stanchions so you might need to ease out the holes. The stanchions are bent according to the guide, cut to length at the bottom and put in the sockets. The body and roof can be fitted and the roof threaded on to the stanchions, that are glued top and bottom, and trimmed off once everything is ready. The undergubbins is to my normal method - bearings eased out to 2mm so the top hat bearings fit in with only the flange proud. The two halves are checked that the axle fits with minimal sideplay when the halves are brought together. I marked the centreline on the underframe, fixed the axlebox on one side and fitted the other side and wheelset once the first side had cured. (The wheels are Dapol 12mm diameter on pinpoint axles) The end steps include mounting blocks for my choice of couplings - Bachmann small tension locks.