Shapeways, Stafford Road Model works

Hi All.   In my quest ro improve? My recent purchase of Tri-ang Clerestory carriages, I read about Dean bogies.Being an aged novice, I have limited experience of replacing/ bodging parts that are supposed improve either the looks or running of train carriages. But now that I nave purchased these (misfits) short Clerestories I don't know what to do for the best. Get on with them , and Cut and Shut as per my original plan, Flog them to death as they are, Find another customer for them! Or whatever . Have any of Your Model Railway Club members ever heard of Stafford Road Model Works ? Or had dealings with them?  All the best. Kevin

Hi Kevin,

I thought you wanted to get away from GWR (although why anybody would want to do that beats me).

If you run as is with an LSWR/SR coat of paint they are unprototypical. If you don't care then clean off the GWR paint scheme and goforit. Painting paneled stock is a bit of an art, best done with enamels not acrylics.

If you want to go prototypical, Worsley works (use the existing chassis and the sides, lengthened if necessary), Kernow (slowly but surely).

I was reading recently about LSWR/SR trains with GWR stock and vice versa on shared lines (equalization payments). Just use them as is (with better couplers and wheels and some innards). Through coaches were often seen on foreign tracks (it was possible to take a coach or saloon from Penzance to Inverness).

Nigel

Hi Nigel.  Thank you for your reply. At the time of writing I am between a Rock and a Hard Place, my original plan seems to have gone awry to say the least. With one group telling me that the GWR panelling didn't match that of the LSWR, and another group saying that it is okay. But on my travels( Post Grouping ) as I am not that old, I have met persons from Scotland in the West Country that have travelled all the way by train, and that long journey that must get uncomfortable . My other idea "Camp Coaches"? I think that is what BR called them, were stabled on a old line near the coast on the station premises and it does go on today) and Holliday makers would stay in them. They had a similar chocolate and cream paint scheme. And if I had more experience with cutting and shutting I would have no qualms about doing the job. But if I am to run them? a better Bogie and coupling would be beneficial .All the best. Kevin