Model Railway Gun Question

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I used small bits of brass sheet stock cut to tiny squares and indented for the HO scale axle. Glue them to the sideframes and insert the HO axle of your choice.

Hi Andy,

Lima (Italy) made a model of Leopold in HO until a few days ago. If you're quick, you should be able to find one new on the Internet. It has come in various guises, ie single item/in train of support wagons/train plus locos etc. I personally would look on it as a basic model requiring detailing, but then I'm relatively fussy. I would consider 1:72 vs 1:87 to great a scale disparity. Liliput/Bachmann makes some military models such as flak guns.

Regards, Greg.P.

Andy Hill wrote:

I don't know of such an adapter. Perhaps it was sold in Europe, but I've never seen one here (USA). The Hasegawa model is common enough, however. I've seen models so converted, but never paid much attention to how it was done.

It should not be too hard to adapt HO wheelsets to the model. IIRC, it has rather large wheels, perhaps 40" in HO scale. NWSL has such wheels in a variety of sizes and axle configurations. The hardest part would be adding some kind of bearing plates (brass?) to the inside of the truck sideframes. There should be room, as the scale is 1/72 (larger than HO), and the prototype was standard gauge, so the trucks should be significantly wider than HO trucks.

Another, less accurate but perhaps easier, approach would be to hide HO trucks under the model, perhaps inside the existing sideframes.

Cox also sold a plastic freelanced HO railway gun running on a mix of four and six axle trucks. It wasn't an accurate model of anything, but looked pretty much like a railway gun. It was perhaps 2/3 the size of the Leopold model. These show up at flea markets quite often.

Good Luck.

Dan Mitchell ==========

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