Tuesday 7 June 2016

Lisbon

With the need to dismantle Morfa and a desire to keep my playroom reasonably tidy I can't say that I've done a lot of model making recently. Odds and ends have crossed my workbench, the latest being to motorise a couple of die cast Lisbon trams. Inspiration came from a trip to Lisbon last October. It's a beautiful city with fantastic architecture, agreeable climate and an exquisite tram system. Here's the real thing .....




.... and the models.

 
 

HO scale die cast Lisbon trams are sold widely in the city's tourist souvenir shops for about ten euros. They're a cut above the usual tourist tat and are easy to transform into a working model. After dismantling a suitably sized aperture has to cut in the brown underframe unit to accommodate a Kato 11-104 mechanism. The underside of the cream seat unit requires abrading away flush with the bottom of the seat squabs. Then its a case of careful reassembly and crafting a couple of chassis retaining lugs from plasticard. Total cost a touch under twenty quid and an hours work.

2 comments:

neil whitehead said...

Very tasty and a good excuse to pop down to Lisbon in the Autumn. I like they way the tracks go between the buildings. A winter project of tram layout will be layout next then?

Neil said...

Some form of Lisbon diorama or layout is on the cards; but I also have a Belgian itch to scratch too, who knows which will be first.