A Réseau Breton ABDCf12 composite carriage in 1/22.5 scale

Gérard Bedon builds his llm scale rolling stock with the same materials used for the prototypes. Therefore, a wooden carriage is built out of… wood! Planing, cutting, milling, mortising, pegging, it’s just like the real stuff!

Gérard Bedon

BUILDING MY WORD, 100% WOOD! With the same objective of building scale models of rolling stock in service on the Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme (CFBS) heritage railway, I undertook in 2016 the construction of the Reseau Breton composite carriage, property of the AMTUIR preservation society, entrusted to the CFBS. The drawing published in Issue 64 of Voie Libre helped me for the basic work. I modified the position of the apertures on the van part of the carriage, as well as the number of windows on one of the carriage’s sides, because ABCDf 12 belongs to a second series: ABCDf 12 to 15, which differs from the ABCDf 1 to 5 series (see Volume 1 of the book «Le Réseau Breton»,p.l86). Having taken measurements on the…

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Voie Libre International (Digital) - 1 Issue, OCTOBER / NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2024 - 119

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