{"product_id":"detailing-and-improving-ready-to-run-coaches-9781871608526","title":"Detailing and Improving Ready to Run Coaches","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA handbook for those who wish to add greater variety and realism to their coaching stock as easily, cost effectively and quickly as possible. Not for the purist, this volume is aimed at the modeller who is taking initial steps beyond the basic offerings from the model railway trade.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTaking a reasonably accurate RTR coach, it covers basic detailing, flush glazing, correcting errors, alterations and modifications, bogies, couplings, painting and finishing. Not only does it look at individual vehicles but at the construction of accurate prototype train formations as well. In this the author offers advice on research, fact finding and a little detective work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExamples range from the easiest of detailing tasks to the production of a complete, scale length Pullman rake. All of these are clearly illustrated in high quality colour and mono photography. Though primarily concerned with 4mm mainstream modelling, examples of 2mm and 7mm coaching stock are included too.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWell known in the field of model railway journalism, the author has built hundreds of coaches forming dozens of trains, all designed to be operated on working model railways. He offers a series of pragmatic, low tec' solutions for making coaches, for modellers who wish to create 'real' trains in a realistic way.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoftback, 21x29cm, 66 pages, black \u0026amp; white photographs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good\/Very Good\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Irwell Press","offers":[{"title":"Secondhand (275)","offer_id":58429869654399,"sku":"9781871608526","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1910\/7111\/files\/9781871608526.jpg?v=1789729494","url":"https:\/\/rail-books.co.uk\/products\/detailing-and-improving-ready-to-run-coaches-9781871608526","provider":"Rail Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}