Hornby Toby the Tram Conversion

Converting the Hornby Toby into a J70

Additional supplies not mentioned: Hornby Toby, clear plasticard, exacto knife, fine cotton, Hornby Class 60 Accessory Pack and Brass shim.

General steps:
1) Cut down body by 2 wooden planks & sand remaining 1 plank away till even
2) Using hand drill, drill several holes to cut out windows and door frames. After drilling several holes cut them using a connect the dots method with exacto knife.
3) Cut glue stick caps to fit over motor, these will become the boiler. Then mount on brass shim trimmed to fit inside body. The nails will be the chimney and water pipe and will also insure boiler halves sit level.
4) Remove existing buffer beam hook and carefully remove buffers. Lower buffers on beam, using brass shim create a small strip, this strip will carry the numbers.
5) Glue in clear plasticard for the windows. Using Dremel, file away the raised part on the motor chassis where the body screw connects to the body. Then Paint interior and glue in interior details to top body half and check for clearance of motor worm screw.
6) If all works, glue and add additional details as required.

Decals are from Jackson Evans.
The lamp can be moved to either end using the hooks.
Feel free to ask questions.

Look for Toby's face in an up coming Thomas the tank weekend.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

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• Toby
• j70
• Hornby
• Bachmann
• conversion
• my model railway
• 00 guage
• y6
• tram
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[10thstudio]

why u kill toby? :'(

[TestValleyRailway]

@10thstudio I didn't kill him, I performed plastic surgery on him; it's all the rage out here in California :)

[Calebtrain]

Somehow, it seems through the whole video it is facing backwards. I wonder why....

[TestValleyRailway]

@Calebtrain The driver is facing the end that use to have the face on it. As I removed some of the height to get it to the correct scale all that remained from the face was two small holes, which were filled with modeling putty. Also, if you hadn't noticed several views are shown with both the driver at the front and back if you need a reference point.

[TestValleyRailway]

@hartleymartin Suprizingly the chassis is a very good runner. I wouldn't recommend the hornby open cabbed pannier, I found the chassis on that ran terrible. But honestly if you want to foregoe all the interior detail and repaint this can be done in about an hour.

[TestValleyRailway]

@username5515 Not too much, I think 25 pounds for all the supplies. It's the time that it took that was the problem. Took a good 36 hours but there was a lot of admiring involved. :)

[10thstudio]

@TestValleyRailway hahaha i guess so

[bennymilk]

@5029tom Don't bother repainting anything in the Hornby Thomas Range, that range is hugely over priced,Go for either an old Hornby Pannier tank off ebay (or the bachmann one, as they are far superior) or get one of the Hornby Open Cab panniers from the Railroad Range.

[hartleymartin]

For the amount of work required to modify this model, I would probably do a scratch-build instead, although I am lead to believe that hornby's mechanism for Toby is quite a good runner.

[username5515]

nicley done,

how much did it cost?