When things go wrong..

Garden Railroading
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In an earlier post I mentioned that the platforms on the London tram I am building are too long.Today I decided to try and do something about it.
Having no plans to work from I don’t know how much to take off and I really don’t want to muck it up too much and have to rebuild.
Here is the problem,

I really had trouble making these ends but they do have to change for the overall look.
I decided to carefully cut the end off and then decide what to do.

So far so good.The window frames have remained intact.

I decided on a centimetre slice.The kitten decided on window frame attack as I tried to take the picture[:(]

And the refit.

The rest of the day will be spent on the other end and rebuilding windows.

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Ah yes, attack of the killer kitties. I know that one all too well.

Bravo for having the guts to post a failure. I take my failures and hit the “delete” button on the camera. Maybe that is and interesting topic in itself, you know the projects that don’t make GRR magazine! I sure have enough of those laying around…

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That’s looking good - guessing it’s an E1? I’ve just bought a couple of the Tower Trams OO kits (one open, one closed platform version) and the second photo looks a lot closer to the kit as far as proportions go. Think my two might be somewhat smaller than the kitten though!

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Troy, I have been having those days on my mogul, just can’t seem to achieve good clearences and smooth operation since I moved the cylinders inward and made my own crosshead.’

Keep your chin up and think positive, it was a scratch build and now it’s a bash[;)][:)]

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Troy
When those kittens grow up whole trains are going to disappear! However, I’ve done more damage to my various projects without the assistance of my cat. Luckily she is more interested in animate objects. Good luck on your trolley car Rx.
Bob

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Hi Troy
Look on the bright side it only takes four hours to bury a cat according to Python.[swg]
Just be thankful no wet paint then you would really have some explaining to do.
It may take a while but I am sure the balconies can be re built
regards John