Articulated bogie (single bogie , close couple)

Articulating carriages come with compromises over the prototype arrangement.

with 12" to the foot scale, carriages can be placed 1ft apart and traverse corners in the full size railway quite happily.

At 4mm/ft scale, this provides a challenge as most layouts (excepting straight up/down ones) have corners much sharper than scale. For this reason, articulated carriages have to be more than 4mm apart, probably 8mm, possibly 11mm depending on corners.

These bogies give you choice on how to achieve this. I've made a video on Youtube working through the options and benefits.

This item covers close coupling with Symoba sprung posts. So the bogie only has 2 square holes pre formed, plus 2 symoba sprung posts with fixing plates. Using this approach, whilst more fidly to set up, carriages can be set closer to the prototypical scale 1 foot gap.

I don't include wheels or bearings as everyone has their own favourite choice of supplier. Designed for 26mm axles and works well with wheel sizes up to 14mm diameter in OO, EM and P4.

Resin accepts normal paints with no special preparation. Parts can be glued using PVA , superglue or most other adhesives.

NB plastic glue won't work on resin.