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Old 12-30-2018, 04:25 AM
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Old 12-31-2018, 02:32 PM
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Hi All,

And hi, Pat_craft, and thank you for your wonderful Tin Toy Loco. I am always interested in collecting and building vintage paper models, even if they are only a few days old. The design of your model is spot on and it is a worthy tribute to the original tin toy.

As you will notice from the photographs of my build, I took a few liberties with your design. I lengthened the model by four windows to make it a bit longer. As you can see, I moved things around here and there, but as your design was so straight and true, changing the image was quite easy to do.

One change I did make that can’t be readily seen is I moved the triangular glue tabs from the straight sides of the front of the model to the curved sides. This is a personal preference, as I think it gives a smoother line in construction. I just drew the tabs in place with a pencil before I scored and cut them.

I believe the original tin toy is based on the Bugatti Autorail from the 1930s. The French Wikipedia site can be found here:

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorail_Bugatti

I’m also including a few historical photographs and one of a tin toy of the same age as your subject toy. There were a number of these types of railcars produced around the world, but they were never very successful. More information can be found with a quick search of the internet.

Thanks again for your work on your colorful model.

Score and fold,

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Old 12-31-2018, 03:05 PM
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TD - thanks for the info. Interesting!

And a nice variation on the model as well.
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Thank very much Thumb Dog for the infos !!!!
Nice to see your variations and build !


There is another version of this tin toy, a bus version totally imaginary I think !
They just change the colors and the wheels position...
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Hi All,

A quick return to Pat_craft's thread on his paper model of his Tin Toy Loco. I just found this French-built Hornby version of the Bugatti Autotrain, and thought you might like to have a look. Here's the item on Ebay:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Vintag...VSC1:rk:2:pf:0

Only $480.00, and driven by a clockwork motor, too! This toy is the best representation I have seen of the actual Autotrain. The standing engineer drove the train from the cupola in the Second Class section. The engine was directly below his feet. The engine-less First Class would have been the quieter car, with less vibration, too.

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Interesting.

Until this thread started, I never knew these existed in this form!
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In France, there was a famous small train called "Micheline" and some models have a cupola



The first Micheline (1929) was very innovative. She looked like a bus and had rubber-tyre associated with steel wheels for a best confort. 10 years later, some models had a cupola, rubber tyres, and a bicolore livery (pale yellow and red) that will be a feature of the following models. Recent model had only steel wheel.
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That rail profile in the second photo looks a bit odd! Not your standard design in the UK anyway, although I believe one of the rail-cars was trialled over here.

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There will be a Micheline model build in UK !


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd%E...ired_rail_cars
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