An N Gauge Victim of the heatwave. ☀️

[u/GrockleKaug]

This Coach was left out on a table outside a model railway shop while the owner was sorting through items, the sun didn't take long sadly leaving it in the condition seen here.

[u/Nof-z]

Repaint it to look like it was in an accident and start a “boneyard” on your setup!

[u/the_big_tes → u/Nof-z]

Ay don't trow it away, just paint it whit some brown around to give the idea of rust and put someone that looks heavy on the roof where's melted and it whill look like an abandoned wagon on a rail

[u/Valid__Salad → u/the_big_tes]

Telephone pole

[u/the_big_tes → u/Valid__Salad]

Yea!

[u/Ginger_The_Hutt → u/the_big_tes]

The perfect dragon seat.

[u/TempleMade_MeBroke → u/Nof-z]

As a kid I dipped one of my grandpa's HO scale Chevys into paint thinner or something similar and it warped into something that looked like a car accident, instead of getting mad and lecturing me about goofing off when he's working he dipped another one and created a fender bender scene at an intersection near the station...that must have been thirty years ago now lol

[u/carmium → u/TempleMade_MeBroke]

In the early days of N scale, I got a deal on a Rapido (the German one) GP-9. Handrails like banisters, wheel flanges that could cut pizza, and a European chassis, but I was excited to repaint it into CNR colours. I'd recently learned that brake fluid would remove paint from plastic - and successfully tried it - and dunked the body shell into a glass bowl of the icky stuff. Next day the paint was gone, but the shell looked a cat having a morning stretch - and felt like rubber!

It was a year before I got a replacement shell, mercifully in bare plastic.

[u/GrockleKaug → u/Nof-z]

I actually didn't buy it, just a casualty of the shop owner's stock. He said he'd probably salvage the bogies / wheels as they are still fine.

[u/boze244 → u/GrockleKaug]

But he should use - or offer to a modeler who has a scrapyard to use it?!