OIT - Scammell mechanical horse (1-148)

The origin of intermodal transport

Trying to model the origin of containerization in n-scale, I’m of course liked to have a model of the famous Scammell mechanical horse and/or the Scarab:
https://www.burtonlatimer.info/industry/W&W-Doom-of-the-crate.html
https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/lmscontainer/h4E4BE514#h4e4be514

There are fine models available for both from Oxford-Diecast:
https://www.oxforddiecast.co.uk/collections/1-148/products/scammell-mechnical-horse-pickfords-flatbed-trailer-nmh007
https://www.oxforddiecast.co.uk/collections/1-148/products/scammell-scarab-flatbed-trailer-raf-nrab011
unfortunately the trailer doesn’t fit to containers available from PECO or Graham Farish (it’s a little to short), so I created my own trailer for them.

In the next step I used the fine model of timbologist:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2788905
and adapted it to n-scale, fitting connections to my trailer.

I gave special attention to the famous and for its time very progressive Scammell-coupling:
https://tractors.fandom.com/wiki/Scammell_coupling
So there is a version of the mechanical horse already with the coupling – this is made, in case you like to show the horse/trailer on road only – and there is a version without the coupling. The coupling can be mounted below the trailer and there is a version of the coupling, to be clipped on the mechanical horse. So with the “MechHorse_alone”, a trailer and the both version of “fore_wheels” (coupling) you would have maximum flexibility for your scene.

At the end there is also a driver for the mechanical horse.

For windows I used Micro Kristal Klear:
https://www.dm-toys.de/en/product-details/Microscale_MI-9.html
but then the driver becomes hardly visible.

All models sized for British n-scale (1:148).

Conversion values:
Continental N-scale, 1:160 -> 92.5%
TT-gauge, 1:120 -> 123%
HO-gauge, 1:87 -> 170%
OO-gauge, 1:76 -> 195%

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