Model Trams
Free Printable Kits |
The following are web sites from which you can download printable kits for free. The kits are in a variety of scales. The downloaded image should be printed on quality card and then assembled using normal card modelling techniques. Each site gives details of the method of download and image types. Some will require an Abobe Acrobat Reader (.PDF files) while others are in JPEG or GIF format and can be printed from a browser. Some are compressed in Zip files and you will require suitable software such as Winzip to expand them.
Pete Watson Card Kits where there are some free downloads.
Frantisek Hajdekr. Prague Skoda 15T three section car. There is a video on making it.
Historical kits. A Paris single-deck tram and some buildings from a book.
Scalescenes sell building kits in 0, 00 and N, but there are a few free samples.
TPB Transport Studio has a range of Hong Kong trams in about 00 but you will need a Facebook ID to get them. Search "tram".
In 2000 Stuttgart transport produced two models in 00 scale. They are no longer available but we have kept copies and they can be downloaded from us here. If your system will allow it, with a right-click on the link below (recommended) you can save the .PDF file to disk for viewing and printing off-line at a later date. However, if you click on the link, the file will be loaded directly into your Adobe Acrobat Reader for display on screen.
Rack Railway ZT4 car (95 Kb)
Stadtbahn DT8 car - section 1 (136 Kb)
Stadtbahn DT8 car - section 2 (147 Kb)
Similarly Epson produced three free PDF Hong Kong 1987 type tram models in 00 scale which are now difficult to obtain, but we have kept copies and they can be downloaded from us here. Epson did advertise on Hong Kong trams, but these liveries are fictitious.
Blue version (1.66 Mb)
Pink version (2.3 Mb)
Red and yellow version (3.3 Mb)
The following Japanese website from which you can download printable kits. To make sense of them you will probably need Japanese language support on your computer.
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