Highclere - 2mm Finescale

Is that a city?

Its supposed to be, yes.

 

J.

Very nice - and nice to see project number three is now underway and looking good.

After seeing the 'bag-o-shame' of city parts at various stages it's nice to see it with a boiler! Is that 3D printed or scratch built?

 

Tom.

Shhhh. I was hoping no-one was going to mention my bag-o-shame! Its only taken me 6 attempts to get this far and its still not finished.

 

The boiler is 3D printed (in FUD) which was kindly modeled for me by John Birkett-Smiths son. Its available on Shapeways along with his other 3D GWR bits.

 

J

I like the City!!  Coming along very nicely.

 

The Autocoach under frame looks like a work of art too ;-)

Wow - a VERY little City! I have seen this one on the the slow burn for a while from Missy at the various shows and to see it with the boiler on is really great! I love doing auto trailer under frames - lots of lovely fiddly bits...

 

Very nice as always!

 

All the best,

 

Castle

Its supposed to be, yes.

 

J.

I bet it turns into a stunning model

Thanks guys, there is still lots of work to do on it but then its taken me a couple of years to reach this point anyway so a bit longer wont hurt. I havent worked out how to drive the wheels etc yet, Im just cencentrating on the bits I can do right now.

 

J

At least your tags are still non-conformist. 

I have never been one to follow convention!

Hi Julia, I know what you mean about multiple projects on the go at the same time - and about making exceptions to the rule :-)

 

A City for Highclere, well it doesn't get much better than that! I'll wait for it to be finished with patience but also much anticipation!

Well I couldnt not do City of Truro for Highclere really, its about as iconic a loco as you can get for the line. As Castle said, the engine is a 'slow burner' though, dont expect it to be finished in a week or twos time, I have the driving wheels currently being cast in Brass ready for stage two at the moment. I hope I can do the engine justice though...

 

J

Well if anyone can do it, it must be you.

 

There were so many great loco classes on the DNSR over the years, especially in the early years of course. I wrote up a list of all the classes I could find records/photos of once over on gwr.org.uk - including 157 and Queen class locos!

 

I don't remember if you have plans to run a mogul?

I am pretty sure the moguls (43xx?) were quite common on the line from what I have read. Named engines were quite rare though with the exception being City of Truro.

 

Right now I am just happy having anything to run on the layout so anything goes. The only real plans I have is to make a couple of 22xx Colletts as these seemed to be the 'bread and butter' on the line, and I would love to do Highclere Castle sometime.

 

J