Inspired by Sir Douglas's efforts I decided to make a start on a loco, built from plasti-card sheet over the chassis of a dodgy old Bachmann US outline loco picked up for £8 on ebay. First I chopped the chassis by 20mm to help fit the tighter radii of our railway. I also added as much weight as I could at this stage as it is a pancake motor. Not ideal for reliability I know but this one seems to run OK.
First I sat and drew out the concept model onto graph paper, stuck it to box card and produ
Having come across lots of ways to do the electrofrog points dance, I was inspired to make these for our set up. The kids said they wanted it simple to operate, and I wanted play value built in to encourage them to really work as a team at exhibitions. This method is cheap at less than £1.50 a point and fairly simple to construct.
You need-
Brass strip, 25mm+ wide
Brass rod- fairly thick, 3mm min
Brass tube which fits over the rod as a sleeve.
Soldering kit- if you haven't soldered s
Whilst reviewing my galleries I realised I had not updated the blog, so here are a few pictures of progress.
We have got the second board and its track done, which I will update next time, despite the first version of it warping in the warm at work and me having to make it all over again.
The young people have done all the plaster work and we have designed and built the building shells on the left from foam board.
Overall scene,
A view down the trench, towards the main gun emplacement,
After another 3 sessions we have got a bit further, with the shape of the basic hills and features done. These are made from scrap insulation board from a skip, which was glued with no more nails.
On the track side of things it has all been wired and is awaiting a coat of paint on the rails and some point operating switches underneath before a final test and ballast.
The young people have done over half the soldering, both of droppers and setting up the power to each track section. Though cont
I managed to complete the base board for the first section of our narrow gauge Games Workshop scale railway last week, mostly from scrap wood and after some digging in the loft, e-bay bargain hunting I got some track sorted.
The young people have started track laying this week after a discussion about the limits of board size, end to end running and loco release. They have decided to have the main running line near the back as a through line, with this module being a passing loop (short!) or re
I run a war-games club for young people and have done for 11years, many of them play Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 game, which has been around for over 20 years now. This is a good introduction to the skills and techniques of model making but has the added bonus of involving all sorts of fantastical creatures and the opportunity to batter your friends in a socially acceptable way at the games table.
Recently I have taken in a few bits of my 2mm work to do whilst running the hobby table and
