Happy new year to everyone.
So not one for celebrations and fed up with the dead time twixt Christmas and New year I decided to make something. I looked about and ferreted in various boxes, what did I have at my disposal? One last sheet of 10 thou styrene. An idea formed, a brake wagon. Something that has been sitting in the back of my head for a while. So I dug out the wagon book, scanned and sized the the drawing and re-read the section about them in the book and the CR forum.
I decided to move the roof on a bit, seems like a good idea to get the lighting in at this stage. Very simple really , just 3 copper wires with LEDs via fine wire and suitable protection resistors. The internal and canopy lights will be separately dimmable. Easier to show a couple of pics than describe it all.
Fairly fine wire, I think I’ll get away with it looking like gas pipe.
Last year I needed some styrene sections and as it happened the only place with stock was Hattons. Oh well. Anyway having ordered the stuff I needed I had a look at the pre-owned stuff. Just for fun, honest. Anyway I saw a Hornby generic 4 wheel NBR brake which had been dropped. The end was well bashed, buffers and couplings broken, the whole thing bent, body off. But all the bits had been put in the box and it was a tenner. Add to basket.
But why ? A lot has been said about these co
I have made a bit of progress, but for the weekend I decided to have a running session and reintroduce some stock.
So looking over what will become an embankment with a view out of the window to the tenements across the road. The train is from John Boyle etches.
A view from the opposite angle, the spire of Glasgow University in the distance.
The big windows give the railway room a lot of natural light when needed, I have fitted blind
Well there we are, a backscene in place. I’m not completely happy with it but it is just pictures stuck to cardboard and I can look to improvements over time. Taking a break from it and thinking about it while standing back from it all and running some trains is more likely to inspire me to better things than flogging on with it at the moment. The mirror across the end does give a feeling of depth. Again I think I’ll leave it there for now, if it begins to look wrong I could try and generate s
