Hello.
I had an enjoyable weekend, on Saturday I went along to the Narrow Gauge Show at Sparsholt College and enjoyed my time there. I chatted to a few poeple there and was equally inspired by some of the layouts and display. One of the people I spent some time talking to was Allen of Worsley Works fame and I left with a few goodies from him to try out.
Allen has added some more items to his collection of 2mm Scale Narrow Gauge stock including some Irish Narrow Gauge engines and coaches. He kindly gave me an etch of one of these engines to build and see how it assembled...
The prototype for this engine is a Kerr Stuart 4-6-2 which was based on the Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway. An obscure prototype I know but an intersting engine netherless.
This gets me onto the reason for this post. I am a strong believer in the idea that if something looks right then I am happy with it. As I have worked in 2mm Scale pretty much exclusively I feel I have a 'good eye' in getting things to look right and 'fit'. I really dont understand why there are people who have serious hang ups about getting everything exactly to scale, even when this means altering the dimensions by 0.2 or 0.3mm, to me this is a secondry priority and I dont mind making compromises to get things looking right.
Of course sometimes I can struggle finding a sense of scale...
The above picture is a good example of this. All these engines are to 2mm scale, at the rear is my standard gauge pannier tank, then its the Irish narrow gauge Kerr Stuart engine, followed by my attempt at the narrow gauge engine Prince. The difference in size is huge and to my eye at the moment they just done look right, but I am taking a leap of faith and carrying on with these as according to the drawings they are all correct. The thing is, is it really that important to get things right to one or two decimal places when things that are built to scale can be so different? I dont believe so and I will carry on building things my way....
Missy
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