RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted July 13, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 13, 2011 Probably doesn't have much timber. And maybe not even a creek most of the year Gotta love the irony in Aussie place names. One place you'll seldom see a kangaroo is on Kangaroo Flat Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcmacchipilot Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Hi, I live in rockingham WA. Hi, I live in Orange, NSW. I'd love to get to know any other modellers around here. Regards, David Taylor. I just spent two weeks in orange on holidays I met another guy up there that is starting in N guage. Regards, Owen Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Harbour Posted July 14, 2011 Author Share Posted July 14, 2011 I went through Rockingham one Sunday afternoon in May whilst working in Perth - en route to visit DCC Concepts. Quite an adventure by public transport on a Sunday! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dajt Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Well, you came over at the right time of year... avoid the summer heat and all I know one guys who models in HO, and some of the guys in the model engineering club have various small scale models as one-offs and long dormant layouts which don't seem to be as much fun as riding around on the bigger trains! I'm getting spread a bit too thin with family, work, study, an OO scale trainset to build for the boys, O scale modelling for myself, I've just joined the S scale society because that looks like my sort of group, repainting my current 5" gauge 0-4-0, building an electric one with some spare bits I have, and there is a 5" gauge 2-6-0 project to get started. Not hard to see I'm a good starter but not much of a finisher! Regards, David. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcmacchipilot Posted July 20, 2011 Share Posted July 20, 2011 Public transport over here is supposed to be the best in Australia ( or so the transport lectures at uni say ) It can be a bit interesting to navigate though. I took a chance to go and see the live steam loco's in orange the last weekend I was there. It was nice to see a number of australian prototypes being modelled. I take it you 5" is live steam as well. Whata are you moddeling? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmynswgr Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 Hi Jon, and fellow modellers. I'm from Kings Langley, Western Sydney, NSW....certainly not alone Given the size of Australia (and do we include our mates from across the 'dutch'), it might be worth knowing who is based where, so that we can identify who is local to who.Happy to start the ball rolling. I'm Jon and I live in Kellyville, North West Sydney. Anybody else nearby? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dajt Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 Public transport over here is supposed to be the best in Australia ( or so the transport lectures at uni say ) It can be a bit interesting to navigate though. I took a chance to go and see the live steam loco's in orange the last weekend I was there. It was nice to see a number of australian prototypes being modelled. I take it you 5" is live steam as well. Whata are you moddeling? I have a 5" gauge freelance 0-4-0. I've just done some CAD drawings for the tender frames for a 24-class NSWGR 2-6-0 which we're going to get laser cut - about 8 people are going to try to build one following along with one of the club's better builders as he makes one for himself. The club does have a focus for NSWGR prototypes, and have a special NSW steam running day each year, but we also have some guys making NSW diesel models. There is a beautiful Silver City comet which was featured in AME recently, and a railcar too. Live steam is a lot of fun, the engines certainly smell right compared to our little electric ones But then being so small they're also tricky to keep going. I used to be a stoker on a preseved steam yacht on Sydney Harbour and it's full size boiler was probably easier to run than these little ones! Regards, David. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grasshopper Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 I've not been active for a while =but now that I have my teacher training out of the way & my 1st teaching post - I am at Budgewoi on the NSW Central Coast - model in 7mm - Newcastle (on Hunter) colliery railways are the passion Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Solly Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 And I live just north of Adelaide in South Aust. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwinewt Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 Just found this group... I'm in Christchurch, just across the valley from Ferrymead (alas, not for long though) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gormo Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 Hi Jon I am from Guildford in western Sydney........I am into oo gauge british steam..........no layout yet but the room is almost complete and the layout plan is ready.......see below..........Cheers Gormo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackBlack Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 I now live in Vermont, Victoria. I model in oo scale modern uk Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazmanjack Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Anybody else in Sydney? Or am I alone?? Hi Jon, I have just joined this site and I'm in Padstow, Sydney... Seems to be a lot of Victorians on this site. I have just started an OO layout, with no particular area/region in mind. Just something for my son to run his Thomas on ! Although I am taking it a little more serious than a small simple layout !! Cheers, Gary. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted January 21, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 21, 2012 Hi Gary and welcome. I'm sure you will find some other modellers nearby but in the meantime - and with location being no object on the internet - there's plenty to read and enjoy so get stuck in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
memyselfand11 Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Hi guys, I live near Ballarat, Victoria, surprisingly out of range of even a basic modelling shop... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwinewt Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Hi guys, I live near Ballarat, Victoria, surprisingly out of range of even a basic modelling shop... Try living in Chch, NZ... I'm not even sure where my local modelling shop went! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobi323 Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Woop Woop Near Cedar Vale Qld. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted January 25, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 25, 2012 Try living in Chch, NZ... I'm not even sure where my local modelling shop went! Representing liquefaction in model form might be a challenge as well. Hope you're all OK over there. It still doesn't sound too stable. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwinewt Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Representing liquefaction in model form might be a challenge as well. Hope you're all OK over there. It still doesn't sound too stable. It's actually quite easy for the wet stuff... pick up some off the garden and plop it all over the model in little piles... for additional effect pile it up and pour water over it Thankfully we haven't been put out much at all by the quakes - although we did buy a house just before the December aftershocks... There are so many much worse off than we are Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D802 FORMIDABLE Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Sunny Bris vegas ( Very wet Brisbane at the moment ) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRman Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 I can't believe I missed this topic! Another member of the Blackburn South thread hijacking team here! So I'm another one in Melbourne, Victoria. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
QRModeller Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 I know my location says Brisbane but I actually live a bit further south inbetween Brissie and the Gold Coast. Matt. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gummy-Joe Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 I also reside in beautiful Christchurch, NZ. Although I'm interested in a variety of NZ, UK & US railway subjects, I am trying very hard (and rather unsuccessfully...) to concentrate on Blue era BR in N scale. Hoping to get something small up and running in the near future. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted February 24, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 24, 2012 And how is Christchurch doing these days? I sincerely hope it stays stable enough for long enough to actually get something up and running. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussiebrfan Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Gday to all fellow Aussies and Melburnians. Thought I'd belatedly say hello, I'm located in Cranbourne, regards Glenn Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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