roderik Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 Hi, Some months ago a friend and I started constructing a new layout as an entry to the micro-layout competition organised by a Belgian model railway magazine. Here's the link to their homepage It depicts a small piece of the short line from Jaynagar in India to Janakpur in Nepal. Why this railway? Last time the competition took place almost every entry had way to much shine on it, style: Swiss, neat, non-weathered, tidy railways with little or no 'imperfections' and we want to make a sort of counterpart to this. Construction pictures are in the Fotopic-page. It's basically an oval divided in two halves by the back-scene. The layout is almost finished so we can start detailing. But we've stumbled upon a problem. Since we need a lot of figures a put on and besides the train, we are looking for HO or OO-scale figures of women wearing a saree. Does anybody know if these exist? And where can we buy then? We can paint then ourselves, so they don't need to be coloured. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.A.C Martin Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 But we've stumbled upon a problem. Since we need a lot of figures a put on and besides the train, we are looking for HO or OO-scale figures of women wearing a saree. Does anybody know if these exist? And where can we buy then? We can paint then ourselves, so they don't need to be coloured. I'm not sure about buying RTR ones, but if you take a basic woman figure, and modify it to look thus, you have the potential to use that as a master for making a mould. Resin or whitemetal cast ones of your own, if no RTR ones are available? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil_S_Wood Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Hi Roderik, I found one by Preiser. Product code PSR29050 cheers Neil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alcoRS1 Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 what an awesome layout, love the dead elephant in the creek, for shows, you should rub a little stink bomb juice to make it seem really, and get some HO size flies. Are they locos and cars, and wagons all scratch built. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roderik Posted April 18, 2010 Author Share Posted April 18, 2010 what an awesome layout, love the dead elephant in the creek, for shows, you should rub a little stink bomb juice to make it seem really, and get some HO size flies. Are they locos and cars, and wagons all scratch built. Hummm, the elephant is not dead, it's being washed. We 've changed a Preiser circus elephant so that it's laying on its side Since all the figures still have to be put, the owner with his brush is still missing... And all locos, cars and wagons are scratchbuilt. from photos from the internet.... (Unfortunately, we haven't had the change yet to go there, never will aswell I think...) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 Unfortunately, we haven't had the change yet to go there, never will aswell I think great place to retire to, perhaps? up in the mountains, where it's cool and wet..? {I often work with Gurkhas.....great people.] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LBSC123 Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 really like the looks of this layout, having been to india I feel it represents the area well, If you need an photos I'll see if i can dig osme out. Cheers Will Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted April 18, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 18, 2010 Very nice layout. I'm glad the elephant is only having a wash! Tony Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roderik Posted April 18, 2010 Author Share Posted April 18, 2010 great place to retire to, perhaps? up in the mountains, where it's cool and wet..? {I often work with Gurkhas.....great people.] My friend whom I'm building this layout with, draws Mobile phones masts and the 3D drawings are also made in India, so he has some good 'connections' over there. And as long as that mountain doesn't change into a volcano, It looks a great place to retire to indeed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishswissernie Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 Nice layout! Purely by chance I have a small collection of the prototype on my fotopic gallery from when the line was steam worked. http://my.fotopic.net/collection/01745085/ Its good to see its still in use. regards Ernie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alcoRS1 Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 Hummm, the elephant is not dead, it's being washed. We 've changed a Preiser circus elephant so that it's laying on its side Since all the figures still have to be put, the owner with his brush is still missing... And all locos, cars and wagons are scratchbuilt. from photos from the internet.... (Unfortunately, we haven't had the change yet to go there, never will aswell I think...) my bad, he he, glad the elephant is getting a bath, still I must say, the layout is just plain awesome. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil_S_Wood Posted April 19, 2010 Share Posted April 19, 2010 great place to retire to, perhaps? up in the mountains, where it's cool and wet..? {I often work with Gurkhas.....great people.] Up in the hills the climate can be very like that of the UK. Cool and rainy much of the time. People are very pleasant although massive tourism in Nepal has started to change that. The biggest problem I had was dysentery. I got it on each occasion I visited Nepal. Beautiful country though. cheers Neil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted April 20, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 20, 2010 Great idea, for the sarees's why don't you look at how the real ones are worn , use tissue secured with a dab of glue, and wrap them around any figures that are suitable? Make the tissue hard by carefully soaking it with drops of thin superglue, once it dries it's easy to paint. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brisbane King Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 Absolutely terrific layout. Actually during the office Christmas party last year, modelling the railways of the subcontinent came up. You have made such a wonderful piece of art. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roderik Posted April 21, 2010 Author Share Posted April 21, 2010 Thanks for a the positive reactions, guys! Tried some suggestions for the sarees, one going better then the other, but we're getting there... I'll try to put some extra pictures after work... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alcoRS1 Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 just awesome Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roderik Posted February 3, 2011 Author Share Posted February 3, 2011 Hi, It's been some time since I've last visited this forum. I just wanted to share some pictures of our finished layout, Janakpur Railwayline. The finished layout was presented in Octobre of last year as an entry in the bi-annual micro-layout competition of Modelspoormagazine, a Belgian Model railway magazine. We proudly finished 3rd place. At the end of February we will attend OnTraxs at the railwaymuseum in Utrecht, Holland and later this year there's Expometrique in Sedan. P.S. Sorry about all the earlier pictures being deleted. After some trouble with Fotopic, I could only reastablished the link to the Fotopic-page. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 What an absolutely superb piece of modelling ! That really does capture the flavour of what you set out to model - very well done to you both. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Claude_Dreyfus Posted February 3, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 3, 2011 I agree...this is superb, and captures the atmosphere perfectly. Would you ever consider showing it in the in the future? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theakerr Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Fantastic. I would love to see it in person, but living in Canada that will probably not happen. By the way, anyone in Canada know what happened to the Gentleman from TO who exhibited a Indian Steam 0 gauge layout that was under construction a couple or so years ago? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Piszczek Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 This is really a fascinating layout! It really does have that 'on the edge' third world appeal to it... The elephant getting a bath is cool too! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Super!!!!!! I love this. You need an old Morris Oxford. Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supaned Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 What a fantastic layout , thanks so much for bringing it to our attention. It really does capture India - last year I visited Goa ,and whilst obviously the geography is different , you've modelled the Indian "atmosphere" pretty much as I remember it. Can you give us some details of how you modelled the rolling stock, especially the carriages and the large diesel loco in the pictures? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alcoRS1 Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 I have to agree with others, wow, great layout. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roderik Posted February 5, 2011 Author Share Posted February 5, 2011 Can you give us some details of how you modelled the rolling stock, especially the carriages and the large diesel loco in the pictures? Thanks a lot everyone for your reactions. Concerning the rolling stock, we've not been to Nepal to go and measure the carriages and locos, so we mainly based it all, on the many pictures we found. (Hooray for tourists with digital cameras ) Luckily there are no platforms and people stand next to the carriages, so that was the first starting point to get an idea of the different sizes. The large diesel loco was built over a Brawa BR218 chassis. The tiny service-loco has a chassis from Kato. The carriages are built in a pretty straight-forward way: A thick piece of plasticard (1,5mm) as a base and the sides are made from a combination of 0,5 and 0,25mm plasticard. The bogies we got by dismantling some Minitrix-wagons. For detailing, as every modeller knows, everything was good to go. To get the very worn look of one of the carriages, we borrowed some tricks from car modellers. With a minidrill -the sides and heads of the carriage are first weakened so small and larger marks appear. On the heads paper was then glued on top in some places to resemble plating that had been put on to cover up these rust-holes. For the weathering we also looked at car-modelling: The model is first got a nice dark rust base colour and was then made wet in some spots. Coarse salt was sprinkled on, which sticks to these wet spots. When dry a thin layer of airbrush-paint is sprayed. After a sufficient time to let the paint dry, the salt is washed away. This way you get the effect as if several paint-layers have rusted away. To get the perfect heavily weathered look, you need to do this a least 5 times, changing the colour of the paint. Here are some construction pictures. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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