Italian Railways (FS) - a beginners guide to modelling

[10800]

Probably setting in 50s/60s.

 

Our late friend Grahame Hitchen (bgman) left some Rivarossi locos and beautiful scratchbuilt buildings for a proposed Italian layout; John Farmer (Re6/6) and myself have decided to make something of it. 

[Northroader]

The magic words are “plastico di Castello”. All the ideas you’ll ever need are on here. Good luck with the venture, Grahame and I used to exchange posts and his sense of fun came through besides skilful modelling, and I’m glad you’re keeping his work going.

[sncf231e]

A contemporary (1950s) model of a castano/isabella baggage car:

Regards

Fred

[5944]

10 hours ago, 10800 said:

Probably setting in 50s/60s.

 

Our late friend Grahame Hitchen (bgman) left some Rivarossi locos and beautiful scratchbuilt buildings for a proposed Italian layout; John Farmer (Re6/6) and myself have decided to make something of it. 

I saw a couple of photos of the buildings he had made, they were very impressive.

[Re6/6]

15 hours ago, 10800 said:

Our late friend Grahame Hitchen (bgman) left some Rivarossi locos and beautiful scratchbuilt buildings for a proposed Italian layout; John Farmer (Re6/6) and myself have decided to make something of it. 

 

Having only just found this thread here are some pictures  of Grahame's exquisite buildings taken from his thread.

 

They inspired 10800 and me to imagine what G was going to build so the plan is to continue to build it.

 

 

Edited June 5, 2022 by Re6/6

[10800]

Three of Grahame's Rivarossi locos are surplus to requirements and so are up for sale on Ebay. Andy has kindly allowed me to flag them up on here 🙂. All have DCC chips, and the steam loco a sound chip.

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/225034252079

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/225034276696

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/225034267728