M Graff

Latest update on my layout:

The Minturn station.

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/638/entry-14948-part-41-the-minturn-stn/

This is a really good model of the bridge!

The towers look spot on!

I stay well clear of that part of the world....

An Aussie friend of mine who is an active RC aeroplane modeler, he says that if you place something by itself, it is "offered to the spiders"....

Everytime he was preparing the planes, he had to get them out of the fuselage etc. first, as he didn't want any surprises...

He started to put his planes in sealed plastic bags just to save time.

Need some more 1:87 1930's era cars!

The postwar era is well covered by others, so I hope OD see the opportunity to fill this BIG gap!

Ahh, but it isn't sea going!

:-)

It is going to be a river/lake port mostly for timber transport.....

And the mountains will be on the bottom part, so you will look at the parts separately.

And it is no worse than multiple layer layouts. ;-)

Thanks for the input. :-)

The room is 650 x 450 centimeters.

The minimum radius will be 65 centimeters and the minimum mainline radius 70 centimeters.

Hi all, I felt that it has become a lot of changes to my model world . So much so that it required a new layout thread .

It all started with my Middletown, Kensington & Eastern RR that I built for the 2010 challenge.

A layout that would depict a fictional New England in 1943. Thanks to a move to larger premises etc. I started to build on it, and add on to it a little, but felt that it did not really work ... : (

My good friend and museum owner Peter Haventon offered then to aquire the layout to have at his transportation museum!

What also changed my focus is that I happened to buy a pair of D&RGW narrow gauge " Mudhens " in HOn3 . That " blunder " made me go back to my roots of inspiration; John Allen and Malcolm Furlow!

My first real layout was a Colorado mining railroad built after Furlows style and mindset. It was trafficked with what was available at the time, a Rivarossi Heisler and a number of low side gondolas.

My book about John Allen's Gorre & Daphetid RR ( Gory and defeated ) that I got when I turned 12 was totally worn out when I was 18, so I bought another one!

Now I had an idea! Could I not move my fictional railroad halfway across the continent to Colorado?

I have way too many locomotives and cars with custom company painting to decal and reapint to the new name .....

So if the MK & E could become the Minturn, Kings divide & eastern RR instead?

Minturn is located within the D & RGW's narrow gauge network.

So if my fictitious railroad connects to the narrow gauge in Minturn and then broke new ground to the north east via Kings Peak and then on to Idaho springs and Denver?

Oh, yes!

Then I can have narrow gauge, standard gauge and dual gauge.

I will still use a bit more poetic license and do a port! But it will become a river port!

So now I have the dilemma of taking down the framework I 've worked with.....

But they are easy to modify to my new idea.

The new track plan is basically a copy of the G & D! However with some modifications to suit the space given.

What was given as well was that there will be mountains from floor to ceiling!

What makes this a fun plan is that you have to run around all the loops to run one lap! And it will be easy to have overview from the middle of the room.

Here are some better pictures :

It is fiddly with the small struts that holds the walkway....

The doors with fittings and brackets .

The ladders are made of jig-bent nickel silver wires with Grandt Line nut-bolt-washers .

Painted!

Properly cleaned, primed with plastic prep for improved adhesion on plastic and then painted with Polly Scale D&RGW freight car red.

The sides and ends are clear coated with Future Kleer to prepare it for the decals.

The original:

Now it's just the couplers left to add and the decals and some light weathering.

It was a good test run before the construction of the rest of them. I intend to build 10 of them in the first round. Next build will be in mixed media with a wood body/chassie and brass/plastic parts.

I sat down last night and started building on the boxcar.

I used Evergreen HO boxcar siding and strip stock. The trucks are brass from my drawer.... ;-)

Here's what it looks like after two evenings job:

You have to excuse the bad pictures, I'll need to take better ones tomorrow. :-)

Now, there is just the grab irons, tie rods and some Nut-Bolt-Washers from Grandt line to add.

It is always the first build that takes time. Very much looking at it and the drawings and pondering how best to get to it.

Hi, I was thinking of having this thread to show my builds of Colorado narrow gauge stock, preferably from the D&RGW .

There are certainly a lot of RTR in HOn3. Both locomotives and wagons, but there is a satisfaction in creating them yourself.

In particular, the boxcars are very simply constructed, and they often differed a bit from each other because of revisions and general changes/repairs .....

What I do not intend to build myself are the couplers and trucks. As they are available quite cheaply, it hardly justifies building them from scratch.

Same thing with the brake cylinders.

I'm going to try to build the cars in different materials: Plasticard, wood and brass. Then I can see how the various materials of the models will end up compared to my wishes about how the result should be.

Here are the plans for the first build:

I was looking for drawings of the 3000 Series boxcar on the net, but what was there did not correspond entirely with the pictures I have of the originals ....

Therefore, I drew my own drawings:

You can also see the preliminary drawings of the DSP & P car ...

Bogies and decals are acquired. Plasticard and Northeastern with the correct plank width and spacing is ordered.

To be continued.

Well, the biggest problem in Nopestralia isn't the snakes, rather the creepy crawlies that has one job in life: trying the very best to end you if you come near.....

Thankfully there is a solution to that:

http://i.imgur.com/Z7Gpf.gif

Slightly off topic, but I also like this. Not your average Granada, but an M&S Granada..  http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-Granada-Mk2-Bulletproof-/111266629801?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item19e80208a9 One can only imagine, but if this car is bulletproof- what the heck caused the 'small dent' in the roof? (optional extras include leather seats and sawn-off in spare wheel well perhaps??)

 

Edit for typo.

Ever had trouble with rivet counters?  Worry not, help is at hand:

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Believed-Russian-D-2-Armoured-Railcar-1-72-unknown-make-kit-built-OO-00-suitable-/161203036017?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item2588731f71

....and still the madness goes on....

 

He must have very deep pockets.

Eastern Thumatorp (Tommarp), Swedens oldest city (where I live) got its town rights in the early 1100's and had a large Cistersiense monestary.

Now just a one church village....

The river dried out and the railway doesn't stop here anymore.....

The swedish rail system have collapsed, but at least we can get a laugh from it...

I'm definitely interested!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dublo-duchess-conversion-into-Royal-Train-Jubilee-livery-/171196935517?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item27dc21ed5d

 

Really? (and you need to find a set of wheels etc.!)

I personally think it sounds very cheap!

If a client came to me with a project like that, which surely would take at least 10-20 hours to complete, it would cost at least £ 150-300 + materials....

I saw that the Metropolitan listing ended unsold with a £2000 opening price, and is now re-listed at £2500!?!

Seems like a odd strategy......

Try being chased on foot by a raging Moose!

That'll get your heart pumping!

It happened to me 15 years ago when walking home from a friends house in the evening.

The only thing saving me was some thick bushes that I threw myself into!

That was NO joy, as the bushes were of the thorned variety.......

As I forgot to pick a diesel engine, here's my choice:

The IC Green Diamond!

My kudos to Fasttracks!

I just have to say what a wonderful service they have!

Speediest delivery across the Atlantic that I've seen.....

I ordered on the 23,

they shipped the same day,

and on the 26:th I had it in the mailbox here in Sweden!

The shipping cost was also very reasonable! (unlike some other US suppliers.... ).

So, that was really, really good! :-)

I must say "hoorah!" to the chap who suggested a 1900-1930 ship.

 

I love the ship kit in the range, but it's just too moden. I suggest:

 

1.traditional tramp steamer of the "3 island" vaiety - these were very common and representative of the whole 1890-1950s peiod, so must satisfy most people;

2.Paddle steamer, of the sort used for Channel and excursion traffic - again the 1890-1950s period is appopriate.

 

20mm scale wargames ought to welcome these vessels too.

 

I would also add my vote fo a Victorian Gas Works

 

Thanks

Yes, I think a 3 island steamer would be smashing!

Maybe a modular one that could be built as full scale or selectively compressed?