For the self-respecting modern, customer-orientated narrow gauge railway with freight ambitions and one eye on the bottom line, the ‘Must-have’ accesory is a container wagon. Transporter wagons or rollboks have their very useful place, but they are specialised and complicated bits of kit, whereas the good old ISBU container is simple and needs pretty normal [...]
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Stock design 01: Intermodal
Posted in 1:55 scale, Körschtalbahn, Maschienenfabrik Ostfildern, intermodal on October 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
New Workbench
Posted in Blogging, Family, Maschienenfabrik Ostfildern on July 14, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Our new flat has a loft. And not just a gap under the roof with oddly spaced planks with cheap plasterboard inbetween and a ladder leaning against the hatch either: a proper loft with wooden floor, a folding ladder on a spring loaded trapdoor, electricity and a roof like a marquee.
I’ve got space. I mean, [...]
Cardboard variations.
Posted in Maschienenfabrik Ostfildern, Random Ideas, Scratchbuilding on May 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Over the last few weeks I worked on two more variations of the card tippler, proving that I really am far too easily distracted by new ideas.
In a rare flash of planning, I made two variations on the one wagon, to save time, which is why the two pictures are taken from different ends: I [...]
Container doodle
Posted in 1:55 scale, Körschtalbahn, Maschienenfabrik Ostfildern on April 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Over the last week I’ve been carrying this piece of paper about and doodling designs for a container wagon whenever I’ve had a moment to spare. Unfortunately this made the paper a bit dog-eared, but that’s life. At least it gave me something to stave off the withdrawal, as well as hopefully giving me a [...]
Painted Wagon
Posted in Maschienenfabrik Ostfildern, Scratchbuilding on March 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’m not getting a lot done at the moment because of work and looking for a new apartment, but another burst of enthusiasm last week saw the Longyearbyen wagon mostly painted and heavily weathered using my normal artists acrylics. I’m still working on the final effect which I want to achieve with the weathering. I’m [...]
Longyearbyen Mining Co.
Posted in Maschienenfabrik Ostfildern, Random Ideas, Scratchbuilding on March 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I built this wagon in a fit of creative enthusiasm at least a one weekend ago, and it’s been sitting on the shelf ever since. This is an experiment that’s been a long time in the offing: a 1:32 scale tippler. I’ve had a vague notion to build a 1:32 scale model since seeing pictures [...]
Downsizing 2…
Posted in 1:55 scale, Körschtalbahn, Maschienenfabrik Ostfildern, intermodal on March 4, 2009 | 7 Comments »
In which I don’t announce a change to 1:87 scale.
So I’d almost completed the railcar, and as is fairly common for me, I get distracted by something else, namely building a 1:55 scale 40′ container, as you do. The nice people over at the MTI Forum had put a print of container sides with [...]
Desk Job 2
Posted in Blogging, Family, Maschienenfabrik Ostfildern on December 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The sum total of my modelmaking has not quite managed the goals I set out in my earlier post. In fact, after the last progress report all I managed was a pair of driving desks for the cabs of the railcar. Not a lot but all I could fit in between celebrating Christmas with [...]
Tip: Do this first
Posted in 1:55 scale, Maschienenfabrik Ostfildern, Scratchbuilding on December 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Following on from this post, I’ve got the internal strengtheners in place. It took longer than expected, because rather than building a support structure around the motor block and then make the outside bits, brain of britain went and built the casing first, so it took ages to measure, fit, recut, file and fit again. [...]
Jobs list…
Posted in 1:55 scale, Maschienenfabrik Ostfildern, Scratchbuilding on December 13, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Several cycling bloggers of the more serious kind put their daily and weekly mileage on their posts to keep themselves motivated to train. Personally I have no desire or intention to ride extravagant distances by bike, but I have discovered that blogging is an excellent way to keep me building model trains. Perhaps it’s just [...]
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