Spitzenwald Timetable

I should be making KÖB Railcar 2.0 at the moment, but unfortunately the loft ladder is stopping me. You may recall that the loft in our new apartment now houses the model making desk, which is wonderful and I’m happily messing it up, but unfortunately the ladder to the loft (installed -at a guess- in [...]

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Cardboard variations.

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 [...]

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Painted Wagon

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 [...]

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Longyearbyen Mining Co.

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 [...]

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Tip: Do this first

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. [...]

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Jobs list…

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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Scale Strategy…

A while ago, Stephen over on the Fairlight Works Blog mentioned that he had a scale strategy: he builds layouts in different scales to suit the story he wants to tell. This spilled over into a discussion on the Narrow Gauge Railway Modelling forum.
If only I was that well organised, or that accurate. I have [...]

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Roof -2

The radiators are now complete and the whole assembly fixed firmly on the roof. I overdid the filing on one of the sides so when photographed from above it looks slightly thinner than the others. My solution for this is to take photographs from the sides.
Just the cab interior and draw gear to make now, [...]

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Roof-1

Finally I had a gap in the deadlines and was able to spend a bit of last weekend on the rail car. A quick five minutes work with some plasticard and there was the new roof, fitted and ready to go. No worries.
And if you believe that, you’ll believe anything.
This is actually roof mark two: [...]

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Bit at a time

I’m making progress on the railcar, although it’s not yet reached a point where anything will show up in a photo, so you’ll have to trust me. The corners are rounded off, and I’m working on formers for the roof. Okay, so the real reason I’ve not taken a picture is that I was too [...]

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