tac foley
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Hi there, all. I'm just opening the stout cardboard box containing the first of what hope will be at least three laser-cut models of Welsh NG prototypes from Sixteenmills.co.uk to run on my 45mm gauge track. David Mills, the proprietor and organiser of the whole shebang, it well-known in his locale of North Wales. The quality of his products is nothing less than excellent. He has recently teamed up with Tom Eivers, he of Endon Valley Decals [afternoon, Tom] and now includes his superb decals with his range of passenger coaches for certain lines.
To illustrate the measure of his skills with the laser cutter, here is an example of a model of the original, standard-gauge version, on which the NG version is based, in a raw, unpainted state, cut in what he describes as poor quality 1mm MDF, and to a scale of 5.5mm to the foot. This rather odd scale is based on the use of S Scale track...
Image used by kind permission of David V. Mills.
Back to the model in hand - here is a sneak preview of the components, as yet unseparated from their surrounding sprues - if that's the right word for them.
The finely detailed strapping is cunningly reproduced in heavy-duty card of a kind with which I am unfamiliar, but it's very 'scale-looking' dimensionally.
Anyhow, I'll be posting the build here if anybody is interested in looking in from time to time. I'll say no more except to give you fair warning that Grampian Models' styrene rivets and nuts/bolt/washers will be featuring strongly in the near future - not because they are necessary, but purely because I happen to like 'em.
To illustrate the measure of his skills with the laser cutter, here is an example of a model of the original, standard-gauge version, on which the NG version is based, in a raw, unpainted state, cut in what he describes as poor quality 1mm MDF, and to a scale of 5.5mm to the foot. This rather odd scale is based on the use of S Scale track...
Image used by kind permission of David V. Mills.
Back to the model in hand - here is a sneak preview of the components, as yet unseparated from their surrounding sprues - if that's the right word for them.
The finely detailed strapping is cunningly reproduced in heavy-duty card of a kind with which I am unfamiliar, but it's very 'scale-looking' dimensionally.
Anyhow, I'll be posting the build here if anybody is interested in looking in from time to time. I'll say no more except to give you fair warning that Grampian Models' styrene rivets and nuts/bolt/washers will be featuring strongly in the near future - not because they are necessary, but purely because I happen to like 'em.
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