StephH
7/8ths and 1/12th modeling in Railways and Birdwat
Well I cannot believe how long its been since I posted pic's of the line. It seems its been over a year and not a lot was run over the last year or so as life outside the garden took over, so I thought I'd start another thread.
Things have been evolving on the line (and deteriorating too!). I still run the estate line to the more rubber 1/12th and 7/8ths but a new project has been evolving. Since I bought and built the IP Engineering 7/8ths coaches I have had a hankering for the bucolic British narrow gauge trains meandering though the countryside. So I started to assemble a few bits of stock to build trains set there, around the time of the 2WW perhaps, but still using the same line. Anyway as you may have seen I am building a live steamer on a Lawley chassis and that now is ready for paint. But I figured it would be nice to have a battery powered steam outline loco too. So my tramway loco was born being scratch built on a Piko 0-6-0 chassis. I have to say at this point its not finished... the detailing is not there (such as bolts on the cylinders etc) and the cab backhead and steam turret are being built separately before adding them and the rest of the cab details.
Any way today was its first proper outing on the line as the weather over the last year has taken its toll and I had a fair bit of work to do before a train could run.
Now we are at the running stage its building refurbishment and replacement etc in the near future. I'm thinking of building removable station buildings etc for the narrow gauge line so as they live inside and only go out for running sessions. The original estate stuff needs restoration a bit but lives outside. Of course the temptation to relay the track with proper wooden sleepers and spikes keeps coming, then something happens to make me thankful for the Aristo and LGB.
Anyway hopefully I'll keep adding pic's a bit more regularly than previously!
ATB
Steph'
Things have been evolving on the line (and deteriorating too!). I still run the estate line to the more rubber 1/12th and 7/8ths but a new project has been evolving. Since I bought and built the IP Engineering 7/8ths coaches I have had a hankering for the bucolic British narrow gauge trains meandering though the countryside. So I started to assemble a few bits of stock to build trains set there, around the time of the 2WW perhaps, but still using the same line. Anyway as you may have seen I am building a live steamer on a Lawley chassis and that now is ready for paint. But I figured it would be nice to have a battery powered steam outline loco too. So my tramway loco was born being scratch built on a Piko 0-6-0 chassis. I have to say at this point its not finished... the detailing is not there (such as bolts on the cylinders etc) and the cab backhead and steam turret are being built separately before adding them and the rest of the cab details.
Any way today was its first proper outing on the line as the weather over the last year has taken its toll and I had a fair bit of work to do before a train could run.
Now we are at the running stage its building refurbishment and replacement etc in the near future. I'm thinking of building removable station buildings etc for the narrow gauge line so as they live inside and only go out for running sessions. The original estate stuff needs restoration a bit but lives outside. Of course the temptation to relay the track with proper wooden sleepers and spikes keeps coming, then something happens to make me thankful for the Aristo and LGB.
Anyway hopefully I'll keep adding pic's a bit more regularly than previously!
ATB
Steph'
