I’m pretty certain that many railway modellers are put off the thought of scratch building wagons and locomotives because they think its too difficult. I know I was for many a year. It wasn’t until I started in Gn15 that I took up scratch building seriously. I have to admit my fears were unfounded. It [...]
Archive for May, 2009
A word about Scratchbuiding
Posted in Uncategorized on May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Heywood wagons
Posted in Uncategorized on May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Spurred on by the success of the construction of “Effie” I decided to make a train for her to haul. The Mark Smithers book comes with a full selection of drawings for pretty much all of Sir Arthurs’ stock. So reserach was not a problem. Plenty of plans, plenty of photographs. Easy, peasy lemon squeezy… [...]
Effie
Posted in Uncategorized on May 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As I progressed with my Whinny Lane layout (to be described later) I decided that having a go at building a steam loco model would be a good idea. I had recently discovered the works of Sir Arthur Heywood and had become captivated by his designs. I purchased a copy of Mark Smithers excellent book [...]
Tenwr Mine
Posted in Uncategorized on May 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Tenwr mine was one of “those ideas”. I was just hit by the need to build a layout. A small layout. Nothing special. I woke up one morning (sounds like a blues song coming on…) with a layout building itch I needed to scratch. I had the day off work and it was raining. So [...]
The Railcar
Posted in Uncategorized on May 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The other vehicle constructed specifically for the A.V.Lt. Rly. was the railcar. It was kicked into action from a challlenge from Carl Arendt (not the only challenge we’ve ever had I add) Steve Bennett had sent Carl a photograph of a railcar kit he was putting into production in his 09 range of models. It [...]
The Rapier
Posted in Uncategorized on May 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ransomes and Rapier to be exact. Was the first Gn15 locomotive I built from drawings supplied by Carl Arendt. Its a very basic plasticard construction on a Model Power Porter Hustler chassis. It was the first loco body I completed and ran as a working loco, in any scale. There was lots of things in [...]
The Apple Valley Light Railway
Posted in Uncategorized on May 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My first Gn15 layout was the Apple Valley Light Railway. The original plan was concocted for a competition on the small layout design group on Yahoo! It was a unique design centered on a hidden “lazy susan” traintable that in addition to lining up with all the tracks on the layout could also be switched [...]
In the beGnining…
Posted in Uncategorized on May 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It was several years ago now. I was surfing the internet looking for model railway related websites for inspiration to build a layout and I happened across Carl Arendts’ description of his Squarefoot estate railway. A Gn15 layout in under 1 square foot. I was absolutely capitvated by the layout not only for its small [...]
The past starts now…
Posted in Uncategorized on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Many, many years ago I received a Hornby Freightmaster train set for Christmas. I could have been about 11 years old. But it is now so long ago that I can’t remember. That train set had a huge impact on me and I’ve been interested in Model railways ever since. When I say interested in [...]
