Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Not trackmaking

I was going to continue talking about making more points today, but then I though, 'I've done this before'. Maybe its just getting boring. so after an hour in the man-sion I'm back inside, and after last weekends tours I'm looking at Rail car plans for some odd reason. I have the mech for the Standard,and could probably knock up a mech for the Tin hare....

So, are there any questions the you readers have on hand making track? Or any other questions for that matter
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East Town Workshops said...

Hmmm, yeah I've been thinking about biting the bullet and hand laying my own track. So far have just been doing some reading on how to go about it. Darn! I would have gone to the Kiwi Rail shing ding if I'd known the DL was there - Frauline had me doing chores all day!

May 3, 2011 at 10:25 PM
beaka said...

railcar in a day! has a nice ring about it. mind you its taken me 12 months to complete my DF from Kiwibonds article. i have a newer model of the graham farish railcar with a new bachmann mechanism and it is a superb runner. apart from the front and rear cabs, it looks very similar to std railcar. being 1/148?? scale,not sure how much bigger the top needs to be to match 1/120.

May 4, 2011 at 7:47 AM
Anonymous said...

oooh oooh I have a question - ask me. Its not related to tech matters at all.
I was having an oldy look at the oldy layouts that you guys were doing - and I got to thinking about the wonderful lush bush scenery that was liberally plastered everywhere looking very true kiwi. Now if I look at it, it works out to be approx $4000 per cubic foot if done with woodland scenics... so... I've only got a small layout, say 12' x 10' and about two foot in the vertical, and it's going to get a mite pricey - ideas pleeze :)

May 4, 2011 at 12:10 PM
Anonymous said...

I guess it depends on the level of authenticity you are striving to achieve I.e a forest of individual trees or bush with occasional trees scattered throughout.
Remember it is the overall impression you are trying to create rather than detailed forests.
I have used dried yarrow seedheads, lichen, moss, and sedum heads suitably treated with diluted PVA glue, Woodland Scenics flock and ground cover etc.
These were used to make bush without a lot of expense on two N/NZ120 layouts that draw "gee, that looks real!" comments.
It certainly helps of course having the vegetation readily available...........another advantage of rural living!

May 4, 2011 at 9:29 PM

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