Ive just been over at www.kiwibonds.com, and maybe it's the beer, but I've picked out a shot I really like.
Back from the 80's (big hair, velvet boots, shoulder pads, and then there was women's clothes)here's another shot from the Ken Devlin collection. There's just something about this age, and this photo is a good example. A rebuilt and unrebuilt Dg head a train of scarp metal ( how apt) north from Sawyers bay. A pink Dj heads the Port Chalmers shunt back towards Dunedin. Even the 30' steel vans as well. All the trains in this picture are from a bygone age. From a modelers point of view the 80's are just as valid as the 60's as a modeling period, as there was a major changeover again from the first generation diesel loco's to the more modern Dc's, Df's (now also gone) and Dx's. I remember carrying a paint chip from a rebuilt Dg (2111 I think from memory) for years.
for more pictures if you have not already looked http://www.kiwibonds.com/KenDevlin/KenDevlin.html
(thanks to Darryl for making these available. They are true modeling gold)
1 comment:
I think the reason that the 80's are missed as a valid modelling period is that it was enthusiast "down time". After the mass outpouring of grief of the scrapping of steam, most enthusiasts decided to stay at home and worship the gods of boiling water in their own private shrines.....and this collective "hangover" lasted 20 years. It wasnt until the 1990's when there was an influx of new blood into the modelling hobby who had never been tainted with steam oil that the interest in diesels really took off....and that is why you can now see lots odf Dc, Df and Dx models. As you say, the 80's are just as valid, and from a South Island perspective we had Dj's in any one of about 5 schemes, DG's in 2 (plus a new cab!), 2 Di schemes....and that is before the changeover to GM happened with the influx of the Df's and later on, the Dx's/Dc's. All of these are readily available in kitform....but forgotten.
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