Interestingly enough, the scale seems to have been discovered by someone else here. Quite a nice wee write up, and even gives a passing mention to Sn3.5 at the bottom.
From the 'latest thing out of the workshops' we get this (photo from Andrew De Lisle).
I still think that the cab designer should be taken out the back and beaten with a T square. Its been described as a 'butterface', which I'll leave you all to do a web search on (it seems to be work safe).The track building session went reasonable well yesterday. The system seems to work OK (I must convince the 2 chaps involved to put it all in a document on the web as it would take 6-9 months to appear in the journal, which should be arriving on my doorstep any day now I guess) and I'm looking forward to applying it to some NZ120 scale track. So whats everyone else up to?
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I propose that a vote be taken to determine if this abomination has finally taken the crown of "Fugliest rebuilt locomotive class ever to operate in NZ" from the current holder, the rebuilt Dg.
The DXr has to win. IMHO the rebuilt Dg has character. Pity they did away with the orginal DXr cab as that really made the loco.
Nice to see the blog being mentioned in dispatches elsewhere. Keep up the good work.
Weka
maybe it would look better if the sides of the cab were grey, though to me it kind of looks like the front of the cab got flattend in a head on crash and they decided to leave that way.
Listen, if you guys stir up too much comment on the DXr cab, the makers will only produce more of them.....
Not much happening on the modelling front, with this great weather, its time to recuperate on the home front, and spend time thinking about forth coming projects while out in the garden!
Is it just me? Whenever I see the Kiwi Rail logo / written wording on the side of anything, it always looks like it's been stuck on the photo using some macromedia programme???
I really hope the beehivers with their new train set didn't pay too much for that logo...
Will the new Dalian DL class have little stickers with "made in China" on them?
Muir
The other Dxr is not exactly an oil painting either, nor for that matter is the GE U10B (or Dh class) - the SAR class 91 variant with its short, low hood ahead of the cab is a much more pleasing version to my old eyes.
What's On My Workbench - a whole heap of 12' span timber bridge kits, in preparation for the timber weathering workshop at the upcoming Convention, in 1/24, 9mm, S and NZ120 scales - I am making the NZ120 version three spans, so they contain about the same amount of material in total as the S scale version, otherwise the NZ120 modellers are going to be done in ten minutes, get bored and start disrupting the class ;-) Peter Ross has showed me an example of the weathering techniques that will be taught using this bridge kit, and I have to say to Convention attendees, it looks like it would be well worth trying to catch this workshop
What's a pity is that the two Tasrail Ds - which are like the original 8007 cab design - look pretty good really. But the DX is also rather 'overbalanced' looking with the trucks too far under the body, and the new cab if anything accentuates that unattractive look. Is 8022 equally as ugly?
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