This is the second KBScale brass kit I have made. The first one was the OMZ (also shown). This was made with the help of Bernard Daillant, Franck Tavernier and Bernard Junk. Franck Tavernier made the motor gear and I made the structure as best as I can. I’m not an expert, and the brass with bronze is not so simple to assemble! But with perseverance I managed to make it. In fact this model was not so hard to assemble, but I much preferred the painting!
I sanded the model, and then painted with Prince August 920 German uniform. A multitude of washes, dirt, grease were then put on it. The detail micro-painting was with Tamiya XF-10, followed by washes of grime, brown, yellow, white, black. I put black pigment on the wheel train fixed by acetone to simulate grease.
The name of this engine is my friend’s daughter, and it will be equipped with a DCC decoder for N gauge.
I have made several layouts with my friend Matthieu: Jacquemart, Le gemmage, Les égouts de Paris (see photo), and a new layout: Les sablières de Nemours, all are in O14.
You can see our layouts on our website at: http://perso.numericable.fr/mjacquemar/accueil_047.htm
Double flanged wheels from KBscale. The wheel tyre is 8mm diameter with 5 straight or curved spokes – 2mm or 1.5mm axle diameters.
“La ferme du Haut Bois” and “La Halte de Sousac”, here are some views of these first sceneries done for now.
The farm is based on an old pictures
The model, in place:
It is far than finished but the idea is there. The model is made of cardboard, plaster and wood.
And the little station, now used to load the piece of wood onto the rolling stock.
The third module is now started, with another interesting point : a bridge over a little stream and a sawmill’s canal.
The bridge in its current position and the farm in the background:
It is made like the farm, some cardboard, plasters and wood. The plasters’s walls are engraved to represent the brick.
I hope you like this little presentation of my current work.
You can retrieve all the pictures done for this part of the layout in my Fotki album (http://public.fotki.com/Steamystef/) .
Stefan
This is my first attempt at making a master for an L&B style wagon axlebox which I hope will incorporate real working springs. This is designed to fit an etched L&B wagon underframe which is also under development. The springs would also be etched. It may all come to naught if it doesn’t cast successfully.
Here is a video of Paul Holmes’ Dinas 1869 complete with sound and smoke effects filmed at Warley in November 2009.
This is my first attempt at making masters of L&B couplings which I’m hoping will prove suitable for lost wax casting. These were made with bits of brass rod, strip and tube all soldered together with 221 degree C tin/silver solder (I’ve got the burnt fingers to prove it). The base is a separate component and the springs will be functional just like the real thing. The long bit hanging down from the chopper is a sprue.
Here are a few shots of the scratchbuilt Manning Wardle taken just before she enters the paintshops. The loco is one of two built in Leeds in 1868 for the short F+B line, built the same year as a feeder and potential rival to the Festiniog. The little locos and the 6 carriages were destined to last only 14 years, being taken to Swindon and scrapped when the line was converted and extended by the Great Western in 1882. The model is all nickel construction, using profile milled frames from John Taylor using my own masters. Rivet detail using a GW models rivet press and tiny hex headed bolts from Scale Hardware Inc (USA). Power by Maxon and all my usual sound / smoke / steam effects on board.
White Hill is is based on one of the small cement works that once flourished in the Adur Valley in West Sussex, but have sadly, long since closed. It represents a typical cement works that was part of a much larger system with all of the various works inter-connected by means of a narrow gauge railway system. The scene is set in the late 1960’s when operations were being run down and their was a general air of dereliction about the place.
This fine layout by Mark Hesketh features both 2′ (O14) and 2′4″ (O16.5) gauges. Full details can be found here: http://www.whitehillcementworks.co.uk/
Although not specifically for O14 (or even for 7mm scale) I’m sure this Easy Street simulated tram girder rail produced by PROTO:87 STORES might find some use, as it will accommodate RP25 wheels.
Full details can be found here: http://www.proto87.com/easy-street–track-system.html
Prolific modelling blogger Phil Parker has recently been updating on his experiences with the KBscale track sample kit. His impressions are positive, describing it as good value for money and useful encourage into a new scale.
There have been two posts on the subject so far, and it sounds like there may be more to come as Phil mentions the thought of modelling the Groudle Glen railway in O14…
