Here is a video taken at the Rochdale Model Railway Exhibition in February 2010 of Paul Holmes’ Dinas 1869 featuring Little Wonder
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Some advance shots of The Boat, a gravity inspection vehicle from the mid 19th Century Festiniog Railway. The 7mm scale model is powered by a Nigel Lawton micromotor and Mikroantreibe gears to replicate the effects of gravity on a layout which is actually level! DCC by CT Elektronics
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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 [...]
“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 [...]
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.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This is the track plan of the standard and narrow gauge interchange yard of the Pentewan Light Railway – my long in gestation layout. Only some of this track is built.
The purple block on the plan is a tippler on a raised section of track from which loaded wagons of china clay will be tipped [...]
