NZR trackwork is always a challenge. RTR track is easy, but inevitably wrong, being intended for other scales/gauges. Injection moulded or printed sleeper bases are much better but still not entirely convincing. Handlaid track is nice but, even with etched bedplates, track fixings are tricky. If you want a Fell centre rail, then it is…
Scale modelling is changing Remember the days when you went to the hobby shop and purchased the model you liked best from what was in stock? Or mail ordered whatever you could get with your fingers crossed? The Internet changed a lot of that, and now technology is offering even more choice. Model what you…
It’s been a bit quiet while I’ve been beavering away so here is a progress report on the F kit… To recap a little, the kit will be etched in nickel silver with cast bronze parts and some 3D printed plastic details. There are also some design novelties as well. Test shots of various parts…
It has been a busy couple of weeks here at New Zealand Finescale, and the blog has been quiet as a result. So this is a bit of a catch up of things that have dropped through the mailbox of late. First up some nice steel dowels. I use these for piston rods and the…
Every product reaches the point where I feel the urge to produce my definitive build, whereupon I move on to other things. Thus it was, and here it is, for the gig. I was rather taken by a photo on the web of a bright yellow gig. This may not be very typical of a…
While drawing up some buildings for current projects, Haydn and I embarked on this little 1:64 dunny as a test piece. The floor is about 15mm square. It is printed at 25 micron in X and Y with 20 micron layers. It was printed this way to simplify painting. Careful inspection will show that the…
