The 2023 Christchurch show, this last weekend, was my first as an exhibitor in a long time and Rewanui’s first outing. Deadlines are great for focussing effort, and a great deal was accomplished in the lead up that would otherwise have languished in the ‘too hard’ basket. Rewanui is a work in progress but I…
The layout is progressing apace driven by a, perhaps ill-advised, commitment to exhibit it in the near future. As is the way of such things, the need to progress matters throws up those issues that have been lurking in the too hard basket. One such is the fiddle yard. Another is disguising the hole in…
Rewanui, and the mines that shipped coal from the various bins there, was situated in the narrow valley of the Seven Mile Creek. The creek, it’s tributaries, and the bridges that span them are significant features of the prototype and my representation of it. The creeks are not especially large, but they are quite steep…
A few blog posts, and some time, ago I expounded on some fairly general tree making thoughts focussing on the armature. At the time tree making was not my focus and the blog described some experiments and test pieces. Hopefully useful in a general way. This time around I have spent many hours working on…
In which your correspondant ponders the merits of the journey over the destination and the benefits of technology in speeding things up… In NZR modelling ‘the layout’ is an almost mythical concept. Widely aspired to, often started, but seldom developed to a stage even approaching completion. It’s not hard to understand why. With a prototpe…
It’s been a long time between layout updates. Mostly this has been due to absolutely no direct progress, but this is deliberate. My plan is to have all the stock and structures completed before getting too much into the layout. The reason being that layouts fall into decline after completion, so I want to avoid…
