The Addington car Many of my blog posts offer some philosophical insight (I hope) or practical dodge that I feel a burning need to share with the modelling fraternity. In contrast, this post is a shameless promotion for an upcoming kit that I’m super excited about, having just completed the assembly phase of the pilot…
My approach to modelling is a little like cooking dinner. You want everything to be ready at the same time! So I try to problem solve and enable projects so that they can all be completed at some future point. Or maybe I’m just good at justifying to myself why I seldom finish anything. One…
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…
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…
Personally, one of the great joys and challenges of model making is to make something that is not only an accurate scale model, but also looks like the real thing. This is, I suppose, the crossover between the science and art of modelling. I have to admit with struggling a little on the artistic side,…
A summary of a chat group discussion mainly contributed by John Brouwer and Kevin Crosado. It is clear from photographs that Q wagons were not painted according to the official diagram, and that furthermore the Westport and Greymouth fleets were significantly different. These differences appear to be related to the working of the inclines at…
