Modelling steam engine underframes I am the first to admit I have not completed all that many locos, but I have designed a few and completed a lot more running underframes, so maybe that qualifies me for the forthcoming pontification. I’m currently in the throes of finishing a couple, and developing a couple more, so…
Here on the blog, I’ve pontificated on all manner of matters relating to Rewanui (real and model), but it has been a while since the line’s raison d’être has featured. The extraction, movement to the bins and loading of the coal is outside the scope of the model (taking place ‘off scene’ as it were),…
New product update: Q1 and Q4 hopper wagon kits. These kits have been promising for a while. Final test builds have been completed, instructions are nearly written and stock is on order. So here’s a preview… The Q1 and Q4 were both unbraked iron bodied hopper wagons that could be found in both the Westport…
If you aspire to a model railway, the thing you need most of is wagons. This post is a little retrospective of my wagon-building journey and a preview of new kits on the way. I have a long-standing enthusiasm for West Coast coal railways and my first scratchbuilt wagon was a Q5. Scratchbuilt in styrene,…
At least they should. Having recently enjoyed the relatively novel experience of finishing (as opposed to nearly finshing) a locomotive, I find that I rather enjoyed it. It did give me pause to consider why I don’t do it more often and to wonder what needs to be done to finish the small stud of…
New Zealand Finescale has introduced commercial wagon springing to 1:64 NZR modelling. Why did we bother? Why should you care? Read on! NZR modelling is outside the mainstream of railway modelling and we therefore rely on kits or scratchbuilding to produce our rolling stock. In this respect we have much in common with British modellers,…
