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,…
