Hello everyone,
Sorry for the lack of updates, mainly because I lost my modelling mojo but a recent exhibition and a vist to Cultra soon fixed that.
This is only one of the superb O gauge scratch built engines that were seen running on "Stanfording" and it really is a wonderful model, hopefully one day I could be as good
And the visit to Cultra, Northern Ireland's only railway museum provided me with lots of modelling references, and to my amazement, some wagon drawings
My favourite locomotive of all time, U2 class "Dunluce Castle"
and BCDRs only surviving locomotive, No30
So with my modelling mojo back and keen to do some modelling I've started work on a LMS NCC coal wagon (can't remember which variant) but for this one I've scratch built the frames, this way it's easier to get an accurate model in terms of dimensions etc, this is how much I've done so far,
Ooh the cruel close ups that us modellers hate ah well, it runs surprising quite well without bearings and sits in all 4 wheels nicely.
That's all for tonight folks, take care,
Nelson