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It's certainly a beauty Grant. Your weathering is outstanding.

Andrew

I love it! Captures the flavour of the 1920s or 30 IC locomotive perfectly!

Peter in AZ/VA

LNR:120729 wrote:The Loco has a 540 size motor(with a flux ring) and drives a belt reduction to a grease packed worm reduction box axle mounted. All home made. It pulls very strongly, only limited by it's weight. Can be quite fast too. It's used very frequently and is built to last.
Grant.

great pictures very realistic

Earlier times at Nayook.
The Lumberjack has just run a "Bona" down to Nayook to pick up a load of logs.



Resting quietly outside the crib room while the crew have a cuppa.
Grant.

Stunningly beautiful, so realistic you can almost smell the burning coal and steam oil!

and the rich smell of creosoted sleepers and fishplate greece wafting up in the warm sun...

I often find I want a job in the workshop that requires minimal thinking, something straight forward, that can be finished quickly.
So chop some hands and legs off.
Drill hands and arms for pins so they can be re-positioned, likewise legs off below the knee, drilled for long pins to give some extra height (Don't know where Mr. Bachmann gets his figures from, but they all seem very short in the legs) add styrene tube sections to save a bit of putty, add putty file and paint. Unfortunately can't change the "I'm a weight lifter stance" but they'll do.


I'm sure most would know this bloke, generally hangs out on a gangers trolley with a mate.


Now I hope he looks a little more Australian. He's eating better his hands are no longer green, and he got a new hat with brim of foil too!


His mate got the same treatment. Both had about 10mm added to the legs.
Grant.
Disclaimer- no humans living or otherwise, were hurt during this procedure.

Brilliant! Can't spot the join (as a certain Eric Morecambe used to say!).

Rik

PS Shouldn't he have corks around the brim of his hat? (Sorry, yet another national stereotype wheeled out from the archives!)

Thanks Rik,
when up in the Territory, if you saw anyone with corks around his hat you knew you were looking at a tourist. Always a good laugh.
Grant.

Christmas day, Australian Summer. Carriage is hot, been sitting in No. 2 road.



Better get some windows open!
Not many passengers today.
Grant.

I love that Grant, it's a great shot. The photography itself is creditworthy but the subject is really remarkable. Well done and thanks for the continued inspiration.

Andrew

Today our Club exhibited at the local Toy and Train Fair and one of the traders kept her promise by giving me a bag full of moulded figures, each very close to 16mm scale. But..... as my railway isn't set in the 22nd Century there may be some work to do......



Some have parts missing, so a bit of careful surgery is required.

Your a lucky man Peter, many enjoyable hours there. The majority of my figures are from a century later than the period I'm modelling. A few before and after shots.












The first figure, as you've probably guessed sits over the lubricator of my Hunslet.
Grant.

LNR:121862 wrote:



Grant.

Proof that the wrench is mightier than the sword!

Marvellous conversions. Difficult to detect the origins of those figures. The overalls are a particularly nice touch!

Rik

very very clever idea

Public Works were on the job recently, the footbridge at Leawarra has been closed "Out of Use" due to missing steps.



The bridge got a new set of merbau steps, nailed in this time.



A strip of the old flaking paint work and the first coat of new paint applied.


More coats to follow.
Grant.

very good bridge I like the colour and looks perfect too scale

Just testing picture loading.
Grant.

Looks like a nice bit of evening sun, or is it light reflected from a window elsewhere? Either way, another stunning tableau.