Yesterday saw no progress in painting or modelling but some reading or plan was done. I read up about the practicality involved in making an outdoor railway and the rules of dba v3 which is a version new to me. As the zoom games are to be regular in the current situation I need to get a better handle on the updates. Reading wrg prose is not the easiest thing to do especially on a very warm day!
Here is a passenger’s or trains eye view of where the line will run. I like the almost overgrown feel to it. In my mind the railway is a liminal space between countryside and coast, town and country or even the everyday and faerie!
Lovely view of the proposed train line!
ReplyDeleteGarden is looking good and to be enhanced by a train I think.
DeleteInteresting, have you shifted from wall to ground as in your original drawings you seemed to be running along the narrow top of the wall as an Alpine railway?
ReplyDeleteI hope you now adopt the grown up Railway tradition of writing each Railway article with your name in initials.
The plan has evolved to ground level to facilitate scenery and avoid expensive derailments.
DeleteA M Gruber
Hi Alan. Certainly one of my all time favorite modelers is P.D.Hancock- right from the 1970s his 'Craig and Mertonford' OO9 Railway captured my imagination- with 'Craig Harbor'...a very clever man. Cheers. KEV.
ReplyDeleteA great modeller indeed and one who also had a garden railway when he moved I think to a bungalow.
DeleteHave they got planning permission ? - we don't want the same fiasco as HS2
ReplyDeleteMy daughters have given their permission, is that the same thing?
DeleteGood read and go for a line in the wilderness look. Read c and m in 1970’s was HO/OO9 fan. Built one layout and then collection mothballed for decades. Expensive liliput locos destroyed by offspring 🤪 years later when I let them be used as toys to play with!!!!! Not so my soldiers which are always under lock and key.......
ReplyDeleteGood read and go for a line in the wilderness look. Read c and m in 1970’s was HO/OO9 fan. Built one layout and then collection mothballed for decades. Expensive liliput locos destroyed by offspring 🤪 years later when I let them be used as toys to play with!!!!! Not so my soldiers which are always under lock and key.......
ReplyDeleteMaybe now is the time for another go at 009?
DeleteBest of both worlds? I am a Wargamer at heart but on the side I am trying to build a garden railway for my wife.........
DeleteI loved the HS2 comment. Hopefully you will have no trouble from archaeology in an inconvenient place, from awkward landowners or the Navvies themselves https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2019/11/24/the-railway-raid-in-the-spectator-23-november-1844/
ReplyDeleteHaving been the navvy so far and perhaps an archaeologist ( found a dirty one pence piece) and the landowner too my behaviour has been impeccable.
DeleteOne of my neighbours once made model railway engines, carriages etc as his profession. He has some lovely toys (indoors).
ReplyDeleteWhat an interesting neighbour, are you tempted?
DeleteAlways loved model railways. Something else I've not got round to doing anything about! I think that many wargamers are tempted by them from time to time.
DeleteLooks like Hancock is the Charles Grant of railway modelling. The sort of book I daren’t read for fear of getting sucked into a new hobby.
ReplyDeleteDooooooonnnnnnttttt do it we wargamers are outnumbered already as it!
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