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Post by Deano on May 7, 2018 0:03:55 GMT -7
 The background to this is that my old man is a train guy through and through. He tried his best to get my brother and I into it but we preferred the plastic kits. Anyway, my boys came along and he had another crack with my youngest (now 20) being taken in by it all while I continued down the model truck road. I helped him with his layout during the scenery stage and we had a bit of 1 happening here when the boys were young. Dad's layout is based on central station, Darling harbour and Enfield loco depot in Sydney( with a fair bit of poetic licence). I can put a few pics up if anyone is interested. Anyway, Dad's 77 this year and my brother said he wanted one of Dad's hand built loco's when he 'goes' for nostalgia. He was just going to mount one in a small display case but it looked pretty cheap so I offered to do something more fitting.  We got hold of a display case designed for ships- not sure what scale it is intended for. I screwed a piece of mdf to the case base and built the rest up with styrofoam, put the track down and then covered it with a coat of the ready mixed plasterboard plaster? that they use for covering the joints etc. The rest is just dyed sawdust and scale ballast etc that you get in the little packets at model train shops. The sheep, fence posts, gates etc are all white metal products painted accordingly.  For the point of the pictures, I put one of my locos on. It's a NSW 59 class that I kitbashed (train term) from a European? loco under the old man's guidance. It's HO scale and does actually run. The wagon is a NSW sheep van.  |
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Post by DeeCee on May 7, 2018 1:13:56 GMT -7
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That really is a work of ART Deano, everything about it looks RIGHT mate..
SUPERB WORK.
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Post by leon on May 7, 2018 3:11:42 GMT -7
That is some fantastic work Deano! I was into N scale trains about 6 years ago. praising-the-lord-smiley-emoticon
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Post by mustang1989 on May 7, 2018 7:27:48 GMT -7
I've gotta hand it your ol' man and yourself for bringing this thing to life. What a masterpiece and good history this is.
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Post by Deano on May 7, 2018 23:34:38 GMT -7
Thanks guys, it was a fun build for a change, hardest part was getting the sheep to stand up without pushing their legs too far into the base. Leon your eyes are way better than mine not to mention fat fingers lol.
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Post by kpnuts on Jul 1, 2018 5:08:38 GMT -7
Wow, don't know what else to say, awesome.
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Post by stitchdup on Jul 3, 2018 6:54:16 GMT -7
Not sure how I missed this mate, but really happy to find it now. It was model train layouts that got me into models, there was a book i found at infant school about model railways and it led me to model cars. Thanks for sharing it, brought back a lot of memories and I would be happy to see your old mans layouts,
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Post by Deano on Jul 6, 2018 0:45:40 GMT -7
Not sure how I missed this mate, but really happy to find it now. It was model train layouts that got me into models, there was a book i found at infant school about model railways and it led me to model cars. Thanks for sharing it, brought back a lot of memories and I would be happy to see your old mans layouts, I'll wander over to Dad's on the weekend and see if I can get a few pictures. |
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Post by mmthrax on Jan 24, 2019 16:08:56 GMT -7
This is really great. I appreciate the vignette quality to this piece.
Like Dale said this really is art. This is much more than building a model.
There is a guy on the Finescale forum, goes by Bish. He is into aircraft, and he told me that he
rarely builds a model nowadays that he doesn't incorporate into some type of diorama.
I am inspired by both of you. This adds a much wider scope to the focus model, and
really rewards the viewer with not only visual interest, but a sense of time and place.
Ace work sir.
Really, really cool. two-thumbs-up-smiley-emoticon
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