Thursday, 8 November 2012

An aside

I've just recently taken time out from construction of my 'Railway Pier' module to build an NAB carriage to 1/4" scale as a gift for my Dad on his birthday (what a son!). 

The underframe has been scratchbuilt from brass sheet and section, bogies are from Ian Lindsay, and the body and roof were scratchbuilt from laminated styrene (I do hope Frank Kelly was wrong when he said it the styrene might warp in time!).





The eagle eyed might also notice that, in the absence of a 1/4" diorama, the model is featured on the deck of the under-construction Railway Pier.

Working to 1/4" scale was very rewarding (and certainly much less fiddly than 3.5mm!), and I plan to do more modelling in this scale in the future.  A possible future 1/4" VR broad gauge microlayout?