Saturday 5 December 2015

A Phoenix rises?

After years of neglect I've finally managed to find time to start work on rehabilitating the railway back into what it was, Through a combination of shoddy construction and 3 years of abandonment the trestle bridge has been completely destroyed. I have begun work on building a new one using the bents of the old one and will update the blog once this happens.

More recently after struggling to find anything on ebay. I decided to address the issues I've been having sourcing anything in G scale that I can use. Using the program solidworks, I have drawn up a series of freelance drawings I can get laser cut.









standard 30ft underframe assembled and disassembled














This allows me to build multiple bodies on the same under-frame and have full control over giving my stock a "family" look that/ is so important, while also keeping things cheap.

I'll update this when I cut more out