Just discovered this bridge on the Micro trains website.
I wonder if it's possible to remove the sides, invert them, reposition them and add some hand rails and give it a spray of brown paint so it would look more like the knife river bridge...
Anyone know?
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Showing posts with label misc. Show all posts
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Its early days
Oh how I love them!
You know, the early days in a modelling project when you're fired up with enthusiasm and can't wait to get on with it.
I know you know, we all get it. Wether it's blogging everyday (though I will try not to...) or spending inordinately long periods of time actually working on the layout/building/item of stock. When I start on a project hours can literally fly by I'm so fired up and into a project. Or whatever, you know you do it.
With my Z scale knowledge still being somewhat limited I've been doing a lot of web surfing checking out websites for layouts, products etc; with the intention of posting them in a little bar on the side over there to the right.
But no. You are spared the agony of having to potentially see a section entitled "LinkZ"*
Because there is only one link you need if you model in Z. This one. American Z Scale. Therein you will find links to just about every manufacturer, dealer and Z scale modeller of worth.
I am still ploughing through it. I never realised there were so many people out there producing items of all sorts, structures, locomotive kits, rolling stock for Z.
Then there are the layouts. I was quite impressed here. Yes, there are people producing the novelty "layouts-in-a-suitcase" to showcase the space saving qualities of Z. But at the other extreme there are also people producing models of the California coast or Arizona desert where really long trains can stretch their legs and look like long trains should. Super.
A great idea to pull all these links together in one place. It makes everything so much easier. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off back there right now.
*No, I wouldn't have really done that. I have to much respect for you, my readers to do something that twee and naff...
You know, the early days in a modelling project when you're fired up with enthusiasm and can't wait to get on with it.
I know you know, we all get it. Wether it's blogging everyday (though I will try not to...) or spending inordinately long periods of time actually working on the layout/building/item of stock. When I start on a project hours can literally fly by I'm so fired up and into a project. Or whatever, you know you do it.
With my Z scale knowledge still being somewhat limited I've been doing a lot of web surfing checking out websites for layouts, products etc; with the intention of posting them in a little bar on the side over there to the right.
But no. You are spared the agony of having to potentially see a section entitled "LinkZ"*
Because there is only one link you need if you model in Z. This one. American Z Scale. Therein you will find links to just about every manufacturer, dealer and Z scale modeller of worth.
I am still ploughing through it. I never realised there were so many people out there producing items of all sorts, structures, locomotive kits, rolling stock for Z.
Then there are the layouts. I was quite impressed here. Yes, there are people producing the novelty "layouts-in-a-suitcase" to showcase the space saving qualities of Z. But at the other extreme there are also people producing models of the California coast or Arizona desert where really long trains can stretch their legs and look like long trains should. Super.
A great idea to pull all these links together in one place. It makes everything so much easier. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off back there right now.
*No, I wouldn't have really done that. I have to much respect for you, my readers to do something that twee and naff...
Monday, March 14, 2011
Gone and done it now...
Travel with me if you will in my Tardis "borrowed" from reknowned time traveller "The Doctor" from the classic British TV series "Doctor Who".
We arrive outside a small curio store on Steep Hill in Lincoln, England in 1981.
A group of Art college students walk past and one spies a tiny Z scale train set in the window.
"Would you look at that!" He says in a rather loud voice.
The store owner responding to the shout sets the tiny train set of an 0-6-0 tank loco and three freight wagons running. The student was fascinated...
You guessed it that Art Student was me. I can't remember accurately if it was just a few hours or days later that I was in the store and handing over some of my hard fought for student grant for this Z scale starter set.
At that time Z scale was the smallest commercial model railway in the world. Since recently passed by T scale which I also enjoy modelling in.
I did manage to buy a few other items of Z scale and even put together a small exhibtion layout on a small board which I showed in Lincoln a couple of years later just before I left the college.
Z was very expensive to me back then so I never had much equipment. One diesel, one steam loco a couple of coaches and the wagons. But it was fun stuff to have and I enjoyed watching the tiny trains navigate the small oval. Much in the same way as I enjoy watching my T scale do the same.
Alas when I emigrated to the USA I left the set behind (along with many other things I regretted leaving) I thought I'd left Z behind. Until however I started modelling in T. I started to remember the fun I had in Z. Especially when I was struggling with some scratch building in the scale. Even more so when people would come up to my T scale layout and say.
"This is Z gauge."
Some would be quite incredulous when I told them otherwise. Some refusing to believe me. So I thought to myself perhaps it might be a bit of fun to have a Z scale layout alongside the T.
Just to shut those naysayers up.
I started to dig and I followed this blog intently. I've read every post time and time again, wrestling with making a foray into Z.
So with getting a rather nicely sized bonus from work just in time for my birthday. I took the plunge and ordered a SOO line starter set from Z scale monster. They seem to be regarded very favourably in the Z scale world. So the set and power pack is on the way.
I wonder where this will all lead?
We arrive outside a small curio store on Steep Hill in Lincoln, England in 1981.
A group of Art college students walk past and one spies a tiny Z scale train set in the window.
"Would you look at that!" He says in a rather loud voice.
The store owner responding to the shout sets the tiny train set of an 0-6-0 tank loco and three freight wagons running. The student was fascinated...
You guessed it that Art Student was me. I can't remember accurately if it was just a few hours or days later that I was in the store and handing over some of my hard fought for student grant for this Z scale starter set.
At that time Z scale was the smallest commercial model railway in the world. Since recently passed by T scale which I also enjoy modelling in.
I did manage to buy a few other items of Z scale and even put together a small exhibtion layout on a small board which I showed in Lincoln a couple of years later just before I left the college.
Z was very expensive to me back then so I never had much equipment. One diesel, one steam loco a couple of coaches and the wagons. But it was fun stuff to have and I enjoyed watching the tiny trains navigate the small oval. Much in the same way as I enjoy watching my T scale do the same.
Alas when I emigrated to the USA I left the set behind (along with many other things I regretted leaving) I thought I'd left Z behind. Until however I started modelling in T. I started to remember the fun I had in Z. Especially when I was struggling with some scratch building in the scale. Even more so when people would come up to my T scale layout and say.
"This is Z gauge."
Some would be quite incredulous when I told them otherwise. Some refusing to believe me. So I thought to myself perhaps it might be a bit of fun to have a Z scale layout alongside the T.
Just to shut those naysayers up.
I started to dig and I followed this blog intently. I've read every post time and time again, wrestling with making a foray into Z.
So with getting a rather nicely sized bonus from work just in time for my birthday. I took the plunge and ordered a SOO line starter set from Z scale monster. They seem to be regarded very favourably in the Z scale world. So the set and power pack is on the way.
I wonder where this will all lead?
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