Saturday 27 December 2014

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

With yet another year coming to a close so quickly I fear im running out of time. A huge emphasis on my life being my business and a need to produce lots of profit & keep all partys happy means all my attention being diverted from my passion, which would be trains.
I did manage in the end to save the main layout, now reduced to a single loop with 1 long siding.
Some photos of the loco's lined up waiting for a turn on the mainline.

A big thank you to all, Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year













Saturday 6 December 2014

NZ120 Couplers

Some more work on the couplers for nz120 has resulted in couplers that will hopefully be printable in brass..
The previous test prints in brass were quite successfull all round, some work drilling out the holes with a 0.9mm drill is required however.

"Square Coupler"

"Circular Coupler"
Early print of the coupler attached to a Zp with operating door.
Di, with the brass nz120 coupler has functioned without flaw. 
 

Building an brick arch railway bridge

After receiving some used bricks I spent some time wandering youtube and stumbled across DIY videos of people building brick archways and fi...