Lyndhurstman
Western Thunderer
A distant rumbling
Down here, in compressed Cornwall, a small echo of New Zealand resides. Having spent 18 months living and working in NZ in the mid-2Ks, the country has lodged itself firmly in my heart and mind.
While I was there, I didn’t do much modelling, but bought a few kits to work on. One of these, I started in my hotel room in Villefranche sur Mer in 2007, as I was journeying back to Blighty. What with one thing and another, it got put to one side. But I’ve dug it out, with the intention of trying to finish it.
It’s a 1:64 South Dock 30′ 0″ Wooden Guards Van BP8940 Kit. Mostly resin, with whitemetal around the finer bits. 1:64 on 16.5mm track - Sn3½, apparently.
B8940 refers to the body type. There are others…I’ve plonked the part built vehicle on the drawing supplied by South Dock - very useful, because information (especially at this remove) on these vehicles is quite sparse. Fortuitously, when I was in Wellington, I picked up a copy of the NZ Model Railway Journal, that has an interesting article on the 30ft brakes. And then there’s the commercial and artistic output of Mr Boul’s very fine modelling at NZ Finescale to inspire The back end – NEW ZEALAND FINESCALE (I’d like to get some of his bits, but I’ll have to wait to see how the finances pan out; the exchange rate - heavily in the UK’s favour 15 years ago - is now a tide to swim against…). The roof (the distinctive “Turtle Back”) is just plonked on for now…
One of the things I’m going to try to do, is get this vehicle to go round corners; the relationship between bogie and footsteps was one of the stumbling blocks that delivered the vehicle to the Zone Of Frustrated Disinterest all those years ago.
Anyway, I thought I’d celebrate the return of the light…
Cheers
Jan
Down here, in compressed Cornwall, a small echo of New Zealand resides. Having spent 18 months living and working in NZ in the mid-2Ks, the country has lodged itself firmly in my heart and mind.
While I was there, I didn’t do much modelling, but bought a few kits to work on. One of these, I started in my hotel room in Villefranche sur Mer in 2007, as I was journeying back to Blighty. What with one thing and another, it got put to one side. But I’ve dug it out, with the intention of trying to finish it.
It’s a 1:64 South Dock 30′ 0″ Wooden Guards Van BP8940 Kit. Mostly resin, with whitemetal around the finer bits. 1:64 on 16.5mm track - Sn3½, apparently.
B8940 refers to the body type. There are others…I’ve plonked the part built vehicle on the drawing supplied by South Dock - very useful, because information (especially at this remove) on these vehicles is quite sparse. Fortuitously, when I was in Wellington, I picked up a copy of the NZ Model Railway Journal, that has an interesting article on the 30ft brakes. And then there’s the commercial and artistic output of Mr Boul’s very fine modelling at NZ Finescale to inspire The back end – NEW ZEALAND FINESCALE (I’d like to get some of his bits, but I’ll have to wait to see how the finances pan out; the exchange rate - heavily in the UK’s favour 15 years ago - is now a tide to swim against…). The roof (the distinctive “Turtle Back”) is just plonked on for now…
One of the things I’m going to try to do, is get this vehicle to go round corners; the relationship between bogie and footsteps was one of the stumbling blocks that delivered the vehicle to the Zone Of Frustrated Disinterest all those years ago.
Anyway, I thought I’d celebrate the return of the light…
Cheers
Jan
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