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Wow! laser cutting definitely looks like being the future. Hurry up someone and buy my lathe so I can get myself a laser cutter :) So do you make those crates on your own laser cutter David? They are very nice and I definitely wouldn't mind some 1/24th sized ones. Aging them with that tea mix certai...

I was looking for wooden crates for wagon loads and to generally have stacked about. Cast resin offerings are pretty much out of my price range, but what I found is that many of the cheap plastic military sets with jointed figures sold in $2 shops also contained things like ammo crates and general c...

I don't think any Baguley petrol locos worked here in New Zealand, but that never stopped me from building one a few years back for one of the earlier versions of the Kotanga Tramway. It ran on 16.5mm track and it was used as a works loco. Since then it's hung about as a display piece and has even d...

Thanks Barry and Andrew :D Woodworks have been in touch with me so I should receive my order in a day or two, but in the meantime there is plenty to do. Unfortunately I've run out of that corrugated iron Andrew. I used to have a roller setup made from the splined ends of a couple of scrap gearbox sh...

Thanks for posting the link to that marvellous old black and white film Andrew. That snow looked like it was well and truly packed in around the stranded goods train, but what I found fascinating was that the loco was iced in due to having melted the snow while it was still hot and the water freezin...

That's one hard working little loco Laurence. I loved the billowing steam in the cold air. An excellent video I really enjoyed.

http://i883.photobucket.com/albums/ac31/SanctaRosa5/Railway%20Modelling/Kotanga%20Tramway/TipWagon_zpsi2ljmlq5.jpg I built this side tip wagon some time ago when I was flirting with the idea of working in 1/12th scale. I used an old photo I found on-line as a guide when I was building it so I don't...

That swing bridge is a clever idea and your friend did a great job of building it too. I can see it being a good way to solve some of the problems with trying to fit a larger scale railway into a more confined space. There's a particular area I have in mind with my own proposed layout where the same...

http://i883.photobucket.com/albums/ac31/SanctaRosa5/Railway%20Modelling/Kotanga%20Tramway/BaldwinNo2-04_zpsw88n4ygs.jpg Some further progress has been made. Mr Knott is pointing to where the corner post for the cab has to go. I'm waiting on an order of stripwood to be delivered so I can make the co...

I love that little loco you're building Jim for the narrow gauge feeder line on your layout. Reminds me very much of my own version of a Ewings system loco that I must get around to completing one day. http://i883.photobucket.com/albums/ac31/SanctaRosa5/Railway%20Modelling/Kotanga%20Tramway/EwingsLo...

Digging an embankment in Winter that is seriously intrepid. It must feel good to be making a start though.

I use to use two part sculpting putty to modify miniature figures and sometimes to entirely create custom fantasy wargaming figures, so I was wondering how it would go if I was to use my hopefully unrusty skills to make loco number plates. Has anybody tried doing this? http://i883.photobucket.com/al...

By the way I should mention that with New Bright battery locos there are two kinds, one is a 2-6-0 and the other is a 2-6-2. The 2-6-0 if I remember correctly has a huge can motor that drives two axles via worm gears. The other loco has a small can motor that drives one axle through a maze of small ...

Old Baldwin No:2 was built up from left over HLW bits, a New Bright loco chassis, plywood, wriggly tin and some Ozarks castings back when I first got the idea for the Kotanga Tramway.  That was even before I moved house to where I'm living now in a rural town in the Hauraki District so it was a whil...

I thought you'd like to see some photos of Butlers Incline which is the oldest line of railway formation in New Zealand where the rails are still in place. This isn't so far from where I live by the way, so you'll understand why I'm so passionate about the historic tramways in the surrounding distri...

Well perhaps the idea of making corrugated iron coaches was a bit extreme. I've seen old photos of bush railcars done with corrugated iron, but using it on the 'varnish' (coaches for fare paying passengers) would likely raise some protests from the local populace. I have built some plank on plank tr...

Ha ha I like that David Could be good for a flag stop further down the line though.

Now that is a thought Phil. Pukerangi has a very nice station building too. I'd still want to keep the peaked roofed part of the building at Sutton though because I do like it and then I could add on perhaps three quarters of Pukerangi. Basically like this....... http://i883.photobucket.com/albums/a...

Wonderful, thanks again David.