Well model trains do fall under model making, especially if you are working from scratch, with basic material's and basic tools. Unfortunately for the wider audience, this happens to be the current projects in progress.
Just to prove a point. Sitting on the sidelines in "Here's one I'l finish laterville" are two other projects waiting for the touch of disaster.
A 1/16th scale Anderson Shelter.
This was for my Daughter's school project. "Daddy, can you help me build a model Anderson Shelter?". She got good marks for this but other than carrying it to and from school her hands never touched it and I don't think the school was that fooled either! Then, as per usual, I got carried away and decided to bury it and make a sort of cut away diorama of it!
As I said, it's now sitting on the sideline's waiting to be finished and I will get around to describing the build at some point.
So what else is there in Laterville? Well, having enjoyed James May recreation of Brooklands Race Track in Scalextric form, for his TV series "James May's Toy Stories". The child in me re awoke and around £600 worth of digital track and cars were promptly purchased.
So what else is there in Laterville? Well, having enjoyed James May recreation of Brooklands Race Track in Scalextric form, for his TV series "James May's Toy Stories". The child in me re awoke and around £600 worth of digital track and cars were promptly purchased.
Now as every big kid know's, unless you have a large area for a permanent set up, it's the lounge floor and an angry wife or nothing!
Picture taken as it was being dismantled, this little set up was on the floor for 9 months before I received a solicitors letter regarding divorce!
The thing with Scalextric is the lack of accessories, in terms of buildings etc and what there is, is way over priced for what it is. Err indoors had bought me some pit crew sets but the poor little fella's had nowhere to work, so I needed somewhere for them to live and something to make my little set a bit different. Enter a picture of Silverstone and a gentleman kindly standing smack bang in the middle of two garages, how nice of him to give me a reference to scale from.
The inspiration: Silverstone Pit garages.
Roughly scaled at 1/32, a Silverstone two garage build based on the single garages. In attendance, The Stig's yellow headed alien cousin.
This is just a test build using foam board (a new material for me) to see how cheap and durable a row of 6 garages would be. As can be seen by the price tag at the back, the basic shell was extremely expensive at £1.90 and the plasticard (Bextreme to give it, its real name. Sorry but my late father might smite me from above!) is just from leftovers spanning some 30 years. Golden rule of modelling there, never throw anything away.
However, foam board isn't an ideal material to build with alone for durability and strength, hence the cladding. When those cold winter nights draw in again, I will come back to this project and describe it in depth.
So there you are, it's not all trains, trains, trains, neither is it all Anderson Shelter's and pit garages. As time progresses tanks, Starships, planes, boats and a menagerie of other things will appear over due course. Don't blame me for my modelling spectrum, it's the joys of being the son of a professional model maker!
However, foam board isn't an ideal material to build with alone for durability and strength, hence the cladding. When those cold winter nights draw in again, I will come back to this project and describe it in depth.
So there you are, it's not all trains, trains, trains, neither is it all Anderson Shelter's and pit garages. As time progresses tanks, Starships, planes, boats and a menagerie of other things will appear over due course. Don't blame me for my modelling spectrum, it's the joys of being the son of a professional model maker!
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