First steps and fond memories…

In 2014 I made my first tentative steps in 009 and designed my first kit, the Narrow Planet O&K... 

My first 009 model, my first kit design, the Narrow Planet O&K using the wonderful Minitrains chassis.

Back then the scale was one of the kit and scratch builder. My good friend Tim had bewitched me with the marvellous ‘Grindley Brook’ and I had become deeply inspired by the narrow gauge railways across the heath of Purbeck. 

Looking back with rose-tinted spectacles is dangerous because although yes, the scale has been transformed by ready to run models and resin 3D prints it still has the same charm, the same potential. I have just found it harder to find. I still have some of the models from this first layout, perhaps one day I will find myself working once more in narrow gauge.

Until next time, more soon…

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