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...
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| 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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I actually quite miss those early days of OO9 and 3D printing. I think it encouraged a different kind of modelling, and a different kind of approach than both what went before, and the current wave of RTR based layouts.
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The Cadeby layout is sat on the bookshelf behind me, denuded of both trees and stock, well other than that F&C tender loco. I could build a slightly larger version that would fill the shelf better, but it doesn't excite me. Perhaps with Apedale's Teddy Boston day coming up I should at least restore the trees and display it as a diorama.
The Simplex, Ruston and Hudson ammo wagons might find a static home on my NSR/W&U mash up, which though I've not posted about it, is actually making slow progress and just needs me to clear a table for a weekend to assemble the jigsaw.
I miss them too - I had a great time with Tim exhibiting his layout, and meeting Steve had led to my involvement with Narrow Planet. All good memories…
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