Comments on: Beginning the Landscape http://www.dufftown009.co.uk/2008/10/20/right-now/ Fictional Narrow Gauge Whisky Railway in the Scottish Highlands Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:28:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Landscape Progress http://www.dufftown009.co.uk/2008/10/20/right-now/#comment-4 Landscape Progress Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:16:42 +0000 http://www.dufftown009.co.uk/2008/10/20/right-now/#comment-4 [...] an alarming amount to do with only four days to go, but if we look back at the corner of the layout featured two weeks ago it is possible to see how much has been [...] [...] an alarming amount to do with only four days to go, but if we look back at the corner of the layout featured two weeks ago it is possible to see how much has been [...]

]]> By: One-Ten http://www.dufftown009.co.uk/2008/10/20/right-now/#comment-3 One-Ten Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:55:06 +0000 http://www.dufftown009.co.uk/2008/10/20/right-now/#comment-3 I hadn't thought to use raw polystyrene as a snowscene! It's supposed to be modelled as being July... It's looking a bit different now - I shall post some more pictures as soon as I have time, Danny. Interestingly, the companion layout, about which I shall also blog as soon as I get a moment, was originally modelled in a winter setting. One of the tasks we have is to re-weather it into a sunny summer day! It is will be called Craigellachie Brickworks. The gauge is the same as N - nine millimeters between the rails, but the scale is the same as 00 - 4mm to the foot. This equates to 2'3" gauge; it's a convenient way of modelling narrow gauge since you can use chassis from N gauge stock and utilise 4mm scale scenic kits and accessories. And although 2'3" is a relatively unusual gauge (with the celebrated Talyllyn and also the Corris Railways being the only Welsh examples I know of in a country bursting with narrow gauge lines) it was used by one of the few Scottish NG lines: the Campbeltown and Machrihanish railway. There is in fact no narrow gauge prototype for Dufftown, so I shall use modeller's licence to declare that the Glen Fiddich Railway too is 2' 3" gauge. I hadn’t thought to use raw polystyrene as a snowscene! It’s supposed to be modelled as being July… It’s looking a bit different now – I shall post some more pictures as soon as I have time, Danny. Interestingly, the companion layout, about which I shall also blog as soon as I get a moment, was originally modelled in a winter setting. One of the tasks we have is to re-weather it into a sunny summer day! It is will be called Craigellachie Brickworks.

The gauge is the same as N – nine millimeters between the rails, but the scale is the same as 00 – 4mm to the foot. This equates to 2’3″ gauge; it’s a convenient way of modelling narrow gauge since you can use chassis from N gauge stock and utilise 4mm scale scenic kits and accessories. And although 2’3″ is a relatively unusual gauge (with the celebrated Talyllyn and also the Corris Railways being the only Welsh examples I know of in a country bursting with narrow gauge lines) it was used by one of the few Scottish NG lines: the Campbeltown and Machrihanish railway. There is in fact no narrow gauge prototype for Dufftown, so I shall use modeller’s licence to declare that the Glen Fiddich Railway too is 2′ 3″ gauge.

]]> By: Danny http://www.dufftown009.co.uk/2008/10/20/right-now/#comment-2 Danny Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:25:16 +0000 http://www.dufftown009.co.uk/2008/10/20/right-now/#comment-2 Nice going, One-Ten. Is that N gauge? I particularly like the ski slopes above the tunnel. Typical snowy Scottish winter scene :-) Nice going, One-Ten.

Is that N gauge?

I particularly like the ski slopes above the tunnel. Typical snowy Scottish winter scene :-)

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