While I primarily model railways in HO scale and O scale, I do love sci-fi, and armour. In that vein today I wanted to share a site pointed out on Giant Freaking Robot Amazing Sci-Fi Ship Models Made Entirely Out Of Paper
These are not what you’d expect. And they all come with downloadable paper kits (I can see one or two of these becoming plastic models in the near future). Additionally there’s a build guide for each one.
Head on over to Uhu02 Paper Craft (in Japanese but google does a reasonable translation of it) and prepare to be gob-smacked.
Often I wonder how I can fit the layout I’d like to have in the space I have available.
Then there are the brave souls who decide to build an industrial switching layout in 1:29 G scale.
Losco yard
Losco yard is Hugh Flynn’s switching layout in 1:29 scale. I found this today while looking for something else entirely. But I like the design and the bulk of the models so much I thought it deserved to be brought to a wider audience.
Link number 1 is an older link from 2008 but shows a lot of photos and a track plan, along with some thoughts from the RMWeb community as to what could be done to make the operational value better.
Link number 2 is a newer version of the layout and some other work in progress. According to the owner, the layout has since been sold on.
Link number 3 below is a link to a video taken by a punter at one of the UK shows of said layout. Only 480P but it gives you an idea of the size of the models when you take a look at the video and realise that there are massive models. Note that the audio track is quite loud, so turning down your sound at work might be advisable.
The video runs from the start through to the 2:20 mark. Nice one Hugh.
Resources
There are some other nice photos on the modelrailroadforums page here:
I live very close to Melbourne in Victoria – home of the worlds largest urban tramway network in the world. The entire network covers 250 kilometres of track; has 493 trams, 25 routes, and 1,763 tram stops. Melbourne’s tram network is larger than the largest networks in Europe (admittedly not by much) such as those in St. Petersburg (240 km), Berlin (190 km), Moscow (181 km) and Vienna (172 km). What does all of this have to do with today’s site seeing post? Funny you should ask that question.
Site 1: Victoria Park
The first site I wanted to mention is Victoria Street (Link here). This great tramway layout has visited several of the model shows in my region and is a well thought out and small layout. Somewhere in my large collection of digital photos I have some of the layout. When I can find them I’ll post them up.
Site 2: Proto: 87 stores
If you’ve decided to model a tramway, you can use the track and switch components found on this page (Link Here) to make all that lovely street trackage. Now this is not just for tramways, any street railway can be modelled using these components. Very nice stuff.
Overcast and cool in Ballarat today. Hope you are having a great day where you are.
I’ve not seen this layout before, but being a fan of passenger rail, and really wanting to model a smaller (read portable) layout, I really rather like the look of Victoria Park. Take a look at this one I think that you will enjoy it.
I think I’ve settled on a plan and it’s time to start talking about it. As I mentioned in the title, I’m going to build a second version of Ian Futer’s Victoria Park plan. This was the same plan I used for the first of the micro layouts I built last winter. Here’s a quick view of the plan:
I’ve shared it before, but here’s a superb Youtube video of the layout in operation:
And, finally, a photo of what I built the first time: While it doesn’t show in my photo, the top of that baseboard wasn’t exactly level. This was more from my inadvertantly leaning on it than any structural issue with the foam core-based structure. Worse, the length of track designed to exit the board and connect to the staging sidings was some of the worst I think I’ve ever built and it was really almost too…
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