Well, it’s been about two years since my last post on this blog, so going on my performance over the last ten years or so, it must be time for a new post!As I mentioned at the end of my last post, I was, at the time, about to retire from the edito…
Category: HO scale
Some of the new ‘intrastate’ stuff, Pt 1…
The constant deluge of r-t-r rolling stock does make it very easy to fill up the yards with lovely models of the delightfully picturesque wagons that kept the intrastate traffic moving back in the steam/early diesel era in which Lambing Flat …
My new favourite photo!
Sometimes, one just ‘gets it right’ with a photo and this is definitely one of those times! This shows my weathered Auscision 42201 and 4535 approaching Lambing Flat with 1200 tons of wheat, bound for Rozelle. There has been lot happening on the layout…
Activity at Lambing Flat!
After an entire year of very little activity at Lambing Flat, a resumption of work on the extension has motivated me to bring things up to date.
When my last post was made (in November 2012!) I had just started work on a major extension at the ‘down’ …
Back Creek Junction and the line to Cowra, developments at Lambing Flat, 2012.
Once Lambing Flat was re-erected in its current home in 2003, other than maintenance and the addition of the occasional minor detail, nothing much changed, other than the addition of DCC and more rolling stock. The track plan was as shown belo…
Some more pretty pictures…
I’ve been pretty slack lately with updating the blog, but I have been doing a little modelling… (a certain magazine does take up a lot of my time). I’ve mainly been weathering wagons (my favourite modelling activity!).
I’ll say more about t…
A Visitor to Lambing Flat…
While it has been a while since my last post, I haven’t been completely idle. Hopefully I will ‘catch up’ with events in due course, but in the meantime, here are a couple of photos of a recent visitor to Lambing Flat.
My good mate, Chris Sim, has …
Pretty pictures…
Was playing around with the camera recently and took these shots…
This shows my Classic brass 3324 drifting through the station after her recent ‘tone up’ to the weathering. Originally painted in the mid-1980s, the paint had become a little ‘tired’ a…
To good not to share…
Mike McCormac came over a couple of days ago with an (almost ;o) completed sample of one of the variations of his HO scale NSWGR LFX ‘dogbox’ kits for photographing for the ‘Recent Releases’ section of the December issue of AMRM.
It really is a mo…