{"id":21241,"date":"2024-03-20T06:36:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T20:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=21241"},"modified":"2024-03-20T06:36:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T20:36:46","slug":"moorewood-colliery-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=21241","title":{"rendered":"Moorewood Colliery Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A scene on my OO9 (1\/76 scale on 9mm track) Moorewood Colliery. It\u2019s fully wired and working, but really needs finishing off and placing in a lit diorama case with backscene and built in photography grade lighting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The narrowboat on the left is from one of those inexpensive Craftline balsa wood and paper kits. Not very accurate but an affordable option. Sadly there is very little in the way of accurate narrowboat kits out there apart from elderly Langley white metal kits and to my eyes an overscale in height, but very nice resin kit from Skytrex.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Track is the usual Peco \u2018crazy track\u2019, it\u2019s not that crazy though, it just sits there and doesn\u2019t even make a murmur. The winding house in the distance is scratch built. The pithead is again from Craftline, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s in their current range. It\u2019s very similar to the one at the Black Country Museum in Dudley. The bigger building is an excellent laser cut from those lovely people at Petite Properties and is available as a full building like here, as well as low relief.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The loco is from Roxey Mouldings and is based on a prototype that ran in Cyprus. It sits on a Farish 2-6-2 N gauge chassis. It\u2019s a lovely runner with that heavy white metal body. Wagons behind are no longer available resin one offs from several years ago. They\u2019re based on ones that used to run on the China clay tramways on the Isle of Purbeck. And the tipper wagons are Roco, a couple of which date from the 1980s. I believe they\u2019re still current.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And of course we have Barry Bullhead from ModelU and Hubert the conversational Latin speaking horse from Langley Models.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I did a rather creepy video a couple of three years ago going in to more detail https:\/\/youtu.be\/p_1zmzb3yxw?si=8LzI6pTizNccswHq<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A scene on my OO9 (1\/76 scale on 9mm track) Moorewood Colliery. It\u2019s fully wired and working, but really needs finishing off and placing in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[295],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-model-railways"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}