Mike W
Western Thunderer
Apologies that this is late - I signed up some time ago but never got around to posting.
I joined the Gauge 0 Guild in 1969 (when I was not quite a teenager!), encouraged by the new Tri-ang range, but quickly started scratch building. I chose LNWR mainly because my father modelled that, so drawings and photos were to hand. My father's model was Aylesbury LNWR in EM.
Twenty years later modelling lapsed with work and house comittments, but then a friend offered me the mortal remains of a large scale Bassett-Lowke LNWR Experiment, which I thought would make a nice centre piece for the railway room.
Well, to cut a long story short, I started modelling in Gauge 3 to match the Experiment and never went back to 7mm! The plan was to make a small batch of wagons, and sell most to recover the tooling costs, so that I get my two free. That was the theory!
Ten years later I'm still making and selling kits, but now on a semi-commercial basis and have a range of a dozen or so wagons, some carriages and two or three locos partly completed. But I never managed to get my own free - it just never worked out like that as development and investment in new ones always runs ahead of sales.
Like this forum, it has some very capable and pioneering members who actually do things.
Mike
I joined the Gauge 0 Guild in 1969 (when I was not quite a teenager!), encouraged by the new Tri-ang range, but quickly started scratch building. I chose LNWR mainly because my father modelled that, so drawings and photos were to hand. My father's model was Aylesbury LNWR in EM.
Twenty years later modelling lapsed with work and house comittments, but then a friend offered me the mortal remains of a large scale Bassett-Lowke LNWR Experiment, which I thought would make a nice centre piece for the railway room.
Well, to cut a long story short, I started modelling in Gauge 3 to match the Experiment and never went back to 7mm! The plan was to make a small batch of wagons, and sell most to recover the tooling costs, so that I get my two free. That was the theory!
Ten years later I'm still making and selling kits, but now on a semi-commercial basis and have a range of a dozen or so wagons, some carriages and two or three locos partly completed. But I never managed to get my own free - it just never worked out like that as development and investment in new ones always runs ahead of sales.
Like this forum, it has some very capable and pioneering members who actually do things.
Mike
.....last time I saw you , I think ......not sure about the photos though
and concreat cows
