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Back to modelling... One of the stars in the Rewanui show is the humble hopper wagon: class Q. These came in a number of flavours, but... -
Happy to help. You will probably have seen the following images from The New Zealand Railway Magazine in the 1920s. The new tarp shop...
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Rewanui had a problem common to many layouts: how to hide the transition to the fiddle yard (of which there are two)? The first was easy...
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One of the banes of modelling the NZR is fitting side chains. I've gone through various phases with this. Way back, I formed the hooks...
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Staying with the 4 wheel wagon theme, 3D printing has obviously revolutionised what is possible. My first printed kits (as built by...
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For those not familiar with NZR tarpaulins this photograph might help to show what Lawrence is trying to achieve. It looks like a 1930s...
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As noted earlier, Rewanui's passenger service was significant. With no road, mine workers had to travel both ways daily for all shifts...
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The prototype image of the yard posted a day or two ago was looking north from the water vat. The vat is just to the left of bridge 17...
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Furious posting here is possible as I'm catching the forum up with modelling from the last few years. Actual progress is not nearly so...
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This indifferent copy of a 1954 J Joyce image from atop the water vat sums up most features of the layout , which is, I suppose a...
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Responding to a suggestion from SimonD that a model deserved its own thread... Rewanui is a work in progress that features elsewhere...
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Finally finished the DA 8F ready for strip down and paint, couple of niggles to sort when stripped down and some of the valve gear is... -
I had planned to have this done this week, clearly it wasn't to be, but it's not too far away now. It's just all fitted loosely together...
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Another one reassembled and rolling into the fitting out shop and rolling road running. Gladiator Maunsell S15, paint by Warren Haywood.
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The motion bracket is part of the main frame stay across the frames, you do really have to fix it in place for strength, same for the...
