I know I'm late to the party but that's amazing. Do you have an engineering background? How did you get to this level?
Hiya Roman and many thanks for that, really appreciated. Yes I am an engineer but that particular ride in itself made me want to build it.
As a kid with Mum and Dad we used to go to the Isle of Wight stopping over at Southsea for the ferry many years ago, where we visited the fair, and rode on that machine.
Then a few years back we were in New Brighton and went I on a Waltzer with the Mrs, I chatted to the owner and the ride was in fact the one from my childhood in Southsea, I couldn't believe it, these machines breath and have a story to tell.
I don't know why but I wanted to build one, in fact I'd buy the real one if the Mrs would let me. Five winters later I took that video. Still not finished and not touched it for a while. Current owner of the real machine and the first owner want to buy it.
However I 1) Can't put a price on it, and 2) I'll never build another. So I'm stuck with it......much to the pleasure of my Mrs
Again thank you.
My physicist friend has now finished a machine that can shrink people down to one inch tall. We’ve done about 40 so far but attempts to get them back to full size have failed. They’ve been stuck indoors for six weeks now because of the risk from crows and cats etc. Would you consider letting them have a few rides on your carousel for a bit of an away day ? Rod Stewart has kindly agreed to them using his model railway collection.This is where I'm at after last winters efforts. Put it away again now for the last lap next winter.
It's even worse when the moulds are really old. I'm working my way through the Revell 1/96 Cutty Sark, which dates back to 1958 I think, and the amount of preparation to remove flashing etc from the parts is seriously tiresome. Are the new kits (e.g. Airfix Hellcat) any better?lockin prompted re opening of the Airfix Bentley blower box...I'd got half way about a year or more back and got a bit frustrated at the level of work required to
prise a piece from the frame
trim it up and sand it into something like the right shape
put the part together
find and use the filler
re sand it all
undercoat it
apply 3 coats of humbrol and
finally
add it in to the model
to find it doesn't fit, and, 5 moves down the line, you discover that part 4567b2 should have gone on the other way up. Cue backtrack 25 moves and
well, you get the picture.
I think that IF we were a nation of great engineers, it was all down to kids building Airfix kits. The skills you develop are quite astonishing!
Kenny, is that what is referred to as "Z" scale? Was just curious as I used to do "N" scale many years ago, and while even that was smallish, it is huge compared to what you are doing. Pictures of course of your layout as you go along please! Fun stuff. I used to enjoy modelling the buildings and scenery as much as running the trains back then. Enjoy!
Kenny, is that what is referred to as "Z" scale? Was just curious as I used to do "N" scale many years ago, and while even that was smallish, it is huge compared to what you are doing. Pictures of course of your layout as you go along please! Fun stuff. I used to enjoy modelling the buildings and scenery as much as running the trains back then. Enjoy!
I haven’t tried any recently. My previous kit was a Mosquito from Tamiya.It's even worse when the moulds are really old. I'm working my way through the Revell 1/96 Cutty Sark, which dates back to 1958 I think, and the amount of preparation to remove flashing etc from the parts is seriously tiresome. Are the new kits (e.g. Airfix Hellcat) any better?
I collect N gauge and have a layout plan for my retirement. I also have some good friends who have started a company getting N gauge models designed and manufactured at a much higher quality than the older makers in the past. The modern N gauge is astonishingly good.
This little wagon is only 50mmm long
Lovely that, would be great to see some weathering on it too.....a task always easier said than done.