I spent an entertaining afternoon in Kent on Monday photographing an Sn3 layout for CM. This runs as well as it looks. Full bells and whistles DCC and cost more than my first flat. Most of the layout is on the scratch side and has not been a quick build. We tend not to do this so much now... or do we? I have often bemoaned the lack of of long term layouts, but here are plenty out there. It's just that it's a different world when you are swathed in the exhibition circuit treadmill. The long builds are there fitted in between other activities and life.
It's a beautiful layout. Crisp precise modelling and detailing I could never begin to emulate. Worth buying Continental Modeller for this layout alone, let alone all the other stuff from beyond these shores. There is a world beyond blue diesels...
ReplyDeleteThat does look lovely...there's a fineness about it that seems to go with the territory.
ReplyDeleteI sometimes wonder whether S Scale will be the last bastion of the scratch builder, at least for British prototypes, although there's a fair bit of RTR available in the US and kits from NZ.
Certainly if I were to model something like the Brill Tramway in its original form with then I'd consider it, although the Avelings would be a bit of a challenge.
I've actually got a few S Scale bits; there's a beautiful whitemetal crane kit from NZ, a few vehicles (kit and, surprisingly, ready to plonk from a Dutch manufacturer(!)) as well as a "craftsman" kit for a station building (ie a box of bits of wood with Grandt Line doors and windows and a drawing). Oh, and a Worsley Works etch for a NZ Public Works Dept. Hudswell Clarke diesel shunter.
Whether I'll ever get around to doing anything with them is another matter entirely...
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