This project involves talking, drawing, tea drinking, more talking and more tea, after all that, we eventually make something!
What?
16mm to the foot (1/19th), fine scale model railway.
Who?
Four people, narrow gauge enthusiasts, modellers, volunteers, all wanting to do something a little differently to the norm, bringing skills of draughting, engineering, art and electronics to the melting pot and hopefully coming out with something worthwhile at the end, Ken, Simon, Neale and Martin that’s the team.
Why?
All four of us have 16mm live steam locos and enjoy the whole garden railway community. We are all modellers in 7mm scale, both narrow and standard gauge, the benefit of which has enabled us to exhibit our work at many exhibitions, an activity we enjoy. All four of us are regular volunteers on the Bredgar & Wormshill Light Railway, giving us superb access to a whole array of narrow gauge railway items.
Our aim is to produce a finescale model railway in 16mm scale, scratch building virtually everything, using which ever production method is suitable, exploring laser/digital cutting, 3D printing, CNC milling, DCC control with sound.
The model
Will be a true scale representation of Stony Shaw station and approaches on the Bredgar & Wormshill Light Railway, time stamp will be the first Sunday in June. Here will be documented the Warts-n-all process we go through in hopefully achieving our aim.