This was a thread for just posting show-off shots of your rolling stock. Now with this new forum image posting feature, there are no more excuses for not to show and tell.
Hi,
I do have a thing or two with rolling stock. My first real (and specially finished) diorama was of a German BR-52 waiting on a railway station for permission to continue its journey. The dio contains 40 figures.
My current project will also contain quite some railway hardware. It focuses around a 60cm Mörser Karl, being unloaded in the Warsaw railyard on the 17th of August 1944 ,to perform its destructive work against the uprisings.
Other actors are its railway carriers…
@golikell, is this 1:35 scale? This is very impressive and when done looks to be huge (and even more impressive). Looking forward to seeing further progress on this one.
Cheers,
C.
Nice! Wiseman makes some great kits. The kerosene loco is based on the Fordson tractor kit. I did a build review of it back in 2012 or 2013 and it is on the old RRM. Should I post the URL?
Thanks guys… Opposite of what I thought, the ladies fashion (at least in Paris) was quite colourfull. Cleavages, however were not! Yet the combination of wooden shoes, head scarf and basket with wine, gives her the appearance of a farmers’ daughter, with a sense of the colourfull side of fashion, but not of the prudeness thereof. Since I want to depict the dio in the Alsace (a few other figs that appear to be (or could be) French are present) this girl fits perfect in that idea.
@KoSprueone, which one… th old hag with the bag, or the young flower with ditto dress?
Since so many figs are present, every corner shows a little story. The idea is that each has her/his own little story which come together, albeit temporarily, on a railway station, and dissolve after their collective journeys. For example: the dad saying goodbye to his family, much to the disappointment of his son:
Whereas on the other side, a man is checked by the gendarme with his dog (watch the cat, who disapproves). Though he must be used to it after so many years, he fumbles to get his ID out of his bag. This draws the unwanted attention of other people. Amongst whom is a Hitler Jugend boy, who looks ready to assist at any moment…
That cattle car is an Airfix OO model. It is standard gauge. The decals were horribly yellowed, but 8 months taped to a south facing window, they are clear enough. Now if they don’t disintegrate…
I came across this thread and thought about my rr days - now, a bit in the past, but, as I can be sentimental about builds, I never throw the whole project out, so I kept a bit of my rr, and some rolling stock. It’s a maintenance train. I live near a heavily used BNSF rail line, and one day I saw something very similar to what I decided to build. A mix match of various vintage flat cars with equipment secured.