Part of the harbour of my English-style layout. Everything, other than the figures, is scratch-built!
This website's about just one of my hobbies: HO scale,(3.5mm = 1'0") 2 foot 6 inch gauge railways - that's HOn30 or HOn2 1/2 or HOe and, most recently, O scale (7mm - 1'0") but 15" gauge or On15 - though, to some, it's O9 (O scale, 9mm actual gauge).
I've got 4 layouts on the go, and always others in mind.
One, the largest, but by no means big (one of the advantages of modelling in this format) is an
English-style
on a mythical island, sometime between the two wars. The railway serves a mine which brings ore down to the docks to a plant which discharges the ore into hoppers. In the summer time, there's a lot of tourist traffic with open excursion cars augmenting the local rail-motor and closed coaches. The harbour's always busy with fishing boats coming and going including the ferry-cum-coastal cargo boat. The village is clustered around the harbour and the railway shares the quayside with all of the other activities. It's a busy place.
Two other layouts are micro-layouts measuring 500mm x 500mm. One is a French vineyard:
Chateau le Plonque
where the Count's narrow gauge railway serves a vast network of vineyards, bringing in wagon-loads of grapes in the season and carting barrels, timber for barrels, vineyard posts and prunings in the off-season.
The other is the
Tooleybuc Sugar Mill
in Australia, mid-last century. Clapped out steam locos haul sugar-cane trucks to and from the mill on ramshackle lines - little more than two grooves in the dirt!
You'll also find a departure from HO scale in the form of a third micro-layout, Slim Pickins' Mine. It's a very basic decrepit old mine in O scale this time, using 15" gauge (N scale) track - that's On15 - or O9....take your pick!There's a drawing of what the finished layout will look like plus photos of the layout under construction and a couple of its locos.
Click on "My Photo Album" - above, left - for further details of all models.
Enjoy!
email: henshaw1941@bigpond.com