tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20340207.post7288323644651461691..comments2024-03-29T14:50:55.299+00:00Comments on Phil's Workbench: When model railways were funUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20340207.post-76911455726204284822015-07-28T22:51:13.239+00:002015-07-28T22:51:13.239+00:00It really does look fun. For a while now due to ha...It really does look fun. For a while now due to having no income or previously very low income I have seen how todays commercialism has destroyed the fun aspect of model railways. I converted to DCC before most did, but now have left it alone and my heart has left the 00 gauge scene. It all became about who has put the most money into their hobby rather then who had the best creative methods. I started to move to 7mm narrow gauge to keep modelling, with everything being kit built (Easier then one assumes with cheap (Not really cheap enough!) resin kits) or scratchbuilt. Most wagons are scratchbuilt. And it is so much fun! Forget rivit counting. I am making a railway here. A toy railway! Not really a toy but you get the drift! How to keep modelling on the cheap? I can make wagons for just over the price of a pair of wheels. Wow. Wheels are not cheap today! Having said that I can still make them at the moment for just over a pound each. Couplings? Well. I adapt drawing pins and paper clips to form a centre buffered type. Chassis are either made from wood or scrap code 100 rail offcuts. Bodies either tea sturers or lollypop sticks or for metal...Old tin can (Genuine rust!) Fun!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20340207.post-8066679372751709082015-03-01T12:56:44.923+00:002015-03-01T12:56:44.923+00:00Never went, too far away but had a treasured catal...Never went, too far away but had a treasured catalogue which had panels with real trains too!<br />Duncan Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14233792711462813228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20340207.post-6277828416290335712015-02-23T15:52:32.660+00:002015-02-23T15:52:32.660+00:00My parents took my sister and I to see the Christm...My parents took my sister and I to see the Christmas lights in london several times in the 50's and to see the Gamages model railway and were impressed. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20340207.post-79461034709592365322015-02-23T15:49:09.032+00:002015-02-23T15:49:09.032+00:00My parents took my sister and I to see the Christm...My parents took my sister and I to see the Christmas lights in london several times in the 50's and to see the Gamages model railway and were impressed. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com