I fancied something interesting and festive for Garden Rail this year. Looking through the HGLW website, I found a laser-cut sleigh kit.
The model is intended to be a wagon load, but it seemed to me that mounting the sleigh on rails would be far more fun. Assembly is easy with PVA glue, everything slots together easily.
Using a Binnie tipper chassis, I found that the legs could just fit on the frames once the skis were cut away. Glued and then pinned in place, they just make it and seemed pretty solid now.
The skis fit on the sides of the rails and it looks (IMHO) fantastic. Sprayed red and with white trim applied after painting, it really looks the part for the narrow-gauge Father Christmas.
All we need, is something to pull it...
Poor old Santa will be having a bumpy ride on that skip chassis. Still, a fair amount of port should sort him out.
ReplyDeleteNicely built and painted, I hope that there's a suitable figure to be had.