#model railway

[primerjohn]

I was awestruck by this display. The density of detail between the buildings, people, and ships, is almost overwhelming. This was the last diorama of the series (or the first depending on which way you were coming from). The California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento was worth visiting for this series of dioramas alone.

*Smuggler’s Cove*

This O scale narrow gauge layout, Smuggler’s Cove, built by Michael Flack and the late Geoff Knott in Australia, depicts a fictional New England fishing community modeled after towns in coastal Massachusetts and Maine. Small and large fishing boats and the steamboat Sabino near the Maritime Museum play a prominent role in this coastal diorama. Look for intricate details such as the scratch built lobster traps, floats, and fish crates stacked on the pier. How many seagulls can you spot in Smuggler’s Cove?

*Geoff Knott and Michael Flack*

The late Geoff Knott and Michael Flack were insprred to build Smuggler’s Cove after discovering the history of rum-running along the East Coast of the US, in the carly 1900s, their inspiration for Smuggler’s Cove came after Geoff and Michael traveled to New England and visited Cape Cod, Boothbay Harbor, Bar Harbor, and Kennebunkport, Geoff and Michael helped to popularize O scale models. <Layout furnished by the Australasian Region of the NMRA>.

#miniatures #minipainting #miniature painting #terrain #painting miniatures #terrain inspiration #painting terrain #diorama #scale model railroad #scale model #railroad museum #model railway #model railroad #railroad #railway

[whirligig-girl]

Commission for @trydianth of Entrapta operating tiny trains (since she loves tiny food so much!)

Image ID: Entrapta from She-Ra is grinning and fiddling with some train cars on her model train set. Entrapta is a tan-skinned woman with pink hair in large prehensile tentacle-like pony tails. Her regular hands are on the train layout table but she’s messing with the train cars with her hair. She’s also using her hair to control the model railway’s power transformer, which is hooked up to a First One’s crystal. The train layout contains a yard with three sidings with five freight cars and a purple tank engine. It also contains a loop that goes back and forth between a simplistic diorama of dark purple Dryll castle on the left and of Brightmoon castle on the left, with a small diorama of the Whispering Woods’ dark blue trees in the foreground. There’s a spur track that runs off-screen with the ominous reddish glow of the Fright Zone. A pretty streamlined tan, white, and gold train is coming from that line. On the loop line near Entrapta is seven freight cars and a scary looking military-green diesel with a Horde insignia. End Image ID.

Under the cut are some detail close-ups and artist’s notes.

Flatbed of First Ones Tech, FZR Boxcar, two unnamed vans, a refrigerated Salineas Fisheries boxcar, an unnamed tank wagon, a gondola of snow from the Kingdom of Snows, a Fred Pelhay Coal Co. truck for some reason, a Plumeria Products boxcar, and a Freight Zone Rail Road boxcar with graffiti reading She-Ra was Here.

A Freight Zone Rail locomotive and an old industrial shunter tank engine from Dryll Quarry.

Bright Moon Railway’s cab-forward streamliner, coming from the Fright Zone. Does that make sense? Perhaps not, but I hasten to remind the viewer that this is just Entrapta’s toy model.

I definitely put more detail into this than I intended to! It was going to be a lot simpler, but by the time I got to drawing and then perspective-skewing an actual model railway layout with sidings and switches I realized this was going to take a while. I wasn’t quite sure what to do for the engine visual style. At first the locomotive positioned next to the Dryll tank engine was going to be a big Dryllian steam engine, but I decided it’d be better to show a big scary Horde diesel.

I used steam engines for the good guys and a diesel for the bad guys soley and completely because i am thomas the tank engine-brained because I just like the look of steam engines! There’s no realistic reason why there should be steam traction in Etheria, rather than something entirely magical--but then, steam engines just look better in fantasy settings in my opinion! I can justify it, after-the-fact though: magic is everywhere in Etheria, but it can’t be harnessed by everyone (during the events of the series). Sometimes transportion has to be done through mundane means. And it’s not like we see any big power plants on Etheria, so electricity is out. Entrapta’s one of the only people who uses first one’s tech to power her inventions--otherwise we see no powerplants in Dryll. So. Wood or coal or magic-crystal powered steam engines! Yipee!

Obviously they’re all electric powered in this model, though.

#She-Ra #SPOP #Entrapta #Train #model train #model railway #autism #neurodiversity #commission #model railroading

[stephiramona]

The Tale Of Two Cities according to Heiko and Stephi - Part 445

It's November, and here in Germany, this means that it's getting colder outside. So it's the time of the year you spend more time at home and with your hobbies that you can do inside.

Toy trains could be one of these hobbies. In the photos above, you can see two shops which are only about train miniature models. The first photo shows one in Cologne and the second one shows one in Munich.

When I was a kid, my father and I often crafted and made art. We sometimes even made dioramas. I never played with toy trains, though.

I can imagine what's the fascination with it, but it never caught me. Whenever we pass one of these shops, my husband gets dreamy eyes or a dreamy undertone when talking about train miniature models.

Which is funny, because he doesn't have any. Many people seem to be very fascinated with them.

I wonder if this is a German thing or something international. Does anyone of you have a fascination with miniature models of trains? I'd be happy if you'd share it.

#photographers on tumblr #original photographers #cologne #munich #model railway

[dduane]

#Caturday #“Catzilla Threatens The Town” #model railway #cat

[dark0ta]

Model railroad museum Taken: 02/23/24

#photography #photographers on tumblr #original photography #color photography #canon eos 2000d #canon t7 #railroad #train #locomotive #model railroad #model railway #model trains #macro #macro photography #minnesota #twin cities

[skettchyartendevours]

I've been neglecting to share these, but here's a handful of pictures I took of Rumble while visiting a Railway Expo a few weeks ago :]

#toy photography #transformers #maccadam #rumble #model railway #model trains #out and about

[trainmaniac]

Close-Up of a GWR Local Train by Michael Alford Via Flickr: A local train awaits its next turn of duty at Box.

#model railway #steam train #Great Western Railway #N scale #steam locomotive #local train #Box #1:148 scale #model train #GWR #Great Western Main Line #flickr

[old-square-wheels]

Wuh oh looks like I completely redid my Thomas model :O

So yeah I made the old version of this way back when I first started modeling and found that it looks a little amateurish. But now I'm big, I'm grown, I know a paintbrush like tha back of my boney hands, I will be Tumblrs #1 railway modeller (maybe :/).

One of the big things I wanted Tomtom 2.0 to have was his extended side tanks. HOWEVER the original Hornby model that I used didn't have such extensions so after stripping the previous paint off I chopped off the air compressor and the other bit as they were in the way and fashioned myself some tank extensions using foam board and thin Plastikard. Once they were glued on nice and strong I used Liquid Green Stuff that I got from my local Warhammer shop to fill in the seams (to varying levels of success).

After priming it again I used my newly acquired airbrush to spray on the blue coat. Gold accents were added to the rims of the windows and the cab doorway(?) as well as his builders plates, the safety valve and the two bits on either side of the smoke box whose names and use escape me. Being a big fan of Awdry's models and chimney caps in general I gave Thomas's chimney a quick bedazzle which I think looks wicked.

While waiting for the transfers for the lining to arrive I gave Thomas some lamp irons what were made from a couple of staples and painted black to fit.

Once the transfers had been transferred from Fox Transfers' warehouse and into my room I started the long and tedious process of lining the thang. The lettering is of Great Western origin and the 1s were made using the back of an R.

To finish up I gave him some vacuum brake pipes and only one chain link coupling on his front buffer beam as the other one got dragged into the fog never to be seen again (I lost it). REAL COAL was also added to his bunker which is well neat, innit?

#ttte #ttte thomas #model railway #the coaches hes pulling in the pictures might turn into Annie and Clarabel but i dunno yet :/ #ive also got another NWR engine in the works who ive been activly ignoring so i might pick that back up again soon #ok thanks for listebing peace and love <3

[klein-sodor-bahn]

The babies✨

From front left to top right:

Cereza(West Country Class), Charlie(DR BR 03), Anatoly(DR BR 120), Phillippa (DR BR 41), Heinrich(BR 18 201), Gordon (LNER A1), Andrea (DB BR 23 105), Viktoria( DR BR 01.5), Oleksandra(DR BR 130), Libuše (CSD E499.2), Frieda (DB BR 10 001) and Leonard (LNER A4)

#Akagi’s train babies #h0 model #model railway

[rexs-models]

So, onto the models,

I'll just be going off the pictures in my phones camera roll, because a lot can change in 4 months.

So theres a lot to go over!

Firstly, theres Samson, a USRA 2-10-2 that i bought off a friend. (I named him after a character in an animated short that came out around the same time i got him)

Then theres Kelly! I believe i may have already posted about this one, but the photos are there so 🤷‍♂️. Bought this guy off the same friend as Samson, but I got this one first, and named it after him.

Theres also Bittern, which i know ive posted about before, but i dont think he had his nameplates then. I decided on the name ages ago, by asking the cast of @askyoungiron who would like a pannier tank named after them.

And lastly, (for the moment), theres Kaan. A J50 named after a dear friend of mine that I met through Ttte fan fiction, that helps me bring my fictional railway and its nation to life :)

#model railway #rex's models #model trains

[primerjohn]

Visited the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, and they had a scale model railroad display. I honestly like seeing them to learn what I can for my own craft. This was one of them.

Lime Kiln

The Lime Kiln diorama, based on an actual set of lans in Felton, California, was built by the late Jim Vail. Look for the miniature workers in the kiln, and the detail of the limestones as they are processed. The lime from Felton was used to make cement for the growing city of San Francisco and surrounding Bay Area cities.

West Side Lumber

Located in Tuolumne, a small city in the Sierra Foothills, the West Side Lumber Company once operated an extensive logging operation served by a narrow gauge railroad. This HO scale model by Jim Vail is a foreshortened representation of the sawmill, which was modified to include a small farm scene.

#miniatures #minipainting #terrain #terrain inspiration #diorama #model railroad #model railway #scale model #scale model railroad #railroad museum #modelrail #modelrailways #model

[whirligig-girl]

As a lower decker, Ensign Eaurp Guz doesn't have a lot of space for a model railroad. Arguably she could fit like a shelf layout precariously above her tub-bunk, but that's where she keeps some of her model spaceships. So instead, she builds larger scale model engines and runs them on the holodeck. Here's a roughly G gauge model of a Slopspit & Southern Class 80 "Easy"-type 2-6-0 steam engine with decorative smoke baffles. Like most of her models it's built with function in mind, so it's live steam.

Guz's model rockets and spacecrafts are either run in the holodeck, or in certain conditions on shoreleave or staged out of the shuttlebay on actual spaceflights. For example, the Orion Nuclear Pulse Rocket from Guzcomic was planned to make a round trip between Douglas Station and the planet's moon, DbII before it went and exploded itself, and the lunar lander she'd built for the Apollo 11 anniversary was going to actually land on the Moon.

When she can fully recover her models, she keeps them in storage and rotates them in the display above her tub-bunk.

Guz also has plans for a proper model railroad which would replicate a colliery circa 2350 with a late example of a revenue-earning steam locomotive in approximately HO-ish gauge, but it would require having her own quarters.

She's also kicking around plans to make a 1:4800 scale layout which would fit on a microscope slide.

#Eaurp Guz #Slimegirl #Train #Steam Train #Steam locomotive #locomotive #live steam #model railroad #model railway #model train #steam engine #model railroading #railway modelling #Star Trek #Star Trek Lower Decks #hobbies

[drmopp1966]

i was at model rail scotland today and i got a triang M7!!

it has an opening smokebox door and a little light in the firebox!!

it literally cost. £20

absolute steal

#there’s a crack in the running board but i’ll fix it 😅 #it runs so well too!! #model trains #model railway #model railroad #triang #hornby

[a-random-whovian7]

So, the other day, I ran a new locomotive that just kept on derailing (Dapol Terrier in OO gauge), and was worried it was a fault with the locomotive. It wasn't. On closer inspection, this is the current state of my layout:

And for context (if any is needed judging from the image above), it is not in good condition. It is clean, but a track rubber isn't going to fix it. The feeder rail has been fixed so many times that the controller is now permanently soldered to it. Several of the curves have visible dents, one with a dip big enough to derail some locomotives. Both points have warped upwards... somehow. The fishplates have zero connecting power. It's absolutely knackered and needs replacing. I'm also on a tight budget, and the amount that needs replacing is... yikes.

So yeah. TL;DR is remember to maintain your track everyone. Now if you'll excuse me, I now have to work out how to get a set of points to lie flat.

#model railway #model trains #model railroad #model layouts #i fucked up

[the-sleepy-conductor]

Hi hi I went to a model train show earlier today and spotted this Southern Pacific Daylight Train, specifically Southern Pacific 4449 and honestly it caught my eye and I've been thinking about it ever since.

The only model trains I have are HO scale and the Southern Pacific Daylight Train was S scale and scary expensive too.

I did have one of these in HO scale but...

✨my dad dropped it on the floor and broke it✨

Anyway I was really excited to see this train today and wanted to share it, so uh yeah if you actually read this you deserve a cookie 🍪 :)

Also here's another train I spotted that I really liked:

I did say I would sprinkle some train rambles amongst the Submas content so uh enjoy I guess lol

#model trains #steam locomotive #southern pacific #model railroad #model railway #conductor's rambles

[infinitybal1233]

Happy Wagon Wednesday!

Thought it was finally time to do proper work on Annie and Clarabel!

#thomas & friends #thomas and friends #thomas the tank engine #lgbtq #trains #trans rights #model railroad #model railway #model trains #steam train