Layout update.

 In a previous post I mentioned how it was gone before been finished. Well, now I has gone. Just one small section remains in place. The last frame work one which the station boards sat, was removed over the weekend, the timber to be recycled into the new layout. I have quite a bit of timber, just as well, as the price to start new is not nice!

What a mess, trying to save as much track as possible, and storing all sort of items, to be gone through and relocated.

All is going into a new shed, built next to the garage, just a bit smaller, but plans are in progress. 

 

 

 

Also, I have changed my baseboard construction method, using open frame. The old layout was L girder, which required a lot of timber. The open frame allows for the ability to have changing track bed heights.

More to come.

Adelaide 2021

 No exhibition last year and only a small on in 2021. Give credit to the organizers, that they managed to piece together and event made up of South Australia layouts and retailers (almost). Sneaked in from NSW was a representative from SDS models, sharing a position with Elite Model services, who, themselves had some nice 3D printed 8000class SAR break vans, of the early versions to the old Lima model that we are use to.

SDS had on display there up and coming 900 class English Electric diesel, along with charts showing colour variations that will be available.

Next to Elite was a new layout, Tarlee. A mid north grain silo and brick station, common for the area, with about five towns having stations built to the same design. Especially of interest, was the use of more scale height trees!

Nearby was Bob Stevens Saint Bernard sur Mer, having had some vegetation growth with new trees and bushes.

Other great layouts included, Don Moyses Crystal Brook. SARMA's Strathburn, Adelaide Modellers Group Terowie North (in full). Planes of Fame, Harry Potter made an appearance, the old model collectors were out, with their fine collections, and a couple lego layouts, one not to out done by SDS.

SDS 900 class

Sometime ago, I think I mentioned that SDS models were progressing on a programme of models for the South Australian modeller, using old Austrains moulds and new. I had heard a while ago that a 900 class English Electric diesel was, as you would say, on the go, and now engineering samples have arrived. A picture was 'posted' in the Australian Model Railway Magazine, and the following photo was added to the SDS facebook page recently. (Lets ignore the one in the middle).