isuzutoo-eh
16th July 2013, 12:18 PM
Hi all,
Here's some photos of my models that I have bought or built from kits. They are all pretty obscure, I work in the model railway industry so get bored by the common stuff that I stare at every day. Photos are taken with a phone with an untalented operator pressing the button...so sorry for the quality.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/07/767.jpg
That's an Australian Army Malcolm Moore rail tractor, the prototypes had the well known Ford flathead V8 and went like stink apparently, there's a couple in Tasmania on the Ida Bay line with Isuzu 4BD1s now :)
This model was built from a kit by The Model Company/Berg's Hobbies. Scale is 1:43.5 or O scale.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/07/768.jpg
The brass model behind the Malcolm Moore is a Hudson Hunslet diesel mechanical, as used by AI&S at Port Kembla for moving copper anodes around. It obviously isn't quite finished... again O scale. Kit from the UK by KB Scale.
The skips and flats to the left are Hudson's 'Rugga' pattern rollingstock, intended for portable railways around industry. Also from KB Scale.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/07/769.jpg
This black beauty is a War Department Light Railways (UK) Hunslet 4-6-0T, a couple of hundred were built for use during WWI conveying troops, equipment and provisions to the front line and taking the injured back to field hospitals; afterwards they were sold off with a heap ending up in the Qld cane fields. There is a restored one at the Australian War Memorial, as our soldiers were prominent in the WDLR operation. It was a kit by Chiver's Finelines, O scale, I bought it second hand already built.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/07/770.jpg
This unpainted brass locomotive is older than me, it's a Japanese model of a 3'6" gauge locomotive, roughly HO scale (actually HOj or 1:80). Very similar engines operated in South Australia. It cost me a few hours fixing a customer's crappy tracklaying efforts.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/07/771.jpg
This is a model of a German made Krauss locomotive that operated in Tasmania around the 1900s. It was acquired second hand, and is O scale. There were dozens of these engines brought to Australia before WWI for all manner of industry, and they were to be found in every state.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/07/772.jpg
My very first scratchbuilt loco! Built circa 2002, it has no prototype, nothing more than a flight of fancy with the flavour of an abused industrial 'critter'. O scale narrow gauge.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/07/773.jpg
Finally, here's my big brute, a 32 ton Shay. This was an ebay bargain, a heavily modified brass Kemtron (US) kit (O scale 3 foot gauge). I have a couple more Shay kits put away to be built 'in the future'. This loco is fairly similar to a pair that operated out of Burraga copper mines in NSW, and later the Powelltown timber company in Victoria. It is great watching the crankshaft, universals and slip joints flailing around when it runs.
Here's some photos of my models that I have bought or built from kits. They are all pretty obscure, I work in the model railway industry so get bored by the common stuff that I stare at every day. Photos are taken with a phone with an untalented operator pressing the button...so sorry for the quality.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/07/767.jpg
That's an Australian Army Malcolm Moore rail tractor, the prototypes had the well known Ford flathead V8 and went like stink apparently, there's a couple in Tasmania on the Ida Bay line with Isuzu 4BD1s now :)
This model was built from a kit by The Model Company/Berg's Hobbies. Scale is 1:43.5 or O scale.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/07/768.jpg
The brass model behind the Malcolm Moore is a Hudson Hunslet diesel mechanical, as used by AI&S at Port Kembla for moving copper anodes around. It obviously isn't quite finished... again O scale. Kit from the UK by KB Scale.
The skips and flats to the left are Hudson's 'Rugga' pattern rollingstock, intended for portable railways around industry. Also from KB Scale.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/07/769.jpg
This black beauty is a War Department Light Railways (UK) Hunslet 4-6-0T, a couple of hundred were built for use during WWI conveying troops, equipment and provisions to the front line and taking the injured back to field hospitals; afterwards they were sold off with a heap ending up in the Qld cane fields. There is a restored one at the Australian War Memorial, as our soldiers were prominent in the WDLR operation. It was a kit by Chiver's Finelines, O scale, I bought it second hand already built.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/07/770.jpg
This unpainted brass locomotive is older than me, it's a Japanese model of a 3'6" gauge locomotive, roughly HO scale (actually HOj or 1:80). Very similar engines operated in South Australia. It cost me a few hours fixing a customer's crappy tracklaying efforts.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/07/771.jpg
This is a model of a German made Krauss locomotive that operated in Tasmania around the 1900s. It was acquired second hand, and is O scale. There were dozens of these engines brought to Australia before WWI for all manner of industry, and they were to be found in every state.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/07/772.jpg
My very first scratchbuilt loco! Built circa 2002, it has no prototype, nothing more than a flight of fancy with the flavour of an abused industrial 'critter'. O scale narrow gauge.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/07/773.jpg
Finally, here's my big brute, a 32 ton Shay. This was an ebay bargain, a heavily modified brass Kemtron (US) kit (O scale 3 foot gauge). I have a couple more Shay kits put away to be built 'in the future'. This loco is fairly similar to a pair that operated out of Burraga copper mines in NSW, and later the Powelltown timber company in Victoria. It is great watching the crankshaft, universals and slip joints flailing around when it runs.