Hope this fits in this section too and that it is of interest.Like a lot of people no doubt, time was long on my hands in the Covid lockdown and as well as putting on weight I went through a spell of working on model trains. It started with a little bit of nostalgia in as much as I decided I wanted a Duchess of Montrose train because it was what my parents had bought us as kids, this lead to my discovering that there were a lot of broken ones out there and I started buying them and repairing and selling them in order to get other model locos I decided I wanted to keep.
The devil they say finds work for idle hands and one thing led to another and I ended up doing 3 dioramas ..
The first one was just something out of my head to display a couple of Britannia class locos I had actually seen as a school kid, they had been reduced to hauling fish trains and we would hurry from school to a local crossing to see the ‘half past four Brit’ ..
The second one was a little more ambitious in as much as having connections to the Haworth Home Guard re-enactment group and finding out that there had been a loco called Home Guard in 1942 I decided to attempt a HG tribute display. I wanted it to say 1940’s, which was a little difficult but hopefully I pulled it off ??
The last one was a simple exercise and connected to my long time interest in the American west, having the Jupiter loco as I did, I got together a carriage and caboose and then tried to put it into a suitable setting, the background picture being one I took in Arizona one time and which fortunately suited the scale when enlarged to fit.
Forgive my indulgence in posting this, I have these at home and no one sees them, not a boat I know, but it is ‘another hobby’ and so nice to be able to share them on this topic of the forum
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