7mm Bamfylde- Tinkering in 7mm

NHY 581

NHY 581

Western Thunderer
Space is, as we know, the final frontier so that will dictate what happens but me tinkering won't detract from the 4mm projects.

I'll just take a bit of time to get a few bits of stock together and take it from there.

I genuinely don't want anything big so half a dozen wagons, a loco or two and that will do me.

I've not looked back on this thread so I've probably said this before. I liken 7mm ( 1/43 ) to 1/35th military modelling, in terms of the look and feel of the stock etc so that's the sort of detail I'm looking to achieve in what will be for 7mm, a comparatively small space.

Rob
 
NHY 581

NHY 581

Western Thunderer
Alan said:
That's a shame.
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I know, I know but I really have invested too much in the 4mm stuff to just abandon it, Alan.

This step back in 7mm is only as a result of the utterly absurd price being asked for a RTR 7mm loco and a very nice one at that.

This is definitely a project that will just tick away in the background.

Ultimately, I see this as little more than 'a diorama with benefits'..................


Rob
 
NHY 581

NHY 581

Western Thunderer
Now, this is taken from an earlier post, popped on when I was clearly having a creative moment. I've tweaked the names accordingly but otherwise left it as per originally posted.....over four years ago now !

" Bamfylde Halt...a small run down wayside station on the former Bam Valley Light Railway with a single siding retained for the local coal merchant and farmers...........the small wooden office cum ground frame......a surprisingly short, wooden faced, ash topped platform set into a low rising, fern encrusted bank, topped with a single enamelled name board....goods yard bordered by low stone buildings of indeterminate age.....the feeble glow offered by a couple of oil lamps dotted about the place.....weeds and wild flowers poking through the rapidly disappearing cinder ballast....a general atmosphere of a damp autumnal morning..... the pleasant waft of a coal fire from a nearby cottage drifting across....a warming flicker of an oil lamp from the office.........the distant cooing of a wood pigeon from the nearby woods.......a gentle scrape of the coal merchants shovel as he loads the sacks.......an earthy, slightly fragrant smell of wet ferns.......the slow, regular drip from the stand pipe in the yard into the bucket beneath..."


Rob
 
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