From the company's history :
Narrow Gauge model railway layouts in O9, 009 and Gn15 scales.
From the company's history :
I had an enjoyable time photographing my completed locos built over the last six years for the O9 Modelling Facebook page. When looking at the photos it's amazing how you notice some painting defects and locos that need more detailing, I will have to tidy them up I think.
All run on 4-wheeled Kato chassis unless mentioned.
Here are the pictures:-
January 2025
A couple of new (old loco kits) have appeared this month plus an attempted scratch-build going on.
Four-wheel Coach No.11
A bureau?... and another baseboard.
The household authorities had ordered a tidy -up of the "model railway room" months ago, so I thought I'd better get on with it. "I know", I said, "I want an old fashioned bureau, I can work on the lift-down flap then store my scruffy tools, turps, rags behind it. All my materials can go in the drawers." So a few visits to second-hand shops didn't throw up anything, nor did an antique centre, the bureau's in there were far too grand and expensive. Then I thought, you twit! (being me), I already have one in storage! it is being kept for me after my fathers passing from the family house, a small reproduction one and of a suitable size for the room where I make my models.
One of the only jobs I would do around the house when I was young (being a spoilt brat) was to polish the bureau, I liked doing that. So the bureau was collected and brought home. I repaired the cubby-hole fitment and strengthened one of the legs, polished it up, and filled it with my modelling stuff.
New stock added in July and August 2024:-
In my "wakefield second-hand haul" was this un-made Avalon Line ALR1-9 freelance railbus. Here it is seen at Pye Rigg Works with painting nearly complete.
4-wheeled diesel "Satyr" is hauling two new resin kit builds from my "wakefield haul", which are Avalon Line AL51 Open passenger coaches. Passengers are by Woodland Scenics. Also in the photo is the railbus, now named "Siren". The van is also an Avalon item, a restored AL46. The open is also a restored vehicle, a Unit Models open wagon on a long chassis, I quite liked it as it was (placed on a wrong 15ft chassis) so I just added buffer beams and couplings and also re-painted it.
2024 new locos.
We had three exhibitions with the PHLR in the first half of 2024, two with Raven Hill and one with Pye Rigg Works, and three exhibitions also with our 009 layout Shortwaite Hill which is still getting nice comments from visitors. Modelling time has been very intermittent, but three new locos have appeared, Ladon, Kur and Scylla.
2023 stuff.....
Well, 2023 was a busy year for exhibitions...for us, anyway. Our layouts were shown 14 times - 8 with "Raven Hill", 3 with "Pye Rigg Works", and 3 with our 009 layout "Shortwaite Hill". I am surprised that, although quite a lot of stock was built up to December 2022, only six models were built this year, 3 locos, a 4-wheel coach, a tank wagon and a large van.
New layout ideas keep buzzing around in my mind, but if any were actually built there would be no room to store them.
And just recently, after four years, my first 7mm scale diorama, built in a drawer, was actually named. "Drawley", a pun on "drawer" and "Lee" (the chaps name who gave it to me).
Photos from our travels:-