Braking it down

Having taken delivery of the entire Tomix range of Thomas The Tank Engine models, I have been planning a small micro layout to use them on. My main gripe with the range is how limited it is, with no more than 4 types of wagon. To rectify this, I have been drawing up some designs that will be used to make models for this layout.

Click image for full view!

As you can see, rough work yet but this will be a reality very soon!

Jack

N gauge - Harvey The Crane Engine

Well, I guess I'd been holding this one off for a while but now it's revealed. Tomy/Yujin's range of wind up Thomas characters seemed to be around 2mm scale or thereabouts, making them ideal conversion candidates. Having converted Rusty into a passable OO9 locomotive, I set to work on one of my favorite characters.

Having around 9 Ibertren Cuckoo chassis for OO9 use, I decided to employ a spare one for this project, simply as it's slightly smaller than the Fleischmann option.

Just a final picture to show how small he really is!

That's all for now, just going to go to sleep!

N gauge - Henry The Green Engine

Quite happily, I've been looking at doing N gauge models. I really like the scale, which works out at roughly half OO/HO. One range of items that caught me, unsurprisingly, is the Tomix range.

Sold in Japan, there are multiple locomotives, coaches, wagons and buildings you can buy. Whilst the buildings aren't anything special, the rolling stock is amazing.

So far, I have a Henry and a Percy. I'm aiming to get the other two in the range, Thomas and James, then complete the gaps by making my own locomotives. It'll take time but it'll look decent.

Jack