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| Posted: Sat Mar 2nd, 2019 07:28 pm |
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BigLars
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Last year around this time I started working on a new layout in 1/43.
If there is interest I will post more pictures and progress updates on this forum.
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Larry
Corps Of Canadian Railway Troops – Europe 1918
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| Posted: Sat Mar 2nd, 2019 08:13 pm |
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| Posted: Sat Mar 2nd, 2019 09:18 pm |
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Alan Sewell
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Hi
That modelling looks really good.
Could be any War Department Light Railway operation,
(British, Canadian, Australian or New Zealand) somewhere in France.
Looks a little too tidy to be right at the front,
but maybe just out of a transshipment yard behind the lines.
I have always been interested in WDLR,
since I got WJK Davies's book as a school history prize in the late 1960s.
The Motor Rail 40hp "tin turtle" is very well done.
You may know one was recently restored (see attached).
I also saw a version (without the armour) at work at a cement works in the very early 1970s,
and discovered one (somewhat modified) worked at a local gravel pit,
and was stored at workshops about a mile from my house.
Of course it was gone/preserved before I moved here.
I am looking forward to see how the model progresses.
Fine work so far.
Alan
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| Posted: Sat Mar 2nd, 2019 09:19 pm |
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Alan Sewell
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This is the "tin turtle" without the tin hauling chalk.
Alan
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| Posted: Sat Mar 2nd, 2019 09:21 pm |
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Ken C
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Larry
With close to 80% of the light railways supplying the commonwealth armies,
being operated by the Canadian Railway Troops,
I look forward to any modeling of them.
For a informative book on the subject
'Tracks to the Trenches'
David R.P. Guay
Railfare Pub 2017
ISBN 978-1=92708=336-9
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Ken Clark
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real men don't use instructions. they are only
the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together!
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| Posted: Sat Mar 2nd, 2019 09:23 pm |
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Alan Sewell
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And what a mechanic can do to Motor Rail's finest.
Surprisingly it is being restored and might be working this year!!!
Alan
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| Posted: Sun Mar 3rd, 2019 01:47 am |
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W C Greene
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Yes, please post more photos of your 1:43 layout.
Great to see someone building troop railways, maybe you will "infect" more to follow.
Woodie
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It doesn't matter if you win or lose, its' how you rig the game.
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| Posted: Sun Mar 3rd, 2019 02:43 pm |
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BigLars
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Thanks to all who answered.
I will continue to post information as there appears to be a demand.
I have done lots of research and when ever possible I am trying to build scenes of photographs I have found.
Most pictures we see of the war are nasty muddy types in no mans land.
Those pictures are pre 1918 for the most part.
In 1918 the war was generally being fought on new land that was not as muddy.
Here is a link to some actual video taken as a cab ride on one of the lines.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060022728
Here is a picture of the bridge scene I am modeling on one 4' Module.
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Larry
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| Posted: Sun Mar 3rd, 2019 02:50 pm |
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BigLars
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Here is a picture of the bridge before the scenery was added.
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Larry
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BigLars
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And a picture of the completed bridge from the other direction.
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Larry
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