Pembroke:87 – Modelling the Canada Atlantic Railway in Pembroke in Proto:87
Description: Railway Modelling in S Scale (1:64) and Scale 7
My very good friend Mike Cougill is currently musing on how little “layout” one needs over on his blog .
Another very good friend, Chris Mears , has commented: “Reading this and thinking about staging and backdrops made me think about a social construct the hobby perpetuates: that of inadequacy. We never have enough space in length of run for our trains, depth to model the whole scene, so sometimes these aids aren’t as much theatrical but concessions making up for what we want but can’t have.”
This reminded me of something I threw together more years ago than I care to remember in 1:32 scale. One of the magazines had a “100 square inches” competition. I didn’t enter, but a piece of particle board 12” long and 8½” wide was sorted out from the pile of bits of wood, and another piece screwed to the back of it. To this latter piece was affixed some vacuum-formed brick sheet (SEFinecast) with capping bricks from styrene strip. Painting was a base coat of a brick-like reddish colour with ultramarine bl
Pembroke:87 – Modelling the Canada Atlantic Railway in Pembroke in Proto:87