Some people are able to choose a scale for modelling, and stick to that scale year after year, continually exploring the possibilities.
Other people, like me, fall madly in love with a single scale for a while, and can’t bear the sight of any other modelling scales. This change between scales periods can be quite fruitful, since different scales allow for different types of models in a reasonable space.
Some time ago I experimented with weathering a locomotive for the first time. The locomotive, as seen above, was needed on my Castle Diorama to pull a short train of passenger carriages with tourists coming to visit the old castle.
Continued from Castle Diorama VI – Reaching the Top…
After looking at white plaster and white styrofoam for a long time, it is quite a pleasure to add colour and texture to the castle diorama.
Model kits of European buildings in O scale are unfortunately rather rare. But it seems like there is light in the horizon as more and more manufacturers begin to produce models for this scale.
The small railroad depot above is a brand new model kit from the German company Busch. I bought the kit for the halt on my Castle Diorama instead of scratchbuilding a building of some sort.
Narrow gauge vehicles is a great thing for saving space compared to normal gauge. Nonetheless is there a great pleasure in accurate and detailed models of large cars in O scale.
I only recently discovered the excellent models from a German company called O Scale Models. They seem to have produced a number of German tank cars as well as some small German gondolas with various markings to represent vehicles from the beginning of the 20th century till the 1960’s. Continue reading »
Along with the beautiful little locomotive from Fleischmann I bought a number of freight cars as well. As with all other railroad models, they were made of ugly shiny plastic, and were just begging to be weathered. 
Besides building dioramas and military models, one of my interests are model railroading. I’ve modelled in H0, N and even 1:35, but now I’d like to try O scale for the first time.
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