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Old 01-16-2021, 12:05 PM
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Will01Capri
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Default 1/16 Railway! WW1 & WW2 era

Maybe starting this thread a little premature, but i have been working for quite a while on building parts for my father to have his very own garden railway setup.
Most people would probably go buy stuff from a shop or online, but my issue is i like 1/16 and decided it had to be 1/16. Not really alot exists in this scale for garden railway, so decided to make my own haha

To start we are buiidling a narrow gauge which is running 45mm outdoor plastic track.
Once that is sorted i hope to get on with a 3.5" rail setup using metal track and building some locos capable of draggin people, although it will only be my father or my kids, so nothing like a big 5" or larger rail setup.

I have built a Diesel narrow gauge which i got designs from Thingiverse for the body, however i designed myself a twin motor twin axle drive setup and went from there with full rc gear.
Tonight i have also now built a bit of rolling stock with V1 Bomb, more will come, so watch this space.
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Radio gear and battery and speaker setup hides under flip front folding hood.

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As for the WW1 comment above in title, we are going to mix it up and have a WW1/WW2 area close to one another, so i will be makign a tin turtle for a WW1 trench layout, so keep your eyes peeled.
I have also been very fortunate to do a deal on a small gasoline engine which will hopefully make it into a open engine shunter.