Bubble Car for St. Agnes.

 Nigel has produced this single car unit from sides and ends supplied by Worsley Works. The cab roofs and headboards have been fabricated from plastic shhet , the centre section being the standard Worsley extrusion.
The motor bogie is worthy of note, this has been made by Nigel, having a Mashima 9/16 motor driving one of the bogie axles on the bogie etch (must take the top off next time!)
I will show more detail of the undergubbins another time.

Nigel Cullimores St. Agnes.

 Took these at our recent Group meeting and am pleased to show them as an excellent example of 3mm modelling.
I will bang on, in later posts about the stock but for now enjoy these pictures.

The Goods Shed- card shell with plastic stone cladding.

The Stationmasters house- the original was brick built.

The Station forecourt.

Just a picture that captures St.Agnes perfectly.

St. Agnes.

 I present today, some more pictures of Nigels rendition of t. Agnes in 3mm Scale.
Peco Hom track-12mm Gauge is used throughout.
The signal box has needed some modification due to more information being provided.
I am never ceased to be amazed by the helpfulness of the odelling fraternity in giving information to assist the building of a model.I know the amount of research made before St. Agnes was started but since that additional views have come to light.

Dorset Group Meeting June 2013.

 This months meeting produced quite a range of models being built.
These will be revealed during the coming few days but as a taster I include the front and rear shots of the station building on  Nigel Cullimores St. Agnes.
Instantly recognisable as the prototype, Nigel has successfully compressed the layout to manageable proportions but in so doing has lost none of the atmosphere of the prototype.
More pictures of this and other projects in later posts.

St. Agnes in 3mm

 Nigel Cullimore has been building St. Agnes for a while. It started off as a continuous circuit on one board with a centre operation cut out.
However, Nigel found the curves too extreme and operationally he wasn't satisfied. So the layout has become an end to end with two fiddle yards.
Richard Pope has been most helpful in supplying many photos and details to enable a faithful replica of the station to be built.
There are compromises but arn't most model railways? The layout is instantly recognisable as its contemporary and is progressing well.

St Agnes .

Group member Nigel has been modelling St Agnes for some time.
He produced a continuous circuit which was shown at the Ilton Westfest 2010.
However, like me he has little faith on PECO Hom curved points which have caused both of us to rejig layouts.
The latest incarnation of St Agnes is a fiddle yard to fiddle yard layout of approximately eleven feet in length and will fold over to ease transportation.
Nigel is seen the task of wiring one of the baseboards which will have the pointwork controlled by slide switches and wire in tube.