Some pictures of the two conversions that I just realized. Do not look, these machines have never existed, but they could
And the second is a railcar electric battery. The base vehicle is of Prussian origin and was built just before the First World War. It will provide a vehicle inspection on the network.
Wow Francois!!! your work on the cowboys and indians is very impressive! I hope some manufacturer can have you make master parts for them so we all might be able to get these characters.
Some figurines and accessories have been added to the train cars of the Civil War. This convoy is not finished, two flat cars and a locomotive must be added. Gunners and the gun are brand GHQ. The limber is brand Pendraken. The cars are Bachmann productions that have been repainted.
Some pictures of work in progress. A Native encampment. Manufacture of paper and wire 0.8mm in diameter, then set the brush color. Some details still need to be improved
Thank you. I'm not trying to represent reality historically consistent, but just something nice to see and logical in relation to the time chosen. But we must recognize that the theme Far west is not easy to scale N. There are many more choices in buildings and figurines to other scales such as HO for example. We must find solutions out of the ordinary to something right in N scale One solution is to apply the principle of forced perspective with decorative elements and figurines larger than N scale (15mm for example Indians) in the foreground and the decorative elements in N to background. This is what I try to do.
I've always dreamed of building a small layout to showcase the early west/civil war, etc. You have done an excellent job sir!
I just finished the first figure of a small series of five Indians and four horses. This horse is one of the best carved and engraved 15mm wide (very personal opinion), which greatly facilitates the use of color. Fig : Hovels Ltd 15mm Plain War Other characters and horses tomorrow
Second small group of Indians. A burial platform (Nexus / Atlantic 1/72) modified Two Native American making smoke signals. (Indian hovels 15mm Ltd, horses Nexus / Atlantic 1/72)
Some images of the decoration of the module following (module 3). The natural decoration is realized, it will again be necessary to place the buildings of the western town in the central zone.
