| I was talking to the grandson today on the phone and he tells me that there are anly a cople of metres to go and the loco will then be able to run over all the track. Once that is done they will then look at starting to block wire it, (currenlty it's all wired together as one block)and will have to get some more switches for the control panel. After that is done he will look at wiring the points.
They have basically 4 choices for era/location'
New Zealand- cos ours is a 3'6" gauge to use 00/HO track means modelling in Sn31/2 difficult for someone his age as nearly everything would have to be scratchbuilt, what locally made kits are available are expensive.
Continental- the buldings are currently all European style, expense of rolling stock woul be the drawback here cheaper to eventually modify/replace the buildings.
British- I can understand Bunkerbarges preference for this but it's still all foreign to us out here, to use Flying Scotsman, Mallard etc you need to pull long passenger trains which look out of place on a 8 x 4 layout.Not much available here except Hornby stuff mainly.
U.S, readily available at a fairly good price and a good number of manufacturers.Plenty of magazines and how-to books. About 1930 means steam and the first of the diesels, short trains and varying stock types (unlike the long trains of containers we see these days) small towns, dirt roads, few cars, trackside industries all of which suit a 8 x 4.
It's his choice, I'll just supply bits for birthday presents once I get told of the decision. Before and after photos have been promised!
In the meantime I'll stick with building my Heinkel 46, takes up much less space! |