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Title: Railway Modeller - October 2022 - N gauge content
Post by: woodbury22uk on September 08, 2022, 07:14:50 PM
Railway of the month is N gauge - Barton Road, Benn Pollard's West Country T shaped layout set in the pre-TOPS period with diesel traction. 8 pages

Followed by the first of a series "Making a start in N" written by Chris Ford. 4 pages
Title: Re: Railway Modeller - October 2022 - N gauge content
Post by: SD35 on September 08, 2022, 07:21:06 PM
It's all good but the best bit is the guy who has managed to make a duck that swims around a pond. That's quality modelling.
Title: Re: Railway Modeller - October 2022 - N gauge content
Post by: Newportnobby on September 08, 2022, 09:12:12 PM
Quote from: SD35 on September 08, 2022, 07:21:06 PM
It's all good but the best bit is the guy who has managed to make a duck that swims around a pond. That's quality modelling.

Kevin @Phoenix (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=5755) of this parish has had skaters going round on a frozen pond so maybe the mechanics are the same :hmmm:
Title: Re: Railway Modeller - October 2022 - N gauge content
Post by: Gordon on September 09, 2022, 12:08:32 AM
I presume it works on the principle 'something moves along under the base' with the duck, skaters etc attracted by magnetism or some other guidance  - actually a technology that has been around for many years, but not necessarily in as small a scale as N
Title: Re: Railway Modeller - October 2022 - N gauge content
Post by: woodbury22uk on September 09, 2022, 08:02:09 AM
The swan on a pond is on a 1/43 scale layout, rather than N. There is a powered moving belt below the "water" with magnetism working its magic to link the swan to the subaquatic belt.
Title: Re: Railway Modeller - October 2022 - N gauge content
Post by: Bealman on September 09, 2022, 08:17:38 AM
Yeah, Kevin's Christmas layout was 009, so the skaters were OO scale.
Title: Re: Railway Modeller - October 2022 - N gauge content
Post by: Chris Morris on September 09, 2022, 08:47:44 AM
The RM has always been supportive of N. The October edition is especially so.