Sun exclusive !

[Agrippa]

In the Scottish Sun today Bill Leckie (Former Sunday Post footie hack) revealed
that Rod Stewart had a model rail layout !

What next ?

The Pope is a Catholic

Oliver Reed liked an occasional pint

Adrian Chiles is a  fat ......(self censorship introduced.. )

[Bikeracer]

Must be true if it was in the Sun newspaper

Allan

[Caz]

He was on the one show either last night or the night before with his wife talking about his model railway.  He says it is the entire length of the loft, think he said 130ft but could be wrong.  His wife is very supportive and is quite happy for him to go play trains but knows despite him saying he will be about an hour, 7 hours later he emerges. 

[gelboy45]

It's US HO scale and has been featured in US RR mags. It's outstanding!
Gerry

[Trainfish]

Any layout which accommodates 9 people with room to swing 9 cats is quite big in my opinion



I wonder what he keeps in the closet?

[Bealman]

Personally I think it is cluttered to the point of being over the top. I wouldn't tell Rod that, though. It's HO anyway so I don't think he'll be reading this.... 

[Sprintex]

It is a city though so it would be crammed in and cluttered wouldn't it? Don't often see a city modelled so we're not really used to it


Paul

[Michael Shillabeer]

Did Rod build it himself?

Michael

[Malc]

I know he does kit bashing and scratch building, but at that size, he would have needed some help.

[AndyGif]

and then there's that other chap B Dickinson, flies planes, likes trains and sings with a popular beat combo.

[Sprintex]

Did Rod build it himself?

Michael

Mostly yes. Let's not forget he probably gets a lot more time to himself than most of us

When he was interviewed on Radio 2 he admitted it's taken a good few years to build, he regularly goes out and takes pictures of buildings and street scenes and uses these to make his model accurate and appropriately busy for a bustling city. He also said when he's out on the road he takes two suitcases - one for clothes and one containing all his modelling stuff: card, glue, cutting tools, etc. While others in the entourage are out partying he's in his hotel room making card buildings

Fair play to him for being proud of his model railway despite the fact it goes against the "rock 'n' roll" image


Paul

[Bealman]

I agree with all comments, and yeah, a city would be full of clutter, but so many plastic people and model cars jammed into a (relatively!) small space just enforces to me that the only things moving are the trains.

I prefer models railways that go with the little people sparingly. Branch lines in particular, after all, there was never a lot of folk on the platforms.

But it's all a matter of personal taste. I do like the odd plastic figure cameo on layouts, so I am self contradictory. But Rod the Mod's layout is way too cluttered for me.

Anyway, beef over. I think that the fact that such a luminary (of my life at least) is into model railways at all is fantastic.

Wake up Maggie I think I've something to say to you..... 

[Agrippa]

Other famous rail modellers

Neil Young
Old Blue Eyes
Peter Snow
Roger Daltrey
Gomez Addams
Hermann Goering

Thats enough rail modellers  .....Ed.

[Bealman]

Add Phil Collins, Bryan Ferry, and of course producer Pete Waterman.

[Sprintex]

And Reverend Tim Lovejoy from The Simpsons


Paul