Wednesday, December 3, 2008

World news

A new T gauge blog from Australia has popped up called Victorian T gauge. Now for me this initially created images of a extremely small figure of an old British monarch dressed in black.
Wrong!
This is some incredible work by a couple of Aussies, Paul and Adrian wanting to recreate the railways of the state of Victoria, Australia in T gauge. The standard of work is amazing. Scratchbuilt coaches and locomotives! Utterly incredible.
From Japan Talking T gauge member Shinichiro has started modelling Japanese trains in T gauge using paper models. Once again incredible work. That has inspired me to have a go at some new stock for Hitsu in the near future.
So what of Hitsu? As a reminder to you all it will be appearing at the Granite City Train show in Saint Cloud, MN on December 13th. Where in addition to running the trains on the layout I will be showing how (relatively) easy it is to model in T gauge. Producing some trees both simple and more complex and buildings perhaps I'll even try to assemble one of Shinichiro's paper train models.
So if you're a Midwesterner curious about T, pop over to the show. It really is a rather good one and I'll answer as many of your questions as I can about modelling in T.

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