Thursday, June 26, 2014

Grande Barbosa Island Railway, Volume One...

As soon as I can clear my desk of important rush projects I will commence the printing of the first volume! It will be available direct from me this time. The problem is I need to make the time to do it. It's all laid out, I just need to print. I'm going to guess and say sometime in August for the printing. Then I hope I can get going on the smaller island of The Last Resort for volume two.

I have found some 1/20 figures of mercenary women in resin and ordered all I could get from Ebay. Most will be used as new arrivals on the resort for some well needed R&R. The figures are cast and detailed beautifully. Really nice work! I have begun to paint but they will take some time to finish. 1/20 is a little large for 1/2" but the gals are big-boned I guess!

I have completed two new articles for publication on Gn15 locos (really Hn18!) and my container car. I will send these off next week. One is the Union Foundry #30 and the other is a Heisler clone built on an Athearn HO SW unit. The #30 uses two Bachmann On30 Street Car motor blocks. The former is translated from the prototype while the later is free-lanced following New Zealand practices.

That's all for this installment. Back to work on other projects for now.