JS model

[rogerg]

Greetings from Geelong in Australia.  I'm Roger Gillard who has been an N scale modeler for many years. I've also been to China many times to photograph steam.  The China period that I model is late 1990's or so.  So DF diesels not the modern Harmony locos.  Initially I scratch built C64,C61, P62, C50 wagons to make a decent train. I had books with plans of wagons that were bought in China. However these days these wagons are easily obtainable.  I usually buy from Tekkon in Japan and have had no problems. Since there are no ready to run N scale steam models it seemed that some scratch building was required. I used a  Kato D51 as the mech for a JS class model.   I photographed JS 8263 at Bei'an in 1998 so I chose to do this loco. It has come out very nicely although somehow (in my dotage) I got the number wrong. When I get new decals made I'll fix that.  It is great to see that QJ's will come next year and it will be interesting to see which steam loco Changming release.

[disturbman]

Hi, rogerg. Welcome aboard!

Nice and bold project. I would never dare to such modifications.

 

7 minutes ago, rogerg said:

Since there are no ready to run N scale steam models it seemed that some scratch building was required.

The operative word is yet. Changming is working on at least one steam engine, which should be released this year. And Bachmann China has shown us a prototype of its N scale QJ. Iirc, release date is slated for this summer for the DC version, and later this year for the DCC Sound version.

[SL-san]

17 hours ago, rogerg said:

Since there are no ready to run N scale steam models it seemed that some scratch building was required

 

17 hours ago, disturbman said:

Changming is working on at least one steam engine, which should be released this year

Hi Roger,

Told you you would find jnsforum full of helpful people😄

Graeme