Military train

[Ozzie21]

As the main focus of my modelling is railways I thought I might share a picture. I model railways across a couple of continents, Australia, America, UK and Germany. Problem with model trains is the UK as they model in OO/ 4mm scale/ 1/76th and the rest of the world adopted HO scale/3.5mm/1/86th . So when you place a UK loco next to a US model they look quite big. But I digress. I have been slowly building up a German WWII military train and I picked up some flat cars with loads the other day, quite cheap too at $20 each, loco cost $650 but that's neither here nor there.
It's difficult to get Roco minitanks which are in 1/86th and it's also hard to get some of the other brands like Trident or Artec which are generally resin models. Harder is finding the right flat cars, can't stick a 76ton Elephant on any old flat car so these were a good find.






Painting these should be fun as most of the pictures I have of say of the Opel Blitz truck are in black and white so it's difficult to discern whether it's light colour or a dark colour. Mind you most of them are in the depth of a Russian winter so I don't suppose it matters in B&W or colour.
Anyway I have a Jagd Tiger to finish.

Charles Emerson
Queensland ( where it's always sunny)
Australia

[gustavlekstal]

Looks great! Good luck painting! Herre is a bit about the folks that blew em up.

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[Donkeywalloper]

Looks great.
I am toying with a Armoured Gun carriage for a next project.

[caSSius]

Brilliant idea! I look forward to seeing things come together with paint

[DC87]

Very nice and it's great to see an idea being brought to reality, hope you get hold of the other items you need.

[AchtungPanzer]

Wow! Its very gooood. I need one train of wagons for my collection , maybe two

[MarkVerploeg]

That looks pretty cool
Idon't know if you know them but artitec makes some really cool stuff in the h0 scale
But they are expensive , altough a direct purchase from the factory should save some money
Btw what kind of locomotive is in front of this line

[Coen]

Charles... I have a question about model trains buddy.
If you have a bit of time.
A friend of my wife has a bunch of train pieces that he was hoping to find more info on. His uncle had lived in Holland just after the war and he had a big love of trains. He had a layout that ran all throughout his house.
There's only a few pieces left, but they were looking to see what information can be found on the set.

Here's a few shots of what he showed me.
Anything that you can find would be extremely appreciated.
Thanks.