Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Stagnation

On the NZ120 group in the last couple of weeks, the old articles that John wrote from the early 90's for the local rag have been discussed, and people have been asking which journals that they were in. Now I think this is probably a bit sad in that our group is relying on stuff written nearly 20 years ago to make models from, and possibly more distressing, that no one has really written anything else. When was the last construction article on an NZ120 subject posted in the journal (the ones in the latest journal don't count sorry). Are the plans still printed with an Nz120 scale view?

(oh, and the previous post was an invitation for everyone to comment on what they would like to achieve with their modeling in 2009, if you all didn't take the hint)

2 comments:

Southern Rails said...

As a scale, NZ 120 does seem to be the poor cousin of NZ scales. I think the reason 1:64 does so well is because there is so much avalaible commercially. Even 9 mil is going ahead. That has to be the main thing that is putting me off, everything has to be scratchbuilt.... that and money is tight at the moment and I have plenty of 1:64 kits still to be assembled. Now if there was some accurate NZ 120 type 14 bogies that rode well with knuckle couplers to build a rake of UK's with....

Southern Rails said...

Just doing a quick bit of research. Type in NZ 120 into google and the first site on the list is the choosen scale site. Click on that and you see it hasn't been updated since the 12th of July 2002. Not a good look for NZ 120. This site however...