Those of you who’ve seen Bill Wilson’s work on various newsgroups will be delighted that he’s agreed to share some tips on his modelling here on Gn15.info. This first model is, I’m sure, a relatively straightforward first structure for a Gn15 layout - and the beauty is that it’ll fit in on pretty much any type of layout you’re planning.

A pair of Ozark Miniatures benches were shortened and mounted onto one of Jeff Saxton’s flatcar kits to make a rudimentary passenger car.

I thought you might be interested in my Porter project progress (too many ‘p’s?).”

Early in April 2002 a harmless looking email arrived from Carl Arendt, containing a pre-production photo of Steve Bennett’s latest O9 Avalon Railcar kit. “Look at this” he wrote. “Don’t you think this would make a great model in Gn15?” I had to agree. The Apple Valley would need a passenger vehicle at some time. Carl closed his email with the comment “Wanna race?” …

The railcar is a freelance design based on No. 9 of the Santa Maria Valley RR in California. It’s designed to look “at home” on either side of the Atlantic.

This little trammer was the result of a snowy weekend in January 2002. Trapped in the house, I foraged for a little Gn15 loco to build, and found a photo of an Atlas Type H Storage Battery Loco. A perfect basis for a freelance trammer!

A while ago I introduced my factory layout and mentioned that I was thinking of a working hopper feed to auotmatically load open wagons.

I had the idea for this loco after seeing a photo of a similar one taken on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway. A chance find at a car boot sale provided a very badly made 1/24th plastic model of a Bugatti Royale which I stripped down as carefully as I could and ended up with several useful pieces including the complete bonnet and radiator assembly which resisted every affort to take it apart easily, so I used it as it was!

Nothing says “Narrow Gauge” better than a string of beat up, rusted out skips rattling along at 5 mph behind a tiny critter locomotive. In Gn15, that scene is easy to create! The Sidelines Gnat is a perfect critter kit - and the skips are an easy kitbash using a Sidelines Models chassis and a Gnomy toy “ore car” (skip).

For those people who would like to try Gn15 but are concerned about the cost, here is a cheap and easy conversion of a Hornby 0-4-0 Diesel Shunter. As the model will be repainted when finished, it does not matter which one of the many varied liveries you use. Mine happened to be in CEGB livery and cost the princely sum of £9.99.

After converting the Hornby 0-4-0 loco, you will need some wagons to go behind it.~Now Sidelines make some very nice short wheelbase industrial type wagons but with a little time and by raiding the “spares” box (which every modeller should have), you can make your own basic flat wagon with a variety of tops for […]

This was my first effort at scratch building a loco, though I had built several cars previously.

Something different from me”, writes Steve Bennett, “a kitbash of someone else’s kit. Thought you might be interested for your projects page.”

Don Gage shares his kitbash of a 1/24 scale Herb Deeks model with us.

No, this is not an article about pallets to load televisions on, but rather a simple project to keep the hands busy while watching the tube, and keeping the family company.

Bill’s back with the largest project we’ve featured to date - 56 inches of fun!. This large article deals with the building of the pier itself, complete with boat dock and even has a simple tip for adding barnacles!