Here’s a quick way to make the links for link and pin couplings.

Here’s something that’s a little different. I found the kit on Ebay and it just screamed out for a conversion!

Thanks to Mike Decker and Ian Holmes who have provided the plans and photographs respectively, we have here the most detailed prototype plans we’ve ever been fortunate enough to features on Gn15.info.

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.

While Frank Savery’s large scale version King Island Tramway is very much a sideline to the 0n30 version now, things are still happening.

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!

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

The earliest applications of the 15 inch gauge actually date back to the 1850’s. At that time several engine manufacturers built scale models about 1/3 or 1/4 of the size of a main line locomotive of that age as demonstration models. Demonstration models as such, however, came into use much earlier - they are believed to have been invented by Timothy Hackworth in the 1820’s. Hackworth built demonstration models to the proportions of standard gauge engines of his time that ran on 3′ gauge track, so he can be called the inventor of No.3 scale model trains. But that is another story.

Kelso Creek is the latest in a number of micro-layouts I have built over the years and the first in Gn15 (1:24th). The accepted size of a micro is 4 sq. ft. or less and Kelso Creek is only the size of two A4 sheets of paper placed end to end.

These photographs show a scratchbuilt plasticard body on a Model Power Plymouth DDT chassis.