To me military modelling is more than just wargaming. I'm also very interested in model railways in different scales and gauges, and the benefit is that model railroading can easily be combined with military modelling.
After a long winter which is slowly turning to spring, it's more tempting to do outdoor activities again. This weekend a good friend of mine invited to 'open house' and encouraged people to bring along their own (Garden-) trains to run them on his awesome Garden railway.
I hastily put together an improvised short military supply train to bring along.
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| It looks like Thomas the Little Tank Engine is lurking in the background |
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| The Engine is a 'militarized' 'Billy' from Roundhouse, made to run on 45mm track. |
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| The little Jeep is a 1:18 scale model I found on a Model railway exhibition |
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| The cars or wagons are by LGB. Probably going to repaint them. |
Several members in my MRC have garden railway equipment, and some of them also have large garden railways at home. We meet in each others gardens every now and then, socializing, eating snacks and run trains together. This is a very nice and social way to execute this hobby. A hobby which is not only trains, but can have a military content too.
This looks great! I hope to get some sort of start on my heavily stalled garden railway this year…
ReplyDeleteAlan Tradgardland
Thanks!
ReplyDeleteYou should Alan. It's such therapeutic hobby!!
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I think garden wargamers have a lot to learn from garden railwayers in terms of construction and maintenance of permanent outdoor setups. I’d love to have some of the great outdoor towns and setups to fight battles through that many garden railway enthusiasts have! -J.P. (Plasticcommand.com)
ReplyDeleteThanks J.P.!
DeleteI know what you mean. I friend of mine is into American railroads in his garden, and his 'layout' includes a couple of frontier villages. It is so well built as well (check the section of blogs I follow.), so every time I go there to run trains I feel it just 'screams' wargame!!
I would just love to try my 'Once Upon a Dice in the west' there, but he's not into gaming.