Nystrup Gravel: Two Braked Skips

Friday 10 August 2012

Two Braked Skips - at Last! (1/35)

Having had plans for a braked skip in each of my two rows of skips for some time, I have finally finished the task. During the proces I enjoyed myself so much that I forgot what I was building and the braked skip turned into a stone wagon instead. This time I managed to stay focused and braked skip no. 2 ended up just like planned: a skip with brake.

Skips 12 and 115 on my somewhat messy work table. No. 12 has the number air brushed on with the help of stencils from Stencillit. No. 115 has a normal transfer - some 25 years old from a 1/72 ESCI German Panzer IV decal sheet. Always collect and never throw away!

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About Nystrup Gravel

Nystrup Gravel is a 1:19 scale model on 32 mm gauge track of a Danish gravel company with a 600 mm. railway. Lines from several gravel pits converged outside the small town of Nystrup before reaching the company’s sorting facility and loading ramp for lorries.

For the first 15 years Nystrup Gravel was in 1:35 scale on 16.5 mm gauge. In 2018-2019 the layout changed to 1:19 scale.

I model the company’s railway as it looked in the early fifties. I try to make up a believable setting for my railway models by researching the history of the company and its environments. This blog gives you the possibility to follow my work. Notice that Nystrup Gravel is fiction and that all history regarding the railway and company is my work and not real.