gn 15 layout : sebastien's mussels

[franckcombe]

In parallel of the Woolacombe bay (at 1/13 scale), I'm doing with 2 friends of my club a gn15 layout. I convert 2 members of my club to gn15 (Gn15 is 15" gauge rail at 1/24 scale on 16.5 mm rail).

This is the true site in narrow gauge located in the south of France.



The name is "Moules de chez Sébastien " or sebastien's mussels for the MOMING 2013 challenge in sedan (France).

We share the job : Erwan and Jean-paul build the layout and me I work on the rolling stocks and the weathering.

Erwan find the idea of mussel business in the French Mediterranean sea in the "pond of Thau", in reality it's a big salt lake.

This is our interpretation.









We have made some progress. We need to install now the backdrop and made the sea with resin.

[Kev1340]

Looks like you are making great progress

I hope you will share more photos, especially of the loco and rolling stock builds.

Cheers,

Kev

[Tyson Rayles]

I'm not getting any pics, just white boxes with red X's.

[faraway]

Your exceptional talent and the large scale result in another great tiny layout

[Tyson Rayles]

I'm getting the pics this morning and they look great. The headless ghost looks kinda weird though .

[franckcombe]

I'm getting the pics this morning and they look great. The headless ghost looks kinda weird though .

Never pronounced the name of the headless ghost of the "etang de thau" or you will be cursed for 7 generations

[Brakie]

Oh my! Its the ghost of the headless operator looking for his head!

Ok enough silliness.

Great modeling..

Any more pictures?

[franckcombe]

The layout measures 80 cm by 30 cm (it's a micro layout).

The overall view



The rolling stocks from peper 7 fit with kadee couplers (efficient but not design and not very elegant to this kind of wagons)









The crane from erwan



The logo designs by Erwan

[Kev1340]

Really good work Franck, I especially like the gantry crane

Cheers,

Kev

[sailormatlac]

Those small operating dioaramas are impressive!

MAtt

[BR60103]

Frank:
you can make a form of Link and Pin coupling from the Kadees bypulling out the trip pin, releasing and removing the knuckle, losing the spring .
Then you can bend up a link from wire and use a couple of small nails for pins.
Doesn't look quite as good as a proprietary L&P, but it has all the operational inconveniences.

[franckcombe]

Frank:
you can make a form of Link and Pin coupling from the Kadees bypulling out the trip pin, releasing and removing the knuckle, losing the spring .
Then you can bend up a link from wire and use a couple of small nails for pins.
Doesn't look quite as good as a proprietary L&P, but it has all the operational inconveniences.

Before all the rolling stock has a beautiful pin and link system but it was not reliable at all. If you have a system please may you post some photos.

[franckcombe]

Erwan has installed yesturday the backdrop.

[faraway]

Outstanding! Is it a photo or is Erwan an painting artist?

[franckcombe]

It's a photo of the true site.

We usually used photos as backdrop, the effect is always superb if you choose it carrefully.

For the painting, you need to be a true artist to succeed it.