Lead Adventure Forum

Miniatures Adventure => Railway Wargaming => Topic started by: Jack Jones on April 05, 2021, 09:23:20 AM

Title: Sudan armed train
Post by: Jack Jones on April 05, 2021, 09:23:20 AM

Hi All

I am at the very beginning of an 28mm (approximates to S scale) armed train project based on the improvisations by the crews of HMS Hecla and HMS Invincible in Eqypt in 1882, although my train is destined for the Suakin–Berber railway:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suakin-Berber_Railway (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suakin-Berber_Railway)

I am waiting on Company B’s remastering of their range of locomotives and rolling stock (they are adding a rather compact civilian loco too) but have begun work on the Armstrong 40pdr.

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fL-jawTkVyk/YFOTrHFTptI/AAAAAAAAAjQ/dipXAl0blCAMcueoHG787LMjoJvJU3LbgCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Armed%2Btrain%2B40pdr%2BHMS%2BHecla%2B01.jpg)

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j1xJAnISgmI/YGjCBO6aIYI/AAAAAAAAAls/l7-3bA3s3i8I0DMt4rGVnWaiW3HPRUOoQCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/WiP%2BGG%2BLimber%2Band%2B40pdr.jpg)

I’ll be posting progress on my blog.

Cheers
JJ

Title: Re: Sudan armed train
Post by: Ignatieff on May 07, 2021, 06:59:01 PM

oooooh, nice...

Title: Re: Sudan armed train
Post by: Belgian on May 07, 2021, 07:04:47 PM

This looks really good!  :o

Title: Re: Sudan armed train
Post by: marianas_gamer on May 07, 2021, 11:00:38 PM

Looking forward to your efforts!

Title: Re: Sudan armed train
Post by: Helen on May 07, 2021, 11:27:04 PM

Oh, I do love the Bluejackets in the later colonial period. This will be lovely to see when completed.

Thank you for sharing your project.

Title: Re: Sudan armed train
Post by: ARKOUDAKI on May 08, 2021, 10:15:00 PM

 :o :o :o :o :o  That's looking really good! Keep at it.

Title: Re: Sudan armed train
Post by: Jack Jones on May 17, 2021, 09:06:13 PM

Thank you for your encouragement. Very much appreciated.

As I mentioned, I am waiting on availability of locomotive and rolling stock, but meanwhile I have started a project page on my blog:

https://sandsofsoudan.blogspot.com/p/ironclad-ashore.html (https://sandsofsoudan.blogspot.com/p/ironclad-ashore.html)

I am looking forward to this too, but I suspect I won’t get started on the train itself until late summer at the earliest.

Cheers
JJ