HI. I'm new to the board and returning to the model railway scene after a few years absence. I've got a Bachmann Overland 4-8-4 & Tender thats travelled the length of this country several times (I was a teacher and moved a few times) in its original box. I've always been interested in NZR stuff. I even worked for Pacific Scrap for a number of years cutting wagons and the odd loco into manageble bits.

originally I started modelling in Sn3 1/2 scale but found that was too big, particularly when travelling. I'd bough some N gauge and had figured out the 1/120 scale on N track thing away back in the early 90s. But because of moving all the time and that thing called 'work' all I ever managed to do was to design some 1/120 buildings which I printed on an old dot matrix printer from an Atari ST computer. As you can see from the photos these were ok, but pretty crude in the detail as the printer wasn't at all particularly nice about the thickness of the lines.

Sorry bout the pics. was taken on an old Pentax K1000 that I didn't know how to use at the time.

The vehicles were micro machines which were ok scale wise but for some unknown reason are not available like they were.

The whole railway bit never came to much except that I had some 200 odd buildings that eventually ended up in  boxes, and they too travelled the country. Since then (around 1995) I've had plans to shake off the dust and set up a railroad, but never got "a round to it" ( well my wife bought me one but that sort of got turned into a 'one of these days' thing instead0.

Over the intervening years I've been working in the 3D arena making a couple of models for Trainz, but mainly for a Czech company that specialised in military simulators. This meant honing skills for model making and texturing. Which now that that work is gone, has brought me full circle to designing models in both HO and N gauge and now NZ120. By using a program called Sketchup to design the buildings, and another called Pepakura I'm able to create models and unfold them for printing. I use Photoshop to add photorealistic textures to the models.

This is one of the more recent models. For N and NZ120 there is not a lot of detail.

My intention is to rebuild all of the buildings in the above photos retextured as realistcally as possible and offer them as printed sheets or pdfs.