1/35 mine with narrow gauge railway.

[zak]

1/35 mine with narrow gauge railway.

The ore will be delivered from the working face using a narrow gauge railway.
1/35 scale equates to 8.709 mm = 1 ft.

I will use track with a gauge of 16.5 mm and so this will be just about 2 ft gauge.

I purchased some V skip trucks to carry the ore.

These are resin with some metal parts.

[zak]

As you can see they are not very complicated and go together well, I have three to build.
I hope to have some sort of mechanism whereby they are discharged into the truck.

[zak]

One built, I will take it apart to paint.

[MSea]

Looking good - have you decided what type of mine it will be yet

[zak]

Heavy Metal probably.
I have a liking for Tungsten, I can then use Wolfram somewhere, but things may change.

I did think about uranium as well.

[cph64]

What about the Ime Mine?

[chriswil42]

Skip truck looks great. It'll get the Zak treatment I presume for the finishing?

[zak]

 It will be undercoated, given a coat of rust coloured paint and the weathered and more rust added.

Meanwhile on the 3' x 2' baseboard the track has been laid and wired up.

[Haddock]

A mine of information eh!

[MSea]

He is very deep !!!

[chriswil42]

Wow! This is going to be some diorama.

[Bigkev]

Looking good,
Nice to have a higher and lower level.
Bigkev

[Haddock]

Some of us know where we belong!

[MSea]

So that's you and me on the bottom level then Haddock.

[zak]

So that's you and me on the bottom level then Haddock.

Underground for you two.