morocco 1918

[franckcombe]

I wanted to do a layout based on these photos but at 1/13 scale it was not possible. So I choose to do that at 1/72 scale because at this scale there are french military figures and arabs too.


At Morocco in 1918, the french developed narrow gauge railways of 60 cm for civilian and military used. 60 cm at 1/72 scale is more of less 9mm, so I could used too the 009 material.


The layout will be an oval of 120 cm by  47 cm with an hidden part behind to finish the oval

I finish the layout the 11 th of November in memory of those who fight an died for us and our liberty.

I add the brushes, trees and people. Sorry there is no foreign legion but french army.

[franckcombe]

I have received the tee shirt that I will wear during the exhibition.

[finescalerr]

Thank you for posting those images of a very unique exhibit. -- Russ

[Ray Dunakin]

Very interesting and unusual!

[franckcombe]

I made the support and technical workbench with folding leg, lcd screen, speakers, ...

[Bill Gill]

An interesting theme and nicely done. That's a lot of palm trees to have made.

[franckcombe]

An interesting theme and nicely done. That's a lot of palm trees to have made.

Between 60 and 70.

[Ray Dunakin]

Nice. What do you use the LCD display for?

[franckcombe]

Nice. What do you use the LCD display for?

I will display the 40 pictures of the real train in 1910/1920 and pictures of the remains today.

[Ray Dunakin]

Cool!

[franckcombe]

After the hold up of photobucket, I post 5 old photos.

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1 by franck combe, sur Flickr

2 by franck combe, sur Flickr

3 by franck combe, sur Flickr

4 by franck combe, sur Flickr

5 by franck combe, sur Flickr

[franckcombe]

Since few days, I work on the layout.

This is the top view of the layout.

IMG_8115 by franck combe, sur Flickr

This is the hidden part of the layout. I want to thank my friend Claude Deschamps for the electronic part.

IMG_8116 by franck combe, sur Flickr


This is the general overview of the layout

IMG_8117 by franck combe, sur Flickr


I ordered a baldwin from minitrains. I was badly surprised by the default on electrical pick-up (quality of Germany and made in China I supposed).

IMG_8118 by franck combe, sur Flickr


The baldwin with decauville luggage car done by my friend Jean-Pierre Duval in 3d.

IMG_8119 by franck combe, sur Flickr


The baldwin with truck for rail

IMG_8120 by franck combe, sur Flickr

[finescalerr]

Once again I plead with you guys to upload your photos directly to this forum, do not link photos from other sites. A "hold up" from Photobucket can become a permanently broken or changed link and all the photos will disappear from this forum. Just look at some older posts and you'll see black boxes where photos used to be. -- Russ

[Ray Dunakin]

That's a great looking mini-layout!

[franckcombe]

In Morocco,  there is a track motor car for the military head quarter transport.

3 - Copie by franck combe, sur Flickr

I try to reproduce it with a design software and I use laser cutting

IMG_8397 by franck combe, sur Flickr