2022 Competition Results

  • 2022 Committee allocated three categories of entry only, and you could enter in any number of them, as many times as you like.

    The vote was given to the delegates to decide on which model they deemed warranted their vote.

    Voting was the same as entering, you could vote in one category or all. To say this was a success, I think is shown by the fact that we had 130 delegates and 37 entries in the competition, and every delegate voted.

    We recognised that 3D printing is now a large part of this hobby, so to make it fair for those that scratch built their models using traditional methods, the person entering a 3d printed model had to bring a screen shot of their model taken toward the end of the design process. This was to show that they didn’t just purchase a file from an online source.

  • The three categories were
    Locomotive – anything on the rails self-propelled.

    Rollingstock – anything on the rails not self-propelled.

    Not On Rail – everything else not classified in the above 2 categories.

Kitson 2-8-2 Pannier
tank locomotive built
by Stephen Curry

This diminutive scratch built locomotive has an all brass body with a nickel silver chassis. There is an air gap beneath the boiler as per the prototype. A very hard thing to achieve in N scale.

10 wheels are used for electrical pick up, all drivers, and one axle from each pony truck. The front and rear pony trucks are all sprung for better electrical pick up, as is the second driving axle. No etched, 3D printed, or cast parts have been used for construction. The locomotive does contain a TCS Z2 decoder for motor control. It will pull 26, 4-wheel coal hoppers quite easily.

Cowan Boyd 120t wreck crane for the NSWGR
by Rob Popovski

This particular crane was built in 1995 in the United Kingdom, and shipped to Australia for use by the NSWGR. It had a surprisingly short career, after being involved in a rollover incident in 2007 at Sefton Junction in Sydney’s inner west.

Anecdotally, I have heard that the operator was attempting a lift without having set up the stabiliser legs. It languished around the Sydney region for many years after, without being repaired, until it was acquired by the preservation team at Dorrigo.

Rob’s model is scratchbuilt from etched brass, styrene, and 3D printed parts. The decals on the model are homemade.

Castlemaine, Victoria railway station
by Tony Scott

Castlemaine is on the northern mainline track, between Bendigo and Melbourne. This is a representation of Castlemaine railway station in 1980, as it stood on platform one, the Melbourne bound platform.

It is a scratch built structure made almost entirely from styrene, with printed card being used for the external appearance of the brick walls and slate roof.