Dee's Trains & Models
Dee loves to draw and paint but her biggest love is to create, whether it be on canvas or building a diorama, if its creating something different, domething beautiful then Dee is happy to oblige.
Dee is really very new to creating dioramas and making models. Her fiance is who got her interested in models and model trains etc. as he would often sit on an evening painting tiny figures or gluing pieces of tanks together.
The final thing that turned Dee into creating her model train diorama was a day spent with her fiance at a big model train show where it was full of stalls selling everything youd need to get you started with your own train set. Thay day in 2021 Dee bought her first train, a little black jinty that stuck at times so needed a service, but she didnt care as it was the start of falling in love with creating her own little piece of the world miniature.
When starting to build her train board and diorama Dee found she loved to scratch build items to make her little miniature as real as possible. she cut tiny pieces of wood, scrapped out the centre and put in little pieces of green foam then painted colored dots on each then glued them under windows to look like tiny flower window boxes, she cut out square oieces of wood, scraping out yhe centre then adding her foam, paintingvlittle dots on some to make crates of flowers, which she then put into a tiny greenhouse, doing the same thing for little flower boxes that were on the side of the green house, after majing one of these she had to try making anoyher but this time the greenhouse would have flowers inside and vegetables! she went to the extremes of rolling small pieces of glue into oval balls then painting them green, to create marrows!
For those who have no idea what size N Gauge is, the term N gauge refers to the track dimensions, but in the United Kingdom in particular British N gauge refers to a 1:148 scale with 1:160 (9 mm or 0.354 in) track gauge modelling. One mile is 5,280 feet in the real world. British N gauge scale has a ratio of 1:148. So divide 5,280/148 and you get 35 feet, six inches. So a mile of the real world is 35.6 feet in British N gauge. The people that Dee paints for NvGauge diorama average around 11 to 12mm, thats an adult, as you can imagine children are much smaller and babies are tiny dots. To paint all of her people and animals, Dee uses a headset that has magnifying lenses which you can take off and swap to suit you, these also have a light on which helps hugely when painting something so tiny.
Modelling is something that Dee is even newer too, only building her first model just days before writing on this page, hes not quite finished yet, but will be before the end of today do Dee will share pictures once hes dried. Her first model is from quite sn old kit that was originally bought for our daughter, however she lived the finished result but wasnt so interested in the making part, so this model never got made until Dee started him a few nights ago. The model is 1:35 scale which means 1:35 ratio is equals 8.709mm Millimetres per foot, so much larger than her n gauge. The model itself is a Tyrannosaurus Rex and has since been updated in newer model kits, but this kit was made by the model company Tamiya in the 1990's so is a little dated but Dee has added her own touch to him anyway as she has all of her buildings and people on het train set.
Dee hopes one day to be able to make her model one day by making a sculpture of her favourite animals, but theres a way to go before that will happen as Dee needs to research what materials are best to use to build her own sculpture and then what animal would be best suited to her first build.
Dee will add completed photographs of all the model kits she makes and there will be updates of her train set and how the build is going too.
i hope you enjoy this side to Dee's creativity as much as Dee enjoys sharing them with you.
Use the tabs labelled Dee's Model Trains and Dee's Modelling to look at Dee's Diorama and what models she creates.