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Title: new member hello
Post by: narrowgauger on February 09, 2011, 05:34:38 PM

Hi Guys

thought I better introduce myself after several months of "lurking".

am a semi-retired business executive, living in North East Victoria (Australia) as well as the sunny Gold Coast - yep communting between these 2 places 1 600km apart.

have been active in serious model building for over 35 years and am the owner of a professional model building company specialising in the manufacture of narrow gauge industrial locomotives in 35th and 24th scale.

personally I model in 35th operating on 16.5mm gauge focussing on European industrial locomotives.   Also build many small live steam stationary engines as a complimentary hobby.

machine line-up includes 3 lathes (Toyo 210, Proxxon 350, Titan TL210V) 3 milling machines (Toyo 210, Proxxon 400 and a Sieg SX2) together with a broad range of specialist tools to suit my production line-up.  All contained in a custom built studio.

hope to be able to contribute to the discussions when suitable projects come along and time permits

have fun

Bernard

Title: Re: new member hello
Post by: saw on February 09, 2011, 06:27:53 PM

Hi and welcome to us.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: new member hello
Post by: Ray on February 09, 2011, 06:38:22 PM

 :wave: Hello and welcome to the forum.  We really like lots of pictures here.  Ray

Title: Re: new member hello
Post by: Brass_Machine on February 09, 2011, 08:19:40 PM

Hi Bernard  :wave:

Welcome to the collective :borg:

Wow... sounds like you have a lot of cool stuff. Would love to see pictures of your studio.

Eric

Title: Re: new member hello
Post by: Bernd on February 10, 2011, 03:51:59 AM

Oh, oh. Bernard eh? Hope you don't go be Bernie for short, because that's my name except it's spelled Bernd.

All right got that out of the way. :doh:  :lol:

Welcome to the collective.  :borg:

I'm into model railroading, but seemed to have settled into home shop maching. All part of model railroading.

Nice pic's of your engine. We like pics.  :ddb:  :nrocks:  :ddb:

Bernd

Almost forgot to ask, what scale-gauge is the nice little engine in? Looks larger than "O".