Victorian Docklands

Like most gamer terrain makers I collect stuff. If anyone is throwing out some that has ‘potential’ it goes into a bits box. I have one with old large scale locomtives in it!

Rummaging through it I came up with some ideas for a stationary engine to belt power the factory (need to make flywheels and drive pulleys etc.) and a Stephenson’s Rocket type loco.  I was imagining making some heavy steam-punky dark and gritty loco based on the Mallard shape but there probably wouldn’t be room for it and a coach on the board.  A ‘Rocket’ would look cute, be a better size for the gaming space and could still be called the Mallard as it would be the fastest thing in this city!

I have thrown a few bits together to get a feel of them, but not cut or glued anything yet.

My original intentions were to build an observation tower and lighthouse beacon above the Customs House but I needed something for the waterway to go round and off the back of the board.  An Eddystone type lighthouse would look good there.

There wouldn’t be enough room for the full width of the lighthouse and the shape would be wrong for what I needed so I ‘cut’ it in half.

The base would have to be strong for gaming abuse and to hold the various attachments to it.  I constructed a frame out of sign board and hot glued the side panels of hardboard to it.

The lighthouse will have a Dutch style cantilever footbridge to the other side of the waterway, walkways and ‘hayloft’ doors and pulley beams for loading supplies and of course a light at the top.