Semboyan35, Indonesian Railfans

Hello there!
I hope you don't mind I write in english here... if it is a problem, please tell me so... I only speak english, dutch and german...
After building models of steam locomotives from Holland for some years, but that was getting boring and I wanted something else, so I started making indonesian engines. Indonesian steam engines are far more interesting and because they were in use so much longer I could use a lot of weathering on the models, which I like a lot.
I built them in scale 1:66 so I could use normal H0-gauge parts and track... the bodys are made of polystyrene sheet mostly, frame and wheels are parts used from old H0 locomotives.
Currently I am also working on a very small layout (120x60 cm) loosely based on the Cibatu depot.
stuff I've built so far:
C1127 as it was used in Cibatu in 1980


F1007, the first indonesian engine I built:


CC5012, also cibatu 1980



and various rolling stock:


At the moment I have started making some designs for the Cibatu-engine shed that will be on the layout
when any of you has some Cibatu pictures or know whewre to get such pictures I would be vary glad if you would share it... and I hope you guys will find this interesting!
cheers,
Floris

Hello Floris, wellcome to semboyan35.com, an Indonesian Railfanning Community Sites....

You can check and following the pictures on this thread

The thread will show you the pictures of Indonesian Railways in the past, and off course, Cibatu station also there....

As additional information, there are special thread about Indonesian Railroad Model Pictures and Video in this forum. You can also show and publish your model and layout progress on this thread.

best regards.

ok, saya artikan dulu biar pada g bingung ....

(hello floris, nice to meet you, I'll translate it into Indonesian first, so that other members can see what you mean, ok ......)

"Hello there!
Saya harap Anda tidak keberatan saya menulis dalam bahasa inggris di sini ... jika masalah, tolong katakan padaku, jadi ... Saya hanya berbicara dalam bahasa inggris, Belanda dan Jerman ...
Setelah membangun model lokomotif uap dari Belanda selama beberapa tahun, tapi itu semakin membosankan dan aku ingin sesuatu yang lain, jadi aku mulai membuat mesin indonesia. mesin uap Indonesia jauh lebih menarik dan karena mereka digunakan begitu lama lagi aku bisa menggunakan banyak pelapukan pada model, yang saya suka banyak.
Saya membangun mereka dalam skala 1:66, sehingga aku bisa menggunakan bagian yang normal H0-mengukur dan melacak ... para Tubuh terbuat dari lembaran polystyrene sebagian besar, bingkai dan roda adalah bagian dari lokomotif H0 digunakan tua.
Saat ini saya juga bekerja di sebuah layout yang sangat kecil (120x60 cm) longgar berdasarkan stasiun Cibatu.
hal yang saya telah dibuat selama ini:

Saat ini saya sudah mulai membuat beberapa desain untuk mesin-Cibatu gudang yang akan di tata letak
ketika salah satu dari Anda memiliki beberapa gambar Cibatu atau tahu whewre untuk mendapatkan gambar seperti aku akan bervariasi senang jika Anda mau berbagi ... dan saya harap kalian akan menemukan ini menarik!
cheers,"


ok, and, sorry floris, I do not have a single model trains, so I can only help with image and this too was not a model train, this is CC 5012:



hopefully the picture can help you .....

Wooow....it's amazing n beautiful!!

That's great, Floris.

Wow...I didn't expect if someone could eventually built this. We in Indonesia are working hard to make the HO-scale of these stuff, but yet to be completed though...

wow it's amazing, i really like it, i still try to make DD52 or SS1200 series, in HO Scale.

Well done Floris ...
Thanks for sharing and trying to "preserve" Indonesian steam loco model ...

I love the C11, you done well the weathering. Nice work, waiting for creating DD52

cheers
Hedwig

Awesome....! the detail n paint are great for handmade...

i wonder why u built in 1:66 scale instead of HO scale is 1:87?

thanks a lot people!

I already found some very interesting pictures on the forum! Of course it's also good to see another shot of the CC5012, she must have been the cibatu-diva in those days...
some more pics of mine can be found here http://www.flickr.com/photos/floris_dilz...365030993/
Maybe one day I'll build a DD52, but it's pretty hard to get a lot of information about them, a CC50 was a lot easier in that aspect (I live in Utrecht, so there is a CC50 in the railway museum here in town, although they have built a rollercoaster (!) around it). Right now I try to concentrate on the engines that were in Cibatu in 1980, the next one I'll build will probably be the CC1007 or CC1009 and a half slaughtered CC1032.


Then the reason to build in 1:66 and not H0: If I wanted to build indonesian trains in H0 scale I would have to use 12mm-track to get them to look right, but during the years I built H0 standard gauge european engines I gathered such an amount of cheap second-hand old H0-locomotives for parts it would be a shame if I couldn't use those... Parts and track for 12mm (H0m) models are much harder to get. Also I already had some trouble getting small H0-engines to run well, so I didn't really want to go any smaller than H0, and the bigger the scale, the more detail you can build.
In the end I just figured out what scale I would need to use 16,5mm-track for indonesian railways, a simple calculation: 1067/16,5=64,7 so 1:64,7 it is.... To make the calculations from drawings a bit easier I decided to use 1:66,6 instead, now model size =(real size/100)x1,5 so I don't need to use a calculator all the time. Because I was planning to build both trains and scenery myself using a weird scale like 1:66 wouldn't really be a problem... Only the people on and beside the trains would be a bit of a problem, but so far 1:72-figures look fine.

Before I came up with this I thought about building some of the NIS broad gauge-stuff in H0, but I didn't have a lot of information about it, only some drawings of the engines, but no carriages etc. Maybe one day I'll build an H0-scale NIS-engine and use it together with my european H0-engines on a european H0-layout during a show, It would be interesting to see if people would have any idea what kind of engine it is. (just very few modellers know something about indonesian railways here...)

...and an indonesian layout is nothing without one of there of course :-)


cheers!
Floris

Wow your models are great? Specially cause there are very rare model of Indonesian locomotives. Great works... Floris.
Do you have some tutorial how to make them? It's very nice if you share your knowledge to Indonesian modeller so we could conserve Indonesian locomotives via model....

awesome train model Mr Floris

welcome to Semboyan35.com...

(06-Jun-2010 06:00 AM)Floris Wrote: [ -> ]

F1007, the first indonesian engine I built: (Click to View)

CC5012, also cibatu 1980

I like this so much! Hopefully... Thanks a lot Floris!

wew, awesome....

it's very great ! i like it