The Beetle 

Hello from the UK, 'The Beetle' is fantastic, you have done a fantastic job creating that, and the places it worked between, I am really impressed. Kudos to the track inspector chuck, who was sporting the same colours as the Beetle in her plumage 😁😆 Great Video

Great little video! I didn't see any giant 🐔 chickens when I travelled through Cambelfield and Somerton last weekend! 😂 Lucky that! Seeing as you have a 3D printer, you now have the capability of producing your own Victorian Railways workers and fortunate Victorians willing to travel on the Tait's or the Railmotors. My cousins used to travel to school from Mornington on the next generation of Railmotor painted in V.R. blue. This was in the 70s and early 80s. They often commented on how rough the ride was, especially when they were nearing Mornington and naughty boys would put rocks or stones on the track for fun. I suspect that this would have been roughly where Bunnings Mornington is now. I can just remember riding on the Tait red rattlers to the city from Heidelberg. Then the blue Harris trains and finally the stainless steel trains starting with the Hitachis. I also used to catch the long green and cream two single doors AEC buses from Bulleen to Kew or the city. That was '77 to '80 and then we finally got the orange Volvo buses. By then the long orange Leyland buses on other routes were already beginning to look shabby. Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺

That's incredibly beautiful and impressive

Wow, really cool. Interesting how just a few small changes to the modelling and filming style makes it feel so different… (and the Comeng 3D printer! 👌)

wow I really didnt have no idea how HUGE these models are :O Amazingly great video! Thank you

Well done! 👍👍

Just watched Martin Bennet's video. It even includes the Giant Chicken!

Superb modelling and a fascinating historical prototype. I’m an oldie who spent most of my engineering life pre the computer age so I’ve not got into 3D printing. I must admit that it can be very useful…in the right hands. Always good to see your videos. Thank you.

What s great job! Your recreations of the scenes from the book are spectacular. The Beetle is awesome!

3d machine equals TIME MACHINE!!! {and a giant chicken!LOL!!]

Great video! Greetings from the UK

Superb. 💙 T.E.N.

Amazing footage 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

I follow your video's but this one takes the cake! The re-creation of the images of the ones in the book look absolutely fantastic and very atmospheric. Well done. (bring it to GSSU later this year)

Beautiful!

Great modelling and scaled landscaping. As a child growing up along the Mansfield branchline l recall the Walker railmotor being referred to as the Beetle . This made perfect visual sense to me after observing Harlequin beetles in connected rear-end pairs and applying the Beetle name to a twin carriage Walker . . perhaps l was the only one to call it by that name ! Would like to hear how your railmotor came by that same name . Once again, great modelling - l watched the footage of the Whittlesea line you refer to only a week ago and l honestly did not recognise any model footage - great camera work too.

It's been a long time since we have seen a hen in a video!!!!!!

Excellent shot. Like !!!

That's brilliant

Your little railway is awesome mate :) wish i could set one up

Great modelling and the video is top notch

Yes, I did read about the "Spark" pulling over the tree for firewood, and it did land across the tracks as shown. (Lloyd Holmes) Your Tait has a very advanced form of coupling but otherwise a great video.

Excellent videographer. I have some 1960’s/1970’s Lionel from my grandparents. Full sets as far as I know. Would like to see it go to a serious collector that’s interested.

Very cool.

Bravo, bravo! Well done, sir! I know you have some terrifying wildlife in Australia, but I wasn't aware that included giant chickens. You could have fried chicken for hundreds of people with one of those. Salutations from Buenos Aires.

Very well done :)

👌👌

I absolutely love garden railway! Would love to make my own, just can't find where to buy track, wagons and trains..

More rain and storm vids pls 😊

Amazing work on making all this happen! To think that the Beetle was completed completely by computer is amazing! Any recommendations for a printer that can be used for O-gauge?

That was fantastic... and your railway is beautiful.... is it private or a club?

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Its the BEETLES, yaaaaaaaay 😀

Say, I’d like to see some drone footage of your layout to see the size of it and inspire ideas. 👍🏻

Very nice! Do you plan to build a trailer?

You could fit a sound module to simulate the diesel engine.

See, dinosaurs had feathers. Always said.

How did the railmotor get turned around at the end of each run?

How'd they turn it?