Model rides
All hand made rides i made are australian made with australian made balsa wood now operating all rides run on a train transformer ac voltage gearded ''faller'' motors $120.00 other attractions to be powered soon are ''king of the castle'' in coney island & ''the barrels'' & maybe the ''rotor''?.All working rides are ''carousel'',''ferris wheel'',''flying saucer'',''tango'',''dodgems'',''tumble bug'',''spider'',''ranger''.''Big dipper'' australian made {now gone} 95/01 version had 6 carriages that were pulled up the main hill by a faller 12v motor on a chain with magnets under each car & weights in them to keep them on the track the train would free roll perfectly at the 1st drop around the entire 9ft of n scale flexable train track just short of the station highest point 45cm.Working rides i had in 1986 the 35/81 version hand made rides were zumer,hurricane,spider,ferriswheel,carousel,paratrooper,round up,zipper,cha-cha,olde windmill [plastic},big dipper all hand made all operated they are now all gone i only have the ghosttrain & palais de dance left.Here are pics of 1 of the 6 cars of the 95/2001 n scale cars off my dig dipper
Model rides come in 2 scales HO & N are the best scales & here we have a ho scale model hurricane more of these classic rides can be seen in links at renauld,s midway minitures.
www.renauldsmidwayminitures.com.au HO scale model ''HURRICANE''
Below HO scale model ''ZIPPER''
