The first cutting’s the deepest
Rod film to show off model railway
SIR Rod Stewart is so chuffed with the 100ft model railway he has built he has made a film about it.
The Do Ya Think I’m Sexy? singer’s creation features talking conductors and air-conditioned skyscrapers. And the set- up at his Beverly Hills home has also wowed fellow enthusiasts with its 1:87 scale model of New York’s Grand Central Station. Rod, 73, said: “I have made a really great film I am hoping will be on Sky Arts.
“It is all finished now. When you see this, you are going to go ‘wow’.
“All the little guys in the engines are IT’S 19 years since Leo DiCaprio starred as a young, bronzed backpacker in The Beach.
The actor, now 44, returned to Thailand with model girlfriend Camila Morrone, 21, for a romantic break in luxury resort Amanpuri.
But despite a heavy workout regime of volleyball and kissing, it looks like even Leo can’t hold back the sands of time... talking. It is unbelievable. It really is. Every street has rubbish on it.
“There are air-conditioning units in the skyscrapers, which are 6ft tall.”
But he warned: “Don’t say its a ‘train set’. It is a scale-model railway.”
Pianist Jools Holland recently revealed he has a 100ft model railway in his attic that took 10 years to build.
And rock stars Roger Daltrey, Eric Clapton, Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen have also gone loco for them.