The "Rail Mounted Tea Making Facility" like my other Rail mounted teapot was designed to be compatible with the standard 5 inch guage railway modellers tracks. Obviously this needed to be tested, so I took the teapot out on location to the local Model Engineer's railway in Petone (New Zealand) for a photo session.

I was pleased to see that it fit the tracks well and ran on them smoothly.

This view shows the fancy glaze on the ceramic teapot section. I was after a good "oil spot" black to give a look a bit like the big black steam engines that used to run on New Zealand's railways. Despite heaps of black iron oxide in the glaze I ended up with this rather strange glaze that was this beige honey colour where it was flat and black/brown on vertical and overhung surfaces. So the two colours on this teapot were achieved with the one glaze. I called the glaze "Surprising Black". The glaze has an excellent buttery feel and excellent fit despite that fact that it does not use lead compounds. All materials used in this glaze were food safe.

The two teacups on the deck below the teapot cradle were glazed with another black glaze which had an amazing blue white speckle through it caused by the use of rutile. I call this the "Galaxy Glaze' but unfortunately have never been able to reproduce it again.

The photos were taken with a Fujifilm Finepix Real 3D camera.