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coombe junction - Backscene 2


bcnPete

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Update - a little progress last night with board 3 as I have now laid the cork sheet below the trackbed. Unfortunately I cannot lay the track as am awaiting delivery of a new soldering iron and solder from the UK - giving myself the benefit of the doubt, I am guessing my soldering started to deteriorate from poor to absolutely shocking, possibly due to the only solder that I can find here was probably meant for joining water pipes together <img src='http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_eek.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':icon_eek:' /> So I would rather not progress the buildings further at Moorswater until the EASITRAC turnout and the alignment of sidings has been completed.

 

Also began to get a feel for the backscene, which you may recall will meet with the parapet of Moorswater viaduct. It will need a rethink of how the turnouts [there are only 2!] and isolating sections will work as without the backscene, they would have been screened by trees. I have made card formers around the Fiddle yard cassettes area and as per one of the comments received the other day, this will be the layout nameboard. For sure, its going to be tall as a backscene, but once it runs along the length of the layout I think it will work well and hopefully give the layout some depth.

 

A few pics and a sketch attached...

 

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Overall view of Fiddleyard enclosure...

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Bachfar 37 emerges...will need to rethink those switches...

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Close up - Coombe Junction Signal Cabin has been mocked up in paper to get a feel for the size...

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Sketch showing layout with nameboard panel...

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Looking good Pete, looks like you are making really good progress again - it will be a cracking layout once its finished with the viaduct and everything in place. Keep up the great work.

 

Mark

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Hi Mark - many thanks for your kind comments - including a viaduct is something you know all about of course...but at least mine is much shorter to build than yours ;) Pete

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