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coombe junction - Bits and Bobs...

bcnPete

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Update - As in the UK, its been very hot here of late and there has been little enthusiasm to plug in the soldering iron and complete the turnout, however the last two evenings have seen a bit more progress.

 

First of all, during my periodic scans on EBay to see if I can find anything related to Coombe and Moorswater, I managed to find the two items depicted below, duly won and received. Steam days 2009 had a series of colour shots of the Looe branch and whilst pre diesel it does have some good photos which will help with colouring and tones for the scenics. The other 'Rambles by Rail', has some interesting dialogue, but the picture alone on the front in colour also fills in some missing detail from the prototype.

 

On Board No. 3, the EASITRAC has been laid throughout the sidings and the turnout using PCB methods has been completed. The rewheeled GUV was my test vehicle and after a little fettling with a file on the point blades, seemed to trundle happily throughout the turnout in all directions.

 

The solution for the loco run around is now sorted (electrics excepted) and I decided to move away from the aluminium cassettes idea as I realised that when a train runs under the covered area of the dries, there is visibility into this area. I thought it might look a bit naff to see some crude aluminium so I have decided to form two tracks on a sliding cardboard insert which will have both side walls of the shed pre-attached. The insert is slid out towards the operators side, only when required to turn the loco (by hand as only one end is fitted with a DG) and then reinserted. The majority of the time the insert will remain in place and the view into the covered area will hopefully look like a continuation of the building/track.

 

Other than that, I am looking forward to attending the EXPO this weekend and when I return I hope to get the electrics complete for this board so the dries can move forward.

 

A few pics attached...

 

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All useful reference material...

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Turnout completed awaiting sparks...

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Loco release is undertaken under the covered area (base buildings removed for clarity)...

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Overall shot towards dries...

 

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Pete, I can imagine that the heat there must be a little of putting... it's warm enough over here. Could you describve what materials you use for the baseboard, trackbed and architecture. A lot of it looks like card, of which you seem to be a master.... any clues would be useful. Thanks Pete... looking as good as always.

 

BRs Jon

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Neat work as usual Pete.

 

Thanks Donw - Hope we get to finally meet at the EXPO this weekend! Pete

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Pete, I can imagine that the heat there must be a little of putting... it's warm enough over here. Could you describve what materials you use for the baseboard, trackbed and architecture. A lot of it looks like card, of which you seem to be a master.... any clues would be useful. Thanks Pete... looking as good as always.

 

BRs Jon

 

Jon, Hi - Thanks for this - The baseboards, that's easy...they are my favourite IKEA lack shelves :D They are lightweight and discrete fixed to the wall so just slide on and off to the wall mounted cantilevered support as and when required. The internal structure seems to be made of cardboard, so the 50mm depth is a little problematic when wiring as sometimes the wires get lost in between the void, but overall work fine for me. The trackbed was previously 2 layers of cork tiles (my father brought them from a UK DIY shop as the Spanish don't seem to go for cork floors here B) ) but this time I have used grey artists card in a few layers - I am not worried about noise issues. For the buildings I normally work with a mix of foamboard, grey artists card, 1mm white card and plain white postcards and will face these up with embossed plasticard sheet where required for the stone walls or corrugated metal sheeting etc

 

I normally make all my architectural models from card and foamboard using PVA - I guess its down to personal preference.

 

Hope this helps,

 

Pete

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see you at expo

 

Nick - looking forward to seeing Line No 4.

 

Coombe Junction will be there in spirit not body...and in mini-me 1:10 scale format B)

 

Pete

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Pete,

 

This might be of interest

 

http://www.gcrauctions.com/sale127/lot157.html

 

:)

 

Hi there,

 

Thankyou...this is of great interest...I have no idea how much these things normally fetch though.

 

At 96", it's almost as long as the layout too!

 

I will keep tabs on it...I can usually sneak the odd loco purchase through the front door, but having this delivered to Barcelona would for sure, raise a few eyebrows in my household :lol:

 

Thank you, Pete

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