6 Feb 2010
well that's a real mess ...
no not the backscene cloudy blue sky effect ...
just my photography
Some weird lighting effect producing halos on the wood 'h' supports and a total loss of the blue tones.
but if you use your imagination it looks very much like this one in real daylight - just bigger.
I can see that I'm going to have real problems photography progress when it does start to happen. Such a big difference between my WB and the garage.
5 Feb 2010
In response to Mikkel who has followed the diary thread so closely, the following gives more detail of the traverser FY - the board had not been bolted on in the photo on the previous page.
Just as a reminder, I used drawer runners - the ball bearing type - available from most DIY chains.
The traverser board is in two parts - it has its own baseboard and a running board joined by the drawer runners.
It is critical to keep the runners parallel or it will just jam. The running board is
Ok a decision has been made
Scale: 4mm
Gauge OO Peco (modified) Code 75 ... so nothing too surprising there.
Plans still being formulated but as it stands sector plate driven and containing 5 points
The board is 20 inches deep at its widest and 10 ft long along its viewing side. - 2010
It is 5 inches deep at its narrowest.
It folds up into a box 5 ft x 25 inches (that's 5 times 5 in case you missed it)
... and I haven't stopped yet
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