I've chosen to switch to using a thread to show the development of Milliedale as I've seen the way that the majority of people use the forum a thread means I will get input and feedback from a wider number of people in a way that is easier for me to view when checking in from cattle class on first great western while on the way to work.
I'd like to thank everyone who has contributed and commented on my random waffling here and invite you to continue in the thread http://www.rmweb.co.uk/comm
Well, it's been a while since I posted anything of substance on here beyond sporadic updates, so here we go:
As you, hopefully, can see, most of the track is laid, the one part to be done now is the banking down to the canal wharf, although this requires a little bit of packing to raise the trackbed up slightly above quayside but mainly to make the gradient a little less severe.
still deciding how long the goods shed line ought to extend through the shed,
also need to install dr
The main focus lately has been to get the canal and it's cobble paths so that the bridge can be fitted in place.
the bridge has been fitted and weathered (found my old airbrush and quite happy with the results using model mates weathering spray through it) and track has been laid across it.
Peco points have been modified by removing the spring so that wire in tube point control can be used, I now need to make some under board parts to do this.
I've also had a bit of a play with maki
I thought I better update anyone following my blog on what's been happening since it gained it's legs.
track is currently laid out along the layout, the bridge plonked in place and working on track bed and aligning things.
at the moment I'm toying with the option of point motors or wire in tube (the original plan) however I don't have much distance from the rear of the layout to the first set of points to be able to get the wires below board to the toggle switches to control the points,
if you didn't know, my layout is late 1940's LMS purely for wanting to run LMS stock and livery when I'd really rather be modelling early 50's in order to be showing the advent of personal motoring for the average man (brought about by cheaper and easier to run and maintain cars such as the morris minor etc) This would put me firmly into BR days, which I've now got nothing against, but at the time of starting railway modelling, I was put off by the custard/mustard colour that ready to run MK1's
Well, it's been a long time since I updated this, including a house move which has seen the railway find a home in one of the rooms instead of what was essentially a corridor. I've also built some legs for the boards (no I wasn't waiting for the trees to grow in order to make them)
Firstly an overall view of the layout with the station to the far left, goods yard infront of it and the coal siding coming down to meet the canal. can't remember if the station building had been plonked on a pl
]As the title says really, there has been some more progress on Milliedale starting out with purchasing all the points required to build the scenic area and purchasing some solid 15mm thick MDF for the board.
This has allowed for getting the track plan from the wall into reality including the pointwork around the baseboard join
As you may notice in the next few pics, the board has not only been cut to shape but also the turntable has been sunk into the board and various
As you may, or may not know my layout has a canal / coal interchange siding loading coal from canal boat to the railway. When deciding a company to undertake this I spotted at work some Parkend Navigation Collieries wagons (which were bought by a customer before I'd managed to buy them) so since then I've been buying them up on e-bay, one came with weathered frames which kind of forced my hand with weathering, but then again, saying ''forest of dean'' and a running number of 330 wouldn't really
Today I got my Peco turntable kit, it was also the last time this month that my wife will be on night shift so it is now built, painted and weathered.
although I've followed the instructions carefully, when I put my black five on it for the photo and tried to turn it by hand I found it really quite stiff to turn.
I intend to aquire some meccano parts and make it turn by means of a hand crank, but I'm just wondering if there is a way of making it turn smoother as every loco on the layou
Its been a while since I posted a new entry on progress, but there is little to tell.
I've got some base board frames, there are points waiting to be paid for at work and a goods shed partly built.
I've put a set of dowels on to join the two boards together and then put the plywood ends on, finding that I need to put a plywood spacer in due to a miss-calculation on dowel length and wood width, but the main problem is that I've lost my wood glue and need some panel pins from the DIY sho
Anyone following my blog will probably be expecting an update on baseboard construction.
That's downstairs in the form of a pile of timber - just taken a break to post some pics.
I've just finished building the viaduct and a bit of weathering applied to it (photos attached)
but mainly I'm wondering what to do regarding vehicles. Mum got me a series 1 landrover (1948) and a caravan (two tone, very 1950's) along with the morris minor van from last christmas.
I do appreciate that
As mentioned in the previous entry, the gradient for my line to my coal transfer wharf is making me wonder if it's a little bit too steep.
the traffic that will be using it is about four coal wagons, on the fictional prototype they would go down the slope empty and come back up full, probably dragged up and down by anything from an 0-6-0 to an ivatt 2-6-2 tank and possibly my 4F (0-6-0)
my main concern is more about possible damage to the loco than concern about accuracy - although I w
Courtesy of my Gran, I've been shopping at work and bought the first structures for the layout, the goods shed, to be positioned near the station:
and the loco servicing structures, positioned on the road / roads from the turntable:
Both are Ratio kits
I'm looking at changing the pointwork for entering the goods yard to a Peco setrack, it's a tighter curve, but the largest loco that will be going over it is a 4F 0-6-0 or an Ivatt 2-6-0 or ivatt tank, so should be ok, and
At the moment I'm in the planning process of my first N gauge layout, the intent is to create a scenic but interesting backdrop to run my rolling stock, on an, as yet, un-named fictional layout.
As I said in my post in layout and track design ( http://www.rmweb.co....d-to-end-ideas/ ) I originally started out in 00 courtesy of my parents (as I'm sure many other people did) until wanting to build a prototype based railway and realising if I switched to N gauge I could build lakeside station,
