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Description of the building of my first 2mm layout

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Chagford - Getting the Train Going Again

Hi All Recently I have been suffering pain, but I have now started to make progress again. I have finished the modifications to the DCC bus wiring, following the modifications for the Dairy Stream bridge. I have also modified the cassette alignment to make the alignment more reliable. Lisa

July 19, 2011

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Chagford - Return to the Fray

Hi All Havn't been around for a while. I've just come out of hospital, good old NHS, having just had some surgery to my left jaw. There is no pain for the first time in months. I hope to do some modeling tomorrow after i've walked Maisy. You probably guessed Masiy photograph is used as my icon. Lisa

June 25, 2011

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Chagford - Crossing the Dairy Stream

Hi All When designing and building a micro layout you have to make the most of every cm of layout frontage. That is the reason that Chagford has a curved instead of strait frontage, with the curve, your frontage is longer. The length of the frontage determines the number of discrete scenes which can be fitted it. The layout is designed to be viewed at eye level. The dairy stream ran between the dairy and the tramway depot. There were two bridges which crossed the stream, the tramwa

May 30, 2011

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Chagford - Building up a head of steam!

Hi All I have been building part of the boiler house for the Chagford Dairy of the Cooperative Wholesale Society. Or should I say a quarter of it as the rest is off scene. The model building is based on the boiler house kit from Kestrel. The basic shape is correct, but the windows and the door construction are wrong on this kit. This type of construction is called scratch bashing, as I am modifying a kit, but adding feature which are built from scratch. The end of the building was fir

May 30, 2011

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Chagford - To Fiddle or Not to Fiddle, That is the Question

Hi All I've been quite recently, i.e. no blog entries this has been because I had a problem with a painful molar! I've now seen the dentist and hopefully the problem is now sorted out. Either a micro 2mm layout has a fiddleyard or not is a matter of choice. I first considered Mark Fielder's Pizza Layout, Pictures and details can be found via the links page at www.2mm.org.uk This layout has a circle of track with a single siding with all the area covered with scenery. David Eveleigh

May 19, 2011

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Chagford - Building Homes for the Workers 2

Hi All I have plenty of experience of using acrylic paints, but this is the first time I have used them to paint 2mm buildings. They have the advantage of being much cheaper than model paints, since you only need a small selection of colours and you can then mix them to obtain a full pallet. They also are water based, which means that if you make a complete mess, you can simply wash a plastic model in warm water, dry and then start again. When you are happy with your finished painting you wi

May 4, 2011

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Chagford - Track Fettling and Running in an 04

Hi All Since building the circuit of track and starting running trains I have had problems with derailments. Upon careful examination of the track I discovered that the alighnment of track section joints was not as good as I thought. By running a train around, whist running in the locomotive I found that it derailed at a point, I then carefully examined the track near the site. I found that small blobs of solder on the inside of the rails, this is much more critical when the tr

May 4, 2011

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Chagford - Building Homes for the Workers

Hi All There are several ways in which building can be constructed for a layout. I have decided that I am going to build them using embossed plastic sheet. Some of the building, like the workman's cottages for the dairy and the gas works can be built by modifying commercial kits, for Kestrel aka Gaugemaster. I could have built the cottages from scratch from sheets of embossed plasticard. This would have allowed the building to be more individual,but would have evolved much more work

April 30, 2011

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Have Layout and Train Ticket can Travel

Hi All Having no car it is an important consideration that the layout should be convenient to transport by public transport. The packing system consist of two components, these are a plastic box, to keep it dry and a bag with a strap that goes over the shoulder to make the carrying easier. In doing the measurements to check the maximum height for the backscene, which is 55mm, I decided to redesign the positioning of the overcentre catches to fix the cassette board to the main b

April 25, 2011

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Chagford - Going Round in Circles

Hi All Today I have been building the new cassette location and electrical connection for the train cassettes on Chagford. Despite the new electrical system being much more straight forward, on the first attempt I got the wiring cassette wiring reversed and found a complete short when I tested it. This done I next wired up the section of track to the left of the cassette which had previously been unconnected. Then did some rectification to the point wiring and added the point

April 22, 2011

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Chagford - My New Workbench

Hi All Last night I completed building my own workbench, up to now I've been working on the kitchen table. Currently I get the power supply from a extension lead on the top of the bench, hopefully I will soon have the 4 way attached to the side of the bench instead. I also need to fit a side and back to the bench to prevent items and tools from falling off, and getting lost. Lisa

April 21, 2011

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Chagford - Building the Baseboard

Hi all The construction method for the Chagford baseboard is very simple. The top is made from 8mm MDF sheet. A circle was drawn using a ruler type compass. The circle was then cutout using a jigsaw. Once the basic shape had been cut out, the edge was smoothed using a surform and the attachment blocks were located as shown below. The blocks then had a curved edge made using the surform too. The edging strip is 4mm MDF cut into a strip and then placed in the bath to soften it,

April 17, 2011

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Chagford - Layout Design 2

Hi All Once the final layout size was determined, I then started to design the track layout. At the initial stages I had decided the the main line curve would be 190mm radius. An arc of this radius was drawn on the front of the baseboard, using a ruler type compass. Templates for the various points were produced, complete with sleeper centrelines, using templot. The point templates were laid out as shown in the photograph above. This allowed the lengths of the loop and si

April 13, 2011

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Chagford - Layout Design

Hi All I started to build Chagford before I stared blogging. So in this entry I will attempt to start to fill in the missing story. Initially the layout was conceived as a circular layout rather in the style of Mark Fielder's Pizza and the baseboard was built as a circular board. But it soon became obvious that most containers are rectangular, and not having a car and using public transport, the baseboard was trimmed to make it fit. The size of the layout is increase by using t

April 13, 2011

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Chagford - Building 2mm Trainset Curves

Hi All I use lead free solder, unlike most modellers who I know who bought several rolls of lead solder when lead free was introduced. This requires a higher temperature of 370Â° and since the pcb sleeper supplied by the 2mm Association are designed it requires very careful soldering, if you are not going to have the copper coming away from the base material. I use 9% Phosphoric Acid flux to ensure the sleeper is very clean and therefor I get a good quality solder joint.

April 11, 2011

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Chagford - Designing 2mm Trainset Curves

Hi All When making sharp curves, i.e. sub 800mm radius I have found that the standard way of producing 2mm track by using the track jig to produce a herring bone does not work. I output the template from the track design package without the sleepers showing. This is because the package does not work correctly when the radius of the curve is sub 400mm radius. The template was cut out and fixed to the baseboard using masking tape. I marked the mid point between the rails at eac

April 11, 2011

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Chaford - Dead End cassettes

HI All The cassette design I have been using has proven to be a dead end design, but hay I had an idea but it did not work out in practice. Half the fun for me of working in 2mm is the problem solving aspect! Part of the reason for the problems was one of the connectors / locators was 0.2mm too near to the right hand end of the cassette. This despite careful measurement and allowing for adjustment after assembly. The cassette worked one way around, but it didn't work when t

April 8, 2011

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Chagford - Re-inventing the wheel

Hi All Can anyone tell me why when three 2mm modelers meet, they have four preferred track building methods? I seems to be quite fashionable in 2mm circles to lay track, have a problem, rip it up and then relay it. Well now Iâ€™ve joined in with a 'Y' point that caused derailments. I have made some plain track to temporally replace it, so I can run trains! My re-inventing is in the design of my cassette fiddleyard. The mechanical alignment and electrical connections ar

April 1, 2011

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Chagford - Video of Train Running

Hello All I have been wiring the track for DCC, this I though was a simple task, but when I checked my work with a multimeter the rails were shorted. After disconnecting various wire I discovered that one of the pre-cut sleepers was not cut properly. This corrected and the wires reconnected the short has been corrected. Three of the sections of track are held in position using two screws. This is to allow them to be removed to allow a cross over to be installed later. Next

February 19, 2011

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Chagford - Prototype Information

Hi All More details of the prototype The layout is a model of a mineral tramway, and not a railway. The difference is that a tramway can either go along it's own right of way, or along a public road, either in the road surface or on the verge. To build such a tramway the permission from the local highway authority to cross or go along public roads is all that is required, together with the purchase of any land required for depots and private rights sections. No acts of parliament

February 16, 2011

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Chagford - My first posting

Hi All I have been working on layout today! I model in 2mm finescale. Today I have run my first train on the layout using the non DCC option on the controller, as of yet I don't have a decoder equipped loco yet. Lisa

February 16, 2011

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