*Point-less as in without points in the 'turnout' sense of the word.. just in case anybody read it the wrong way

...continuing from Missy's comment on the last blog entry...

My usual excuse for avoiding getting into the finer track standards, is an all consuming fear of getting into a muddle trying to make working points. As Victoria Bridge is going to be a simple run through diorama, my excuse hardly counts, so here goes...

A package arrived the other day from a forum member

(who I know from the 'real world' so I am able to hassle him through all sorts of different means )

containing the pictured short length of track... I thought the package was going to contain mini eggs but the greedy so-and so had eaten them.

The idea here was to experiment with existing N gauge kit and see what would run happily. As it turns out, more than I was expecting. I was amazed that the Lima carriages run without any bother!

Above all else, the look of the track makes the Peco stuff sat next to it look bit odd.. strange, as up until opening the mysterious mini egg tube, I would have shrugged my shoulders and reckoned the standard N track was perfectly good enough!

(PS Tom, I trust the mini eggs were good!)

Hi

great topic

you mention the coach colours being lighter on the prototypes to the modelled ones. I use to work (well volunteer) for the svr many years ago in the carriage repair workshop at Kidderminster. The coaches would come in all battered and the paint work would be all different shades of crimson due to the bleaching affect from the sun. We would strip all the old paint off, prime them and repaint into a much darker crimson, which would be very much like the modelled types.

if you want to go for a true representation of the line I would vary the shades from a very light crimson, with suitable weathering and marks right the way though to a brand new repainted coach.

we were only able to repaint a coach every 6 to 10 weeks due to the amount of work and man power available. it was a bit like painting the forth bridge, you get the end and have start all over again.

Any news about producing the bridge for people to buy?

Once again fantastic work :icon_thumbsup2:

Any news about producing the bridge for people to buy?

Getting closer, I am just sorting out some of the details of the (slightly simplified) internal structure. I need to go and have another close look at the real thing. Before too long, I hope to have a basic structure with the detailed 'texture' layer that I could send in the post. I ought to make it 'lock together' with a bit of work so it can be easily glued together without a jig. Watch this space!

Thanks for the advice regarding carriages.. Im not sure whether I'm unusual in finding carriage modelling more interesting than the locomotives, I suppose in N gauge, a carriage model remains a fairly simple project to take on in terms of time, resources and modelling aptitude! (I have limited supplies of all of these, but I am getting more confidence in the last one!)

Next blog entry, coming soon (ish): the challenges of Easitrack and my slighly geriatric collection of models.. is this the end for my Ivatt?