Sadly mold has taken a grip on extensive parts of Roding Reach. The areas affected is primarily the baseboard top layer which was made of hardboard.
The layout had been stored in the garage under my other layout and somehow a combination of damp and still air seem to have been the perfect environment to allow the mold to get hold.
Tomorrow I'll be stripping the top baseboard layer, track and scenery off and treating the baseboard carcass with some kind of anti-fungal paint.
There is
A while back the home made baseboards for my first attempt at building Roding Reach were looking less likely to deliver what I wanted - a sturdy and portable layout. Possibly with exhibition in mind.
With input from SWMBO and other voices of reason on RMWeb I upgraded the baseboards with two kits from Model Railway Solutions.
These kits were topped off with MDF and the original viaduct repositioned. I've now added a back scene and sector table. There's still two small pieces of woodwork
...well perhaps more of an excuse to show some photos from my N gauge layout, Roding Reach.
Rain over recent weeks hasn't exactly motivated me to go outside and work on the 2 end baseboards. So, been working on a couple of Kestrel Design kits in odd moments. Hence scenery continues before the woodwork, trackwork, electics are anywhere near complete.
New job and a commute have also curtailed play time. Rats.
Overcast rather than persisting down today, so cut out some hardboad for th
A while back I asked for help and suggestions for a view blocker for my layout (Roding Reach); the slight complication being that the track runs on a viaduct. So, the usual road overbrige was not possible.
Luckily you lot came up trumps and I was particularly taken by the idea of usin a hydraulic accumulator tower.
The only fly in the ointment was that I liked the idea so much the tower seems to be destined for centrer stage!
For anyone intersted I built a box from white plast
Trying to get the 2 end baseboards made by Christmas and the track laid to complete the loop.
Only a bit of progress today (cold outside and the prospect of building 2 baseboards wasn't overly appealing). So, just some measuring out and figuring out how the tracks will turn around to reach the (eventual) traverser fiddleyard at the back.
The MDF square at the bottom of the photo is currently the piece of scrap from cutting out the board at the top. So, no quips p-lease about the t
I think it was the recent Model Rail which did a feature on N-gauge layout design.
Rule 1: No turnouts on bridges - there's nowhere to put the point motor.
Here's a work around. And it's cheap and seems reliable enough.
Components: Short length of plastic rod, 1 x track pin, 2 x cable tie stick feet. Elastoplast.
1. Drill a hole underneath the point in line with the tie bar.
2. Drop a track pin through the hole in the tie-bar.
3. Thread a plastic rod through the 2 stic
Took a day off today and made some progress on the scenic baseboard for Roding Reach. Not much progress, as I needed to check out the log fire at my local around lunchtime. I think it's important to strike a balance between modelling time and beer time.
Early start at work tomorrow and so that's it until the weekend.
Anyway, it's that time of year when Santa starts asking about Christmas lists.
This year I'm hoping he'll have read the recent thread about "Freight on the Tilbury
Ok, it's a strange way to go about building a model railway. Starting the "scenery" before building the baseboard that will go underneath it.
Probably need to explain that.
"Roding Reach" will be a change of gauge for me, coming down from 00 to N. And i wanted to see if I could cope with the fiddly nature (or what I presumed would be be fiddly) before getting too stuck in.
The best way seemed to be to make a short section that included track, points, viaduct walls.
Having done
Being a kid of the 70s BR Blue was all I knew. Growing up in the south of Essex and commuting to school and college on the LTS and Southend Victoria lines not surprisingly EMUs were pretty much it.
But 30-odd (somtimes very odd) years on a bit of nostalgia is creeping in.
Not having room for another 00 gauge layout I thought, why not have a go in N gauge. And maybe build something that could be built and used in doors during the winter months.
I've deliberately kept it small for st
