Well I still can't decide what to do with the blank baseboard, it's a nice long fiddle yard at the minute that everyone can see.
I created this to see how well it works, on an end to end layout and the answer is very well.
You can slow the engines right down and have them creep up and hit the end platform under the station canopy which basically gives you a zero point to work from.
Not ideal but a good work around as the feedback detectors are not yet available.
Also when you run up very
I have been playing about with the Hornby Elite and Railmaster and thought it would be a great way to operate Wold's-End.
I have now removed the traverser and added an extension which I intially thought would be a nice long fiddle yard.
Having now fitted the board and laid the track I'm thinking I could actually use the last 400mm as a hidden fiddle yard and just use a loco lift or DCC concepts storage MPD to swap locos.
The area which connects up to Wold's-End can have some scenic trea
Well trying to get everything done and dusted ready for Mansfield Exhibtion in April.
Lights are now wired up!
Still waiting for some more passengers to turn up, but it's very close to getting there.
Takes a bit of time before things start to run OK...with the small shunters anyway.
Here is the photo of the two layouts together, just to prove I'm not taking photos of the same one
I just need to make the final finishing touches to both.
Here are a few of mini Wolds-End lit up
Mr Redgate Models has a lot to answer for!!!
Having met up with him today at Nottingham exhibition, a small passing remark was made........how about making Wold's End in T-gauge!!!
Now the T-gauge folks from Edinburgh were there:-(website) http://www.tgauge.co.uk/
With the T shaped layout as shown in the video on their web site.
Everything was running very well, they had a finished prototype Deltic on display which looked fantastic.
Had a nice long chat and points should be availab
Well, as N-gauge Wold's End is starting to come together thought it about time I posted some pics.
Instead of just printing out a piture of the small terraced houses, I made enough room to actually have them as low relief.
I think it adds to the whole layout.
The book stall under the canpoy does have a figure inside and a light, just need to wire all the lights up!
Figures still need adding and the terrace houses and back of main station building to start and finish.
Busy weekend inst
Ok, so no photos of N-Gauge Wold's-End but thought these are far better!!
As I wanted to try and make the OO and N layouts as close as possible, I have used the same rolling stock and locos on both.
The only locos I'm missing in N-gauge are the Class 24 D5038 and a Class 121 bubble car in BR blue/Grey.......come on Dapol.
So while items went for respray thought I'd have them weathered as well:-
Got to say Ian at Mercig Studios does a bloody fantastic job!
Well the N-gauge Wolds end is coming along quite nicely and when I actually get some time at home instead of working away will get some photos!!
Thinking towards the future, looking at building another Wold's end, this time to complete the set it would be in O-gauge.
Now looking about have found that I can get most of the modern diesels that I require, but prices are somewhat scarey, along with building and painting them!
As I have already bought the Scalescenes buidlings I should be ab
Wolds-End is now virtually complete.
Had a bit of a running session, it does take a long time to work things out to move, so great operating potential.
Picked up my Class 24 with sound from Digitrains yesterday, although not allowed to run it as it's my christmas present.
Looking around the shop I saw that you can actually get the Class 24 in N-gauge, which got me thinking, and on my return home, checked to see what was available.
Having scanned the usual online retailers, thought what about
I have now added the lighting to the inside and outside of the warehouse and added a few store operatives
I hope nobody has been up to no good, the police are on the case so not to worry.......I think!
I think the Guards Walkie Talkies are broken......shouting across the tracks just doesn't look good!
Cheers
Ian
Well, getting there very slowly!
Quite a few lights added to the layout, along with some people.
The figures are the Bachmann Scenecraft ones, not cheap at ??5 for 6 but very effective and excellent detail.
A few more station staff to fit, then onto populating the warehouse.
The picture below shows the Scalescenes Newspaper stand that came in the Hornby magazine, you can just make out the folded newspapers on the counter.
I just glued a figure inside and added the light into t
I thought I'd put this up, just as a guide really to show how I did it, there are other ways I just find it easier to do it this way.
First off I print out all of the base layers at draft quality(uses less ink and the base layers will be covered over), then print out all of the SEEN texture sheets at best quality.
Now I would normally then spray them with inkjet fixative, this protects them from the glue you end up with all over your fingers!!!
I didn't have any inkjet fixative left so
Well, progress has been a little slow, but needed to adapt the Scalescenes warehouse a little, the complete structure is now built and on the layout.
This needed to be built first so I could work out where the track would need to be placed to go into it.
I have left the back of the warehouse as blank card on the outside but on the inside have finished it off, this is so that when you look through thr front of it you can see the back wall as block work.
In reality there is a great hole
I have completed some of the buildings, and wanted to see what it would like with them in place.
The first image is of the XtrKcad file layout.
Excuse the backscene....it's a work in progress!
Where the images are of the warehouses these wil infact be replaced with the Scaelscenes large warehouse.
After starting in OO and having too many compromises I changed to N-gauge.
A month or so ago after visiting Grantham exhibition, I really wanted to get a small OO layout together.
As I can only have a very small layout a trip to Carl Arendt's micro-layout website was called for.
Searched around a bit and having bounced a few ideas of Shortliner I saw Stubbier Yard, this layout really took me, so that was it!
A quick use of XtrkCad gave me the layout just flipped over.
I will get ro
