I purchased the Peco 16t mineral wagon yesterday, and spent an hour or so last night starting the build.
No wheels or brake gear yet, but pleased with it so far.
Excerpt from "A Guide to the Ports and Harbours of Cornwall - 1975"
Polbraze.
The town of Polbraze can be found on the coast, between Bude and Looe. The town's origins can be traced back to the time of King Arthur and Tintagel, although no connection has ever been found. In the 19th Century, Polbraze grew from a small fishing port to a minor harbour used for export of Cornish minerals. Today, Polbraze is a medium sized town with a thriving dockland area concentrating on boat r
Actauully managed to do some real modelling this evening, rather than just thinking & planning.
The office on Wheal Tiny needed a chimney, and both this building and the winding house needed gutters and down pipes.
I also spotted an interloper...
Following advice from members on here, , I have been and purchased the complete 7mm stock for this layout - namely one Peco BR 16t steel mineral wagon.
Progress of the construction of this will appear here...
Further to last night's ponderings, I've decided that the crate will be replaced by a 3ft x 2ft bespoke box. I've also had a play-about in XtrackCAD and come up with this.
The blue represents the modelled water, the thick brown lines the edges of the opened out side/front. The hinges are represented by the red lines and the grey blocks are the lift out sections of quay, to allow the side/front to fold up. I may adjust the edges of the water to co-incide with the quay walls.
The trac
Whilst musing on the Cement Shed boxfile, and doing some modelling on Wheal Tiny, I've been thinking about another concept - a harbour in a crate.
Sounds daft (so it must be one of mine), but consider this...
Take a crate, similar to that used by Marc Smith for Bracty Bridge , and cut out one side and the front. Make these pieces hinge from their bottom edge, so when laid flat the layout forms an L shape. Leave the back and other side in place, to retain strength and provide a back/side sce
I like this blog thingy.
Following comments from NeilHB, Kenton & RandyWales, futher musing has taken place.
I'm probably definitely almost certain I'm going for a 7mm scale layout (sorry, boxfile). Thanks to NeilHB for the info on 7mm standard & NG track.
RW suggested pre-loading the conveyor feed hopper (CFH), but this would necessitate some sort of mechanism to control the flow, something I wished to avoid.
So, the upper track will be 7mm NG, utilising the old Hornby 4mm
Ok, so I now have another dilemma... how wide is 7mm track (given that OO is 16.5 mm) and would 7mm stock run on code 100 rails ?
Also, if I made the receiving line mixed gauge, standard (wagons) & NG (loco), would it look 'wrong' (ignoring Rule 1 for a moment)?
The rationale (!) behind this train of thought is to use a loco from Wheal Tiny (when I've built it) to both propel the hopper wagon on to the upper track to discharge the Cement, and also to manouever the standard gauge wa
You know how it is, you have this great idea all planned in your head, you know exactly what you want your layout to look like, then along comes some smart-alec with a wild suggestion and everything goes t*ts-up.
So it is with the Cement shed.
Marc asked if I have a track plan - the track was only going to be a few inches jutting in from the left side, enough to hold one hopper wagon over the hopper.... But Marc also said "And added track on the lid is another stroke of genius!" - I hadn
This is a quick sketch of how I see the boxfile developing.
The scale will be 4mm, set probably current day.
The box will be vertical, landscape-wise, with the lid opening flat in front to give a partly extended baseboard and a place to add information. The inside of the box will be made to look like the inside of a large stone / cement processing shed - think the inside of one of Chris Nevard's buildings on Cement Quay. The track will enter stage left, about 1/3 of the way up the side,
Hi all.
Following the success of Porth Byhan and Wheal Tiny, I've decide to create another micro layout...
This one is much inspired by Chris Nevard's recent extension to Cement Quay, and also by RandyWales' Maenol Mine .
Probably to be set in another boxfile, but this time with the box placed vertically, I'm hoping to add a working hopper and a working conveyor belt.
More progress will be posted here when there is any...
