Progress on the loco shed at last. I decided to use the Hornby diesel depot as a base. The side windows have been covered with Wills corrugated metal sheets and a coat of Halfords Grey over the top. The roof has had a coat of Halfords Matt Black and I still need to do some dirtying up of the walls and some painting of the interior fittings. The shed floor is from the Scalescenes kit (which was my first attempt at a depot). I'm not sure how long the card approach will last ... hopefully long enou
Well its two months since the last update. I'd like to say I have made massive progress but in reality it is only in the last few days I've found the time to work on the layout. I have, however, received my 4-CEPs and so far have chipped and run in one of the Green ones (the other green one arrived with one coach too many and one driving motor too few so am waiting for a swap).
Anyway, the depot conundrum from last blog has been resolved by cladding the Hornby depot with Wills corrugated met
So the retaining walls around the loco depot are taking shape. As i said previously I bought, but haven't finished, a Scalescenes loco shed and I don't think this is going to look good enough even if I do get it finished. The Bachmann shed is too big to fit so as far as I can see I'm left with just a few options (1) use the old Hornby kit seen here with a coat of paint, replacing the floor and adding some dirt (2) the Peco shed which will just about fit (3) no shed at all. Actually best of all I
Today's efforts have seen progres on the retaining walls that will run around the edge of the small diesel shed area. These are obviously a Scalescenes kit. I did buy a Scalescenes Diesel Depot but I have entirely lost patience with it - I'm sure they are good when finished but there is just far too much cutting of cardboard for my liking. Anyway back to the retaining walls; they still require a fair bit of cutting but since they take shape much quicker it is easier (for me at least) to maintain
So bringing the blog up to date after very little progress over the summer due to work and hols. Ballasting of the two main lines is complete at last as is most of the carriage sidings trackwork.
I was rather taken by a Virgin Voyager advertised for sale here on RMweb so I now have yet another piece of rolling stock that doesn't really fit with the geography .... but it will do for fun until the layout is finished.
A couple of years back at Warley I bought a very cheap Heljan plasti
By May I'd managed to give the boards a coat of undercoat to give the scenics a base and completed the first bit of ballasting I've ever done. Having read lots of different techniques mine is very simple - a coat of sleeper grime from a Railmatch aerosol, sprinkle on the ballast (Riko ballast scatter), brush into the right sort of shape followed by the traditional mist of water spray with a drop of washing up liquid and applying the PVA with a dropper.
Six months later the bal
With a huge effort of will over Christmas 2008 I put most of the electrics into place before trying to run trains but I now have a near complete track layout on the front side and a simple rigged up circuit around the back (purely for "test" purposes).
I've tried to keep the electrics as tidy as possible allowing for the fact I have never wired up a DCC layout before nor done any soldering. Some of the track droppers soldered to the rails look rather hamfisted but I guess I can go back and r
This is an edited summary of my thread from the old RMWeb. Progress has been slow over the summer so let's start with the initial steps in September last year (wow! I did't realise it had taken me a year to get to where I am today .... how embarrassing).
So the history ..... after four false starts (OO, N, Japanese N, OO) and 30 years since I possessed an actual model railway I finally put four baseboards together and roughly concluded on a track plan. The final layout has ended up as 16ft
