Update - Following Alex's question on my last post, I couldn't quite manage to upload an image within a reply so have added it here.
Whilst being something of a 'tradionalist' and liking to see a nicely presented layout complete with full length fabric to disguise the support structure, a pet hate of mine is to see the fabric pinned to the front of the layout or resembling something of a washing line running along the front edge.
For CJ I am aiming to align the black fabric with the fron
Update - No modelling as such, but have just received some rolling stock boxes and I thought worth sharing.
Whilst browsing last month I came across this thread and realised I needed something. Originally, I had always thought that I would 'trap' the rolling stock in formations between foam inserts in the cassettes, but having done this for KIAB, it was not a great success, as DG couplings and snow ploughs seemed to have not survived transit in my carefully stowed hand luggage.
Following
Update - me again...but this time some modelling...rather than sketching ideas for the future.
Last night I started to clad the rotary dries building using some corrugated plasticard sheeting held in place with double sided tape and a wash of MEK along the bottom of the plastic. I want to try and make the building look, as it does in reality, slightly cobbled together as it clad in panels which have been patched over the years. I started buy cutting the plasticard into horizontal strips and
Update - Take 3...Whilst Barca paste Madrid 5 - 0 in the background this evening, I have tried out the final (?) option on refining the cladding. Thanks to everyones helpful comments of last week, I have looked at reducing the perceived overlap between the panels and omitted the individual panels. I kept going back to the photos of the dries and despite the weathering of the panels as exists today, which clouds the issue slightly, the horizontal banding seems to be very strongly expressed which
Good evening,
Whilst checking my blog settings earlier, I realised that my blog has now been viewed 10,000 times since I began, so this being my 76th entry I would like to thank you all for your support, comments, enthusiasm and motivation for this blog. Whilst there has been the odd diversion along route (Kyle in a boxfile) this layout began life 25 years ago in my head and finally got going in 2007 shortly before we left the UK.
I thought a few (some previously unseen) images to show w
Update - This one is not very upbeat I am afraid - I was hoping to have cracked the cladding last night...and not my mojo
On the high point - after Scott's excellent descriptive piece about china clay dries and Moorswater, I thought I had better redo my homework. Out came the photos of Moorswater then and now and sure enough I had missed off the step in the building to allow the conveyor to pass from one to the other
I think this oversight was because there is a lot of 'kit' outside
Update - Just back from a flying visit to the UK to see my family, drop into the Uckfield model railway exhibition and collect the latest pile of railway bits accumulating at my UK address (aka my parents house) and I thought I would share them as part of my blog...
First up is 5 No Peco ECC CDA wagons which now gives me a rake of 8. I would have preferred to do my own weathering but I had them for a good price. These will receive new 2FS plain disc wheels and DG's to replace the rapidos wit
Good evening,
Further to Smokey Bacon Steve's request for more info on how I lowered the Bachfar 37, I have put together a quick step by step. There is another option that Ian of Mercig is undertaking which involves cutting the bogie sideframes off and relocating closer to the body as seen here
Before I start this method, I should just like to say that it was Steve Nicholls (Pixie) who first lowered his 37 last year, and he kindly shared his method with me so all credit is due to him fo
Update - It's been a strange time of late...
The following tale of woe's hopefully describes what's been happening here in sunny economic disaster ridden Spain.
Having remade the mini sliding traverser beneath the dries covered area which serves as the loco release, this was wired with a very Heath Robinson kind of affair, which thankfully will be hidden from view and work then turned to redoing the inset track...again.
Having failed last time using a clay product I found in an art s
Update
Good evening,
Was hoping to continue with the roof cladding this week but realised I had used up all my supplies of the Evergreen sheeting so will have to wait until next week now
Work has been progressing on 4 no class 37's required for the layout. Two of which will feature in the 80's period of running and the other two perhaps only making guest appearances as they fall outside my chosen time period.
It's a sign of old age creeping in when you need to label each loco wi
Update
Whilst there is a flurry of activity on Paddock Wood at present, this is a small update to show that work is continuing on CJ-M albeit at a slower pace.
The last entry which covered some of the recent detailing of the Moorswater buildings touched on some other works, namely the buildings to the adjacent area. This has changed of recent since becoming a cement terminal but research shows there were 4 small buildings, a mix of huts and a portakabin in this area. Using pics and drawi
Update,
Good evening - Following the status of the two dries buildings I knew it was time that I could no longer put off the need to tackle the inset track to the sidings area. This was not something I was looking forward to, and comes a close second to fence and tree making in the tedium tasks.
I had pondered for a long while whether to do it 'dry' in card or 'wet' in clay. For my sons 4mm china clay Blue diesel layout (no brain washing there then ) I did the inset track in grey artists
Update - I pose the question as not only was the station identified in 'The Guardian' last year as currently the least used station in the UK but even when it opened in 1901, The Board of Trade cited " The new station at Coombe does not conform to the standard requirements of the Board, which are hardly applicable to the peculiar conditions existing here. Few if any passengers use it...it is necessary because a reversing place is needed...neither booking office nor conveniences are provided...co
Good evening - The other project that is in progress at the moment is a model of Kyle of Lochalsh 2mmFS ... in a boxfile. Drawing upon inspiration from both fellow 2mmFS Modellers and the Boxfile layouts of the previous forum, the idea is to construct a small extract of the station with both boards, fiddleyards and backscenes contained within the constraints of one MUJI boxfile. There will be one other boxfile, but purely for the rolling stock, controller and a few tools.
? First a mock up wa
Good evening all,
Readers of a nervous disposition may wish to advert their eyes now...no rolling stock has been harmed in the coming update but layouts have been
Since the BH 2013 exhibition I have been relatively quiet on the forum for a number of reasons: post exhibition blues (is it just me?) stupid hours at work, general loss of interest in the hobby (could be the hot weather) and oh, planning an international family relocation from BCN to LDN...
In a previous post I had hinte
Update - Modelling work is continuing tonight on the dries with first attempts at cladding the rotary dries building - am hoping to continue tomorrow evening and will post some pics on progress. Meanwhile...
I made brief mention last week that I had finally managed to track down author and railway photographer John Vaughan, whose knowledge and photographic record of cornish branch lines is vast and enviable. Having compiled a numer of books by John for reference purposes, particularly china cla
Good evening - finally I have time to migrate from the old to the new forum so I will give a 10 slide refresher on my Coombe Junction 2mmFS project.
Originally, the idea to build this layout had been floating around in my head for 20 years or so but 18 months ago, it was time to stop being a 'paper modeller' and start it. Upon commencement, shortly after the 2mm Scale Association announced the Golden Jubilee Layout Competition scheduled for the July 2010 Expo and I realised that my three boa
Good morning,
Having submitted my entry for the 2011 diorama comp (just need to set up the summary topic) my thoughts now turn to the next few months of modelling.
Whilst I am obviously still keen to carry on with this layout, I have decided to spend between now and Christmas revisiting my 'Kyle in a Boxfile' layout. I never finished the station building and whilst at it a number of things need doing...and redoing, for example the backscene and bringing the layout up to scratch. I always
Update,
Work on the 37's has stopped briefly as I have now managed to source a small modelshop in barcelona (conveniently part of an architectural modelmakers) which stocks evergreen sheeting...amongst other goodies
This week has seen the model railway room home office rearranged which with some shuffling of the IKEA Lack shelves, has elevated the position of the 4mm layout (in slow progress for my sons) to allow me to store the coombe junction moorswater boards in their correct config
The following is a transcript of a conversation I had last month with the Police. For simplicity I have translated it from Spanish to English…
Bcnpete: Good morning, I would like to report a robbery.
Police: Good morning Sir – What exactly has been stolen?
Bcnpete: A viaduct.
Police: A viaduct Sir?
Bcnpete: Yes…but not a complete one….only one bay of the viaduct.
Police: One bay of a viaduct? I'm not sure I follow.
Bcnpete: That’s right…but not a full size bay…a scale mod
Update
Good morning - A little progress Monday night, but some better progress last night, aided and abetted by Gin Tonics and this time I have taken some shots outside in natural light.
I have been progressing the old clay dries building by firstly installing lintels above the openings and secondly starting the curved roof cladding. I had wanted to represent the 'scraggy' ends to the asbestos panels but after cutting out a few ribs it resembled more like missing teeth as it was too chun
Good evening,
An update on progress of late. I have still trying to tackle some of those smallish bits and pieces I have been putting off but once I got stuck in I kind of enjoyed it. It began with completing the lining to the clay settling tanks in white plasticard and I can now think about how to best try and represent the clay...I'm currently thinking resin mixed with milk of magnesia
The last piece of roofing has been made and now covered in profiles sheeting in the same manner as d
My fellow Americans
Whilst a little more detailing progress has taken place the last few days, I will wait until I return from the UK to add a blog entry to cover those.
Meanwhile, when I first found and joined the RMweb (circa 2009 I think) my very first entry to introduce myself and the layout gave a link to a freebie website that I had previously set up. As the addiction of RMweb gradually followed the website was neglected in favour of a RM layout thread which eventually became this
Update - Probably getting a bit late to say Happy New Year now...but its the first 2011 blog entry so HNY all.
Was having trouble finding a way back into modelling after a 3 week break away from the workbench and despite a nice short rake of new Bachfar grey cement PCA's arriving the other week, I was still not in the right mood.
To go off at a tangent, I tried to rephotograph parts of the layout today as the second part of my write up is due in the 2mm Mag and unfortunately most of the
Update
Good evening - As mentioned in the last update, work has been progressing on the cladding for the dries building. The roof and walls have had their basic covering using the method of preparing each elevation on a card backing sheet (so as to work on the flat) and then each applied to the building. The conveyor has also been clad and I have now applied trims to the corners to replicate the corner cladding capping pieces as well as disguise the thickness of the evergreen sheet.
This
