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We took Heworth Sidings to the Swansea Model Railway Show. From our point of view the show was very well organised and the members of SRMG really looked after everybody well. I hope the show was as successful as it seemed to us.
Here are some pictures and video from our layout taken during the show
Showing the area we were in, dwarfed by the impressive Dorehill St Stevens 'OO' layout of the Soar Valley Model Railway club
Cheers, Mark.
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This is a very belated report on our recent trip to the Diesel and Electric Modellers Union (DEMU) Showcase 2016 which was held in Burton-On-Trent Town Hall on the 4th/5th of June.
Friday
Setup for the show on Friday was from 16:30 onward, so being based in Yorkshire we didn't have to set off until mid afternoon, but we decided to get away a little earlier just in case we hit any traffic or other road problems along the way. As it happens it was plain sailing, so we decided to st
Following on from our outing to TINGS in 2015, Heworth was invited to attend the Bradford Model Railway Exhibition in 2016 to represent the Yorkshire Area Group of the N Gauge Society. Friday Setting up was a little interesting as we had decided to transport the layout using cars and found out too late that we couldn’t get all the modules there. Note to self, even if it’s local, we still need a van. When we got to the venue, it was the usual scrum affair with everybody wanting to get their l
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Well it's been a busy few weeks since the last update and Heworth was shown officially for the first time at TINGS in September.
Network Rail Building
One of the last bits of work we did prior to going to TINGS was to make some small changes to the centre board. We'd planned to have a few small buildings either side of the Main Line, to the rear of the layout there would be a small shunting frame and at the front of the layout, there would be a Network Rail building containing sw
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It's been a couple of months since the last work update, so there's quite a bit to catch up on.
Shows
TINGS 2015 - 12th / 13th September 2015 (4 weeks) - http://www.ngaugeshow.co.uk/
Going Green....er
Allot more work has been done on the Scenic Modules, we have started to build on the base layer of scatter and clump material that we had already applied. We have been adding trees and larger bushes to the top of the retaining wall. Again we've been using some more of the
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Well, we've got the first public event under our belts as we attended the Middleton Railway Exhibition 2015 at the weekend. I was really impressed with the way the layout performed and also how we operated it during the weekend. More so when you consider that as a group of individuals, this is the first Exhibition layout we have built and operated. That's not to say we didn't have a few teething problems along the way, we did.......
Friday 26th - Setting Up
We'd arranged with Mid
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It's been just over a month since the last update and we're in the middle of a mad dash to be presentable for our first public outing.
Shows
Middleton Railway, Model Railway Show - 27th / 28th June (12 Days) - http://www.middletonrailway.org.uk/
TINGS 2015 - 12th / 13th September 2015 (3 Months) - http://www.ngaugeshow.co.uk/
Storage Boxes
Not too much progress has been done on these as we are concentrating on other work, but the inner frames have been assembled and are
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It's been another couple of months since the last update, but this time there's a fair bit of progress to show for it.
Shows
Middleton Railway, Model Railway Show - 27th / 28th June (2 Months) - http://www.middletonrailway.org.uk/
TINGS 2015 - 12th / 13th September 2015 (4 Months) - http://www.ngaugeshow.co.uk/
Storage Boxes
Allot of progress has been made with the storage boxes. The 3 storage boxes for the straight scenic boards have now been completed. They are a fairl
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Again it's been quite a while since the last update (3 months this time). Work is still progressing, but the pace has seemed painfully slow over Christmas.
TINGS 2015
Countdown - 6 Months
Retaining Wall
With the Retaining Wall having been finished before Christmas, it was time to paint it and then apply some weathering to it. The brickwork is intended to be Blue Engineering brick, so a suitable colour was found to represent this, then the Arches / Capping Stones were pick
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As the last update for the blog was written towards the end of June, there's been quite a bit of activity to catch up on.
TINGS 2015 Countdown - 9 Months
Heworth Sidings has been invited to attend The International N Gauge Show for 2015 (12th / 13th September), so we have now have a 'real' deadline to aim for.
Retaining Wall
Construction of the retaining wall is now largely complete. We've revised our original plan to have the wall curve on the Left hand side of the layou
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As it's been nearly two months since the last blog entry, there's been quite a flurry of activity, particularly with the scenic items.
Retaining Wall
This is where the bulk of the effort has been spent. The left hand side of the wall is now complete and it is now being painted and weathered. I notice a section has even been tagged already buy a local 'youf'
The bridge (the break between the on and off scene sidings) is also progressing well and is now nearly c
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Retaining Wall
Allot of hard work has been going into the Retaining Wall which runs nearly the whole length of the layout and this is really taking shape now. Along with the brick plasticard, 3D printed capping stones and laser cut arches, we are now making use of resin casting to create some of the wall parts. Here are some pics of the progress.
Ballasting
Work has also started on ballasting the main scenic modules. and we now have 3 out of the 5 mod
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Just a quick update as there's been a fair bit of progress with the scenic work.
Cable Ducts
When we were looking at the detail we wanted to incorporate in the model we decided that we would like to model accurate (or as near as) trackside detail. So, AWS Ramps, TPWS Grids, Signals, Cabinets, Signs, Point Motors and Cable Ducting. When we first looked at the ducting, we were going to install styrene strip which would have been been scored so that it looked like the usual sectiona
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We've had a few working sessions on the run up to Christmas and we have been making good progress on the scenics. The Plaster bandage which we have used to form the basic terrain has been covered with a layer of textured artex. This is simple enough to brush on and when dry leaves a nice surface to paint with base colours.
The Bridge continues to make headway. We have been discussing various options over the last week or so, such as resin casting parts of the structure. If we choose
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When we started considering buildings for the layout, it was decided as a group that we would like to have them scratch built. Initially we hadn't decided what materials we were going to use for the construction other than that the core of the buildings were going to be constructed from 2mm card. Our decisions was to be whether we would clad the card core in printed brick paper, or textured plasticard. To aid our decision process we produced a sample building which was half and half.
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With had our last club meeting of the year at the weekend, so it was a good time for everybody to get together and make some headway on the layout.
Bridge
Excellent progress is being made with the Bridge and things are really taking shape now. Brick cladding has been added to most of the main structure and the piers are looking fantastic.
Buildings
We also have a few industrial units and a signal box being constructed. The basic structure of the buildings is bei
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Just a quick update as we had a group meeting and managed to progress a little work on the layout.
On Scene / Off Scene Bridge and Retaining Wall
There has been quite a allot of work done on the bridge which will provide the on scene / off scene access for the layout. The Bridge / Retaining Wall are being scratch built by one of our group, who is using various materials, such as plasticard, brick sheet and even some 3d printed items. As can be seen from the images below, the main
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Progress has been a bit slow over the past month or so as Heworth made an appearance at our clubs open weekend (26/27 October). This was only the second time the layout had been run with the basic scenics added and for some of our club members it was the first time they had seen anything but track on bare boards. There were several positive comments about how we had captured the 'winter' look!!!!
On the Saturday it was just a free for all, but on the Sunday we each took turns running
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Just an update on progress as it's been a couple of months since the last blog post.
Scenic Boards
We have had several more sessions working on the scenic boards and there has been allot of effort put into fitting the front and rear fascia's. We have also added front and rear fascia's to the End Loop modules and started forming the basic terrain on them. For the End Loops, we have changed our approach slightly and have used a sub-structure of polystyrene covered with plaster band
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We made good progress on Wednesday night and have managed to complete the basic scenic terrain closest to the public. This will now need a light coating of plaster just to remove any lasting signs of the 'modroc' and then we can start thinking about the finish we want. Roughly though, we are planning to paint base colours, then use static grass and scatter material.
Here are some pics of the finished modules
Now we can start thinking about the s
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We managed to fit in an evening working session last week and after finishing off the front fascia's it was time to profile them so that they followed the scenery on the front of the layout.
We set about marking the terrain profile on the inside of the fascia boards, then removed them and carefully cut the profile with a jigsaw using a very fine blade so that we wouldn't splinter the ply. Once we had re-attached the fascia's to the boards, we packed out any gaps between the scenery a
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Just a quick update as we had an evening working session last night to finish attaching the front fascia panels. As all of the front fascia's are now fitted, we now need to profile them so that they follow the terrain.
Cheers, Mark.
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It's been around a month since the last update and again we have been suffering with time away from the build, but in a good way, as we had a group trip to the Wigan show (which was outstanding, a big thanks to all those involved in that) and our group had a layout at Middleton Railway in Leeds this weekend.
Retaining Wall
Our original design has now been tweaked and converted from a Sketchup file into a native format that a laser cutter can use. After a few cutting sessions we n
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We have continued to make good progress with the scenic work and since the last blog entry have managed to fit in two working sessions.
06/06/2013
After our work last time on the final curved board, we now had the remaining two straight boards to build terrain on. As these two boards lead into our curved loops, then it's necessary for us to try and blend out the terrain on the scenic boards and match it to the end loops as seamlessly as possible. Again we were using our now tried
