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More on the info board and other minor developments.

Kris

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Well Christmas is over and the goose is decidedly not fat anymore.

 

I spent much of the Christmas and New Year period away from home so was unable to do any work on the layout, but I was able to work on the information display board that I talked about at the beginning of December. I think that I have come up with a final design.

My aim for this was to avoid a cluttered look with far to much information. (I'm not sure that I have achieved this). The space that this will be printed on is about 2ft x 3ft.

I have left a large area under the stock area to allow me to put up information about individual loco's being used.

 

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Any comments, typos duff spellings that you can find I would love to hear.

 

Right and on to the layout. The siding has been claimed by the railway's permeant way department is currently being converted to hold a small stock of ballast and sleepers. Much to farmer Giles's disgust though they don't appear to be fussy about where they dump old sleepers. There has also been the appearance of a small hut in the yard for the volunteers to hide in when the rain comes sheeting down.

 

The trackwork has been given a light coat of grime as under the new lighting I felt it was to bright. In doing this I have given the siding a heavier coat.

 

On the side of electrics, I have given the main ring a little rewire to allow me to connect the controller in a couple of places allowing for use at home and when out playing.

 

Stock news

 

I have tinkered with my 108 to get this running again. It failed in the summer but all appears to be good now it has been serviced.

All good preserved lines seem to have some form of demonstration goods train, and the Kingsbridge line shall be no different, I however am now looking ever more towards the next layout in terms of stock, so this one many well be one of the grubbiest and least cared for freight trains around. (I have been weathering).

Extra coaches are still at a standstill, and having found out that there appears to be a long delay on an order for screws I have now sourced these from elsewhere. Hopefully these should turn up in the next few days. It does mean that I will have ended up with enough screws for a couple of hundred coaches though.

 

Fingers crossed and I might get a further update out with pictures of the layout and stock developments soon.

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devondynosoar118

There are several bridges carrying lanes across the branch in the run up to Sorley, all in town and mostly acessible to the public. I am currently modelling my 2nd overbridge.

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If I am being picky...(well, you did ask ;)) it would be that the text on the right looks a little detached from that on the left. The left side looks ordered and the right side a little too random for me.

 

I know that much of this text is the description of the images, but I would personally either align the images vertically and put the text to one side of the corresponding images or put the text below each image.

 

You have also gone with a very symmetrical layout so I would either try and locate the 2mm logo....or add the other one (2FS?) to balance the other corner.

 

Sorry :( I am no graphic designer.....but I am from the school of 'lining things up'.... :D

 

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-missy-

Hi Kris :)

 

I love the idea of the board but I have to agree with Pete. I think that if thats all the text you are going to add then maybe increasing the font size so that the text fills the whole area. If the idea was to leave a blank area for additional stuff like exhibition plaques or similar then box that area off and define it with a border or something.

 

As for the 2mm logo then maybe add it at the bottom of the board, you could leave it justified to the left then maybe add some large text next to it? Something like 'This layout is built to 2mm finescale standards' to balance it out.

 

I hope you find that helpful.

 

Missy

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Tim V

Overall I like it.

 

If I was to be critical (well you did ask), you've mentioned relaying the siding twice within the text, once would have been sufficient.

 

It is a great pity that the line was not preserved

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