My Layout

 

by Weskie

 

original page on Old RMweb

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??? posted on Sun Dec 30, 2007 10:11 pm

 

Hi All

 

Well after years of not finishing a layout, or even getting anywhere near to finishing. I thought i'd give it another go!! So i resurected a couple of baseboards from a previous project. In true 'Blue Peter fashion' here's one i made earlier!

(6mm ply, double thickness at ends, and cross braced.)

 

 

Then after a couple of hours playing on Templot i came up with this. Apologies for being another branch line but....

 

 

Not sure if you can transfer a plan from Templot to here so i took a picture instead.

Then being fairly satisfied i printed the whole plan out. (Isn't Templot wonderful) (From just another satisfied customer.)

So it now looks like this!

 

 

Being fairly small there could be half a chance i might finish this one, or at least get close.

That will do for now. I'll try to keep it updated.

Cheers

Weskie

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??? posted on Sun Jan 06, 2008 4:27 pm

 

Well here's the first piece of trackwork for the layout

 

 

Cheating a bit as i managed to recover it from a previous attempt. Fairly bog standard construction, steel bullhead rail, ply and rivet sleepers. Hopfully i'll be able to recover the crossover as well, but still working on that. More pictures later.

 

Cheers

 

Weskie

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??? posted on Fri Feb 22, 2008 12:46 pm

 

I thought it about time for an update. I have managed to buld some more track and made a start on the bridge across the canal.

 

 

 

Slow progress but never mind. More updates to follow

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??? posted on Mon Mar 24, 2008 8:11 pm

 

Hi all

Here's an update of the slow progress on the layout, some more track work completed including the B7 turnout I built for the modeller of the day award (Thanks again to all who competed and voted) It??????????¬???????s only roughly positioned as there is more ground work to be completed first, same goes for the one behind as well. I wanted to get the mainline to fiddle yard, off to the right, completed first so that maybe I could wire up and do some test running, but that required a bridge to be built.

 

 

Hey Presto here??????????¬???????s the first attempt to glue some plasticard together!

 

 

Fairly straight forward, just plasticard glued to a foam board former and painted for blue bricks, just need to pick out some in different colours and fill out the mortar joints. Then fit some capping stones to the parapets??????????¬???????, still working on that.

Any advice is always welcome as I??????????¬???????ve never really done much with buildings etc.

More updates later

Cheers

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??? posted on Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:06 pm

 

Thought it was about time I did an update, although not much has altered since the last post. I don??????????¬???????t seem to get much time to model over the summer (What summer I hear). Wet summers make harvesting hard work on machinery so they break down more which makes more work for me. Oh well mustn??????????¬???????t grumble. Mind you what with the credit crunch and the weather (Snow in October!) I fear we are in for a long winter. On the brighter side though, more modelling time.

So back to this update, as I said not much to report, a bit more track work

 

 

and I managed to acquire some trestles, spotted on another thread, but I got mine on offer from Sealey Tools.

 

 

Hopfully more updates soon

 

Cheers

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??? posted on Sun Feb 01, 2009 8:24 pm

 

So much for progress! Slowly does it. I??????????¬???????ve been doing some wiring up recently, so here??????????¬???????s a shot of the organised chaos under the baseboards. It will be tidied up after testing (honest).

 

 

This is top side.

 

 

I must get round to building a control panel so I can test run, but that means sorting out the signalling as well, which is where some help would be appreciated. Mainly what sort of signal would be used to enter the station? (1960 semaphore). I??????????¬???????ll try to put up a line drawing of the track plan later.

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??? posted on Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:45 pm

 

8 months since the last post! Where does the time go? Some progress made over summer. track and fiddle yard connection sorted. Control panel built. exsisting track wired up, not bad really.

So it's time to test out the first train

 

 

Sorry no video so you'll have to trust me that in did run ( sort of) Only managed to wire up the point vee's the wrong way round. Swaped a few wires and it's full steam ahead.

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