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Hi All Progress this week has centred around ballasting more of the track, finishing the overall roof above the station and making a start on some low relief buildings at the rear of the station area from the Smallwood team
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Hi Simon The building next to the flats will be a block of shops with flats above them. The idea is that we are modelling a small part of what in reality would be a much larger shopping centre thanks from the Smallwood team
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Hi Mike It is glass paper 150 grade painted with a sand coloured paint and then weathered Thanks From the Smallwood team
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Work is continuing on Smallwood. We have now wired the point motors into the DCC accessary decoder on the station baseboard and we are now making more of the building that make up the town area. Also the glazing has been completed on the station canopy – just now need to weather it!
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Part of the scrap yard on the lower level
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A view of the town area that covers the area in front of the fiddle yard
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A view along the layout with the recently completed lighting unit above it
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The low level is totally separate from the top section and will be used as exchange siding for freight trains. A key trip working will be bulk oil tankers. The idea is that the area was a low level station that was closed in steam days
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Thanks we are working hard to get the layout ready for our 50th anniversary exhibition on 16th and 17th September
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A view of a scratch built block of flats for our Smallwood layout
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I'm sorry for the break in posting about the layout but we are progressing well on the layout. After starting to use our own hand made track we decided it would take too much work to get to work well so we have now used Peco code 75 track. All this now wired for DCC and all of the point motors are connected. Some still need wiring up to static DCC decoders. Around 50% of the track is ballasted and we are progress well with the buildings
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Hi All the publicity for the Z21 shows that you can control trains/layout via a PC that is connected via a cable to the system rather than via a wireless system so how do you get this PC to run the software ???
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hi does anyone know how I download the download program I have got on my tablet onto a normal laptop computer thanks
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untilEvent Name: 43rd Redditch Model Railway Exhibition Classification: Exhibition Address: Trinity High School, Grove Street, Redditch B98 8HB Day 1: 17th September 2016 Opening times Day 1: 1000 until 1700 Day 2: 18th September 2016 Opening times Day 2: 1000 until 1630 Prices: Adults £5, Children £3, Senior Citizens £4.50 Family £14 Disability access: Yes Car parking: Yes Website: www.redditch-mrc.com Organising body: Redditch Model Railway Club Organiser: Guy Craddock guy@redditch-mrc.com The 43rd Redditch Model Railway Exhibition will have a wide range of layouts in scales N to 0 together with trade support and Modelling Demonstrations. The venue is on Access 1 on the Town Centre Ring Road (free on site parking) Also a 10 minute walk from the towns rail and bus stations - Trains every 20 minutes on Saturday and every 30 minutes from Birmingham New Street List of Layouts Attending: Broadwater Junction Buckshee Charlieville Charlton the Strand Colyer Street Deesle Park Easton Priors Fryupdale Brewery Little Kidmore Wharf Llantwy Oakenshaw Oxendale Junction Poole-In-Wharfedale The Old Mineral Line List of Traders Attending : Abc Model Railways Classic Train and Bus Country Park Models Elaine's Trains Finishing Touches Genesis Kits Hereford Model Centre Keith's Model Railways Mel's Models Pendukemodels RD Whyborn Redditch MRC Sales List of Demonstrations : Ken Bridger from Genesis Kits Who Will be Demonstrating How to Put White Metal Kits Together List of Other Displays : Redditch Model Railway Club Display of Models Made by Club Members and A Display by Warley MRC of Their NEC Show in November
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Since the Christmas break we have been working hard to clad the retaining walls in plastikard brick and finishing the all over roof for the station. Work will start on wiring the lower level tracks very shortly with a view to get some trains running From the Smallwood team at the Redditch Model Railway Club - www.redditch-mrc.com for more details
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One of the Class 37 locomotives and tankers that will operate on Smallwood is seen on test on one of the Club's other exhibition layouts
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Attached is a track plan for Smallwod Smallwood Track Plan.pdf
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I will get a track plan posted shortly
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Hi Not from quiet the same era as the layout is set in the 1960's but the attached shows an advertising hording we have recently added to the Oakenshaw layout the Redditch Model Railway Club are currently constructing The posters came off the internet via one of the sites selling full sized posters. Many of these sites put low resulution images of the posters to attact buyers. For the size need for a model railway layout many are usage images
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Hi Karl, The short answer is no we don't have a fixed completition date for the layout. We are building partly as a test bed for a much larger DCC layout based in the same mid 70's blue diesel era we plan to build very soon. The layout will however be a fully working exhibition layout. I suspect it could make some sort debut in 2015 whether at our Club show in September 2015 or at another show if there are any exhibition managers who what to stick their neck out and invite the layout to their show We are not adverse to exhibiting the layout in a part finished state. However the size of the layout means once the track is laid and the main structures are made there will be very little space for lots of scenery so it will be easy to create something farly complete fairly quickly thanks
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As well as constructing the station we have another Club Member who has been busy making the track which is scratch built on copper clad sleepers to oo gauge. All the points are built around full size templetes. Everything including the crossing V's are made from plain SMP rail
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A few more pictures of the Station progress over the last week or so
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The Smallwood layout objectives are : It will be a terminus to fiddle yard arrangement of a total layout length of 15 feet It will be set in the mid 1970's very much in the blue diesel era It will be built to 4mm finescale OO gauge It will feature scratch built code 75 track It will be DCC operated with lots of sound locomotives The layout will have two layers an upper four platform station and lower freight exchange yard It is being built as a test bed for a much larger layout set in the same era of a prototypical location - details will be posted in due course until then we will keep people guessing what it will be! Layout will be available for both one day or two and shows Will be built to usual standards for a Redditch Model Railway Club exhibition layout of correctly detailed and weathered trains for the era portrayed
