[Holloway Goods - Using Mr Peco's Nuts]

Hi

 

I'm posting using julie's id, because i've had problems with my email address, thus I currently can't access my RmWeb id either.

 

The missing buffer was the result of an accident with a scaple.

 

Lisa

[Last Up train of the day]

Not this time of year then?

 

Julie

["You're just wasting your time"]

Are you going to light the interiors?

 

Julie

[Where should the junction be?]

Your leaving yourself open, by making the assumption 'the last big project'? On the subject of the junction layout, I personally prefer the scissors crossing.

 

Julie

[A Little Destruction]

What would have been more impressive, is if you had done it, as a demonstration at an exhibition? But having said that it's nice to see the progress you are making on Freshwater.

 

Julie

[Winter Sunshine]

Haven't you heard of dress down Friday?

 

Julie

[Holloway Goods - Mystery Solved]

The catch pit and the associated points are off scene and therefore I won't be modelling them.

 

But there are several layouts that do! The best known is a P4 one.

 

Julie

[Holloway Goods - It is True]

Yep! I agree

 

Julie

[Clovelly Road - Smooth Running Through the Goods Yard Entry Point]

I've just a few minutes ago found a supplier on the internet, Alton Model Centre. I have placed an order, and now await it's delivery.

Julie

[Clovelly Road - Smooth Running Through the Goods Yard Entry Point]

I've tried various model shops to obtain phosphor bronze strip or sheet and have so far drawn a blank. Can anyone offer suggestion are far as possible suppliers?

 

Julie

 

[Junction Dock - an overview]

Nice one.

Julie

[Holloway Goods - Checking the Design Before Building Starts]

It should be notes that, you have to add an extra sleeper or two at the switch end of the point to be able to make a viable point. I.e. you can't have the tiebar on the end of a point. The tiebar replaces the stretcher bars on the prototype.

 

Julie

[Holloway Goods - Looking Over a Lineside Wall]

Taking the video wasn't planned, it just naturally happened on the day. This is often the case, planning does not seem to work out improve the result and can often appear staged.

 

I've tried to recreate the lazy days at the end of summer, with a steam hauled freight passing ponderously along the railway, as if the viewer was looking over the wall.

 

I agree with your comments about Youtube videos. But one has to have moment asap, at the start, to sustain the interest of the Youtube generation. I wish you could upload them to RMWeb directly, but this doesn't fit the financail model of BRM!

 

Julie

[Holloway Goods - Looking Over a Lineside Wall]

My eyes are much better now and this morning I received the package containing the PCB sleepers for building the points. So all in all I think that progress will be quicker from now on!

 

Julie

[Holloway Goods - Production of a Photographic Backscene]

I haven’t got that far yet! I have carefully examine the image onscreen. The first stage will be to print the image out in monochrome. This will give me an idea of how well it will work, without the expense of colour printing.

 

If it's OK then I'll get it printed out using a colour printing service on a single sheet.

 

Julie

[Holloway Goods - Thinking Outside the Box]

It may not be radical to you, but to Peco it's revolutionary! Even totally behond the pale!

 

Julie

[Holloway Goods - Noise Insulation for the Track]

The foam I am proposing to use, is blown paper pulp, and this has better UV characteristics than plastic foam.

 

You can improve the protection of plastic foam to the effects of UV radiation by painting it. I've done this with Peco plastic foam, by spray painting it with grey paint. At this point Sidney Prichard is probably spinning in his grave. Peco have never accepted that painting the Peco product is acceptable.

 

The current Peco demonstration layout, recently moved to a northern model shop has all the track ballast uncoloured and completly clean!

 

Track ballast is not the same in different parts of the country. Oil from locomotives causes black patches, where loco's stand for example at signals and bay platforms.

 

Track ballast in a given location varies because, not all of it is the same age. As parts of the track require to re-tampted as a result of track settlement new ballast is added, which is fresh and unweathered.

 

These differences can be simulated, on a model by differences in the painting.

 

Julie

[Holloway Goods - Noise Insulation for the Track]

I've been following other people's experience in the model press. I've seen other people use plastic based, but then you have the same problems, as with Pecos foam track ballast & the foam crumbles, due to exposure to UV light.

 

Julie

[Continuing with the baseboard - Holloway Goods]

My depth of vision is improving all the time! I'm going to take my sister's dog, Miss Maisy for a walk around the coast for the first time since my eye surgery.

 

Julie

[Dual Gauge Bodge Job! - P4-09? - Blog & Vlog]

Have a careful look at the photograph, the blue frog, from your diagram appears to be a casting! You could add a piece of plastic to prevent the wheel drop, at la Peco.

Julie

[Dual Gauge Bodge Job! - P4-09? - Blog & Vlog]

Like the video, my only qualm is the smoking in the video. The interlaced sleepers are prototypical on many railway systems, particularly in Ireland. Keep the good work up, LADS!

 

Julie

 

PS why do all your locomotives have faces, is this a comment on your lifestyle?

[Starting Construction of the Baseboard - Holloway Goods]

I will not be able to do any modelling for about 10 days, after an incident involving a train door, which resulted in emergency eye surgery. I been told to lie down in ar darkened room and rest.

 

Julie

[Designing the Baseboard - Holloway Goods]

Incidentally whilst changing the layout plan, the version of  AnyRail was upgraded to version 6. If this had happened earlier it would have made the design process easier, because of the 3D design features added.

 

Julie

 

PS BUT that's life!

[A duet with a Duette, and a quest for leaflets]

What's Pong doing these days?

 

Julie

[Checking the design before laying any track - 4]

You can achieved the planning and checking that a layout design works, without the need for computer simulation, but since I am a graphic artist, I choose to use he tools of my trade, to perform the task.

 

I am now satisfied ta the design will form he basis of a excellent layout. In addition to my own work, two articles were published in 'Model Rail' which have provided useful information. I have of course carried out extensive internet research, read several books on the line and visited the site twice.

 

Julie