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  1. mevaman1
    Hi James Many thanks for your comments. Yes, the show went really well. I have a couple of dry joints and coupling issues but enough of my personal problems.😀😉
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    Photos from my first show. We have run the layout today in ‘1980 era’! The 33 is a rare Cornish visitor on a DMU replacement.
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    I am hoping to model ‘The Spring Highlander’ of 2019 and reproduce this.
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    Hi Matt Thanks for your kind words. Take a look at the photo that I have attached in my reply to Cam to understand the track plan. Regards, Andrew
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    Hi Cam Hopefully the attached photo helps.
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    My wife has kindly made me some Velcro loops to keep the wires tidy when the baseboards are in transit. My layout wouldn’t be where it was if it weren’t for my Mrs!!
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    Class 59 in 00

    mevaman1 replied to No Decorum's topic in Dapol

    Hi Roddy Thanks so much for this link. Duly ordered. Best regards, Andrew
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    I’m taking Carlyon Dock to the Helston Model Club Springtime Show at Pool School this weekend. I am both super excited and super nervous. My good friend David Sibson is going to help me operate along with Daniel Harris, Darren Glasson, Nigel Glasson, Mick House and other fellow members of Redruth Model Railway Club. If you are in Cornwall, please come to the Show and say ‘hello’.
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    Just bought a holder for my Prodigy handset. Supplied by KS laser designs. It is brilliant and only needs a Meccano bracket to fix it to the layout.
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    Class 59 in 00

    mevaman1 replied to No Decorum's topic in Dapol

    I want to model 59001. Does anyone produce a bell and housing? I see that TMC do one for 66779 but it’s pretty pricey.
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    Limited Clearance signs fitted on the viaduct.
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    I’m sacking myself!!
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    Thankyou all so much for the info and photo links. Much appreciated.
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    Thanks Mark There is a gap on ‘Carlyon Dock’ that needs filling with these wagons. It will allow the slurry loading facility to do some work!
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    Does anyone have evidence of the plain grey STS liveried PCA wagons running with the V tank PCAs and straight barrelled PCAs? I feel certain I have seen film of this but can’t be sure. Many thanks in anticipation of any help. Andrew
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    Hi uk_pm I first sprayed a light coat of ‘weathering brown’ - a 50/50 mix of Precision Track Dirt and Brake Dust. I then used Tamiya Weathering Master set B (white and rust) applied with eye shadow applicators. Hope that this helps.
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    I have been weathering my CDAs.
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    Carlyon Dock

    mevaman1 posted an exhibition layout in 4mm scale

    Gauge: OO (4mm to foot). Size: 12ft by 2ft 6ins or 3.66m by 0.76m (not including operator’s area). A total depth of 6ft (1.82m) is required to allow for the operators and stock table Insurance: layout and stock insurance need cover to the value of £2000. Electrical supply: a double 240-volt socket. Usage: 3 amps Max. Table and Chairs required: one 6’x 2’ stock table (or equivalent) and two chairs. Operators: Two Carlyon Dock is a fictitious OO gauge layout loosely based upon the entrance to Par Docks in Cornwall. The layout was first built by a great Cornish modeller, Bill Douglas, and purchased and modified by myself. I know the Par Docks area very well, having grown up in the area and spending much time filming trains as they enter and leave the Docks complex with wagons loaded with china clay. A weekly working continues to this day, supplied by a service from Bescot Yard. The basis for the layout is the facilities for the shipment by train of dried clay and clay slurry to the docks at Carne Point, Fowey, the Potteries and the Scottish paper mills. Clay is piped into Carlyon Dock from the various mines above St Austell and then refined and stored before onward shipping. Trains additionally arrive from Carne Point before running round and heading through St Blazey to the clay loading facilities at Ponts Mill and Goonbarrow. The reverse of these services also run regularly. The layout features a small branch station that services the dock workers as well as patrons of the nearby luxury hotel at Carlyon Bay. Both DMU and loco hauled services are featured. The track is a mix of hand built and Peco code 75. The points are all motorised using Tortoise slow acting motors. Control can be switched between DC or DCC, both using Gaugemaster controllers. Working colour light signals and shunt signals are used on the branch. The layout can be run in various periods from the early 1980s to the present day. The stock includes all of the loco classes that have run regularly in Cornwall (plus associated DMUs) together with a wide variety of wagons that have run on Cornish clay services.
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    Today I shall mainly be weathering CDAs. I have applied a light spray coat of Precision track dirt mixed with frame dirt. I then am using Tamiya weathering master set B white applied with disposable eyeshade applicators. It’s time-consuming but worth it in the end.
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    Well - I have been weathering wagons this afternoon whilst the weather is not too damp. I have also added more people on the station platform.
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    Now fitting a photo screen to show images of the real Par Docks in action.
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    Some photos of current day workings at Par Docks.
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    I have (at long last) finished my 12ft x 2ft 6in exhibition layout - Carlyon Dock. This layout was largely built by the Bill Douglas (as Deviock Dock) and I have added a station and various details. I plan to run this in various ‘modern’ eras from the early 1980s to the present day. The layout is loosely based on the entrance to Par Docks in sunny Cornwall. I live near to the location. The docks still load clay into wagons every week and I have photographed the train movements on many occasions. I am off to my first exhibition at Pool School ( between Redruth and Camborne) on 15/16 April. I just have stock to weather and wiring to tidy in order to be ready.
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    I have just used some of this kit for safety railings on the edges of my viaduct. This kit is frankly amazing. The detail is superb.
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    Ideal wagon for our Reading layout (Redruth MRC) which is under (re)construction. Ran with PTAs (Accurascale) and JHAs (Dapol) in the jumbo trains.
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