21 hours ago, MAP66 said:

 

In answer to your question on the point rodding; I painted it, not spray painted, after installing on the layout. The reason for this is that if you paint the brass roddding first when it dries it is likely to stick where it passes through the plastic stools. You need a bit of movement of the brass rods when making fine adjustments to line up with the angle cranks during installation - hope that makes sense. One other point, and if you intend installing point rodding, I would definitely recommend installing it before ballasting.

 

Glad you found the mag. That certainly makes sense re point rodding, and you can't tell in the photos that it's been brushed rather than sprayed, it looks great. And I agree about build order -- I've seen people digging out ballast to get it placed and it looks laborious! Love the way it disappears under the foot crossing here, very nice.

Adam

Thanks Nathaniel. 

I have managed to add some road names to the bridge and a drain, that's about it for a while during these difficult times. 

Stay safe Everyone. 

Jerry. 

On 18/03/2020 at 07:11, willsheldrake said:

So finally, after a long time of doing nothing but thinking, I have decided to start my first proper layout. I have a small 1ftx4ft baseboard which I plan to use. I'm thinking about doing a small station, on possibly a light railway, with a small siding. It will probably be slow progress as living in NZ and school don't help much. I've included the track plan below and would love some advice on it. Stock will be 7 plank wagons and small 1-2 coach trains. No back story as of yet...

When I saw this idea I immediately thought of it as a passing station on a narrow gauge line (though that is a different concept).

I think there are examples of heritage narrow gauge lines where trains only stop in one direction, so having one platform is valid, particularly if passenger trains would stop when travelling right to left (so trains in both directions head straight into the loop, rather than taking the diverging point).

Most important thing is to have fun, whatever you go for, and there are loads of experienced modellers on this Forum to help along the way, so enjoy the journey. Keith.

That's great mate I'm on falcon road all weekend. I don have a Stirling single due any second so that can be a guest if you want

Just looking back on this layout and thinking about what I'd do next time. The biggest thing is change is the use of foamboard as the fascia. This was a very easy material to work with as you can cut it with large scissors, it takes pretty much any non solvent based glue, is lightweight and cheap. The downside of this is that it is in fact quite an easy surface to damage when moving the layout. During transportation the layout experienced a few bumps and bruises that I'm sure wouldn't have mattered had I used a plywood fascia. An advantage of having a pretty fast turn over of layouts is that I can correct this error for next time! Ive also realised that I've not got round to posting any pictures of stock running at the exhibition by being rather occupied with my A level mocks. I'm aware that my real A levels are just around the corner but the run up to my GCSE exams 2 years ago were some of my most productive modelling times ever so I'm gonna keep modelling options open, after all I do need to sort a uni layout out at some point.