johnteal
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For any Land rover fans. The new works vehicle has arrived.
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I'm afraid that its an abandoned / scrapped project. Far to long to run comfortably on my R1 curves, so focusing on other things
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Last train of the evening. https://youtu.be/mB56ScouuJg
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This week has seen the delivery of some new rolling stock ( 4 flat wagons ) The construction of a dummy calf unit that contains loco batteries and a bluetooth speaker. ( seen in white on the video ) And a lot of grass growth ! https://youtu.be/4Savsi7kIi8
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A short video of my track cleaner in action and a passing freight train https://youtu.be/e6rb6m7JCtk https://youtu.be/e6rb6m7JCtk
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The green and Yellow locos are scratch built on playmobil motor blocks. The wagons are scratch built on LGB bogies. The blue loco is playmobil with a paint job, the cream and green coaches are pimped playmobil, few tweeks and a paint job.
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A few more pictures
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Spring has brought renewed enthusiasm for gardening and railways I have just uploaded some recent pictures to an RMweb Gallery. I continue to update as work progresses, on my Facebook Page RJRModels
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Spring has seen the garden railway revitalized.
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The Westwood & Loscoe Light Railway
johnteal replied to Narrow Minded's topic in My Garden Railway Topics
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I can't believe how long it has been since I came on here.. Life, two dogs and a house extension have all kept me busy. This week I cleared out the last of the household objects that had been stored in the train shed and got a layout working. Small but large scale ! I added a new receiver and speed controller to a little loco and had a play. The extension in the house has resulted in all the garden line being taken up . So I am no wondering what if anything model railways will be for the future in our home...
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Today the painting has started. The silver grey and yellow are spray cans, the black is brush painted to save on masking !
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The Metrolink has now had several coats of primer with rub downs and fills in between I have used a regular "rattle can" car primer and also a High Build primer in some areas, hence the slight two tone appearance.
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A tram needs to be connected to overhead lines to move.. So here we go !
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its 1/24 45mm track commonly known as G scale
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If you see a Metrolink in the street you don't realise how much detail is on the roof ! Below is the view most of us see, in fact this is more elevated than a street view But from above there is all sorts of equipment. Its very rare to get a view of the roof, I have spent ages on Google. So I had to put on my "train spotter anorak" and go find a foot bridge. Armed with a limited number of pictures taken at a distance I have started to add the roof details
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Today the cabs have been given roof lines and window trims The center power section has some added work too
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With the roof dropped in place and the window/door frames taking shape, it almost starts to look like a metrolink, Well it does if you squint !
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thanks rob, will no doubt be asking ! and worrying that you are now watching with an expert eye !!!
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This post sees the start outline of the cab structure installed. The curved and multi-faceted front has created some challenges Some rudimentary tests of the concertina connections, these are made from folded thick paper
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Always a good idea to test as you go along ! So here is a quick video of a tram skeleton traveling around the garden With everything working work continued Thanks for the suggestions for the concertinas, either as comment or PM I have tried a couple of my original ideas with varied success Various thickness of paper and card with different fold sizes 10 thou plasticard held together with sellotape.. With some time I will try the ideas sent.
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Some more progress this afternoon. the second unit now has side panels. and the center section has some form A bit of "artistic licence" Due to the length and the under minimum radius curves in the garden I have had to make the sections that will be concertina a bit bigger. Although at this point I haven't worked out how to make concertina sections.
