armleyroad Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 (edited) Hi there and welcome to the beginnings of my first N layout. I'm basing it on the Ais Gill Summit part of the line with the Signal Box and 70's track plan. So far the baseboards and track laying/wiring has been well progressed, terrain building is the next big task. You can see the first video update here: Any comment/advice is welcome... Edited September 3, 2019 by armleyroad title change 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
armleyroad Posted August 22, 2019 Author Share Posted August 22, 2019 During the last few days the progress has been solid, wire mesh has been completed today and I've started work on the fiddle yards. Meantime a few small things have been done including Dapol signals, making dummy disc shunt signals and loco detailing on 56006. Next video update will be on Sunday*. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mark Pelham Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 Hi armleyroad, The layout's progressing well, will be a nice 'railway in the scenery' layout. A suggestion for your cassettes; a friend of mine used a similar system in 7mm scale with larger diameter but shorter length brass rod/tube, approximately 10mm long from memory - the engagement of the rods to tubes was eased by filing a slight taper/bevel on the outside ends of the rods and inside ends of the tubes. You could use a countersink or drill bit for the tubes - possibly the latter now that the tubes are fitted? Cheers, Mark Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
armleyroad Posted September 3, 2019 Author Share Posted September 3, 2019 2 hours ago, pelhama said: Hi armleyroad, The layout's progressing well, will be a nice 'railway in the scenery' layout. A suggestion for your cassettes; a friend of mine used a similar system in 7mm scale with larger diameter but shorter length brass rod/tube, approximately 10mm long from memory - the engagement of the rods to tubes was eased by filing a slight taper/bevel on the outside ends of the rods and inside ends of the tubes. You could use a countersink or drill bit for the tubes - possibly the latter now that the tubes are fitted? Cheers, Mark Hi there Mark, For me the benefit of N scale is the 'railway in the scenery' look for a reasonable size, this layout would be 10m long, 1m wide if scaled up to OO. The detailing on RTR models does not seem that far off OO standards. I'm happy enough with the cassettes for now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
armleyroad Posted September 9, 2019 Author Share Posted September 9, 2019 Hi there, the 4th week update is live now: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
armleyroad Posted September 14, 2019 Author Share Posted September 14, 2019 Since the last update, I have completed the ballasting work and put back the Dapol signals. The track needs to be weathered to finish it off. 2mm static grass will be added to build up the scenery over the fine turf base layer and a backscene created. Here is a quick video: 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold scottystitch Posted March 26, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 26, 2020 Has there been any further movement on this ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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