dibateg Posted July 27, 2023 Author Share Posted July 27, 2023 I'm not sure I could fiit 10 coaches! Another working day with Geoff and Alisdair has resulted in a lot of progress. There is a lot of detail work to do , but the basic scenery is taking shape. 14 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibateg Posted August 1, 2023 Author Share Posted August 1, 2023 Now trains are running again, a previously intermittent problem came back fully. In the original plan, the points avoided the baseboard joins. When Jim kindly added the transition curves to the Templot plan, everything moved. So turnout 88 was cut across the baseboard join. In the event, I decided to make the station area permanent. What I forgot to do was to connect feed to the now isolated secions of rail, and to complicate the matter, this was one of my early turnouts with only one or two shims connecting the wing rails to the frog. So I had to make new connections and joined them underneath. I always make the connection to the underside of the rail, when it's in the web, it looks awful. A tidy up and cosmetic plastic fish plates will complete the job. 9 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibateg Posted August 4, 2023 Author Share Posted August 4, 2023 Now the ballasting is pretty well complete, I can run some trains. 43516 runs round some empty hoppers..... and its starting to look more convincing...I hope! 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibateg Posted August 5, 2023 Author Share Posted August 5, 2023 More rain facilitates more progress on Basford North - so to stop people and vehicles plunging over the top of the retaining wall at the end of the back siding, I've erected a rail and tube fence - still in primer. The rod joiners were made from 1.2mm thn wall tube. When I was laying track, I retained all of the offcuts.. There still seems to be miles of fencing to put up... 12 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post dibateg Posted August 28, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 28, 2023 After another working day with Geoff and Alisdair the topography around Park Lane and Brooklyn Road looks more complete. I've also added a dummy catch point ( for the time being ) on the down line connection from Bulwell Common. Cuts have been defined for the point rodding. Signals not connected yet, and even more fencing to add... Badly Photoshopped sky to get rid of the window in the background. 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibateg Posted September 14, 2023 Author Share Posted September 14, 2023 A new addition to the Derby line fleet:- a J50 obtained at a bargain price ( certainly less than the constituant parts ) from the bring and buy at Guildex. Colwick sent a pilot daily down to Basford North and I thought this would make a change from the '350 that I've been using. Its nicely built, but needed a little attention to the running to eliminate a tight spot. After reaming the bearings, adjusting the plunger pick ups, it turned out to be a tight coupling rod. It just need some cosmetic springs, and a vac pipe down one side - oh and renumbering from a Hornsey resident to a Colwick one. J50s are a typical loco picking exercise, there are a lot of detail differences between batches. So a review of the RCTS and Yeadon narrowed it down to 68927. The only real fault I can find is it lacks the staring eyes of the prototype's 2ft spectacles, the ones on the model are a little undersize.. It looks like it's one of Jim's kits, currently out of production. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibateg Posted September 14, 2023 Author Share Posted September 14, 2023 Once you start running the layout, some of the planning deficiences come to light. There was a limited number of trains that could use the down line from Bulwell Common, so I put in a crossover between the up and down storage lines so that trains stored in a fan of sidings off the up line could run on to the down. Anyway, once wired in and tidied up, it created a direct short. I had forgotten to de-link the two closure rails. So with some choice words, it all had to come up again... Experiments to extend the wifi in to the railway room are still unsuccesful - it is a metal clad building... One of the movements it allows now - is 'engine and brake' from Annesley going West to a colliery pick up. Except that the fireman seems to have mistaken local passenger for light engine... Oh... and that fireman is a Modelu me! 16 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl L Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 It’s the first time I’ve seen this layout, simply stunning. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibateg Posted September 21, 2023 Author Share Posted September 21, 2023 (edited) Thanks Carl - Work continues - adding York Modelmaking GNR signs and lamps to Peter Leyland's excellent station building. Posters have also been added now. A J50 fies by.... I'm also starting to plant the signals. Thats an odd looking moon up there! and connect up the servos and Merg controllers underneath... still more wiring to add... Edited September 21, 2023 by dibateg 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibateg Posted October 16, 2023 Author Share Posted October 16, 2023 After another successful running session, my thoughts have turned back to the concrete signals - as work is well on with the electronic controls for them. There are two single posts and one bracket to make. This is my first shot at milling out the bell shaped slots in the signal post. The protoypes do vary in the shape of the slots. All I have to do now, is taper the whole post... So with some heavy filing and then finishing up with the milling machine has got me this far. 4 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibateg Posted October 31, 2023 Author Share Posted October 31, 2023 More signal progress, the up and down posts for the West end of Basford North. The capabilities of the Ersa soldering iron are well demonstarted by it's abilty to solder the brass bar. Just awaiting the lamps and finishing off. The tall splitting signal for the down line from Bagthorp Junction is now taking shape. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Freeman Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 Interesting. Hopefully I have some etches arriving from PPD today for concrete posts but in 4mm and 2mm scales. Ultimately I will re-scale and get some 7mm scale ones done. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 5BarVT Posted October 31, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 31, 2023 1 hour ago, dibateg said: The capabilities of the Ersa soldering iron are well demonstarted by it's abilty to solder the brass bar. Just awaiting the lamps and finishing off. And using bar won’t half give some strength! Paul. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibateg Posted November 1, 2023 Author Share Posted November 1, 2023 23 hours ago, Stephen Freeman said: Interesting. Hopefully I have some etches arriving from PPD today for concrete posts but in 4mm and 2mm scales. Ultimately I will re-scale and get some 7mm scale ones done. Stephen - I did look in to etching them, and then filling the core with something. In the event, I enjoyed the 'old school' method of machining them! Regards Tony 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Freeman Posted November 1, 2023 Share Posted November 1, 2023 4 hours ago, dibateg said: Stephen - I did look in to etching them, and then filling the core with something. In the event, I enjoyed the 'old school' method of machining them! Regards Tony I got fed up with making the holes and prefer hollow posts for wiring for LEDs. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibateg Posted November 6, 2023 Author Share Posted November 6, 2023 The somersault mechanism will be connected up once it's all painted. Just a few final details to add. Almost ready for painting. 7 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted November 6, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 6, 2023 Yeh, but it's easy in 7mm!! Mike. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibateg Posted November 20, 2023 Author Share Posted November 20, 2023 Work in progress to install the concrete signals, they need connecting up to the servos now. A 4F in the bay platform at Baford north would be pretty unusual! 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibateg Posted January 3 Author Share Posted January 3 Geoff and I have started on the last area of bare baseboard for the engineers and private sidings.. It looks so much better. The pavements are now finished on Park Lane and Brooklyn Road... 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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