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Been making some good progress with the scenery on the first board of my N scale RhB layout based on part of the Albula line. 

 

This morning I managed to get a hour to kit-bash an R315 curved viaduct from a Faller plastic kit. 
 

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It’s got infills of foamboard and mounting board to help get the correct curvature - getting it to match the 4% gradient where it needs to go is definitely a job for another day!

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A couple of pictures of an N gauge layout I am working on using nothing but things in my shed/modelling cupboard.

 

Work started on 30th March on a baseboard I got from a friend on the off chance it may be useful one day.

 

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The raised fiddleyard was simply to try to get a little variety on the track levels....didn't want the track bed completely flat.

 

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In the end, I really didn't like the Bachmann/Farish set track on the right hand curve, so replaced with flexitrack. The buildings were just placed for location checking.

 

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The scenery starts to take shape

 

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The townscape starting to take shape.

 

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As we currently are...

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Decided to take a (hopefully) brief interlude from building Warrington Bank Quay to push on with my attempt at an N gauge diorama/ layout 'Lunerigg'. It has been stored for nearly two years in a very incomplete state. This weekend I've got it the point of starting to lay track (not shown). Hopefully I will remember to update the layout thread too.

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Stay Safe & Happy Modelling,

Wild Boar Fell

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Still working on 7mm signals. This time 2 cast open body ground signals and 2 upper quadrant lattice post signals. For a particular point in the layout a ground signal and a lattice post signal will be together. I know that GWR signals and LNER signals do not really match, my only excuse is that we speak about a preserved railway....

 

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not sure if it was a good idea to paint the ground signal before mounting it - but I can wrap it in cling film not to get white. 

 

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and finally with the base paint on. The lantern - with integrated LED - and the arm bearing are covered by blue tack.

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next stage is to finish painting and make the servo holder. 

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Over the past three days, more of the frame has appeared. It's almost complete now - there's only a few bits left to do. There's a triangular piece in the upper left corner that needs adding, and an extra leg to go in that corner as well. This should be no problem to get done tomorrow...

I also made a thread for it, despite it still needing a name...

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A little more progress on my N gauge layout; which I forgot to mention in my previous post is set in Japan.

 

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Since the last update I have started to add the base colours, as well as some Sculptamold rock faces. The ballasting is essentially complete and the town buildings have been fixed down and bedded in.

 

I should add that it has been wired and the point motors added, but a lack of switches means they haven't been finished off yet.

 

 

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On 05/04/2020 at 16:46, Mick Bonwick said:

Wiring up a few point motors and putting off the moment when I have to start crawling underneath the boards to install them.

 

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I have managed over the past two weeks (we have grandchildren to look after as well presently, Dads a Doctor) to fit 18 Viessmann motors to my Trix tracked layout started about six weeks ago after about two years of ‘umming and ahhring......unfortunately have found one of the motors is too weak to shift the point blades, annoyingly.....how do I send it back if we are not allowed out? Oh well it’s slowly coming together now but with our little 18 month old grand baby boy loving to see Thomas run around progress is not as fast as it could be, but great fun of course.B3FF5153-5DE9-4F4E-B26B-C8C7A2BF887E.jpeg.c675137159bad3da0983f07a9cb05503.jpeg013EB7A0-FEC0-4C94-9762-2A0FF4848D9C.jpeg.e4e0c053ff1a50fbf9eb0bdc196f44c5.jpeg

‘And this wiring is as fiddly as I can do nowadays, hence the use of Trix track and trying to make it as simple as possible.

Only at the testing stage but pleasantly surprised that a (or several) Locos will traverse the entire layout and all points work with only one connection to the track from the controller........DCC......love it........and as for Thomas running around singing his song, that’s loved as well :lol:

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I commenced a new high level test track in the shed at the beginning of the lockdown.

 

Its now working but still requires more work. Will keep me busy (aswell as watching live rail cams) for a while longer.

 

 

The outside bar is getting plenty of use aswell

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50 minutes ago, roundhouse said:

 

 

Its now working but still requires more work. Will keep me busy (aswell as watching live rail cams) for a while longer.

 

 

 

About webcams.....no not that kind :o this is one that might get missed as it’s not strictly a “Rail Cam” but a UK Beach cam, it’s Dawlish seafront which is of course ALL West Coast mainline track, good for a few minutes browse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKQJEL-xjjc

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10 minutes ago, boxbrownie said:

About webcams.....no not that kind :o this is one that might get missed as it’s not strictly a “Rail Cam” but a UK Beach cam, it’s Dawlish seafront which is of course ALL West Coast mainline track, good for a few minutes browse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKQJEL-xjjc

I often have that on in the morning till its light in the USA than switch to Santa Fe Junction, Kansas City and Elkhart Indiana - tow of the busiest locations with cameras.

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We’re treating Bank Holiday Monday as a day off to vary the routine.  While some paint dries on a US kit I’m building (earlier post), there’s the chance to do some operating (rather than building), hence a quick unscenicked Inglenook micro-layout I can easily tidy away at the end of the day.  Something simple for a couple of hours relaxation.

 

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1 hour ago, roundhouse said:

I commenced a new high level test track in the shed at the beginning of the lockdown.

 

Its now working but still requires more work. Will keep me busy (aswell as watching live rail cams) for a while longer.

 

 

The outside bar is getting plenty of use aswell

 

 

 

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Mmm... Cranborne Poacher, among many fine ales.

 

 

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Head Gardener has hurt her leg - so I've got quite a lot to occupy myself with in lieu of walking for exercise. On the modelling front I've finally started to turn my cardboard mock-up* turn table into something that might actually be useful.

 

*As in it mocks me everytime I look at it.

 

There's a long way to go yet.

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I've been trying to get on with wiring up my 1936 telephone exchange... its a GPO Unit Automatic Exchange 12, pre -std, so it still has 'wasp-in-a-jamjar' tones... Its slow going, I've got about 700 wires to terminate, all in a little cupboard at the top of the racks, that restrict movement no end! Heres one end of the first 150 wires done (it takes about an hour to strip and terminate one end of the cable of 50 wires...)

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I hope it all works at the end of it!

The rack that the tag block above is in, hasn't been used for about the best part of 50 years... and I'm the third owner...

 

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Some fantastic modelling projects going on here! I keep reading in the media about suggestions as to what to do with all our time while we're self-isolating and just think how lucky I am to have a hobby where I'm never bored, even when stuck inside when the weather is glorious.

 

I'm definitely getting more modelling time these days and Project Station Refresh has actually finally started, about 10-15 years after I first decided I'd really like to do it

 

Waverley West's walls are getting a repaint and the station is set to be re-ballasted to take it back to how it looked in the good old 1980s. Then it will be on to adding lots of details...

 

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The CAD work that I showed earlier in this thread has now developed into something physical. Lots of tidying up still to do and lots more printing (and designing) but I think there is promise shown. 

 

 

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Enough signals made for Frimingham. I am happy to start something else... Also I ran out of servos. 

 

And this is the result: 

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All signals are servo driven and have LED lights added, all are made from MSE kits, all can be installed from the top of the baseboard and have miniature connectors for the lights. And I am happy they are ready... (sort of. Always something to improve)

 

 

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I have indulged myself in a plastic kit - a tank farm by Faller. I'd forgotten how much fun there is in a kit with a reasonable number of parts. I expect a  plant engineer will weep at my arrangement of the pipes but I've enjoyed it and it has kept me going for a week. This is for my next layout, currently in its mock-up phase.

 

The base is ply, braced with some strip wood underneath.

 

I used Tamiya aerosols for the tanks and I'm pleased with the results. I'll use these again. This was on top of Halfords white primer.

 

- Richard.

 

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