Booking Hall Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 Some progress on the dockside micro I'm building in a caravan. 10 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium MrTea Posted April 11, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 11, 2020 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. 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! 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Claude_Dreyfus Posted April 11, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 11, 2020 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. The raised fiddleyard was simply to try to get a little variety on the track levels....didn't want the track bed completely flat. 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. The scenery starts to take shape The townscape starting to take shape. As we currently are... 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wild Boar Fell Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 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. Stay Safe & Happy Modelling, Wild Boar Fell 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post ianmaccormac Posted April 12, 2020 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted April 12, 2020 (edited) First time on its wheels, heights look okay! Phew!! Edited April 27, 2022 by ianmaccormac reload image 19 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Vecchio Posted April 12, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 12, 2020 (edited) 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.... 20200412_165300 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. 20200412_165426 and finally with the base paint on. The lantern - with integrated LED - and the arm bearing are covered by blue tack. 20200412_175030 next stage is to finish painting and make the servo holder. Edited April 12, 2020 by Vecchio 10 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Barry Ten Posted April 12, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 12, 2020 Starting to shape the front of my p51, building up the basic form with balsa blocks, then sanding back to the desired profile. 6 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodnok Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 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... 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Claude_Dreyfus Posted April 12, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 12, 2020 A little more progress on my N gauge layout; which I forgot to mention in my previous post is set in Japan. 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. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted April 13, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 13, 2020 (edited) 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. 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. ‘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 Edited April 13, 2020 by boxbrownie 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted April 13, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 13, 2020 (edited) 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 Edited April 13, 2020 by roundhouse 14 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted April 13, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 13, 2020 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 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 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted April 13, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 13, 2020 10 minutes ago, boxbrownie said: About webcams.....no not that kind 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Keith Addenbrooke Posted April 13, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 13, 2020 (edited) 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. Edited September 25, 2022 by Keith Addenbrooke Photo no longer exists. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Barry Ten Posted April 13, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 13, 2020 (edited) 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 Mmm... Cranborne Poacher, among many fine ales. Edited April 13, 2020 by Barry Ten 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artless Bodger Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 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. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium uax6 Posted April 16, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 16, 2020 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...) 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... Andy g 4 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottishlocos Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 All I have added a China Clay unloading area 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted April 17, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 17, 2020 Small diversion for a mate who’s into BAC1-11’s 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waverley West Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 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... 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coline33 Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 5 hours ago, PaulRhB said: Small diversion for a mate who’s into BAC1-11’s I take it that it is on a narrow flight path????? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Kris Posted April 17, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 17, 2020 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. 15 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Vecchio Posted April 17, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 17, 2020 Enough signals made for Frimingham. I am happy to start something else... Also I ran out of servos. And this is the result: 20200417_175158 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) 13 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 47137 Posted April 18, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 18, 2020 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. 13 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted April 18, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 18, 2020 What's the bloke doing round the back of that tank? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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