Marcus 37 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 Hi Mark Vote duly cast. No need to ask which layout I chose. Cheers Marcus 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post MRDBLUE17 Posted July 12, 2014 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 12, 2014 Hi everyone, I recently purchased a short 4 coach rake of Blue grey mark 1's from Richard at the Train Shop in Morecambe, too good to miss at the price given what the new list prices are. Whilst off this week I have managed to get them weathered up to create a late 80's set using rail match acrylics, frame dirt and weathered black for the underframes and ends and roof dirt for the roof. A little dark rust and brake dust was also dry brushed on. I also used the new humbrol washes - the dark brown one worked well for creating the grime and dirt built up around the doors brushed on and then wiped downwards lightly so the wash just settled into the gap and a bit of powder for the end coach gangway. Whilst destined to run on Newlands I thought a little retro test run on Rannoch might be nice with 26024 for haulage up to Fort William. I know there are a few of you who would like to see this sort of thing more often with the GM's ditched but normal service will be resumed shortly. Thanks Mark 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.C.M Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 Hi Mark, Nice to see a bit of BR blue on the layout, the MK1s look great. I saw Nigel Burkin's pics of your layout on his blog, very nice good luck with the voting to get into BRM next month. Cheers Peter. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRDBLUE17 Posted July 13, 2014 Author Share Posted July 13, 2014 Hi Mark, Nice to see a bit of BR blue on the layout, the MK1s look great. I saw Nigel Burkin's pics of your layout on his blog, very nice good luck with the voting to get into BRM next month. Cheers Peter. Thanks Peter, It makes a change modelling late 80's stock for Newlands. The mark 1's were a bit of an impulse buy but I'm quite pleased how they turned out. I've got a 26 in bits at the moment getting detailed but I need to get on with the layout. All the best Mark 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRDBLUE17 Posted December 23, 2014 Author Share Posted December 23, 2014 Hi everyone, It's been a while since I've updated this thread. I kept the layout low key for a while before it appeared in BRM recently and it's pretty much been framed up since the photos were taken by Nigel as work is progressing on Newlands Park ready for its debut at Glasgow in Feb. This is a joint project with my friend Andy aka backwaterscotland on here and is set in late 80's Suburban Glasgow so will hopefully see lots of you again then. Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year when it comes. All the best Mark 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Will say hello at Glasgow looking forward to seeing Newlands Park, looks a good show next year . 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merc435 Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Merry Christmas Mark, I hope that You, Mrs D and Eilidh have a brilliant time! Andy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRDBLUE17 Posted December 23, 2014 Author Share Posted December 23, 2014 Merry Christmas Mark, I hope that You, Mrs D and Eilidh have a brilliant time! Andy. Thanks Andy, hope you all do too and look forward to catching up next year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waverley West Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 Hi Mark, Just thought I'd drop by to wish you and yours a Very Merry Christmas in case you didn't see my post of my WW thread. I'm sure Christmas this year will be extra special for you with Eilidh growing fast I'm sure. Looking forward to seeing Newlands Park and catching up with you in February. Season's Greetings,Dave Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRDBLUE17 Posted December 24, 2014 Author Share Posted December 24, 2014 Hi Mark, Just thought I'd drop by to wish you and yours a Very Merry Christmas in case you didn't see my post of my WW thread. I'm sure Christmas this year will be extra special for you with Eilidh growing fast I'm sure. Looking forward to seeing Newlands Park and catching up with you in February. Season's Greetings, Dave Cheers Dave, Hope you all have a great time too. Looking forward to Glasgow too and will be good to see you then. All the best Mark Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Temeraire Posted July 9, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 9, 2015 I'd forgotten about this great layout until I saw it today in the Modeller. Welcome back! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Scottish Modeller Posted July 9, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 9, 2015 Hi all, Rannoch Moor will be on the road in August! The layout is going to be at:- St Andrews Model Railway Exhibition Saturday 8th August 2015 - 10.00am to 17.30pm Sunday 9th August 2015 - 10.30am to 17.00pm St Andrews Town Hall Queens Gardens St Andrews KY16 9TA Details:- http://www.eastneukmrc.co.uk/2.html Hopefully there will be some new, previously unseen, stock running on the layout as well as the usual wide variety of trains! Remember it's busy in St Andrews that weekend as it's the local Lammas Fair as well! http://www.fifedirect.org.uk/whatson/index.cfm?fuseaction=whatson.display&id=625DA901-B029-DDC2-C92E6087972CFE1F Model Railways, good food, good beer - all at the same town! Must be someones definition of heaven..... Thanks 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRDBLUE17 Posted July 13, 2015 Author Share Posted July 13, 2015 Hi everyone, Thanks for the kind comments and Phil for all his Top PR work. I'm looking forward to getting Rannoch out again this year to St Andrews and then Ayr in September. Since Arran came to take the photos it's been sat framed up ever since as other modelling projects have been worked on and my little girl takes up most of my time as well these days. My thanks to Arran for taking the photos and Steve Flint for publishing it in this months Railway Modeller. I will get some photos up when I get the layout up and running again soon Hope to see you all at St Andrews show in a few weeks time. All the best Mark 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 Enjoyed the article in RM ,hows the new layout I saw at Glasgow coming along looked good and the sound was great. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Scottish Modeller Posted July 13, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 13, 2015 (edited) Enjoyed the article in RM ,hows the new layout I saw at Glasgow coming along looked good and the sound was great. Hi LMS, The new layout - Newlands Park will be out shortly...... It's the first of the Scottish Modellers group members layouts that are all designed to work with the common, flexible length, fiddleyard that we have built. More on the Newlands Park outing as soon as it's confirmed... Thanks ps - The next layout to use these fiddleyard boards will be Modelrail Scotland 2016 - The anniversary event next February. There are also some other possible new layout ideas that use the same boards. Edited July 13, 2015 by Scottish Modeller 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 (edited) Hi just been reading the article in the Modeller and enjoyed it very much, also some great pics. I visited Rannoch Moor back in 1970 when I went up from Portsmouth for the Scottish Six Days Motor Cycle Trials and stayed there in an old Ford Thames Van, but I never saw the Station as I wasn't into Trains back then, but its such a desolate place. Well done, a really nice Layout, at least you didn't get the flack I got for my Bus and Policeman's uniform after Glen Roy was in BRM, it was fine in RM and Model Rail and will be in Hornby Mag very soon. I do have a love of nice simple Scottish Layouts. Edited July 14, 2015 by Andrew P Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Scottish Modeller Posted July 14, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 14, 2015 Hi all, We need a bit of help in sorting out one of Rannoch's features.... The Signalling signs and blue lights. OK - the signs themselves are pretty easy and we have loads of spares printed up - just in case. You know - the last minute track cleaning session - done in a hurry and maybe without the required amount of care! The LED's themselves are fed off a DCC decoder light output. They are far too bright though and we want to try and correct that. How? Is the relevant question! I had thought of the good old resistor bridge circuit to achieve this but this would load the DCC light output to over the 100ma it is rated for. We need the DCC bit in place to give us the Blue Flashing LED as required for the signalling. Any ideas about how to reduce the brightness (without getting to electronically involved? Let us know - we have 4 weeks left to sort it out! Thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixoh8sixoh Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 (edited) Hi Mark (and Phil!), Great to see Rannoch Moor in RM this month. Will see if there's any chance of me making St Andrews next month. If I do, I may be tempted to bring the new Observation Car with me - Andi completed it a couple of months ago, along with the remaining coaches for the Royal Scotsman, and I also picked up a crest for the end of the Observation Car from (Shawplan) Brian at Perth. Edited July 17, 2015 by sixoh8sixoh Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Scottish Modeller Posted July 17, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 17, 2015 Hi Mike, If you make it - that will be great! Looking forward to seeing the Royal Scotsman stock as well. Still seeking an answer to our signalling problem! Thanks 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRDBLUE17 Posted July 17, 2015 Author Share Posted July 17, 2015 Phil, I think Jims idea about paint might work I am going to give that a try. Hi Mike, would be fantastic if you made it up. Andi said he finished the observation car, its a bit long for the layout but it looks really good on it and I've the west coast 37's to haul it. Thanks Mark Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRDBLUE17 Posted August 7, 2015 Author Share Posted August 7, 2015 Hi Everyone, Rannoch is framed up ready to load tomorrow afternoon when I've finished work for its trip to St Andrews this weekend. Looking forward to taking it out again with the help of the operating crew from DEMU/Scottish Modellers. Hope to see you all there and stop by and say hello if you do make it this weekend. The New Caledonian Sleeper set is fresh from the paintshop thanks to Colin and Mike at R3sprays and will hopefully get a run but will certainly be seen on the demo area where Phil can share his conversion techniques for creating the mark 2's. I have limited stock of the new transfers available at the show £7 for a single coach or £18 for triple pack if you fancy creating your own and for those who can't make it they are available direct from www.r3sprays.co.uk All the best Mark 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixoh8sixoh Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 (edited) Mark, great to see you at St Andrews yesterday - hope you and the layout have a good second day. Thanks for letting me run the coaches on the layout. With apologies for the dodgy camera work, here's the (shortened - 6 coach) rake. The layout is great and shows you don't need a huge space to pack in a lot of detail - even down to the bunk beds in the hostel part of the station building. I need to add thanks to Andi Walshaw for all of the work on the carriages and Brian at Shawplan for the etched balcony and crest on the Observation Car. Edited August 9, 2015 by sixoh8sixoh 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Scottish Modeller Posted August 10, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 10, 2015 (edited) Hi all, As intimated before the show..... Rannoch Moor had a wide variety of new stock running across the weekend. Not all at the same time though - just had to keep ringing the changes! Apart from Mike's complete Royal Scotsman rake there were other developments in the coaching stock! Edit - Content removed at request - apologies for this.. Thanks ps - Rannoch Moor is next out at the Ayr MRG Exhibition For details:- here:- http://ayrmrg.co.uk/tag/ayr-model-rail-show-citadel-leisure-centre-ayr-19th-20th-september-2015/ and here:- http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/99002-ayr-model-railway-exhibition-2015/ Edited August 10, 2015 by Scottish Modeller Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
meanach Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 No news on this superb layout? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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