enginelane Posted December 7, 2018 Author Share Posted December 7, 2018 Pleasant 45 mins in the warm spent making up little loads out of scrap materials, just bits, superglue and cotton.now a hourly rate of £25 just need to charge £15 each to make it a commercial winner 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodshaw Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 Spaghetti is good for making steel pipes. Uncooked, that is. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor quinn Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 Spaghetti is good for making steel pipes. Uncooked, that is. How about linguine for strip steel? Nick 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightengine Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 I have some plastic tubes from till rolls and some discarded metal "hairs" (long thin narrow strips) from the road sweeper vehicle to make loads with. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted December 8, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 8, 2018 (edited) Spaghetti is good for making steel pipes. Uncooked, that is. As a kid, I used to use it for downspouts on buildings, the enamel paint sealed it nicely. Edited December 8, 2018 by Regularity 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginelane Posted December 10, 2018 Author Share Posted December 10, 2018 As a kid, I used to use it for downspouts on buildings, the enamel paint sealed it nicely. And if you get the posh stuff that is one piece doubled over it has a curve on the end 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginelane Posted December 13, 2018 Author Share Posted December 13, 2018 Cannot seem to keep healthy at the moment so cold weather precluding much outside activity. Took opportunity to go through and box up all Vimes Street stock and put into the stock boxes so if it ever goes out then a place for everything. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginelane Posted January 28, 2019 Author Share Posted January 28, 2019 Good haul from this weekends Pontefract Show. Couple of Kadee boxcars to add to the roster and a cold store van as well 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginelane Posted February 16, 2019 Author Share Posted February 16, 2019 Warm day meant could get back into the garage and after a bit of fettling and track cleaning ran trains on Vimes Street! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginelane Posted February 27, 2019 Author Share Posted February 27, 2019 Another warm day and after the hustle and bustle of exhibiting with WRMS at the weekend at Glasgow spent a pleasant hour running trains on Vimes Street. Still not quite sure why a loco decides to drop its number and reverting back to 3 but other than that trains ran on all spurs with minimum of fuss. There maybe some well made baseboards coming up at the club so measuring and planning might be happening! only niggle was the 32 ft coal hoppers that although weighted as per the guidelines are still very jumpy on the track even where all other cars remain firmly planted. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginelane Posted February 28, 2019 Author Share Posted February 28, 2019 Early morning cat duty so short modelling session. Made up a couple of conveyors to put near the team track. Added a simple hopper to one of them 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Barry Ten Posted February 28, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 28, 2019 On 27/02/2019 at 08:17, enginelane said: Another warm day and after the hustle and bustle of exhibiting with WRMS at the weekend at Glasgow spent a pleasant hour running trains on Vimes Street. Still not quite sure why a loco decides to drop its number and reverting back to 3 but other than that trains ran on all spurs with minimum of fuss. If it's any help I had a couple of locos that were prone to losing their settings (including addresses) through no obvious reason, until I found out that I could lock the decoders by programming a couple of CVs. I think these were Digitrax decoders but it might apply to others. Once locked, they haven't lost their settings again. If you ever need to program them again you just have to unlock them with the same CVs. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginelane Posted February 28, 2019 Author Share Posted February 28, 2019 They are factory supplied sound chipped ones so not had the lids off to see what is what! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginelane Posted March 2, 2019 Author Share Posted March 2, 2019 Screwing baseboards to each other has meant better running than when just joined by the bolts. Reduced baseboard derailments by over 75% except for the 34ft coal hoppers which although weighted to the NRMA suggested weight, wheels checked etc still bounce off track if more than 2 cars in the train 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginelane Posted March 3, 2019 Author Share Posted March 3, 2019 Adding the last of the little people to the layout with some Street furniture and small cameos will be complete. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginelane Posted March 4, 2019 Author Share Posted March 4, 2019 Pleasant hour glueing down some figures and street furniture this morning. Some switch stands to complete and it’s done 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginelane Posted March 5, 2019 Author Share Posted March 5, 2019 Pleasant hour this morning in a little chilly garage working through the sequence for running Vimes Street. Use of the modified dice for determining if a service runs and number and type of car seems to indicating that even a simple sequence will have lots of variety. Already shown up I need more stock suitable for running to the Cold Store and a couple more gondolas for general service. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 3 minutes ago, enginelane said: Pleasant hour this morning in a little chilly garage working through the sequence for running Vimes Street. Use of the modified dice for determining if a service runs and number and type of car seems to indicating that even a simple sequence will have lots of variety. Already shown up I need more stock suitable for running to the Cold Store and a couple more gondolas for general service. Request please - this may be something I have missed in a previous post, but I would greatly appreciate more details - I have used modified dice (dies?) previously on an earlier laout, but it would be interesting to see your version Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginelane Posted March 5, 2019 Author Share Posted March 5, 2019 OPleasant hour this morning in a little chilly garage working through the sequence for running Vimes Street. Use of the modified dice for determining if a service runs and number and type of car seems to indicating that even a simple sequence will have lots of variety. Already shown up I need more stock suitable for running to the Cold Store and a couple more gondolas for general service. Switch list gives name of the train from and to end destination. in the case of the power station train then roll a number to determine the number of cars that particular run. in the case of Vulcan Iron works then a die with red and blue dots is rolled. Red no service blue car needs to be switched. number die then determines the type of car to be switched. Grocery is always switched with only one type of car so number die used to determine number of cars that service. each card informs caboose position and type of loco. Cars required to service the off layout industries supposed to be served by Elm Street yard gives a greater number of cars to be put into service and sent back as through trains to 5th and 7th. by the time made up the trains and switched the trains etc then can see approx 90 mins pass by 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginelane Posted March 5, 2019 Author Share Posted March 5, 2019 A little weathering project whilst pancakes settling. Supposed to have been built in 1961 so only light weathering on this car, a Kadee car with fine detail Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginelane Posted March 5, 2019 Author Share Posted March 5, 2019 Fan brush of frame dirt and roof dirt and done 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginelane Posted March 5, 2019 Author Share Posted March 5, 2019 B and M car was built in 1956 so around 8 years in service so will aim for deep weathering this time with some rust in places starting to appear Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginelane Posted March 6, 2019 Author Share Posted March 6, 2019 B and M box car completed 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginelane Posted March 7, 2019 Author Share Posted March 7, 2019 After the weathering had dried overnight the sides of the car seemed still to be too shiney so added a coat of Lifecolour liquid Pigments to try and knock the shine down. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginelane Posted March 7, 2019 Author Share Posted March 7, 2019 Cannot put it off for much longer. Weathering stock is not really much use unless locos are also tackled. Always exceptions but in the case of No 18 in reality it only worked at the Lafayette Works and sold in 1963. however on Vimes Street still earning revenue by switching some of the duties. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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