gazmanjack Posted November 3, 2014 Author Share Posted November 3, 2014 Well, only five more sleeps before exhibiting Linden Ford... I have been adding a few more little details here and there on the layout, notably some guttering and down pipe on the goods shed, The goods shed assistant's bike, fire buckets on the station building and a barrow of coal next to the steel drum, where the goods shed workers (storeman ?) like to strike up a fire and burn off some excess packaging, crates and pallets. All the vehicles on the layout have been drilled, wire araldited into the base, then the wire araldited into a hole in the baseboard. Hopefully this will stop them coming adrift. ^ The guttering is a length of 2mm square angle (Evergreen Styrene) with the ends capped off. the down pipe is another piece of ES 1mm dia. rod, suitably bent to shape. Both were painted, then attached and followed by a little 'rusty' weathering. The push bike...hmmm, what a fidly job to paint ! ^ The buckets are from Dart Castings, I think. I have had these for some time now and they needed a home... ^ The barrow, again unsure of where it came from or from which manufacturer, but I put it together, gave it a lick of paint and added some real coal. The drum is a piece of styrene tube with the top edge filed down to form a thin lip. it was packed with a few bits of scrap then a little coal dust was added. Weathering powders (black and grey) were dusted around where the drum sits, as a fair bit of ash and cinders never quite stayed in the drum... Still a few odd jobs to do before packing it in the car on early Saturday morning, like making sure I have my check list ticked off before I turn the car key... Cheers, Gary. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
69843 Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 Well, only five more sleeps before exhibiting Linden Ford... I have been adding a few more little details here and there on the layout, notably some guttering and down pipe on the goods shed, The goods shed assistant's bike, fire buckets on the station building and a barrow of coal next to the steel drum, where the goods shed workers (storeman ?) like to strike up a fire and burn off some excess packaging, crates and pallets. All the vehicles on the layout have been drilled, wire araldited into the base, then the wire araldited into a hole in the baseboard. Hopefully this will stop them coming adrift. DSCN3845x.jpg ^ The guttering is a length of 2mm square angle (Evergreen Styrene) with the ends capped off. the down pipe is another piece of ES 1mm dia. rod, suitably bent to shape. Both were painted, then attached and followed by a little 'rusty' weathering. The push bike...hmmm, what a fidly job to paint ! DSCN3846x.jpg ^ The buckets are from Dart Castings, I think. I have had these for some time now and they needed a home... DSCN3847x.jpg ^ The barrow, again unsure of where it came from or from which manufacturer, but I put it together, gave it a lick of paint and added some real coal. The drum is a piece of styrene tube with the top edge filed down to form a thin lip. it was packed with a few bits of scrap then a little coal dust was added. Weathering powders (black and grey) were dusted around where the drum sits, as a fair bit of ash and cinders never quite stayed in the drum... Still a few odd jobs to do before packing it in the car on early Saturday morning, like making sure I have my check list ticked off before I turn the car key... Cheers, Gary. Well, looks like my camera will be busy Sunday! I look forward to seeing it in the flesh-all signs seem to point to getting there on the 9th Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazmanjack Posted November 10, 2014 Author Share Posted November 10, 2014 Well, the exhibition is done. It was two busy days of operating the layout and answering many questions asked by the many visitors. A big thankyou goes out to St Luke's Railway Modellers for hosting such a great exhibition. Well done to the group (exhibition co-ordinators and such) who organised this. Being their 28th exhibtion, I can see their exhibition lasting another 28 years. Thankyou to all involved. Some very nice layouts graced the exhibition and some, including myself were first time exhibitors ! One aspect of the exhibition was that it was about model railways and not the trade stands. The only trade stand there was serving Devonshire Teas ! I can tell you that the coffee and scones (served with strawberry jam and fresh cream) was delightful ! It was great to see the exhibition was aimed at both the adults, but more importantly, the children. I had my 9 year old son Jack operating Linden Ford, when he wasn't being poached by another exhibitor Chris, helping him operate his lovely layout, 1/2 Pint Creek. I allowed the public and members of other groups displaying layouts to operate Linden Ford. Some of the younger generation didn't know the principles behind Inglenook layouts, so after a little tuition, I let them rip on Linden Ford. One young chap enjoyed shunting and arranging a train which took him a good half hour ! During the two days, I did managed to get around and have a look at other layouts, but then it was back to business, answering questions about Linden Ford and how I done it ! Cheers, Gary. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
noctilux2 Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 Simply outstanding modelling ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazmanjack Posted November 23, 2014 Author Share Posted November 23, 2014 Thankyou noctilux2. Here is some video from the exhibition taken by Great Chesterford Junction Model Railway (Gormo) on the Sunday... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GgkXryi8qs Cheers, Gary. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazmanjack Posted November 24, 2014 Author Share Posted November 24, 2014 Here are a couple of photos Gormo took of the layout during the exhibition. I say it pays to have a decent camera or a good mate with a decent camera...! I would like to thank Gormo for allowing me to reproduce these images from another forum. Gormo has a good eye for detail ! Thanks Gormo ! Cheers, Gary. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Corbs Posted February 9, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 9, 2015 All quiet at Linden Ford... Any news? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazmanjack Posted February 13, 2015 Author Share Posted February 13, 2015 G'day Corbs, Yes it has been a little quiet in the sleepy hollow of Linden Ford. Not a great deal has happened since my last post, time has not been of the essence lately. I do need to give it a little tidy up as I have been invited to another exhibition... I will say that I have just started on another shunting plank. It is still in its infancy and I'll be starting a new thread soon. Cheers, Gary. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazmanjack Posted April 11, 2015 Author Share Posted April 11, 2015 A little update on Linden Ford... With another exhibition looming up, I need to do some repairs, in particular, replace a point... At the exhibition last year, one point gave me grief to the point that the 'great hand from above', had to be called upon. Never good during an exhibition, but it just shows that things can go wrong to all of us. As we all know, replacing points in a scenic section isn't the easiest thing to do, but with a little (read that as 'lots of patience'), the job was successfully done with very little damage overall. The offending point in the foreground... Careful chiselling around the point made the job easier and less scenery to damage, or I should say replace. The red rectangle shows where the microswitch will be located. This pic shows where I cut the old point out (green arrows) and pulled the excess rail (between green & red arrows) out from the rail joiner (blue). Microswitch wired up in location. Unfortunately, the new point didn't or existing rail in the siding didn't line up.... So, the only answer is to pull up this length of siding. To be honest, I didn't mind doing this as the siding had an awkward curve around the cattle dock. This will be straightened out a little. The end result after the removal of track. New piece of track relocated and realigned, to lessen the curve around the cattle dock. The track has had a paint of acrylic grey to match in with the existing track. The damage. One fence post ! Well, there we have it. Apologies for the miriad of picture sizes... Don't know what happened there... The next update will be when the scenics have been repaired. Cheers, Gary. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazmanjack Posted May 27, 2015 Author Share Posted May 27, 2015 With another exhibition looming up (6-8 June), I decided to freshen up the layout. This included resurfacing the road, regrassing the green areas, adding a few roadside hedges and some grass between the rails in some of the sidings... ^ Never is a good feeling when you splash PVA around on top of existing scenery... Although the end results is this... ...and the grass that has grown through the track on the sidings... ...and along the cutting... ...then the bushes/hedges that have grown up alongside the roadway... The next job on the schedule is to 'leaf' up the trees a little more. Hopefully this will be the end of the spruce up, then it will be given a good clean and testing of the switches and make sure the track is clean for a solid three days of the exhibition. Cheers, Gary. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMR CHRIS Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 Hi Gary was nice to put a face to the layout. Gary was very busy with little people running his layout and fielding questions on the layout Was great to see The layout on display today it has a really good atmosphere with nice scenic detail in a compact space and the happy little modellers running the trains up and down were having a great time playing trains. 2 photos from the show For more photos of the show see this link https://flic.kr/s/aHsk9XxdS4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 Just caught up with this one Gary, some really excellent scenic and lovely low level shots with the sunlight coming through the trees, very nice layout indeed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazmanjack Posted June 8, 2015 Author Share Posted June 8, 2015 Thankyou Andy, much appreciated. Thankyou to Chris for posting a few pics of the layout and of how much attention the little layout garnered. It was great to meet you and Ian. Thankyou for coming along. I have only exhibited this layout once before, and that was really for only a day and a half. This weekend was for 3 solid days and I can tell you all that my feet and voice box needs replacing ! Unlike other exhibitors, I like to bring the layout to the barrier fence and allow the public to have a play. This is one way we can all truly introduce the young and old into railway modelling. Plenty of questions were asked from "how do you make trees ?" to "how do you get the grass to stand up like that ?" But one of the most common was " do you add another module to the end ?" Inglenooks and small shunting layouts are slowly becoming a 'thing' to model now down under. I had explained to quite a few people that you don't need a 12' x 24' room to build an operational layout. So, a few of my wife's pics from the weekend... ^ Linden Ford set up in the stadium ^ My two sons Jody (left) and Jack (right) operating together before the masses arrive. ^ A proud father and son for taking out the 'Darrell Nelson Award', for... The award was presented on Saturday night during a gathering of modellers and traders over a feast of pizza and drinks. By Sunday afternoon I had been invited to two more exhibitions, one being the 'Sydney Model Railway Exhibition', hosted by the Australian Model Railway Association (NSW Branch) and the other is the 2016 Forestville Exhibition (March), hosted by the North Shore Modellers Association. Happy days. Cheers, Gary. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMR CHRIS Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 Congrats Gary, on the best new Layout award. You also deserve a medal as well as the Award, for allowing the masses have a go at running a model railway I know how demanding the 3 days of a show can be as an exhibitor, add in the unknown of first time little fingers and the od bod in the mix you now deserve a Holiday. In all serious ness you and your boys are doing a great job of introducing the hobby to the next generation plus the older Gen can see that they don't need a big space to have an interesting model railway. If I don't see you some time before Liverpool, I will see you there as I will be putting on a display for Aus 7 O scale group with a small O scale layout. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 Well done Gary, Nice one mate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyram Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 Just happened across this thread. What a fantastic layout, really atmospheric with some lovely cameos. The weathering treatment on the terrier and jinty are superb. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zomboid Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 Love this kind of layout. Some top notch modelling going on there too. The jinty with the grassy track pic needs some kind of filter and people will be claiming to have been to that very yard... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazmanjack Posted June 9, 2015 Author Share Posted June 9, 2015 Thanks for the kind comments, much appreciated. This pic is for you Zomboid... Cheers, Gary. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aberdare Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Hi Gary I don't know how I missed this yesterday, but I did. Congratulations on getting the award which is well deserved as the layout has some wonderful little details, good to see that you had no trouble with the ponts this time as I remember you replacing the other one. Jim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazmanjack Posted June 9, 2015 Author Share Posted June 9, 2015 Thanks Jim. Good to see you back modelling again. Looking foward to more of your great modelling and those wonderful autumn colours. Cheers, Gary. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyram Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 That black and white picture certainly looks straight from a 1960's railway book. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zomboid Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Thanks for the kind comments, much appreciated. This pic is for you Zomboid... 20150526_220528 RMweb - Copy.jpg Cheers, Gary. Ah yes, linden ford in 1956, I remember it well. Just before the regional boundary change to the Southern, which sadly ended things for this yard. But not before I copped my first EMD F-Unit there. An F7A, number 4239... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
69843 Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 So, some of us who have been busy might have forgotten to check back in here......... I finally managed to catch the layout in the flesh at a flying visit to Thornleigh on the Saturday between other, larger sized duties during the weekend. And I was amazed. The pictures really just don't do it justice. Gary has managed to create a fresh take on the 'Inglenook' concept, and keep it interesting for not only the railway minded, but the general public popping by for a look.While I could go on, and probably make Gary redder in the face by doing so, I will embarrass him in the highest order-by quoting one James McInerney of Australian Model Railway Magazine. The photos are also his: "The highlight of the Epping Exhibition for me. This very nice variation on the Inglenook design made for a very compact layout, nicely detailed and interesting to operate. The basic design would be easily adaptable to Australian prototype." A close up shot of the Linden Ford layout, showing some of the very effective modelling on this quite small layout. To have that praise coming from James himself, someone has certainly done something right!(Wait, Liverpool? Drat, now I HAVE to make it out there! Just not Sunday-playing with the 'big toys' again) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazmanjack Posted July 13, 2015 Author Share Posted July 13, 2015 Thanks for posting James' pictures and his comments. Much appreciated. Now I need to get hold of a copy of his pics for myself. Cheers, Gary. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazmanjack Posted September 30, 2015 Author Share Posted September 30, 2015 Well, I have just got organised, packing the necessary items up for this weekends exhibition. Set up, which doesn't take very long will be on Friday night, then it's an early start for Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Luckily, the exhibition finishes an hour earlier on Monday, but the best of all, the indoor sports complex where it is being held is only 20 minutes from home ! Here are the details... If you are in Sydney on holidays from overseas, or you are visiting the show, come on up and introduce yourself. Cheers, Gary. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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