RMweb Gold 46444 Posted January 10, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 10, 2016 (edited) Food for thought - have a look at this: What about 4mm ironstone, or 7mm NG on the East Midlands Ironstone lines? Alex really great to see this video once more. The Kettering and Finedon NG systems are always great to see but also Irchester's Manning Wardle 1795 which inspired my own scratch built version on a L&Y Pug chassis. Edited January 10, 2016 by 46444 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivatt46403 Posted January 10, 2016 Author Share Posted January 10, 2016 Buckden signs painted and planted: small_IMG_1421.JPG small_IMG_1424.JPG Hmmm, you know what, I think these might be a bit high. Although I based the height from comparison of photos next to the lamps looking again at those and pics of other hawkseye boards I might need to shorten them a bit. Thanks for the ironstone intervention! Will certainly think about some ideas! Marcus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PjKing1 Posted January 11, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 11, 2016 Morning Marcus great news with the move and the impending train shed Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold fishytrains Posted January 11, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 11, 2016 The ironstone is certainly in keeping with this layout and you could integrate the two once you have your train shed! Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ess1uk Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Iron stone would be good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glenng Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Is it possible to buy this video somewhere in the shops or on line please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivatt46403 Posted January 15, 2016 Author Share Posted January 15, 2016 Me and Kirsty very much enjoyed watching that video last night (well, I enjoyed, Kirsty tolerated.) Lots of food for thought, I do like the little narrow gauge trains running along hedgerows. Perhaps unsurprisingly given who's likely reading this thread the consensus seem to be 4mm industrial ironworks for my little project. Certainly makes sense and I would be able to integrate it later to my larger planned layout, or at least use the locos and rolling stock. Now the challenge it to find a scene that would make an interesting to operate minimum space iron stone plan. Will need to spend some time flipping through Tonks. Marcus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivatt46403 Posted January 15, 2016 Author Share Posted January 15, 2016 (edited) Also, catching up on December's Railway Modeller, I see that the Hornby D16/3 4-4-0 is out. Although unlikely to have made it to the Kettering and Huntingdon, they were certainly on the Huntingdon and Cambridge end of the line and probably visited Huntingdon East, so something to join my shed! I imagine Alex and Mark will be needing some too. In fact two of the Hornby offerings, 8825 and 62530 were on Cambridge shed in their lives. Marcus. Edited January 15, 2016 by Ivatt46403 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 46444 Posted January 15, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 15, 2016 (edited) Hi Marcus, Yes the D16's are lovely model aren't they? In the Sawford book on the line (I think?) there's a shot of one at either St.Ives or Huntingdon. I've one of the Hornby 62530's I picked up from Will in Osbourne's in Rushden for a very good price before Christmas. Always worth calling in if your in Northamptonshire. I'm planning on renumbering and weathering it along with my J15's. One would look good on Buckden! Cheers, Mark My model did come out of it's box at Alex's and sit in one of the sidings in Diddington yard but it never had a photo taken of it! Edited January 19, 2016 by 46444 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivatt46403 Posted February 5, 2016 Author Share Posted February 5, 2016 A few phone snaps tonight as I was packing up Buckden for the move: An unusual visitor here, with my rather too clean Mainline liveried 09019 (the real one of which I've driven in Taunton thanks to RMWeb!) on the shunting duties The last passenger train to leave Buckden for a little while! But it's not 1959 so services will return in the Autumn! This little line-up is my problematic kit builds that don't have boxes! best wishes Marcus. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PjKing1 Posted February 5, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 5, 2016 Some nice pics there Marcus, good luck with the move Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivatt46403 Posted February 11, 2016 Author Share Posted February 11, 2016 Two final (for now) phone pics of Buckden as it was taken down ready for the move; Pickfords are coming on Friday, so the layout is now crated ready for a few months storage at my mums (in Buckden!). Kirsty wasn't sure what the air holes we for, until I pointed out that we didn't want the station master (Stan Smith) to suffocate. Still thinking about a little project to be getting on with, although to date I haven't got much further than thinking that a Grainge & Hodder baseboard might be a good start... Marcus. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PjKing1 Posted February 11, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 11, 2016 Nice packaging and good luck with the move, as for a small project what about weathering/detailing some locos etc? Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivatt46403 Posted February 11, 2016 Author Share Posted February 11, 2016 Nice packaging and good luck with the move, as for a small project what about weathering/detailing some locos etc? Cheers Or trees? I need some trees. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PjKing1 Posted February 11, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 11, 2016 Or trees? I need some trees. Always fun building trees Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivatt46403 Posted February 11, 2016 Author Share Posted February 11, 2016 Weathering's not a bad shout actually, as I want to get my 09 into more this condition: Marcus. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PjKing1 Posted February 11, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 11, 2016 You can't beat a dirty Gronk, a decent fibre pen should get it looking like that Marcus Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivatt46403 Posted February 12, 2016 Author Share Posted February 12, 2016 You can't beat a dirty Gronk, a decent fibre pen should get it looking like that Marcus Cheers You reckon? I have been fretting about how to get that faded look. It's a lovely little model and I'm a little afraid of "harming" it. Roof's definitely going to need a respray too - which will be tricky to mask. Marcus. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivatt46403 Posted February 12, 2016 Author Share Posted February 12, 2016 Back on topic, I came across this photo again today: http://www.phantasrail.co.uk/steam/Cranford4t.JPG And I think it might make a nice basis for my little side project. Looks like a nice gentle curve with a one (maybe two?) road engine shed and I like the little lineside corrugated hut on the left. A couple more here: http://www.phantasrail.co.uk/cranford.htm And apparently that's "Loddington No. 2" but a DJ Models J94 could make a nice "Cranford No. 3" perhaps? Then a few beaten up mineral and tippler wagons to trundle around? The buildings look nice and straightforward to knock together too. Can't quite work out exactly where it is though. Will have to look through the maps. Marcus. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PjKing1 Posted February 12, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 12, 2016 You reckon? I have been fretting about how to get that faded look. It's a lovely little model and I'm a little afraid of "harming" it. Roof's definitely going to need a respray too - which will be tricky to mask. Marcus. Don't be afraid Marcus the worst that can happen is that it looks like most of the real ones!! Nice photos for the little side project to Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivatt46403 Posted March 9, 2016 Author Share Posted March 9, 2016 We've moved into our temporary flat now, so I've started planning "Cranford Shed" (working title!) in earnest. It's going to be based on the pictures I linked to above and built on a Grainge and Hodder 45degree corner board (http://www.graingeandhodder.co.uk/store/p6/900mm_x_400mm_Corner_Module_-_45%C2%B0.html) as I think it's a neat shape and will fit the curve I want. I started planning by marking out that board 1:1 on my workbench and playing with some track, a couple of iron ore wagons, and my 09 standing in for a DJ Models J94. The J94 is on order (I've gone for the Hattons "Hurricane") along with some plates from Narrow Planet (Stephen there has been super helpful) to rename it "CRANFORD No 3". Cranford ironstone quarry had two other Cranfords in real world (one is at Rutland Rocks by Rail) but neither were J94/"Austerity" 0-6-0STs but I've decided that they bought one in to keep the quarry in profit and named it logically. A J94 is a little longer than the 09 so it seemed like a decent fit. The white block is the shed - and I have seen pictures of it with another engine already in so I'm making it long enough for two - the second will be either the upcoming Hornby Peckett or DJ Models Hudswell Clark. It'll be viewed from the narrow end, with a full backscene (probably just sky) and arch with lighting. I was going to put a curved point in scene but it would have never fit well so I'll have a sector plate at the left and a cassette on the right. I think I'll talk to G&H about commissioning a little custom sector plate board and assembly. Electrics will be nice and simple, I was planning on getting a Gaugemaster walkabout controller for Buckden, so will get that, and build a transformer into the board. It'll just need one or two switches to isolate the shed road and end of the shed for if/when there are two locos on scene. Scenic wise I want to keep it relatively sparse - the shed will be the main feature, with probably a full or half of the trackside hut in the back left. I'll decide later where to have the coaling stage which was there, I fear it might make it a little cluttered. So that's the plan! Should be fun to build and trundle a few wagons around on. We'll see how much actually happens... Marcus. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivatt46403 Posted April 18, 2016 Author Share Posted April 18, 2016 I am constantly surprised and impressed with the fabulous community of people in this wonderful hobby of ours. Over the past few months I've had great interactions with Allen at Grainge and Hodder and Stephen at Narrow Planet. Today my custom boards from Grainge and Hodder arrived and they're lovely things. I've got a standard 45 degree corner board and two fiddlesticks which Allen fabricated based on some fairly scrappy sketches from me - including a very neatly done sector board. The boards are laser cut ply and go together very nicely - I've done a dry run assebly tonight. The attention to detail is really excellent - and on my custon additions the pieces are cut in such a way that they can't go together the wrong way. All the ply is also cut from the same direction, so you can tell which sides are "in" and which "out" quite easily. Photos: Very nicely packaged too The interesting thing was that with the custom additions I had more jigsaw pieces than I had instructions... But putting together the main board left me with the bits to make an addition (with stop to prevent flying trains) at one end: And then the sector board at the other: Obviously the main board is upside down relative to the other two. I'm thinking about whether to upgrade the supplied laser cut dowels to pattern makers dowels before assembly. My hands also now smell nicely of toasted wood. Marcus. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PjKing1 Posted April 19, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 19, 2016 Great stuff Marcus just been catching up, I have to say the baseboards look great you can't go wrong with patten makers dowels either. Looking forward to more. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivatt46403 Posted April 29, 2016 Author Share Posted April 29, 2016 More excellent service from the model railway cottage industry community, custom loco plates have arrived from Narrow Planet, just need a J94 to slap them on now... Marcus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivatt46403 Posted September 19, 2016 Author Share Posted September 19, 2016 It being summer and not having good dedicated modelling space means I've lost a bit of my modelling mojo over the last few months. But the nights drawing in, moving house in a few weeks and the arrival of my DJM J94 means I'm hopeful to get things going again soon. Hurricane is now "Cranford No. 3" courtesy of the Narrow Planet plates: Now I need to build something for it to run on! Marcus. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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