The Circle and the Stores (T-CATS)

[Stubby47]

1 hour ago, Alister_G said:

 

Looks like you might have a dry joint on the output pin of the LM317

 

 

EDIT: If you short out the top track with the ground track, that should give you max output - equivalent to the pot being at lowest resistance.

 

Al.

Blimey, well spotted.

 

That makes some sense too, as if the circuit had been wrong I'd have no output at all.

 

Will get the iron out later and fix that. 

 

Thanks Al.

[Northroader]

If you go along from the red circle to the right for three holes, then up, what’s happening across the gap by the solder?

[Stubby47]

There is a gap, it's just the angle of the board.

[Stubby47]

Well, with cancellation of the SWAG day and Hayle MRC Spring show, I now have ample time to finish T-CATS properly. 

 

What would have been compromises with some of the buildings can now be slower, more detailed processes and the ground works and infrastructure can be finished to a better quality.

 

Hopefully there will be events later in the year at which attendance is required, if not I can happily play on my own.

[Stubby47]

This is a very rough sketch of what I want to do with the cottage at front right.

 

 

The garden will be made into a veg patch, plus a hardstanding area for a vehicle outside the shed. The path will be raised to be a suitable height to access the post box, so will have a high retaining wall on the nearside.  There will be little picket-fence style gates, one at the front and one just behind the house.

[Stubby47]

A start to the path and garden wall.

 

[MAP66]

Stu

 

Just noticed your new profile pic. hilarious.

The cottage is looking excellent and I like the post box addition.

 

All the best

Mark

[Stubby47]

Thanks Mark. 

 

Re the postbox... on Google Maps, search for the Punch Bowl & Ladle at Penelewey, near Truro, travel a little way south, turn 180° and view the cottage across the road.

[MAP66]

14 minutes ago, Stubby47 said:

Thanks Mark. 

 

Re the postbox... on Google Maps, search for the Punch Bowl & Ladle at Penelewey, near Truro, travel a little way south, turn 180° and view the cottage across the road.

Just visited said cottage via google maps - very impressive modelling, nice work Sir.

[AdeMoore]

Agreed with Mark had a look very impressed at the likeness, managed to reverse its end too.

How do you go about it Stu a drawing first or guess some measurements and crack on?

 Cheers 

[Stubby47]

The whole building is a mirror image.

I'm trying to find the build comments/images in the Shepherds Halt thread.. 

 

Edit: 

 

Edited March 28, 2020 by Stubby47

[Stubby47]

52 minutes ago, AdeMoore said:

How do you go about it Stu a drawing first or guess some measurements and crack on? 

As my previous posts don't seem to cover this, I usually sketch the dimensions on a piece of card then cut to suit. Most dimensions are guesswork,  based on a couple of other guesses. Eg the door is not full height, so approx 6ft x 3ft, so 24mmx12mm. Then everything is proportionally spaced from there.

As long as it looks like the original ( and can be recognised as such) that's close enough for me.

[Stubby47]

This is something I don't do very often - experimenting.

 

I want the path to be an old stone one, where the stones have sunk into the soil leaving a rough top.

The sort of path found on mountain trails.

 

This is coarse ballast, tamped into household filler.

 

[Stubby47]

Path Mk2.

I wasn't happy with the first one, it was too narrow, plus the garden wall was of the wrong material.

 

Here I've used mount board, with the top layer peeled on both sides of the wall to get the rough plastered look.

 

 

 

[MAP66]

54 minutes ago, Stubby47 said:

This is something I don't do very often - experimenting.

 

I want the path to be an old stone one, where the stones have sunk into the soil leaving a rough top.

The sort of path found on mountain trails.

 

This is coarse ballast, tamped into household filler.

 

Maybe run two more paths either side of this one using different grades of ballast, to get random sized stones. Then paint and weather all 3 paths and see which you prefer.

[Stubby47]

8 minutes ago, MAP66 said:

Maybe run two more paths either side of this one using different grades of ballast, to get random sized stones. Then paint and weather all 3 paths and see which you prefer.

Like I said, I don't often experiment  -

 

This has proved the concept so will be used.

 

The only problem at the moment is the air is too cold for anything to dry.

 

I might have to paint the inside of the porch instead...

 

[Alister_G]

8 minutes ago, Stubby47 said:

I might have to paint the inside of the porch instead...

 

No, no, no, you can't, the weather's all wrong for porch painting. It'll never dry...

 

Al.

[Stubby47]

Porch painted: ceiling, (esp where damaged due to water ingress) plus two walls each side of the inner door.

 

Plus, glue/filler now dried on layout in garage ( south facing overhead door open to let in sunshine).

 

Brownie points- 0 (task not completed within 30 minutes of initial request,  some weeks ago).

Edited March 28, 2020 by Stubby47

[Stubby47]

Garden wall and earth painted, now need to add some wooden bank retaining planks, and add the surface to the path.

 

[Stubby47]

Near side wall now in place and pinned whilst the glue dries.

 

Starting to look how I envisaged.

 

[Stubby47]

Slabs for front path in place.

 

[chuffinghell]

1 minute ago, Stubby47 said:

Slabs for front path in place.

 

I’m liking the slabs Stu

[Stubby47]

4 minutes ago, chuffinghell said:

I’m liking the slabs Stu

I wanted a 'buried in the grass' look, so just rounded the corners off some squares of thin card and cut a shallow trench to put them in. Once the glue has dried I'll fill the surrounding area then it'll be ready for grass.

 

I'll be using the Gordon Gravett method of planting grass with tweezers, just because there will be so little and it needs to be in the right place. 

[chuffinghell]

48 minutes ago, Stubby47 said:

I wanted a 'buried in the grass' look, so just rounded the corners off some squares of thin card and cut a shallow trench to put them in. Once the glue has dried I'll fill the surrounding area then it'll be ready for grass.

 

I'll be using the Gordon Gravett method of planting grass with tweezers, just because there will be so little and it needs to be in the right place. 

looks brilliant, as it’s probably become apparent I really struggle with irregular and random (probably because as a draughtsman I’m  expected to do things straight, square and symmetrical) but I’m slowly  unlearning 

[Stubby47]

6 minutes ago, chuffinghell said:

looks brilliant, as it’s probably become apparent I really struggle with irregular and random (probably because as a draughtsman I’m  expected to do things straight, square and symmetrical) but I’m slowly  unlearning 

 

I started my working life as a cartographic draughtsman, although I always wanted to be an architect.  Now I'm making model buildings I've realised my childhood dream

 

The bonus is they don't have to have people in, be water tight or even structurally sound.

 

Real buildings aren't symmetrical, old buildings aren't even square - throw away your rules and your straight edges and let your spirit run free.