Shez Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 Finished construction of the water tower today. The last part was the tank filler on the end which had got me thinking a bit on how to go about it. In the end I used a piece of balsa as a former and used some scrap etch from a coach kit. I cut notches into the side so I could solder it on to the tank. I bit of heatshrink was found for the "bag". The whole thing comes apart for painting which will be the next job. Not so much scratch building as scrap building! Apart from the slaters brick sheet everything came out of my scrap box. I will bring it down to the club and make sure that there is enough clearance on the pipe for passing locos. 8 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginelane Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 Excellent! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted February 19, 2023 Author Share Posted February 19, 2023 (edited) last Monday we had a running night so me, Mark and Colm all brought something in to run, which included having a proper run with a mixed train and trying out the segmented cassette system for rearranging the formation Edited March 4, 2023 by sir douglas 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginelane Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 Stock looked great. Will be great to see it all operational at this year’s Wakefield Show Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted March 4, 2023 Author Share Posted March 4, 2023 ive gone bakc to working on cassettes while ive run out of glue to do the walls and Colm has nearly finished the ballasting 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted March 4, 2023 Share Posted March 4, 2023 That is looking great. Cheers David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted May 14, 2023 Author Share Posted May 14, 2023 Slow progress whithh not much to show in regular posts. Colm has fi isherwood the ballasting, Mark is doing platform surface and edging and I'm still doing the walls since some of the embossed sheets reacted badly to the previous glue I used Platform work, a few feet in the dock is brick for some reason, which Mark suggests was because of a collapse Further on it changes to wood, likely just a cheap extension 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shez Posted May 19, 2023 Share Posted May 19, 2023 (edited) Had a morning at the club and got on with some further work on the platforms today. Almost got the edging completed but ran out of the edging blocks which I have made from stripwood, so I need to cut some more before I can finish. The wooden part of the platform is made from some very thin wooden sheets, which were then scribed with my craft knife to represent the planking. The wood came from the wonderful Calder Graphics in Huddersfield, always a great source of modelling materials. I used embossed plasticard for both the stone and brick sections. The platform surface was of crushed stone. According to the evidence I have read it was not "tarmaced" until world war one. I am planning to use either OO o N gauge ballast to represent this unless someone out there can suggest a better idea. In another development the branch loco and some of the coaches have been fitted with "Flippem" autocouplers , so we should be able to test this out on the layout once we decide where to put the magnets. Edited May 19, 2023 by Shez image uploaded not clear enough. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shez Posted May 19, 2023 Share Posted May 19, 2023 I Had meant to also load a photograph of the painted water tower in position on the layout. It just needs some more weathering now. 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted June 7, 2023 Author Share Posted June 7, 2023 Last week started on the timber retaining wall on the platform and this Monday did the rest elsewhere, the retaining wall under the toll Bridge is ready for painting and got a volunteer to do the river 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted June 11, 2023 Author Share Posted June 11, 2023 Made a start on the steps The tower section sat upside-down in jigs, first to glue the tops together and second to keep the bottom of the legs straight Now with the arches and dowels fitted. 1 of the l9cating dowels is a tube and the leg it is in is hollow to allow for wires since there is a lamp on the corner 7 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted June 24, 2023 Author Share Posted June 24, 2023 Staircase almost complete gravel banking for the river 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shez Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 Spent a morning working on the layout today. First time I had seen the completed water which looks fantastic. Completed the platform edging, and then went on to do the tops of the walls along the back of the platform. Have used DAS rolled into lengths and then (hopefully) secured with a bit of wood glue. The stone toppings were then scribed on. I have also been working on the grounded coach body. (There were actually two but some compression only allows one). Again, like the water tower its one of my "build it from scrap" projects as I have used the original test etch from Jamie Guest's North British six wheelers cut down to four wheel size. Just took it down today to check its going to fit in the space. I had an off cut of roof from a n NBR bogie coach and then it was just off cuts of plasticard, brass sheet and brass tube. for the details. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted July 18, 2023 Author Share Posted July 18, 2023 Unusually all 3 of us were at it last night. Painting different things, i did the platorm and bufferstop woodwork, Mark did the walls and Colm went over most of the sleepers to hid pva splashes, i forgot to take any photos but i made the ash piles last week, made with a tub i got from Middleton a few weeks ago 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted July 24, 2023 Author Share Posted July 24, 2023 I forgot to go in today so some pics to make up for it, the work from the previous post And now some structure just about finished. The yard office which was previously just a white carcass, the frame hut and the staircase now repainted in cream 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted August 16, 2023 Author Share Posted August 16, 2023 2 weeks ago did the platform surface with n gauge ballast Colm continuing with the grass, he says he will layer over it with yellows and browns since Mark says it will be late summer Mark brought the water tower back in though its not quote done 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted August 23, 2023 Author Share Posted August 23, 2023 Started on the crating 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted August 30, 2023 Author Share Posted August 30, 2023 Board crating done for now pending the addition of handles and wheels once weve decided on position and mounting. The idea is that the lighting rig also has crating for transport so that the parts arent being hand-balled individially in and out the van getting knocked and scratched but will also cut down time to do it The plan for the board crating, some measurements and fitting positions have changed since drawing it Lighting post crate on the left which weve now started on and the pelmet crate on the right, again both are in the process of being tweeked 3d sketch for the pelmet crate, now weve got wood and its bigger than i was originally thinking, i was expecting around 20x30 but 30x50 was the smallest that local timber merchant had, so just went with it, so the crate can have less parts for the same strength Start of the post crate with the board ends behind 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted September 16, 2023 Author Share Posted September 16, 2023 The post crate isnt quite done yet but we've just finished the pelmet crate Other progress, platform lamps, carriage body and crane bought/made/painted by Mark, more grass and some bushes by Colm Now only 2 weeks till it goes out at our show https://www.wakefieldrms.org/exhibition/ 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shez Posted September 23, 2023 Share Posted September 23, 2023 just one week to the show now so we had a test run yesterday afternoon. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shez Posted September 23, 2023 Share Posted September 23, 2023 Number 648 has arrived in 1904 through a time warp having been rebuilt. She will have to deputize for the as yet unfinished Holmes goods at the exhibition. Meanwhile, a passenger still has to wait a week for a train to Berwick. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shez Posted September 23, 2023 Share Posted September 23, 2023 Sam has been working on the bridge and having completed the scribing of the stonework brough it down last night. The second photo is looking towards the goods yard. 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted September 30, 2023 Author Share Posted September 30, 2023 (edited) (Post edited to replace photos with cropped versions) A good days running, a few minor problems but is to be expected for its first time out and running all day Edited October 1, 2023 by sir douglas 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shez Posted October 1, 2023 Share Posted October 1, 2023 Pictures look great Sam. The layout and stock performed well all weekend. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted October 1, 2023 Author Share Posted October 1, 2023 (edited) Because of a few different issues we had to run the 2 tender locos the wrong way around, but nobody noticed Twice today we ran the full mixed train of fish-carriages-wagons-brake. On either of the 2 usual trains, which are carriages and fish/horsebox or the other just wagons can take about 15-20 minutes from leaving the fiddleyard to getting back in while the full mixed will take about 25-30 Incoming Ready to go about 25 mins later Edited October 1, 2023 by sir douglas 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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