Popular Post Brian Harrap Posted December 29, 2012 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 29, 2012 Please can we have some close-ups Brian. Hello John, found a couple here, Brian. 30 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 Mind-boggling. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 (edited) Mind-boggling.Quite!!!! Brian, that takes a special form of patience - perhaps I need a Zen-Buddhist sensei, instead. Best, Pete. PS Marvelous! Edited December 29, 2012 by trisonic Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davknigh Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 Hello David, that's triple (count 'em) gauge.......couple more pics to follow, Brian Oops! Missed the extra rail... Just out of curiosity, what gauge and type of wire are did you use for the catenary? Was it built in situ or off site with a jig? Cheers, David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 perhaps I need a Zen-Buddhist, Would that be some kind of posh soldering iron that Brian has, then? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 Words fail me! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted December 29, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 29, 2012 The real thing must be a mecca for scrap metal thieves. Mind you there's so much on the model I hope it's under lock and key! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Budgie Posted December 29, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 29, 2012 Hello Pete, It's HO/ P87 again, from some 30 years back. Standard (16.5mm) metre (11.49) and 76cm (8.73mm), catenary 6.3m (7.3mm)I assume that's a typo for 72.3mmabove railhead (all strung straight between mast fixings - no curved bits).How's it electrified? I wouldn't like to work out where all the insulating gaps go for two-rail, myself. It does look wonderful. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Harrap Posted December 30, 2012 Author Share Posted December 30, 2012 Oops! Missed the extra rail... Just out of curiosity, what gauge and type of wire are did you use for the catenary? Was it built in situ or off site with a jig? Cheers, David Hello David, the catenary is all made from 24 gauge piano wire (man at the music shop thought I was building a one note piano) soldered up solid in situ, no jigs and no tensioning - it is all just solid. It is all 'live' all the time, sectioning being done through the rail gaps in the normal way. The masts, brass rod and tube, I built in the Itallian fashion just because I like the basic simplicty of that style. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
40F Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 Hello John, found a couple here, Brian. Now that is proper modelling Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodmayes Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Brian, Just found "not usual" something for your next "quai" project. Note you can see the edge of the river bridge at the RHS rear. http://www.tmny.org/catl.php?n=2798&d=c1940&c=Wuppertal+std.+gauge+trolley+No.+71%0Awith+small+open+trailer BTW, the upper steelwork is for the overhead suspended Wupperthal trains. Got room for one of those as well? Ted Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Harrap Posted January 4, 2013 Author Share Posted January 4, 2013 Brian, Just found "not usual" something for your next "quai" project. Note you can see the edge of the river bridge at the RHS rear. http://www.tmny.org/catl.php?n=2798&d=c1940&c=Wuppertal+std.+gauge+trolley+No.+71%0Awith+small+open+trailer BTW, the upper steelwork is for the overhead suspended Wupperthal trains. Got room for one of those as well? Ted Nice one Ted, how did you know I was toying with the idea of a tramway layout, Brian. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Harrap Posted February 3, 2013 Author Share Posted February 3, 2013 For those of you wondering what to do with your redundant railway swing bridges, you could use them as a site for an office block/shopping mall. This one is in Amsterdam. Brian. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted February 3, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 3, 2013 Now that's inventive. Only the Dutch would come up with something like this! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Harrap Posted February 7, 2013 Author Share Posted February 7, 2013 (edited) I have just about finished the colouring in of the cobbling and what have you around the tram stop on QUAI:87. I will probably add some more tonal variations when it has all settled down a bit. The gaps (grouting? crud?) between the cobbles and the bricks was done with a wash of grey water colour and then the bricks themselves and some of the cobbles coloured with artist pencil crayons (water colour type). The whole area then had a good dusting over with white chalk mixed with talcum powder to give the area that 'hasn't rained for months look'. The tarmac patch on this piece of work isn't 'what's left after all the other has worn away' as on another famous bit of cobbling but rather tarmac that was used to fill in where the old connection was taken out when the crossover was changed. Just got to put all the buildings and the O/H line back and we'll be running again. Brian. Ps, must plant some flowers in that boat too. Edited February 7, 2013 by Brian Harrap 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted February 7, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 7, 2013 Why have you written POTS in the cobbles ? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Because by the time the shunter gets to there it's generally late on a Friday....? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Harrap Posted February 7, 2013 Author Share Posted February 7, 2013 Why have you written POTS in the cobbles ? Just for you 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Brinkly Posted February 7, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 7, 2013 Didn't realize that Q87 was off to Ozzy land! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold queensquare Posted February 7, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 7, 2013 .........to give the area that 'hasn't rained for months look'. Blimey Brian, you have a good memory - I certainly can't remember what that looks like Jerry 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Harrap Posted February 8, 2013 Author Share Posted February 8, 2013 Didn't realize that Q87 was off to Ozzy land! Maybe this would have been a better picture. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Harrap Posted February 12, 2013 Author Share Posted February 12, 2013 No sooner than I had finished the tramway cobbling on QUAI:87 than a new tram turns up. This is a standard Lima model which needs quite a bit doing to it to gring it up to scratch. Clearly it will need to be P87ed and something will need to be done with those panto contact bars. Also the livery application around the articulation area needs touching up and no doubt other things will present themselves as I work on the tram. I couldn't resist the reflection shot - you might like to know that for such a shot I often give my water surface a rub over with Lord Shereton's superior caretaker wood preserving Balm - brings it up a treat. Brian. (that's superior Balm, not caretakers) 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Brian Harrap Posted February 26, 2013 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 26, 2013 What with QUAI:87 being finished (I don't subscribe to the 'layouts never finished' mantra) and with nothing on the TV I thought I'd while away an afternoon trying a bit of P450 (T scale) trackwork to see what it would come out like. Somewhat fiddly I found but otherwise much the same as building trackwork in other scales. PCB sleepers filed down to size and NS strip rather than proper rail section, which I find is not avaliable. Flangeway gap is 0.1mm.Brian. 38 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 We are not worthy....... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Jason T Posted February 26, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 26, 2013 You didn't. No, you can't have done. really? Handbuilt T scale? Bonkers. I salute you Sir. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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