RMweb Premium Neil Posted July 5, 2014 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 5, 2014 As Little Point is booked to appear at the Corris exhibition (in the Plas, Machynlleth) this August bank holiday weekend, I though I'd better start work on a fiddle yard. A square of the same mdf as that used for the main board has been cut, painted and had rubber feet stick on underneath. Little Point is a table top railway. To lock the boards together a tongue has been glued and screwed to the underside of the fiddle yard. I drilled through this and up into the underside of the main board. A dowel locates and locks the two together. Though Little Point has been designed to be viewed in the round, I've had to choose an audience side and an operator side as it's so small to have both on the same side would give a view of my back and nothing else. So as the point levers are to the back of the platform, this is the side the visitor will see. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted July 20, 2014 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 20, 2014 Little work has taken place on Little Point itself though I have been faffing about a bit with rolling stock. Here's the latest loco (not on Little Point's roster) in the company of a pair of shortened Eggerbahn vehicles. The black van was a hack completed when in my early teens, the carriage the most recent project on my workbench. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted August 1, 2014 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted August 1, 2014 A week ago a parcel from China arrived containing a rather fine steam tram and trailer combo. Here's the trailer next to an Eggerbahn carriage which should give an idea about its suitability to hack into a 009 vehicle. Unfortunately the bogies are dummies, my initial thoughts turned to replacing them with some Kato examples I had in stock. As I also wanted to reduce the end balconies to a more British style I prised the body away from the chassis and set about making a new floor from a laminate of plasticard. So far so good, but then I had a brainwave, broke out the saw and did this. Glue, filler, paint, more filler, more paint and wheels. Coupler pockets and curved dash. Not finished by any means, but I think you can see where I'll be heading with this build over the following week. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted August 12, 2014 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted August 12, 2014 Preparations for the forthcoming Corris Show (Y Plas/The Plas, Machynlleth, August bank holiday weekend) proceed apace. Needing a modest sized supporting structure and lighting rig for Little Point, I came up with this set of accoutrements to aid the layouts display. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium DLT Posted August 12, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 12, 2014 Hi Neil, I've followed your work on NGRM, and its great to see it here on RMweb. Cheers, Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will J Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 New favorite thread! Useful inspiration for small 009 layouts, thank you for posting it here Neil, watching with interest. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted November 20, 2014 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 20, 2014 Another month, another tram; which to cut a long story short has seen another style of Atlas Editions continental tram hacked to produce something more British. On the right my starting point, and on the left the initial hack to produce a much shorter vehicle. The roof was both cut and shut and trimmed back at each end to match the stumpiness of the body. I've also plated one of the windows to provide guards accomodation, something lacking from my passenger trains on Little Point. On the other side I punctured the plating to provide a ticket window for passengers to purchase theirs at the mid way points. Much work remains to be done, but I reckon I'm past the half way point; it's all downhill from here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted November 23, 2014 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 23, 2014 Also occupying space on my workbench over the past few weeks has been the makings of a new 009 resin kit for a Jung diesel. The masters and moulds were completed earlier this week, casting is ongoing, box art is finished and the instructions almost done. Here's my test build of the first set of castings strutting it's stuff on my Welsh 009 layout. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Neil - one or two of those would go very nicely behind a "Fiery Elias" loco in a continental street-scene, or even as a "Fiery Elias"-style steam tram loco Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted November 24, 2014 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 24, 2014 Thank you Jack, the tram carriage is a vicious cut and shut of the Atlas Editions Berne steam tramway bogie trailer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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