TEAMYAKIMA Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 Today have spent a lot of my day off doing stuff for Twickenham MRC and not a lot of time on the layout. Worse, and not for the first time, I have spent valuable time going back to improve things I originally thought were OK. Today it was the ballast on the China Rail mainlines. The ballast shoulder just wasn't good enough in places. This very poor photo shows where I have upgraded the r/h track and am working along the l/h one... 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted February 18, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 18, 2018 Paul, a slightly belated gong xi fa cai to you and all the Beijiao team. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEAMYAKIMA Posted February 21, 2018 Author Share Posted February 21, 2018 Paul, a slightly belated gong xi fa cai to you and all the Beijiao team. Many thanks - and to you too! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEAMYAKIMA Posted February 21, 2018 Author Share Posted February 21, 2018 (edited) Some evidence has surfaced that proves that I am obsessive! I found some children's playground items on ebay, but they are described as 1/75th scale. Some are more usable than others. The climbing frame was a little overscale and so I've spent an hour filing done the horizonral bars to make them look more 'scale' . The photo shows before and after - hopefully you can tell which is which. If you think that's bad, then wait for the next post! Edited February 21, 2018 by TEAMYAKIMA 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEAMYAKIMA Posted February 21, 2018 Author Share Posted February 21, 2018 And here's the next post - this is really crazy!! The set included some keep fit street apparatus - just the type I've seen in China. But they were very overscale for HO, and so I cut them into 12 separate pieces , cut material out and then glued them all back together - intstant HO scale! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEAMYAKIMA Posted February 25, 2018 Author Share Posted February 25, 2018 (edited) As I have said before, there is a lot more to building an exhibition layout than just modelling, electrics, operation etc ...... for example there is the issue of transporting the layout to the venue. The team have been discussing various ways of storing the boards in the van and I have put off addressing this problem, but with our first exhibition looming I could ignore it no longer. The idea is to store the boards on their backs, thereby taking up less floor space as the backscenes are only 17 inches deep as opposed the boards which are 36 inches wide. However, the backscenes are not strong enough to protect the low relief buildings and at the last work day I spent a lot of time repairing the buildings which had begun to break away from the baseboards. So I have built some new end protectors which are much bigger than the originals and will provide protection when the boards are positioned on their backs. In this picture only one end is fitted - eventually all boards will have one of these at each end. All the weight will be taken by these MDF end protectors and no pressure will be on the backscene or buildings. Edited February 25, 2018 by TEAMYAKIMA 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEAMYAKIMA Posted February 27, 2018 Author Share Posted February 27, 2018 (edited) I can't believe that I'm saying this but I've spent another 30 minutes on that blessed keep fit apparatus! Before .... I've managed to lower it a fraction and also thin down the top bar ... And I've had trouble finding a place to put it on the layout, but probably on this 'drop-in' section in red.... Edited February 27, 2018 by TEAMYAKIMA 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEAMYAKIMA Posted February 27, 2018 Author Share Posted February 27, 2018 Meanwhile on the other side of the tracks a children's playground area is developing............. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted February 27, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 27, 2018 Meanwhile on the other side of the tracks a children's playground area is developing............. DSC_0263.JPG Couldn't you combine the playground and the fitness corner Paul? That is quite common in Singapore, although I don't think I saw one in China. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEAMYAKIMA Posted February 27, 2018 Author Share Posted February 27, 2018 Couldn't you combine the playground and the fitness corner Paul? That is quite common in Singapore, although I don't think I saw one in China. Possibly - I have various bits to position and am considering combinations. The problem is that the Preiser items (like the swing) are very delicate with really thin components whereas the non-branded items (like the keep fit items) are really chunky - both look OK as long as they are grouped together - mixing the delicate and the chunky looks wrong. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEAMYAKIMA Posted February 28, 2018 Author Share Posted February 28, 2018 More madness! Having consulted my younger and fitter colleagues at work I have now modified the lifting/hanging bars... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEAMYAKIMA Posted February 28, 2018 Author Share Posted February 28, 2018 Have decided to make the keep fit area smaller to allow space for some car parking. It's not finished yet but here it is so far .................. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEAMYAKIMA Posted March 4, 2018 Author Share Posted March 4, 2018 If anyone doubts quite how anal I am allow we to remove all doubt. I am making three children's playgrounds and have sourced parts from various companies including Preiser and Noch. Preiser are very delicate but in comparison NOCH is somewhat chunky. Here is the NOCH swing as delivered .............. 90 minutes later ....................... 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al. Posted March 4, 2018 Share Posted March 4, 2018 The Devil is in the detail... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEAMYAKIMA Posted March 4, 2018 Author Share Posted March 4, 2018 (edited) Good and bad bits today. Do you remember those two exercise apparatus I spent a total of six hours on last week? Well, I dropped one of them on the floor of my shed and walked on it and so it won't be featuring on the layout! However, I have glued the other one into the outside gym. It's now nearly finished ..... And I have been working on the children's playgrounds ...... not necessarily the final version of playground #1 but nearly there... Edited March 5, 2018 by TEAMYAKIMA 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEAMYAKIMA Posted March 6, 2018 Author Share Posted March 6, 2018 (edited) Bristol show wanted a publicity photo ........... a bit soft focus, but hopefully OK ... Edited March 6, 2018 by TEAMYAKIMA 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
whart57 Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 Does panting after exercise really go well with one of those brown coal burning kettles coming past? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEAMYAKIMA Posted March 6, 2018 Author Share Posted March 6, 2018 There are better photos coming later tonight - promise! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satan's Goldfish Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 You've achieved the goal of making it look grim anyway. Nice. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEAMYAKIMA Posted March 6, 2018 Author Share Posted March 6, 2018 (edited) I'm grateful to team member Al Turner for this ................... A lot better! Edited March 6, 2018 by TEAMYAKIMA 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEAMYAKIMA Posted March 9, 2018 Author Share Posted March 9, 2018 (edited) One of the problems of modelling Chinese is 99.9% of HO figures have the European body size/shape and that doesn't look very Chinese So I am experimenting with the figure in the middle. Having cut down his legs and moved his waste upwards and changed his skin colour I hope he looks a bit more Chinese Maybe the difference is easier to see when standing up side by side Edited March 9, 2018 by TEAMYAKIMA 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEAMYAKIMA Posted March 9, 2018 Author Share Posted March 9, 2018 (edited) This morning ....... one man converted to Chinese This evening two men converted to Chinese...... And now here is my most ambitious conversion yet..... A walking European converted into a standing Chinese - sorry about the dodgy photo. Edited March 10, 2018 by TEAMYAKIMA 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEAMYAKIMA Posted March 10, 2018 Author Share Posted March 10, 2018 And this morning, all three Chinese men planted on the layout.......... 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEAMYAKIMA Posted March 12, 2018 Author Share Posted March 12, 2018 (edited) Finally,after several weeks of fiddling about, the first (of three) children's playgrounds is finished................ As if to prove just how much valuable time I waste ... how many will notice that I have removed all existing street lamps, heightened them by 14mm, repainted them and replanted them? Edited March 12, 2018 by TEAMYAKIMA 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEAMYAKIMA Posted March 18, 2018 Author Share Posted March 18, 2018 I have been adding more street lights. I have been using these lamps as a basis of everything ... I needed a unique design and so knitted two of them together ................ On the layout ....................... 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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