muddys-blues Posted November 23, 2016 Author Share Posted November 23, 2016 Aah Brian, thanks .... I completely forgot about Station Road Baseboards, I shall have a peruse over my tea and crumpets. Best regards Craig 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railwayrod Posted November 25, 2016 Share Posted November 25, 2016 You will have no trouble in selling your Hymek. I sold mine for nearly twice the price I paid. Rod 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 Merry Christmas Craig, to you and all your Family, and a Happy New Year to you all mate. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spenc Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 Merry Christmas to you and your family have a good one Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jintyman Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 Merry Christmas to you and yours Craig, hope you have a great Christmas and New Year, and a start on your layout in earnest in 2017. Jinty Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwr Posted December 28, 2016 Share Posted December 28, 2016 Merry Christmas to you and yours Craig, hope you have a great Christmas and New Year, and a start on your layout in earnest in 2017. Jinty Yes Craig -videos by Easter? Paul R 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 All very quiet on here, Craig must be upstairs laying Track to surprise us, Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwr Posted December 31, 2016 Share Posted December 31, 2016 All very quiet on here, Craig must be upstairs laying Track to surprise us, No he's probably agonising over the track plan again. At this rate he will be modelling a closed line. Just some old rusty track and weeds. No need to build Loco's. A burnt out brake van and some broken crossing gates. Shouldn't be too taxing for him! Video won't be very interesting though! Paul R Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jintyman Posted December 31, 2016 Share Posted December 31, 2016 He was here last night, and I'm sure we'll see some progression with trackwork from our conversation. Actually, him calling round gave me my first opportunity to visit the garage since before Christmas!!! He's the same as me in having the seasonal family duties that eat into modelling time!!!! Jinty 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
muddys-blues Posted December 31, 2016 Author Share Posted December 31, 2016 No he's probably agonising over the track plan again. At this rate he will be modelling a closed line. Just some old rusty track and weeds. No need to build Loco's. A burnt out brake van and some broken crossing gates. Shouldn't be too taxing for him! Video won't be very interesting though! Paul R Evening Paul, I more or less have my track plan sorted now, I had a nice hour or so last night with Jintyman and I am ready to do battle with Templot next week once the New Year Festivities are out of the way, having hung around at Jintyman's house a few times this year I have decided that the hand built trackwork really does look the dogs danglies so I am giving that a go first, if it is successful there will be a few boxes of brand new Peco Bullhead track for sale He was here last night, and I'm sure we'll see some progression with trackwork from our conversation. Actually, him calling round gave me my first opportunity to visit the garage since before Christmas!!! He's the same as me in having the seasonal family duties that eat into modelling time!!!! Jinty Thanks for your time this year Jinty ...... hopefully you will get down our way and use some of my teabags for a change Blwyddyn Newydd Dda i pawb / Happy New Year to all Craig. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simond Posted December 31, 2016 Share Posted December 31, 2016 Peco is much quicker to lay, and pretty much ideal for the bits you don't take photos on, like fiddle yards... HNY Simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwr Posted January 1, 2017 Share Posted January 1, 2017 Simon If I was building Black Notley again I would have hand built the points for better geometry but I am still happy with PECO plain track regards Paul R 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simond Posted January 1, 2017 Share Posted January 1, 2017 Hi Paul, Sleeper spacing on Peco track is 16.2mm centres. GW plain track should be 2'6.5" reducing at the fishplates (this was for the late 1920's, may be different for other regions & eras) which would be 17.5mm. I think the change in spacing is subtle but shows. Useful references on Templot forum: http://templot.com/martweb/pdf_files/gwr_track_panels.pdf This is easy to fix when laying Peco track, and you get a few sleepers over on each length! Now, if they would just do 2-bolt chairs... Like you, I would definitely use hand-made point & crossing works, (31.5 gauge in my case) but away from the close-up photographic areas, I would be pretty happy with Peco. I noted that the copperclad points on my old model didn't stand out, from 3 feet away you couldn't even see that the only representation of chairs was the blob of solder, painted, of course. HNY! Simon 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold MarshLane Posted January 1, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 1, 2017 Hello fellow modellers ... I am on the look out for some heavy duty "two way drawer" runners to use on my traverser tables, does anybody have any information on where they got theirs or something they utilised for a nice smooth running traverser table ? Best regards Craig. Hi Craig, Just catching up on your thread - have you acquired these yet? A mate of mine is a trade salesman (i.e. to builders and DIY shops etc) for anything ... I swear he offloaded a couple of trucks of snow to some Eskimos recently! However, he has some heavy duty runners with versions that can be mounted vertical or horizontal (yes it makes a difference) - be happy to see if I can get you some details if your still on the look out. Rich 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 Hhahahhah My Missis just asked me what Blwyddyn Newydd Dda meant as I'm supposed to know some Welsh. So I told her Happy New Year, she was gobsmacked, then I confessed, hahah. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
muddys-blues Posted January 2, 2017 Author Share Posted January 2, 2017 Hi Craig, Just catching up on your thread - have you acquired these yet? A mate of mine is a trade salesman (i.e. to builders and DIY shops etc) for anything ... I swear he offloaded a couple of trucks of snow to some Eskimos recently! However, he has some heavy duty runners with versions that can be mounted vertical or horizontal (yes it makes a difference) - be happy to see if I can get you some details if your still on the look out. Rich Hi Rich, thanks for your heads up, I think am going to use roller bearings on bolts, this will be a nice simple system, also I can get roller bearings very easily as I run my own garage. Best regards Craig 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jintyman Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 Hhahahhah My Missis just asked me what Blwyddyn Newydd Dda meant as I'm supposed to know some Welsh. So I told her Happy New Year, she was gobsmacked, then I confessed, hahah. Helluva guess Andy!!!!!! Jinty 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simond Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 Never confess!!!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwr Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 There's lovely Blodwyn! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Helluva guess Andy!!!!!! Jinty https://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4VRHB_enGB622GB623&q=helluva+welsh+translation#q=welsh+english+translation Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tove Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 https://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4VRHB_enGB622GB623&q=helluva+welsh+translation#q=welsh+english+translation sy'n twyllo Andy..!! Brian. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 sy'n twyllo Andy..!! Brian. Yes....................and again, hhahahhhaha Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PjKing1 Posted February 4, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 4, 2017 Morning Craig, finally got around to reading your thread sorry it's took so long, love the idea and totally agree hand built track is the way to go Looking forward to this mate Cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
muddys-blues Posted February 20, 2017 Author Share Posted February 20, 2017 (edited) Hello, well things are starting to progress behind the scenes on the layout build, I have chosen to go down the handbuilt track route after seeing plenty of excellent hand built track on other layout builds on here and other forums, and Mr Jinty's Talyllyn really does have me admiring and drooling over his trackwork everytime I go for a cuppa, so my on last visit the other week David thrust into my hand some C&L rail and Intentio sleepers, I have a bundle of 2 bolt chairs and I will build my first track panel this week. I now have a roster of locos and stock I will be keeping and purchasing soon, *** The 37 has now gone to a loving new home *** Best regards Craig. Edited February 25, 2017 by muddys-blues 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PjKing1 Posted February 20, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 20, 2017 That looks lovely Craig if I didn't have two 37's on preorder I'd snaffle that up off you Good luck with the track building you won't regret it Cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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