paulr1949

I'm watching this with interest having close personal connections with north Cornwall and "through running" onto my own layout via the assumed missing link between Padstow and Newquay.  That must have been built at some stage, surely, as there are layouts of Harlyn Road and St. Mawgan   

 

The town back scene behind the station is not familiar to me and is somewhat reminiscent of Newquay.  Is that a printed sheet and if so any idea of its origin please?  

My original layout (see note in earlier post or on old RM web) was a branch off this line too! As is my O gauge layout, which for various reasons (not entirely unconnected with Trezeath) has had to take a back seat for a couple of years! Trezeath though is situated north of the Camel estuary.

All the backscenes on the layout were formed by sticking pictures cut from magazines, calendars, brochures etc. to mdf painted light blue by the original builder, the late Richard Lane. It is a very effective way of creating the scene you want. I have not had time to do anything other than ask an artist friend to paint up some ply in the same light blue for the new board

Very Very nice, I just love that cutting, wonderful stuff and as George above says please keep the pics coming, really inspeartional.

 

Andy.

Thanks Andy

The new board with cutting is the only bit of the layout proper which I have actually built myself, although a group of friends has titivated the scenery, buildings etc.

I hope to take some more pictures during the Erith show, for which I am leaving in half an hour to set up.

Nice layout Paul. It captures the North-Cornwall feel very nice. I think the additional scenic-section looks very well and should improve shunting on the layout. The station could do with some run-around points i think.

 

Regards,

Werner

Thanks Werner

Yes run round points would be nice, but on the other hand it does add interest to the operating because there has to be a turnover engine for each train, although it is possible to run round a relatively short train in the approach area. It is too difficult a job, given the way the baseboards were originally constructed (with re-used chipboard and longitudinal supports as well as transverse supports!) to put them in ;-(

Well final(ish) checks have been made and I think the layout still works OK! A couple of section breaks have been added to make shunting easier and some workings will be made easier by the introduction of a Hornby push-pull set! Yes I know they didn't run in this part of Cornwall, but mine came with a free modeller's licence. The layout has once again been erected in Martin's shed (green giant of this parish) and will be packed down on Friday afternoon prior to being taken to Erith in the evening. I've only got one photo of the new board, and I've blacked out some of the extraneous clutter that always seems to gather round layouts! Say hello if you're at the show.

PS the boards are not on their legs or properly joined together in this photo :-))

A brief and possibly overdue (depending on your point of view) update. Most of the scenery on the new board is now complete, with basically infilling to do. It has taken rather longer than I had hoped, so the snagging list mentioned in an earlier post is not going to get very much shorter - just the very important ones will get done. More problematic is a slight misalignment in the track, as something has warped very slightly during the last few months. I am currently investigating the best way forward.

The box for the board and the two fiddleyard support boards has now been constructed.

With a bit of luck, some photos may appear soon.

For anybody who is interested, the layout is booked to appear at the Erith show on 26th and 27th January 2013

Good morning all.

The promised photos - well some of them. I have now built the formers for the scenery around the edge of the board (contoured to suit semi-rolling fields) and for the roadway, and ballasted and painted the track.

The photos show (1) the track after first painting but before ballasting,

(2) after ballasting and painting,

(3) after completion of (most) of the ply formers

and (4) looking through the hole where a brick bridge will be built.

This week I hope to complete at least the remaining scenic formers (strips of card from cereal boxes, on top of which will go plaster bandage, eventually to be followed by static grass and a couple of trees.

There's a loose bit of plastic card lying around in one photo - this and others will form the road surface before that is covered in something yet to be decided.

Eagle eyes may have spotted that the bridge in the background (at the end of the current scenic section) has been partially demolished. The side needs replacing with one [a] the same height as the other side and closer to the baseboard edge.

An update at last! As I said back in January, the layout was packed away for a while (turned out to be 6-7 weeks) whilst new garage was built, then another three weeks to do some fitting out with shelves, racking, worktop etc. Then I had a week's skiing holiday - and managed to break my wrist (not too badly, especially as I didn't realise I'd done it for two weeks!) That meant 4 weeks in plaster and another couple of weeks recovering, so it was the middle of last month before I could do anything :-(

Anyway, I have been busy since and built an extra 3ft long board to go on the end of the curved board with the TT (see plan above). This will enable trains being brought out of the carriage sidings to remain in view throughout the move rather than disappearing into the fiddleyard and coming back again. Track is down, wires attached and ballasted, just painting to do there, then start on thescenery. I should be able to post some photos and more information in the next few days

Here is the trackplan for Trezeath

hi Paul not really sure how we will solve this problem or indeed what the problem actually is. I think the Peco TT is a really good looking model ,but driving plastic components can difficult. With are TT it all seems free running until we connect the motor.If we come up with a successful anwser we will be pleased to let you know.Trezeath is looking very nice.

 

 

Nick.

Hi Nick

thanks. I *think* I have two problems - one is that the operating well is not quite exactly circular, making the deck catch against it from time to time, and the other is that the drive rod flexes a bit. I have a length of brass tubing soldered to a piece of flat brass ready to attempt to solve this - the operating rod will rin inside the brass tubing and the flat brass will be screwed to a block of wood which in turn will be screwed to the baseboard - hopefully this will reduce the flexing.

It all seems to work fine when the board's on it's side!!

Like Mickey i would say this looks very familiar as in Railway Modeller some years ago.

Hi westerner and Mickey

Yes it was, it was in the July and August 2000 editions. The layout was built by Richard Lane and I bought it from him about 10 years ago. For it's outing last month, a group of us enhanced the scenery and a number of little bits, completed wiring fences, generally weathered the layout/track (it was a bit bright) and also made the buildings greyer (they were a bit green).

next I think its back to the Turntable

motor and drive. Job to get the drive not to slightly shudder but we will get there. Pooleboy

I'd be intererested to know what you decide to do with the turntable - I have a similar problem on "Trezeath" (not yet mentioned in my topic), with juddering and sticking. I have a peco TT plus a Frizinghall models motorising kit lavishly smothered with grease!

OK, the first photo is a weathered M7 (30031) and blood & custard Maunsells, with the goods shed behind, and a very cruel baseboard gap in the platform - I must do something about that!

Following that are the carriage sidings (as they are overnight with the stock for two of the through Waterloo services. The is the coal yard area, the townscape and a wideangle view of nearly all the layout.

In reply to WindyHale76, two N class did make an appearance on the freight trains - they just didn't make it into the photos, but may do one day.

I have had an enforced gap in modelling activity since the show, as my garage is being rebuilt (from an old concrete one with asbestosised roof to a proper one with bricks!) It will have a working area at the back for painting, kit building etc, and the main bit will have all the wood, saws etc. And all the paraphernalia which seem to make up a garage these days. I had to move evrything out, so it has been spread around the gardening shed, the greenhouse, the railway shed and next door neighbour's garage! Plus a pile in the dining room, bedrooms etc. Looks like at least another 2 weeks to go.

It has given me some time to think about the snagging list which we made up after the exhibition: not an enormous amount of this was actual problems, much of it is "making things easier/better/both". I have decided that a short new section of scenic layout is needed between the current scenic break and the fiddleyard - this will allow shunting from the carriage sidings to be done "in the open" rather than having to disappear into the FY and back. There are also some tweaks to be done to the section wiring, as there are a couple of idiosyncracies here, such as not being able to park two engines in any of the shed area, and splitting up the goods loop. There is also the need to add isolating sections at the bufferstops, as currently the section split is at the baseboard joint, which gives rise to problems for short trains. I think there will be about 8 new sections in total, which will make it easier to operate, and I am seriously considering building a new control panel to facilitate this. Design work for this, of course can be done while the railway shed is full of other things!

More soon (possibly!)

Many apologies for the lack of appearance of the other photos. I am rectifying that now!

Oh and just to say I did take some more photos at the exhibition, they are having to wait until next week, shortly off to St Albans to help greengiant set up his layout at the CMRA show

Well the show has come and gone, and I've had a week off from layout preparation. The layout ran better than I thought it might, although we did have electrical problems, being unable to use the second controller for shunting.

It's now gone away in boxes in the railway shed, surrounded by a load of "stuff" from the garage, which is currently being rebuilt from 55 year old concrete with asbestos roof to a proper one with bricks and tiles - and an internal division to make me a workshop for kit building, painting etc.

I'm pleased to say that the layout has now got three provisional invites to shows in 2013, so watch this space

Here are three more photos. I may be able to take some more at the exhibition giving a better variety of rolling stock

Hope you like them

Hi Paul,

 

a lovely looking layout you have there, agree for the request for more pictures.

 

Colin

Thank you all for your kind comments. I just hope (especially after tonight's "last minute" session, that things run OK at the show. Tonight for some reason when a controller was plugged in and on zero, two engines suddenly shot off in opposite directions for no reason ( - binned that controller!

I'll try and put some more photos up tomorrow, I need to reduce them in size first so it's too late now...z z z

Hi

Well I've spotted some photos uploaded on another thread today, so here we go.

fingers crossed

Hi

Belatedly starting this topic as my layout (Trezeath) is attending the Orpington & District MRS show next weekend (7/8 January)

( http://www.rmweb.co....8-january-2012/)

A few of you may have seen the layout mentioned on the hold RM Web in my layout thread (see signature). The layout has been refreshed, a new fiddleyard built, turntable motorised (it may even work!) and various other things like a lighting rig. This has happened over the last 6 months withe the help of a number of friends from the club. I had every intention of documenting the rehabilitation but I couldn't find the round tuit. New stock has arrived, locos have been fettled and much has been fitted with Sprat & Winkle couplings.

I'm going to try and attach some photos, but not sure whether this will work! No it didn't, so if the problems go away soon I will try again

If you are at the show, drop by and say hello

Very nice Jamie, nice sweeping curves and an excellent building

Looking forward to seeing some more trackwork - I expect you are too

Derek

 

I use a 2 part process. First I spray the rails side on with Railmatch dark rust. Then when that is dry I use Railmatch Sleeper grime to spray the sleepers. However you have to be careful and do this directly above the track from about 6 to 7 inches and move along on a perpendicular basis. Don't spray side on or at an angle. In this way you will avoid covering the rail sides with the grime and they will remain rust. There will be some overspray but as long as this is relatively minimal it adds to the overall effect. Use a spare yard of track pinned to a plank to test it.

 

I don't clean the paint from the tops of the rails until the ballast is completed.

 

Hope this helps

 

Paul R

Paul

Do you just use white spirit to get the paint off the tops of the rails later. or something else? I have found it very difficult to remove unless I do it immediately!

Another Paul R!

Thanks Guys

 

Perhaps you could let me have the name of the Font you found.....I am about to construct some chimneys!

 

Kind Regards

Hi John

The nearest I could find at the time was one of the Marlborough truetype fonts, squashed up a bit in Page Plus. I wasn't totally pleased with it, so I'm still looking (I don't want to have to pay for a font just for one chimney if I don't have to!) - I built the chimney (for a club layout) but we haven't lettered it yet

regards

These shops are not quite in character.....as I wrote in my last thread....too prosperous...too smug....too southern (spoke an ex-scouser) not gritty enough for a welsh mining town.........but needs must...they were a relic from a previous layout and at least fill the gap.

Hi John

One of the issues with the Metcalfe shops (and others) is that the lettering used for the names is too modern - they scream "sixties/seventies" to me! It's a common issue with layouts. It took me ages searching for a font I could use to name a factory chimney in 30's/40's style. I have some terraced houses and a goods shed (in "O" gauge) to build.

The layout looks interesting!

Since I put the above on work has continued but not too much to show.

The main station building is being built by John Patrick. It will be over 5 feet long and in 5 main sections. At present the central section, the booking hall, is nearly complete and work is starting on the west wing. There are still, the east wing, east and west end pavillions, plus the loos on the east end to go. The corbelling is fiendish but a master has been made and it is now being cast in resin in 3" lengths. The chimneys are also very complex and they will probably be resin cast as well. Hopefully a phot will follow soon.

 

Meanwhile I am carrying on with refining the Templot diagram and general planning. I've done a trial printout of the station area and pasted it together to help in getting the angles correct on the station building. It is also being used to sort out te dimensions for the station awning and the placement of the overhead supprt gantries. The long curving bridge over the River Lune (Known as Greyhound Bridge) has also been printed out and that has helped us to plan the bridge area. This will be on its own board and be over 5' long. The side griders with rivet detail will probably be made up from resin castings as they are semi modular in appearance. The supporting piers will either be plasticard or resin.

 

A lot of timber has been bought and hopefully the prototype baseboard will be produced in the next 2 weeks.

 

Meanwhile work is still continuing on the electric units. these will consist of 2 3 car sets each witha 60' motor coach with a driving trailer either side of it. One of the trailers was a converted suburban coach so that has been made from a modified Slaters kit. The other 5 vehicles are to be scratchbuilt. The sides have been cut out and the motor bogies sourced. I have even got a pantograph from a rivarossi Italian electric, that is correct for the Westinhouse car. The Siemens motor has 2 bow collectors but fortunately I have a drawing for these that I found in the library at the National Tramway Museum at Crich.

 

The station building and possibly the electric stock will be on the demonstrators stands at the Wakefield Show in just over 2 weeks time.

 

Jamie

A very interesting prototype to model, especially in 7mm. I look forward to seeing more as things progress