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Thanks Rob.

The texture is baking soda. Once the wire twisting is finished, superglue is applied to the main trunk/s and then baking soda is applied on top of that whilst still wet. It sets instantly and creates a rock soild trunk.

Tom.

I was going to suggest a little rust colour on and around the rails to highlight things like chairs but looking at the photo you have got it spot on in my eyes!M

Thanks Missy. The photos from the phone don't quite show it, but I did spend a little time mixing up a few different rust shades, trying to match the more orangey colour of the real place rather than just use a generic 'rust' colour, which I find tend to be too red.

Hi Tom, You've nailed it! Track work looks great! Really wished I had been brave enough to build my layout based on Par using the finescale track work, it makes such a difference. Best regards, Jeremy

Thanks Jeremy! It certainly was worth the extra time and effort. I won't be going back to Peco!

Nice permanent way! please excuse my ignorance but, what track and point work is it you are using? looks extremely lifelike to me. I can't believe this is 2mm scale! Cheers!Frank

Thanks Frank! The trackwork is all Easitrac components from the 2mm Scale Association. I don't think I would have been able to model the trackwork as accurately any other way. The only modification is opening up the clearances of the pointwork to allow off the shelf N gauge stock to run though.

Cheers,

Tom.

Thanks Jerry & Pete!

Tom.

Exquisite work with the crane Missy, really lovely

Can I ask what you are using for the point rodding itself? I have some of the 2mmSA etch but it's a little two dimensional where as yours has more depth to it.

Thanks,

Tom.

Edit: D'oh, Just seen, 0.4 mm square rod!

Hi Pete.

Looking really good with the stolen viaduct in place

Just wondering how you are planning on tackling the inset track 2nd time around?

Tom.

Thank you Ian & Ian!

Tom

Nice work Will! Can't wait to see the printed boiler paired with Missy's etched chassis.

Question about the bridge, are you just printing the outside beams, or all of the internal ones too?

Tom.

Many thanks everyone!

Which method are you going to use to clean the track?...would be a shame to damage any of it in the process

Hi Pete.

At the moment I use a piece of kitchen roll tightly folded up and then soaked in White Spirit, which seems to do the job nicely, but once the point rodding, signal cable post, incline posts etc are installed I might have to come up with something which is only slightly wider than the line to avoid ripping them all out!

Lovely! It's a detector bar. The interlocking proper would be elsewhere. This is a secondary safety device. If for any reason it had been possible for the signalman to operate the lever for the connection fully but the tie bar had not moved correctly or at all then this item would prevent the signal being pulled off.

Thanks Rich, I'm not really up on the intricacies of Semaphore signalling, so always good to find out what these things do!

Cheers,

Tom.

Thanks Missy

The fish plates are another 2mmSA etch from shop 1. Very fine and I wasn't sure if it was going to be worth adding them, but I'm glad I did! Still a few more to go though!

Tom.

Thanks Jeremy. Much appreciated!

Tom.

Thanks Stephen!

The cable trough is Ratio. I was going to make my own but having looked at the Ratio stuff I decided I probably couldn't do any better!

Tom.

Wow, quick work with the crane! It was still very much 2 dimensional when I saw it in the morning!

Exquisite work as usual

Tom

Lovely work with the weathering Pete! Very effective

Tom.

Thanks Jerry!

Hopefully will be at York on the Saturday, so will swing by and say hello.

Tom.

Thanks Mikkel! I forgot to apologise for the rather industrial sounding backing track on the video. I didn't think the washing machine would be quite as audible as it is!

Cheers,

Tom.

Thanks both!

Tom.

Interesting Suggestion Steven, hadn't thought of that one!

I don't think it quite grabs me like the green though.

Tom.

Hi Pete.

I think I had stumbled across that site a while back, but thanks for reminding me about it!

I think i'm going for green, with the totem at the bottom, and just to skip ahead a few months/years:

Cheers!

Tom.

The question I have though is what is N2.0 Scale? It looks like you are trying to decimalise it or something? It just looks weird to me.

Haha, I wondered when someone would mention that It was just to show that the layout isn't quite 2mm FS, but it's not quite N Gauge either. I guess it could be considered a 'finer N', or N Gauge V2.0 perhaps....

Interesting idea with the QR codes though. Hadn't thought of that! Some experimentation is required I think...

Tom.

Thanks Pete.

I'll try a darker grey tomorrow, see what that comes out like!

Tom.

Many thanks all for the comments!

Whilst there is a fair amount of green on the layout, once the yard area is complete I think this might balance that out with a large area of dark grey and the backscene will be quite light, but I can see how it might overpower the layout if not careful.

Just putting a few suggestions to the test, here is is a version in a lighter grey 'undercoat':

And one with the totem at the bottom. I quite like this, but i'm not sure if it leaves the top a little bare?

And the same, but in grey again:

Cheers,

Tom.

Tom - Just a thought I had whilst on my iPhone. I have the IP Board app installed but I usually go straight to view full content so the format appears the same as on PC/Mac. This time I accessed your blog via the default site (as when opened by Safari) and it allowed me to add the above comment....but not edit it...it worked as this on the iPad so I am assuming I can now comment on blogs from the iPhone now too...

Thanks Pete, I'll look into that, see if it sorts my problem!

Tom.

In your case though Pete, the dominating background is hard to ignore!

Very interested to know how you got around the ipad issue too!

Cheers,

Tom.

Thanks Missy!

It was a rather fleeting hello! Are you on the Society tables at Alexandra Palace again this year? I'll swing by for a longer chat if you are.

Tom.

Thanks Both!

Will you be putting in the new footbridge too?

Thats the plan, although it may happen later, once I've been able to see the final installation and get some decent photos & measurements.

Cheers,

Tom.