jon_1066

Love the look of that hillside. Put me down for no vent. You want to give the impression the tunnels head off out of your wall not curve around and join up. If you really must have one put it in line or perhaps on the actual horizon in half relief since there is not a lot of space for one.

I think they look great. The main stand out difference in "quality" between these and other offerings in this thread is in weathering. Once you get them bedded in on the layout and weathered there is no reason to think they won't look just as good.

Those points look fantastic. However you have reached this method it will be worth it as the look you have achieved is second to none.

I like this one http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-50TH-ANNIVERSARY-COLLECTION-A4-PACIFIC-MALLARD-MODEL-R649-NEW-UNOPENED-/121143374380?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item1c34b5322c It's "new and unopened" and the photo shows - you guessed it - an opened box.

I like how it is kit built and has a factory fitted decoder.

I find the best way is to simply drag a piece of flexitrack (or fixed radius bend) onto the board and adjust that to get the correct angle then drag your point to connect onto it. Here is my proposed layout in Scarm. I should hopefully be doing the noisy work this weekend - building the baseboards - to let me tinker in the evenings once the kids are in bed. It's inspired by the south half of Cambridge station set 1948-56. It has the two bay platforms of the ex LNWR Bletchley lines and one part of the main platform (all half length). In this alternate reality Cambridge will be transformed into a terminus with suburban trains from Kings X and Liverpool St plus the Oxford trains and an express service from Liverpool St. Lob in a few goods trains and it becomes quite a hectic timetable. I have crunched a 1947 LNER timetable I found on the net to give an idea of the running order for trains. A full weekday will be 58 arrivals and departures without the goods so more than enough to keep me busy. If I get running rights over more of the room I can extend it to create a loop to allow through trains to Ely, Yarmouth and Peterborough. I have intentionally not provided run-arounds so a station pilot will be very busy. In essence it is a shunting layout with coaches being the main things being shunted. It is nearly all Honby set track and flexi as that is what I have. All the wiring is pretty much confined to one board. All points will be hand of god and the odd stall will be remedied likewise. Construction will be 9 mm ply with 2 by 1 bracing underneath. Existing chest of drawers will fit under and between the legs. The fiddle yard will be by cassettes of various lengths. The express will be four coaches with a buffet (MK1s or the forthcoming Bachmann Thompsons), suburbans will be three coaches (I have some Mark 1s but may invest in some more variety - eg ex LNER Gresleys) and the lowly line to Oxford two ex LMS coaches. Motive power will be a mix of tanks (N2s and L1s for the King X suburbans), 4-4-0s (for the Liverpool St suburbans - probably have to be a stand in as no ready to run Holden D16s available) and B1s and B17s on the express with perhaps the odd appearance of an A4 (as I really like them). Also a couple of midland 2MT and 4MT for the Oxford line so a nice mix of motive power. The goods and loco facilities are obviously woefully small so the theory is the main ones are off scene and these are sub sheds. Carriage storage will be on the lowest road. Parcels can be shunted into the siding above the station. Also scope for cutting out the buffet car for servicing on this siding. It should hopefully keep me modelling for some time as I intend to try scratch building the station buildings, road bridge and the low relief warehouses and a flour mill. If I feel really brave I may try to build a D15 from a kit. But I should also be able to play trains relatively quickly since there is not that much track. If I succeed in getting the baseboards built I will hopefully start a Layout topic for it.

Looks like two snipers bid at the pretty much the same time.

Looking good. Only comment would be to pick out some of the darker stones. If you look at the real thing the natural stone colour varies with some distinctly darker stones not from weathering but from their natural colour. Yours lacks these colour changes. So before weathering I would suggest mixing up slightly darker colours (more honey like) and applying them to a select few.

I love Scarm and think its great. The 3D is brilliant to get a feel for what you're going to build and how it will look. Cheers for the rolling stock - really handy.

Love your structures - that shed is brilliant. With the hanging basket liner you could try the glue and rip method. That is glue it down then once the glue has set pull it off. It should leave suitable vegetation behind. It makes it go further and also disguises its origin. Apologies if this is teaching you to suck eggs.

My understanding of post war reconstruction was that it was slow paced and was unlikely to have been completed by 1947. Hence all the NCP car parks on old bomb sites. Many old bomb sites lasted well into the 70's (though I doubt prime land in the centre of bath would have been left that long)

This is epic. That train looks brilliant just with the backscene. It also gives perspective to the whole build and the size of it all/how much work there is to do. Re the track laying. Could you work on two boards at a time? i.e. scenics on the first board and loosely lay the track on the second. Once you have got the bulk of the scenics done on the first move onto the second whilst erecting and loosely laying the track on the third. This will give you enough wiggle room each time to ensure things match up.

Immense project - definitely keep posting. Much prefer second rainbow. I imagine it will be very difficult to get something looking convincing. Personally on a project of this scale the rainbow would be a nice to have at the end as part of the detailing.

It is far easier to use set curves if you want a set curve radius. What you could experiment with is a transition in and out in flexi with a set curve in the middle of the curve.