ThePurplePrimer

Superb !

I hope Nearholmer will allow a small hijack from me. This thread has been nagging away at me as I have had a half baked idea in the back of my head for a while now ( I even started collecting a few kits - any excuse eh ? ) .The images here only make me more encouraged to think more seriously about the idea. My day job has me striving more and more for realism and increased detail and while I enjoy that I can't help feeling that something so much simpler might be more enjoyable for my own 'layout' - really more of a moving diorama / No, a moving collection I guess. The last few pictures here have tipped me over the edge, so I wanted to prove to myself it just would not work! So I grabbed some cork and some OO setrack - and of course it just looked like what it was. So I roughly sanded the edge of the cork, flooded it with a thin dark umber wash followed by a pink ( yes pink ) drybrush - hmmm. Then I painted the track a dark flat brown and polished the rail top .... My half baked idea is to collect and build Airfix and Rosebud / Kitmaster kits ( make a few Ratio items too ) , motorise a few locos , paint ( simply ) some airfix figures complete with their bases. Moving version of scenes inspired by these box tops ... Sorry again for the hijack - I won't make a habit of it I promise.

The video is excellent as is the layout

There is something about this that I find really very appealing. Can I ask what your plans are re ballasting - it looks like the track is laid onto cork and I am guessing that might be the finished effect ?

Some fantastic work there I will be keeping an eye on this thread I think

Hi guys I am planning on building some O gauge trackwork using Peco code 124 individulay items They do sleepering - running chairs and slide chairs - all in plastic I will be building to 0-MF standards with 1.5mm flangeways and 1.75 through the checkrails. With only the single type of 'normal' chair available it means I am going to have to chop chairs down for clearance - for eg between the running rail and the checkrail. Due to the fact I am building short and tight turnouts my checkrails are only supported by 4 timbers so I need to get as much support as I can from the chairs but also need to chop them down quite a bit to get the 1.75 required between the rails. Has anyone here made track using these components - if so could you offer some advice - or photos of how you did it please PS - I know C&L offer more chair options but for this project I would like to stick to the Peco parts ( the Peco rail is different in profile )

I really like this Loads of atmosphere in a very small space

I will be watching this with interest

Peco on Twitter - I can't wait to get a piece to try ( ie look at ) "Coming Soon: OO scale Bullhead Track. This pic is of the first sample off the machine." https://t.co/3nbxF9YWyw

Rob is quite right - there is no where to park a car on that road for maybe a mile in each direction.

Those figures look superb - I would love to see some paint on those

That tunnel is actually a cool place to stand. You can hear the whistle before it enters the other end of the tunnel - then a deep deep rumble just before it appears and then of course the train itself appears at the mouth and into the deep cutting - as it gets say 100 yards from the mouth the loco suddenly gets bathed in sunlight. Then one thing I especially liked was the steam billowing out of the tunnel mouth long after the train had gone out of sight and earshot. ' the ghost of locos passed '

What AGAIN !!!!

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It's a mystery .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . But not on The Orient Express !