Rosedale

This Templot system is obviously very impressive, versatile and developing. And you are making a very good job of it. I'm about to start flat bottom track building on my new layout and am, in comparison to you, going back to the stone age with copper clad sleepers for the pointwork. But I am likely to use wooden sleepers and spikes for the visible plain track. I think that a Templot flat bottom rail system is some way off!

It looks magnificient Brendan!

These look really good, well done - I look forward to seeing them in the flesh soon! The test will be conductivity and I cant see it being any different to the normal mild steel and maybe better if there's no rust or tarnishing?

Very good! What Slicer are you using? Thanks.

This looks to be a really interesting and absorbing project. Now, I'm biased as a long-term S-Scaler, but I agree with Timber that 1:64 S-Scale using OO track would be a great idea and would give you more railway for your space than using 7mm/O. The tender locos and longish trains would be better reproduced in S as well. There is a good range of figures and other scenic items available in S and instead of OO track you could use O-16.5 track from Peco for that Narrow-Gauge look?

Your Manning Wardle is absolutely superb JDB82. Its a great model, made even better by the painting and weathering which really brings it to life. These beautiful engines were worked hard and got dirty, so need to be weathered. Myrtle has been built in S Scale from the excellent 3D designed and printed parts and an etched chassis all produced by Timber. I need to add some dumb buffers like yours for the chaldron wagons. My lining is not the best (with a Rotring Pen and ink) but I have heavily weathered her. She now trundles the ironstone and potash from the Farndale mines into my layout, Blakey Rigg, and can easily pull 5 or 6 wagons. I'm delighted with her. She'll next be in action at the Normanton and Pontefract Show in late January.

They both look brilliant. Very fine design, building and finishing.

Thanks Marc, it was good to talk and I'm glad you liked the layout and scale. As you saw, S has a lot going for it, bigger than 4mm to make it easier to scratchbuild, but without the space penalty of 7mm. We have the same track systems as other scales and all sorts of other bits and pieces. And with 3D printing the sky's the limit!

Thanks Jim. I'm taking Blakey Rigg to EMGS North in Wakefield (19-20 August) and intend checking his stuff out.

Very impressive Brendan, good clean, square work. And very enjoyable I bet!

Brilliant Jim. I still have some of these wheels that Jim made in the SSMRS stores. They are very nice and I used a set on my NER Machine wagon which I sprung - Jim's parallel axles and bearings being ideal for springing. On a related note I now have the Willis 'Prickly Pear' sprung/compensated W Irons in stock in the Parts, likely to be £4.00 - £4.50 a set though due to the increased etching costs.

Good clean work. Very impressive and quick use of SSMRS Parts!

And now for something completely different. I have recently started using my AnyCubic Mono 4K printer to learn the delights of this dark art. First up was to print some parts designed by Aiden Love for a NER Bouch Brakevan which is now under construction for Blakey Rigg. But I have started planning for a new Irish Broad Gauge layout, a MGWR/GSWR small junction inspired by Crossdoney. I'm scratch-building a carriage truck and need a carriage to go on it. I found a Fusion design on-line for a Brougham carriage which I paid for and down-loaded. I then re-scaled all the parts in the design to 1:64. I had a few bad prints but refined the supports in the Lychee slicer until I was able to produce a decent set of parts. It's very small and I may change the colour, but I am very pleased with it. Alongside horse-boxes and butter vans, I will have a variety of vehicles to be taken off the backs of passenger trains and shunted into the end-loading bay (when it get's built!).

Amazing Michael. I do though like having the wooden sleepers as they look and stain like wood. Also, despite working closely to Templot plans I have still found that adjustments are needed here and there to get reliable running - I don't know why but the glued chairs to sleepers does allow for slicing off the old chair and replacing with 2 half chairs in the new adjusted position. But I salute you and Martin with Templot for this.

Very impressive and realistic Stephen. How did you paint them?