bazzer42

On 08/03/2023 at 20:35, Alex TM said:

Hi @bazzer42,

 

Really like this little layout.

 

The following may amuse you; it's a suggested plan for another layout based on the same prototype.  If you follow the link and scroll down the page a little you'll see what I mean:

 

https://paxton-road.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-quart-into-pint-pot-looe-branch.html

 

Regards,

 

Alex.

Hi Alex, I picked up that blog after looking unsuccessfully for his book.  I do like his Drinnick mill plan and wonder whether the essence of that could be shoehorned into a wrapping box layout.  I love a challenge!

On 09/03/2023 at 09:07, marc smith said:

Nice looking micro @bazzer42
I was fortunate to take a trip on the Looe branch a couple of years back - and it really is a lovely little line. This micro is definitely reminiscent of that line.

Are you intending on using a sector plate, or cassettes for the fiddle yard?

I'm using a fiddle stick that clips on using picture frame clips.  These don't give a tight fit but stop it from moving.  I'm sure we did the trip in the mid sixties whilst on holiday.  It was a end of holiday toy shop treat as I recall, the Corgi Mobilgas tanker sticks in my mind more than any journey...

A bit of greenery added, those lamp posts still awaiting glue!  Keeping the timescale vague somewhere between 1960 and early 80s...

I'm for corrugated as you do wrinkly tin well.  Undecided on chimney but would need to go at the non door end.  It is a lovely building, sometimes you see a building and know it needs to be modelled.

Much ado about nothing.  Pleased with the Gaugemaster Faller silo kit.  The bargain peco office kit would have been a steal if the doors, walls and windows were in the "sealed" kit. Never mind full refund received.   

Funny how a mental track plan never pans out on the board.  I really fancied a kick back through a crossover to the grain unloading mill (where the wagons are in the picture).  It may still work to a degree but limits options at the far end of the layout.

Sunday night so time to check if Ebay has any more bargain office kits!

Any tips for removing ici logos from your Janus?

Look after yourself Jack.  Mr Sheep on the  main layout forum produces some fantastic layouts using plant and go buildings.  It's how they are used and as you say those two buildings have a lovely light railway touch about them.

Slow but steady. The Artitec sides are painted and await the etched ladders. One of the brick sides has a nice resin bow that boiling water failed to correct.  I have sliced it in the rear (oo-er)  hoping it will straighten with a contact adhesive when glued.. Gaugemaster silos and a bargain peco office block are on their way. The latter will hopefully bash into a two storey control/admin office. Can't make my mind up on the grainflows, the Lima looks chunky but has the right axle boxes.  Tis only a train set but...

Firstly, apologies for the quality of the last post.  More "I have's" than you can shake a stick at. 

In that vein though, I have sliced the baseboard and added a 3mm MDF backboard. Total weight so far 6lb (seeing as we are reviewing whether pounds and ounces should return).  Thought a picture of the foamboard under the styrodur might be interesting.

Bought an Ian Futers book the weekend and already thinking Scottish after this....

A third attempt at a wharf layout.   The first used a recycled wooden baseboard giving 12 foot of cumbersome layout.  The second was the other extreme using styrodur and foam board. A great idea but backscene paint soon destroyed the straightness of the foamboard.  I built two of these at 4 foot x 16" so decided one can be cut down to 12" and used as the west end of a larger wharf.  I have stock for steel, grain and fertilisers and a red Janus that runs nicely.

I have some artitec dock edging that needs using and now a gaugemaster crane (an interesting build....).  I also have the huge Walthers crane made up but not for this layout!  I have the walthers grain depot that can be cut down and plenty of walthers industrial units for kit bashing warehousing.  I like the look of the gaugemaster silos but a bit wary after the crane build.  3 sidings with a kick back for shunter/internal wagon storage.  Is would like to build a double storey office/control tower to mask the entrance although double portacabins would be easier.

I have a peco code 100 3 way point that may be the throat of the layout. I did wonder whether code 100 track would allow me to ballast over the sleepers.

This would have been Flaxborough wharf after the Colin Watson novels but has to be Eden for personal reasons.

PS the foamboard backscene was placed at 12 inches width on the board originally but it blew,over and broke the crane 🙄

I'm afraid I'm too lazy to repost all my pictures so here is a reminder...

2 hours ago, TechnicArrow said:

Fantastic work! The trackwork and ground cover definitely looks better than what I usually manage to pull off, and I really enjoy the lane and fence in the foreground - the view of the '37 over the roofs of the cars looks perfectly proportioned. Maybe it just needs a figure leaning on the fence to add a hint of life to the scene?

Thanks Mr Arrow, I do need to start adding some figures including the guy with a briefcase to hide my lighting cable.....  Another shot from yesterday.

The end is nigh, just need to add some platform detail.  A few pictures with a Welsh flavour after buying a duff Welsh class 121 that I managed to de-duff 

Hope the show goes well.  John G is my wife's uncle and every year we say we must go to the show.  At least I can boast driving a Lister on the line the 80s before it became anything like it is today.

On 15/01/2022 at 17:23, Nathaniel said:

The lane to the office is a really nice addition to  the scene. Really enjoy your photos of your layout.

Thanks N.  I have to say it's the first time I've built something that I enjoy operating.  Think I would like to try an inglenook or tuning fork style layout.

Not a lot to show for a month but less Christmas time than anticipated.   Felt the portakabin with the orange door fitted better with BR vehicle.  Really hate those ratio post holes but think it might look worse if tried to fill them.  Hornby site hut may go in the warehouse. Should have checked clearances,  the sliding door wagon can only enter one way and the cargowaggon misses a fence post by a mm at the tightest point.  After a fence from the hut on the far left we are almost ready to glue details to the platform.

PS glad the layout isn't any longer, trusty gaugemaste can't cope with the Dapol 121s for more than a run in and out....

A lovely layout and pleased I'm glad I'm not the only one with ideas in their head they need to get down on a baseboard.  I liked your holiday comment - the build up is the best part of Christmas and I always set myself a target (but not a layout in a week!).

Thought it would be clever to take a picture of the fiddleyard entrance. It would have been if I hadn't knocked the Basetoys crew bus on to the floor breaking it into 4 pieces. Guess which way that's going to be parked!?!

Bit of groundcover between the head shunt and platform but still no warehouse lights. One of those jobs that might have been easier if all the lighting had been done in one go.  Thinking of using the area at the front as a gated pull in for some BR vehicles. The plan is for the horsehair to become a small bramble patch.  Hopefully the second shot of the warehouse shows that the fiddleyard warehouse extension does actually line up (crooked in the last post).

The layout is looking good. I think I have blue skies as I only (selectively) remember summer holidays of wall to wall sunshine!  My wife is a farmer's daughter and assures me her summer holidays were when the weather broke and dad couldn't make hay...

Keep posting, it's nice to watch layouts as they develop.

Thank you big D, after looking through the warehouse siding I decided that extending it into the fiddleyard was needed too. I still need to get the lights into the warehouse and would like to get it permanently sited before Christmas kicks off.

If it was a vote on the four names I'm for Burnstow.

For once something went well, time for some ground (cork tile) cover.

Decided I needed to complete the far corner before securing the industrial unit. A disused signal box may be a cliche but it was a good chance to use a box from 25 years ago.  That said, the amount of butchering to fit made me wonder.  Hoping to extend the scenery into the fiddle yard so playing around with backscene options, I think it works.

The bay provided a parcels rail car. 55995 was certainly seen near Newport so could have run to my terminus from Cardiff. Another super runner.