bazzer42

I've found this thread more and more intriguing to the extent I feel I need to try the books. Is there a chronological order or can you pick up anywhere?

Please keep the pictures coming.

The canopy went together well. The tts chip has had a replacement speaker and will just about shoehorn in under the 37 body.

 

I think track laying will have to be next on the list as the dries will sit on a concrete standing.

Don't know if this is usual but seem to be constructing buildinģs before track laying. Think the curve on this roof will be fun to get square.

Thanks to the forum for its decoder advice for tts chips. Now have a blue 37 running fairly smoothly just awaiting a re number and Cornish railways logos.

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Thanks Mr Aac, I Think we have a plan. I have perched the baseboard on a shelf and have to say it is much easier to visualise where you. I have settled with using the sliding sector instead of points and having the entry to the works off-stage. With a plàtform at the front of the layout I am beginning to wonder whether I should rename it StMinionsMelangoosePontsMill. Decided to use a signal box to view block the entry point of the run round loop and a warehouse canopy to disguise the entry to the works.

That's the plan!

Seemed to have lost the attachment option.

Had a similar experience trying to do track in fills, perhaps that is why Mr Nevard ballasts first so only a thin layer is used. I'd still like to try clay again, I think....

Hoping to get to Cardiff, will keep an eye out.

Looking at your photos, you could also consider how Melangoose was devised:

 

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/69983-melangoose/page-1 

 

 

aac

That layout has got me wondering whether I should have the run round loop entrance off stage in the fiddle yard. If I go point on the main stage I had considered a signal box and level crossing but not sure it works as a double track. I have almost finished a sliding fiddle yard using kitchen drawer runners so at least it should be an operational layout.

Looking good, I would go matt black as well.

Does anyone else start a build and then lose mojo? I’m currently building - and really enjoying - a Parkside 16 tonner but layout enthusiasm is really low.

Glad it's not just me. I swing between 7/8th scale in the garden and trying to finish a 4mm layout.  The loss of mojo and the swing back to 4mm came suddenly this year, it usually coincides with dark nights.  I think there is substance in the comment above about getting track down so you start to see a picture.

 

I really hope I get Pengwith "finished".

Have you seen Minions? Link attached:

 

www.rmweb.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=25462

 

aac

Hi Thanks for that. I have to say that was the layout that convinced me China clay could be done in a small space. It is an interesting thread which I've had open on a tab for ages.

Thanks for the Trevanna thread. I have seen it before but when I started looking recently couldn't find it although I did stumble upon Tremore and have wondered whether my memory was playing (the memory is wearing out rapidly!).

Thanks for that. I have heard of Coombe junction but hadn't considered it as a potential solution other than possibly the path beside the track. Looking at Cornish railway society page I'm wondering whether I can time warp the original passing loop back into existence in the 80s. There is also a lovely shot of an asbestos (?)clad building backing onto the platform.

 

It also gives a level crossing or stream option at the entry point from the fiddle yard. I like the options this is giving me.

 

Thanks again, I have an ancient Model Railway Constructor magazine in the attic with a 9 x1 model based on Coombe junction. It was basic by modern standards but had something that appealed to me even with the Hornby ringfield 37.

I seesaw between 4mm and 7/8th inch to the foot scale so it's long time no post. My previous attempt at a micro floundered through a poorly planned fiddle yard.

This layout will live against a wall so I want to build a sliding sector plate at one end. That should resolve the yard issue but suggests that entry/exit roads have to be at the front half of the layout. I have a soft spot for Ponts Mill and want to have some form of dries along the back. I'm a novice in the micro design but beginning to think that entry to the clays is probably better from the fiddle yard thus saving space. I'm fairly certain about this aspect of the model but very unsure about the front of the layout.

I want a small halt as an excuse to run a 121 in and out. I am struggling to envisage whether better to have the platform at the face of the layout or set back, say, 3 inches. I want the run in to start double tracked for a run round. I'm also wondering how to blend an industrial backdrop with little used passenger facilities.

Am I clogging the whole thing up (or pushing the boundaries of realism too far) by adding a short siding for a variation in stock?

If anyone has any ideas or suggestions I'd be interested. Maybe the picture will help...maybe it won't.

 

Pengwith came from a house name in Marazion whilst on holiday in Cornwall two weeks ago.

The picture of the GUV on the bridge is so Temple Meads for me.  Driven past the station for nigh on thirty years and that picture is as it used to be ....when it was more interesting.  Thanks for the shot.

If the 08 is only just clipping I would opt for A. Would some good file work be enough? With some nice grubby paint and/or some weathering powders nobody will be any the wiser.

I would go something lower so you can see more of that dark sky that looks so good with the warehouses. The sort of day to send the apprentice out to do the dirty work whilst you sit by the stove and study form for the 3.30 at Kempton.

Paul a Lunn seems to take a broader view and seems to quite happily come up with micro designs that are 6 x 2 in some cases. In my eyes it is about being self contained, portable and easily stored.

 

My 6x1 I have posted as a micro using these criteria to justify it to myself, sorry if it is in the wrong part of the forum. My inspiration to actually build came from Carl's p84, Northleigh, a 4 foot layout with a 2 foot fiddle yard he adds defensively.