rouse2037

Wow awesome looking loco there me old fruit!

What a shine on that dome!! 

Looking forward to a trundle

Roger

Sent poolside in Gran Canaria !  

Yep! Shall we go in boiler suits & flat cap? "by 'eck lad"   -  like a bad Mony Python sketch!

I'm still dithering on the hows and maybes on circling the railway room with a "test track" - would be great for watching trains and running in a Dean Goods...

with a pint or 2 of course.  (BTW - Lidel are doing Jennings "Cock a Hoop" for 99p a bottle!)

mmmm Dads Delight!

Roger

Superb bit of engineering there Dave - very impressed

Looking forward to seeing it running.

Cheers pal

Roger

She's stoney faced as always - must be all the trundling around and falling off the wagon..

Cissie Braithwaite and Ada Shufflebotham meanwhile, continue to adjust their bosoms.

Roger

This looks superb Dave - I will be watching this like a thing that watches something.

Humbly yours

Roger

I like what i see - Great progress there Ian.

How many car spots will there be in all?

Will the building at rear right have an opening through the APA box too?

Keep posting!

Roger

Looking very good so far - i'll be following this!

I have an assembled APA in the railway room waiting for work to begin plus several Pikestuff kits itching to be built!

What will you use as a sub base in the box for the track etc to go on Ian?

Roger

roG'Ner

Looks great Al - very nicely done indeed.

Not long to the L&B show!

Cheers

Roger

Thanks both for looking and for the kind words.

Neptune Road and I will be at the Lord and Butler show, Old Pumping Station, Cardiff, on fathers day weekend in a few weeks time. My main concern is 100% reliable Kadees!

Stu - I really like the way you use the tension locks and magnets.

Cheers

Roger

Good article Mikkel. Always an interesting subject!

I'm tempted to use C&L on my next micro.

Thanks for posting the pics

Roger

Brilliant work. Thanks for posting it.

Roger

Excellent stuff! Nice one matey

Roger

Hi Kelly

Was good to meet you and chat 2mm etc.

Glad you enjoyed the show!

Keep us up to date with your project as it goes along

Roger

And 2 pals once up-ended a Relaint Robin onto it's back door in a blokes drive way. He used to wash it every Saturday and then give it a coat of exterior gloss paint on the Sunday - every week! Was rather heavy with all that gloss.

Oh Matron!

You are awful.... but I like you!

Roger

"Nice pair of Grampuses you have there, my good fellow" said young Holmes..

Thanks Ramblin and Russ

Hopefully my old pal Marc "Sparky" Smith will be able to pop over and get a few snaps done very soon. My digital camera is ok but he's a whiz with all that malarky!

Thanks for looking in

Cheers

Roger

Hello Ian

Yes, I was that proud owner of Brunswick. I took it to the Cardiff show in 2008 and spent a great weekend shunting the yard. It worked perfectly and had much interest. However, several months later the lure of larger scales and a move away from 2FS meant it went off to pastures new.

It was and I'm sure still is, a great classic micro.

Best wishes

Roger

Interesting plan and idea though. How about a wagon repair works on an inglenook theme?

Roger

Cheers pal

It's all your fault you know!

Roger

Cheers Mikkel - glad you liked them.

I'm glad I gave it a go - I blame that Marc Smith for all his ideas and thinking!

I have plans for yet another micro and will either use the bit i have left over or go and buy a new piece. I really really shouldn't start another but well, you know what it's like!?!

Off to the Pontypridd show tomoz - there may be some bargain items to chuck my cash at

Roger

He can't park it there - that's my space!

Looks superb Chris!

Cheers

Roger

Thanks Mikkel.

I'd been wanting to build one for a while and now that i have, it's kept me amused for hours. Dare I say it, but it's the best layout that i have built that has felt "right"!

The loft insulation foam is great stuff. It comes in a pinky orange colour. Really light in weight and indeed very easy to cut. I used a saw to cut it to the required width - i kept the length as it was. I have heard a comment that you should wear a mask as the dust it gives off is a bit nasty. I did the cutting outside anyway and used common sense! As for mess, it was just like cutting wood really and not bad at all. Certainly nowhere near as bad as polystyrene!!

The surface of it did need a light sanding in places to get it smooth but on areas covered with ground cover/ballast etc that wouldn't really matter. I laid track directly onto it and used pva to hold the track in place and then ballasted in the usual way with no problem at all.

Cheers

Roger

PART THE 6TH - SHUNTING

Taken from

The Diary of a Cambrian Spotter

"Friday 18th March

Bunked off school today, made 2 jam sandwiches and pinched some pop. Cycled off to the sidings at the end of Neptune Road.and saw some hectic shunting going on. A tatty 63'er had already arrived and the driver was having a fag with Dai over by the hut. I hid behind a pallet just in case. After a bit, the driver set to work shunting. There were a mix of vans and opens and Dai's dog Skip was sitting in the old PW wagon. He looked bored as he got shunted about a bit until the 5 vans had been gathered in the long siding. The driver and his mate shut the engine off and went off for dinner. I got stung by a wasp and went home.."

I must say I do like the look of this, lovely atmosphere & "impressionist" backscene!

 

It does seem ironic to have freely spinning pinpoint wheelsets & then have to increase their resistance - but I do understand why! Thanks for the tip, I am about to try out some EZ mate Kadee clones & might have to do the same.

Thanks for looking and for your comment RR.

Rightly or wrongly, I do take time to look at backscenes on pictures in rail mags and at shows. Some people say you shouldn't "notice" a good backscene... others say it's the key to a good layout... Each to their own opinion. But I have seen many a good layout look, not wrong or spoilt exactly, but just not quite right because of the way the backscene has been done.

Please let me know how you get on with the EZ couplings. I agree about the wheels - they spin so freely these days!

Cheers

Roger

Could you tell me how you added resistance to the wheels?

I added a small piece of foam under the axle between the axle and the underside of the wagon so that the axle rubs on it enough that the wheels won't spin too freely. A careful dab of glue will hold it place if needed. Thanks to a tip on here!

Cheers

Roger

If the track in the foreground really has lost a rail, would there be some sort of block across the track to prevent derailing ?

Prevent derailing and falling off the edge of the "world" onto the floor! lol. Since Marc took the pic, a nice rotting pile of old sleepers is now in place, angled slightly so the stock hits the PW hut and not me feet! Especially at a show when i'm too busy talking!!

Cheers pal

Roger