AdeMoore

On 09/01/2024 at 21:48, NHY 581 said:

Well, thats pretty much all of the track cut roughly to length. Final trimming/bending will be done when the track is actually laid. 

 

Here is where we are thus far. 

 

 

Rob

Ah Great a new layout arriving soon.

Just caught up with this excellent news, time to change my notification setting to every post and clog up my inbox but small price to pay not to miss anything from Abroad. (Cardiff is abroad)!) 

Looking good Rob will enjoy seeing this come together.

on another note S22 0-6-0 T Accurascale ? Nowt there? From a post a page or 2 back?

Cheers….

Thanks for the update Jeff, such sad news. My thoughts with Jonathan’s family.

Always enjoyed following his thread.

Sorely missed there is no doubt.

RIP as you say.

2 hours ago, ISW said:

Have you tried a fibreglass pencil to remove the 'ballast dust' from the sleepers. They are quite 'aggressive', and mind the bits of fibreglass that fly off! Keep a vacuum handy ...

 

Ian

Hi Ian,

No Tried that to be honest as they are painted with acrylic I’ve not tried anything other than water and a cotton bud.

I suspect the dust has gone into the acrylic as I doubt it was bone dry when I did the ballast! Not thinking there was I.

I guess I could try it though nothing to loose.

It was a mix of fine woodland scenics and my own crushed lightweight building block.

So I guess I’ll drop the real stuff in the mix next time.

Always learning and learning by mistakes!

Cheers.

Getting there on the tunnel mouth.
Foam and Light filler used to shape it.
Acrylic paint thrown on and a bit of basket liner and some commercial tufts added with Matt medium as the adhesive.
Below the section I’m working on.
 

Above a few straight cracks need more disguise! Should of ripped it all out when I decided to go higher rather than adding too.
Below the ballast is troubling me I’ve gone level with the sleepers in a place or 5 and it looks wrong. So started diggin out the ballast.

As those sleepers on the left below.
Also the actual stone in the ballast has dusted the sleepers and will not come off. So I’m in for repainting all those too 
 

Little update coming together a bit now.
Cheers for looking in and the likes.
Have a healthy and prosperous 2024 all.

What Deano said x2

Watching with interest.

Geoff has brought together, two formidable modellers in Dan and Tom.

The outcome will with no doubt be stunning.

Learning all the time!

Thanks for insight above.

On 21/10/2022 at 15:42, ISW said:

Platform Buildings Test

 

I believe that in an earlier posting I said that I was planning to make the Platform Buildings 10-bays long (based on each one being 16ft). Well, after I fiddled with the positioning of the Booking Hall Buildings that are on the overbridge (which, incidentally, are huge), and taking into account space needed for the staircase down to Platform level, it seems that I'll have to cut it back to 9-bays. And even that necessitates some 'infilling' of my existing Bay Platform (and track removal) to move the Platform Buildings along (southwards) the platform. The Bay Platform will still be long enough to fit a 2-car DMU though.

 

My thoughts therefore turned to finding out how exactly I was going to build these Platform Buildings using nothing more that cereal packets and inkjet printed textures.

 

Step one was to try and establish the overall dimensions for a couple of 'typical' 16ft long building bays. To that end I started scaling off a photo:

 

This was not easy because the photo is oblique to the photographer and so I had to be particularly careful to try and keep to 'planes' in the photo. After a while, quite ……..

Ian I’m probably talking out of turn! and royally teaching many how to suck eggs!

I know your well on with the buildings now, but the may be of use to others!

But changing the perspective as in the above to square on I use Lunapic  a great free photo manipulation website.

e.g.

Maybe of interest.

On 31/03/2022 at 18:28, ISW said:

RMWeb Reboot

 

Hmmm, the message at the top of RMWeb says "Images from the last year will be missing." Well, that currently isn't true. I've gone back as far as Page-11 and re-uploaded all the missing photos, which goes back to December 2020. However, there are images missing on Page-1 from 2018! Indeed, there are  still random missing images all the way through Page-1 to Page-10 inclusive.

 

Now, maybe (?) the 'system' will correctly re-allocate these missing images over the coming days. I sure hope so because it's taken ages to 'fix' the images on Page-11 to Page-19 inclusive.

 

Addendum: have now completed Page-7 to Page-10 (inclusive) as well.

 

Ian

Ian thanks for taking what must of been a considerable time to reload the images, they are the currency’ of the forum. There are large number of topics now devoid of images since the crash. Such a shame.

I did put off doing mine for a long time as I had duplicated my threads/topics over on WT. Couldn’t be bothered but I did eventually and mine took some while! So I can appreciate how long it took. I did it as @physicsman discussed doing so on his thread Gillhead. He’s disappeared off the web now shame another great topic.

So thanks for taking the time to make your topic enjoyable and whole again. Page 19 now I believe. 9 more to go.

Great stuff Tony love the missing loco list.

Been following this for a number of years your dedication is admirable to shrinking it to almost within shouting distance!

Great when they land with you from your builders or your own fair hands.

3 hours ago, ISW said:

I can offer you the following photo, taken in 1979 from an excursion train from Liverpool. The photo is looking towards rear of train (loco at both ends as no turning facilities at the destination, Meeth) in direction of Torrington.

 

Not sure if this helps?

 

Ian

Cheers Ian and welcome along! My half decent attempts are no comparison to your meticulous layout in the making!

But anyway brilliant contribution to the thread thanks, much more greenery than I imagined, as this would only be what 1966 to 1979 13 years after steam. I guess being riverside it would be good growing conditions. Depends how much the railway owned and the PW gang tackled it in the steam days.

Thanks  very  much.

On 17/03/2021 at 19:32, ISW said:

Mimic Panel Mount

 

After a bit of dilly-dabbling I finally pulled my finger out and set to building the mounts for the 2 Upper Level mimic panels. It was a bit warmer in the garage so I was able to knock out the various bits of timber required for the mounts. The design is very simple, a piece of plywood with an 'edge' at the bottom, and 2 angled pieces of timber on the back to give the desired viewing angle.

 

Here is the back with the ScrewFix metal flush-mount brackets attached:

 

Here are the corresponding flush-mount brackets on the edge of the Upper Level baseboard:

 

Once assembled it looks like this:

 

And when you add the mimic panel:

 

I'm quite pleased with the result, and I'm thankful to all who provided suggestions / photos from which I drew the necessary inspiration.

 

Ian

 

 

Ian been slowly reading through your excellent topic.

Now started page 15 so the above post marks the half way stage!

Most enjoyable read, yout planning attention to detail is mighty fine.

Onwards a few more pages before daylight on Christmas Day!

Excellent stuff, shame the Salisbury venue is not open to the  public!

Super modelling of a location close to my heart.

Merry Christmas and a Healthy and Prosperous New Year.

Great work Pete, looking mighty fine that terrace.

Remind me your chosen materials?

Slaters plastikard or is it papers? Perhaps neither!

Merry Christmas to you and Giles

Thanks for a great thread

Cheers

Ade

2 hours ago, Gedward said:

Thanks Ade.

Now that we're almost there, I'm looking forward to showing Bodmin Moor at my first ever exhibition, SWAG '24 in April and then Exmoor Rail in Minehead in June.

 

I’ll look forward to seeing you and Bodmin moor then. Missed SWAG this year, gonna make sure I’m there in 24!

Amazing work George.

Been at it recently, new job in September has helped new levels of energy! Though didn’t expect to be taking that course at 59 years of age! Company being bought out led to that.
So after trains ran where to start.
I thought about raising the viaduct baseboard as the viaduct is too high! That will be done but not yet.
Detailing the viaduct track bulks and viaduct itself, but not yet.
Building the narrow gauge base along the back. No.
Went with the embankment and tunnel and dew pond!
Not sure dew ponds are a thing in Cornwall they are around here in Somerset!
Sorry for the dark photos.
Ballasted and foam painted ready for soil and static grass.
Paint looked a bit dark!



The grass base on the right went in favour of a more rock cutting look as per the photo on my backscene as inspiration. Which is Trelill tunnel the only tunnel on the NCR.



Tunnel portal out the packet. Soil base paint altered wet still to more Cornwall. Rock form foam added ready to carve.



Not so red without additional light.



Sleepers still to be cleaned and ballast coloured as per Mike Buick‘s methods. First wash on the portal stonework.



Hanging basket liner added on right as a base layer.



Hanging basket liner as a static grass base. Not my idea but I saw the effect on Dan Everson’s layouts which always impresses so thought I’d give it a go.

Cheers
Until next time.

November 21st on WT version of this topic/thread! Forget which calls it what!

So over on Jon,s thread All change! Traditional trainset. No.3 in the series.
I kinda reignited some enthusiasm from Jon’s enthusiasm for his new project!
so this evening up to the train room! And who ballasted a yard of track before he realised he hadn’t painted it!
ah well did enjoy it hoovered it off and then set about painting it.
Completed a yard and a half maybe. So then I can ballast it! Plenty to go but that is from the tunnel mouth to the under bridge. See if I can get a section into greenery would be ideal!

Realise there is no brake rigging and I ought to add it. Was a eBay win!

So dark nights are here sat in front the telly box keeping Mrs Ade company.
Decided to weather my first ever loco!
No little tank or 0-4-0 loco for me .
Went straight in at the deep end. Work in progress but almost done.
Starting with how Lynton started out and how she ended up definitely not just done a few turn look more end of steam short of cleaning and maintenance.
Photo overload I couldn’t pick two! I thought would suffice!

I primarily used @NHY 581 Robs method
Post in thread 'The Sheep Chronicles. A Sheep dips his hooves in various bucolic backwaters.'
The Sheep Chronicles. A Sheep dips his hooves in various bucolic backwaters.
One of the Jedi masters of the art. I’ll never achieve that but it’s reasonable I’ll suggest!
Comments and further advice appreciated.

1 hour ago, APT Fan said:

 

 

The returns feel a bit tight for four tracks.

 

I've been experimenting with the curves

 

The fixed track is 4th radius.

 

Following the advice, I've been looking at the curves but I can't quite get my head around the 'gentle curve' concept? I was thinking that the four tracks would roughly run down the centre of both the South and North sections and the returns to give space either side for some features. I'm just not sure when to start curving from a straight.

Never have it too bright in my opinion at my age!

on the curves funny enough 4th radius is generous on a lot of layouts mine included! But looks tight on your generous space! The flexy looks better and really I’d start the curve maybe 2 lengths of track before that with the space you have real nice gentle curve. No need to go straight bang up the middle of the board either as someone mentioned above. Not going parallel to the edges of the boards adds interest and looks better on the eye.

Below looks a helpful aid no personal experience.

Hi APT, Nice space you have created there.

With the insulation and windows a truly all year round space.

I can’t comment on your chosen era or DCC I do neither!

I’m presuming 4mm 00 gauge?

But for me I’d buy some boxes of track and some joiners and have a play around with it.

You’ve plenty of space to do the WCML justice.

Some advice I read and followed was get some trains running first.

I was going down the road of I’ll spilt the layout up into chunks and concentrate on bringing an area up to scenically done one area at a time. Good idea but you lose interest.

As a lone modeller and not in a club or anything I use YouTube extensively.

I can offer some inspiration for you there!

Everad Junction https://youtube.com/@EverardJunction?si=3tUJ80H5Ogo6VHVk with Richard has a thread on here too. More your era.

Dean Park https://youtube.com/@DeanPark?si=DfKYpqmt19PVrbMT you’ll have to scroll right back on the video tab to get some building content.

Dave at McKinley for what’s ultimately  achievable, and train automation though not autonomously https://youtube.com/@dattouk?si=sb8bLGTsBOFyu936https://youtube.com/@dattouk?si=sb8bLGTsBOFyu936

Richard at New Junction this garage version is not to far into the build so inspiration there. ECML though. https://youtube.com/@NewJunction?si=5AEyD2pcEYpnsOsA 

Finally the master in my opinion Canadian based and HO scale but amazing results that are transferrable to any scale Boomer! https://youtube.com/@boomerdioramas?si=X9TE298Cu84XkuLY .

Those will keep you inspired.

Best thing I can leave with is get your track sound deadening material right makes a huge difference to your enjoyment.

I actually use 5mm foam board.

I got trains running now I’m away!

 All the best with it I’ll be following along.

Cheers

7 hours ago, NHY 581 said:

Evening all. 

 

For those who were unable to make the trip to Uckfield, here's a lovely overview. 

 

http://www.uckfieldmrc.co.uk/exhib23nf.html

 

 

Enjoy, 

 

Rob

Excellent little review and virtual exhibition, thanks for sharing that Rob.  

I can only echo the above sentiments.

All the best George and have a speedy 100% recovery.

Also the modelling skill on display here is stunning.