AdeMoore

Where’s the wow button! Excellent modelling Calvin. Cheers Ade

Blimey Calvin some great modelling going on there. Yes I’d say Layout Topics here where you have it is the right place for this. I note your flag stones on the street scene how did you do those? I also think I recognise the pub? Actual location? Like your track plan to what did you use for that? Interested in the layout and room sizes to. Looking forward to more. Cheers Ade

I fitted some with spray glue for flooring about 18 years ago for my sons layout, recently hauled out the loft, still just as good and flexible as the day I did it. Cheers Ade

Google earth will do it but only at certain locations where 3D resolution has been mapped. Identified by a greener landscape in 2D with straight edges along the boundary. As seen below Cheddar Gorge is bang in the middle of the 3D band of mapping. The only draw back is you can only really get aerial shots of the 3D, nothing achievable at ground level. A couple examples below of as low and tight as I could get it via the app. Hope that helps, but I’ve no idea on your original quest. Cheers Ade

Cheers Fairburn, I’ll be finishing the signal box and station first.What you say about the shorter and longer sides I had not thought of, so thanks for the heads up on that. I think you are right on that. Cheers Ade

That bridge is some fantastic work Peter, really impressive to look at. Deserves to be seen. Cheers Ade

Lovely photos Tom, Looking very realistic, I do like your plain back scene itadd something less is more. Is there more to it than what appears just offf white/welsh grey sky colour painted on a board? Cheers Ade

Cheers I’m in two minds as you are neither near nor far far. Let me know. Ta.

Hi Teaky, Looks ok for a beginner like me where are you located? Cheers Ade

Brilliant, I get it now to flat. I knew yours was up another level, another trick of yours shared many thanks. Cheers Ade

Simon looking good, all for being easy Kevin Tregunna off YouTube paints the insulation board brown and goes straight at it with the static grass, grant you it’s not to a standard of your layout but may be worth a trial? 5.26 in. Cheers

Cheers Joseph I believe you could well be right.I’m gonna get a couple of packs of the Wills product ordered up, then see the viability of that route. I’m planning on in my head 4th radius curve 572mm. Yet to put template to paper. Cheers Ade

Thanks Edwin I hear what your saying but! I love a but don’t you I’ve found a photo of its demolition in 1977 or 78. Shows it well and I know a camera can skew things but a straight edge on the photo blown up shows it curved via short sections angled a bit to the next one.As for the aerial shots thanks Gordon I’ve found a dozen I expect myself but great info. Thanks. All for the melting pot. Until next time Cheers Edit to put photos back in.

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Thanks for all the great replies, but as Pete The Elaner says probably best to have a crack at it and see how it goes. But telling if its curved or not I think as Snooper says its short sections slightly off set. three more pic's to add to the debate! On the people on the viaduct one you can see the rail bulks are in straight sections compared to the curve of the steel. The other two the bottom one the section beyond the handrail does look curved in sections looking at the bottom edge against the river. Photo Credits I think to the Cornwall Railway Society I'll have to check when I get home. Until next time Cheers.

So as you’ll see in the link bottom of my signature, I’m embarking on Barnstaple Town’ish! The curved steel/cast viaduct is quite a feature I would like to represent. Seen Here. This video shows it well. So I’ve found this https://www.track-shack.com/acatalog/Wills-SS57-OO-Scale-Vari-Girder-Plate-Girder-Panels-Plastic-Kit-Wills-SS57.html WILLS SS57 OO SCALE VARI-GIRDER PLATE GIRDER PANELS - PLASTIC KIT I’m wondering if it’s worth trying to bend it heat? Gently or slot Vee cuts out. There is what looks like a 1.1/2 width panel on each span but a dremel can soon sort that out. Or do the viewers think just get some plastikard and crack on. Now rivets! Are Archers the best bet? 2 lovely lines of them along the top as seen in the video. The main track bed will be 3.6mm ply and probably wood dowel for the columns. Are they 2ft diameter anyone know? All comments greatfully received. Cheers Ade

Hi Chris, Thanks for looking in, excellent resource you have put together there, most of it Witchcraft to me talking signaling, obviously a pet subject of yours. Hope you didn’t mind me sharing it? I’ve now only zoomed in and seen the ©️At the bottom of the page and your email address. Which I would guess was a means to gain permission to share. The advertising on the page threw me a bit, it didn’t give the feel of a copyrighted website, but no excuses I didn’t really look that hard. So apologies for sharing without asking. Until next time Cheers

Dave as it happens I do love brown sauce! Trouble is I’m to eager to see something finished and it all takes far to long for someone as impatient as me! Once I’ve got the station buildings done I’ll mount them on the first board once I've built it! Then I’ll decide which way I’ll head with it east or west. Looking forward to building the curved viaduct though.Cheers Ade

So Christmas fun with my new N class and coaches done. Time to plan. I’m gonna have to stretch history a bit as my period late fifties early sixties the track layout was just a single line. So for interest my track plan will be this. From here http://www.trainweb.org/railwest/railco/sr/barn-town.html#Town to zoom and see it better reproduced. This find is interesting the 1935 track layout above appears little changed from this ?1898? film I’ve already researched the Taw viaduct, river Taw is 1756mm wide in 4mm scale 134m actual bank to bank. So my hope of even modelling the river to scale width is a none starter! I would like to go from the Taw viaduct to Pottington signal box compression will be needed, a roll of lining paper will be coming out next to draw up a likeness. 1892 to 1914 OS those below still about the same as 1935. Until next time. Cheers .

Great stuff Andrew, looks brilliant track senics everything TBH. Looking forward to more updates all the best for 2019. Cheers Ade.

Simon, simply epic as others have said words can’t describe it. The scale is immense, the whole thing so realistic. Top of the top layouts on here when it’s done for sure. Look forward to seeing it. Cheers Ade.

Thanks Bill it’ll be a slow burner. Made a start on the mortar and bricks painting. Cheers for ref. Added 16/02/2020 as couldn’t find it at first. Newly found link on the Greenwood box Website £5.75 Here

Cracking stuff Al, Weathering is spot on, looking at the ash stuck to the top of the boiler through to the cab lovely observation that, I take that’s you not Hornby!? Just about see the box in the last photo and it looks as shopped not weathered. The tender side etc etc all spot on. Cheers Ade

Stunning stuff Tom lovely line up. This is gearing up to be a top notch layout. Cheers Ade

Thought I’d share the beginnings of a long term project. A 00 gauge layout based on Barnstaple Town, I’m a relative new comer so all advice greatly received. My topic here http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/136536-estuary-coastal-layout-based-on-southern-railway-barnstaple/page-2 has sown the seeds. Been a S&D fan for more years than I care to remember but more recent holidays to the Padstow and the Ilfracombe area have swung my interest to Southern, well more Southern than the S&D which was a fair bit Southern. So as you’ll see from the above link I decided to go for it. If you see my Wantage Tramway No. 5 topic you’ll see I was seriously ill in the beginning of the year and I took ownership of my sons extended oval 5ft x 3ft roughly on 2 boards. Just as an interest indoors to keep me ticking along and recovering. After a lapse of 18 years doing any modelling. WTW no. 5 Jane scratch build was a big ask for a first build and I’m certainly struggling with it, so a change of focus to this will help I’m sure and I’ll return to it. So the little oval track has always had running reliability problems, I’m rubbish at laying track! So a 2 coach max 3 coach train was the limit. Last Christmas Santa brought me this. Good intentions to start on Masbury S&D with a nice Westcountry! The Jane build continued and spare time at a premium thoughts of a bigger layout were a long way off. Then come the end of November a holiday at The Saunton Sands Hotel near Barnstaple finally set me off in pursuit of this layout. I thought an N class would be a great asset based on this photo. Then I needed some Southern stock as all I had was LMS so I put out a call which was answered, I had no idea but BR M1s was what I was after so I was informed. So our favourite auction site was studied and soon some cheap triang headed my way they’ll do for now. They’re pretty good for a fiver each including post. 2 restaurant coaches though unfortunately. So a quick bigger layout to run on was my want over Christmas, very quick actually I wanted to get something together in a few hours. The only space was the garage so the car out I started it took probably 4 hours in two sessions. Take down and rebuild between each. I thought ok split the boards of the oval and lay 2 x 8ft sheets in between! I had these spare for years after a shower build I did. It’s the waterproof ply faced on both sides, not ideal but free. The 8 trestles I bought £4.99 each from Homebase. I snatched screenshots from a time lapse I did of the build. Just iPhone photos so the white board is a bit much for it to deal with! That was most pleasing to see the N and some green MK1s behind it. Though the radius of the curves and the curved points it didn’t like so those will be coming out and a FLEXI track curve installed. Santa brought me the Station and signal box from Barnstaple Town thanks to son Jack. http://lcut.co.uk/index.php?product=B%2000-04&title=B%2000-04 Closest I could find need to fettle the recess out to make a flat front. The signal box on the end of the platform closest I could find was this https://www.inthegreenwoodlaser.co.uk/collections/oo-gauge-modelling/products/sb002-signal-box-type-2-oo-gauge-laser-cut-kit These are the buildings today. Archive from Bude_branch off my other topic and Google images. Today started on the signal box need a brick panel where the cross is, any ideas best way to do that? Another window needed crossing side. Steps wrong also debating changing or not. 3 arches to the locking room? One shown on the box and website, 2 on the prototype. That’ll do for now. Cheers