Aldgate Box Boy

Hi everyone, The picture is a poster I have made up for the side of the power station promoting the brewery's product.

This will be the last post from Green Leaf.  I'm giving up because of the stupid pop ups that keep appearing on this site.  I post on the Gauge 0 Guild site if people are interested.  Thanks for all the interest and comments over the last 3 or 4 years.

Cheers Tim

Hi All I have had some transfers made up for Green Leaf, here are the NG locos and wagons 

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The new loco has entered the paint shops and is now in primer.

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Hi All, some pictures of the new loco with its chassis and with the other NG locos I've made up over the last year. The middle loco was the first made from a Smallbrook kit.  The one on the right was a scratch build in plastic.

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Hi the loco build is pretty much done now. Really enjoyed doing it.

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Hi all, not the most interesting post but I've made a tool box and a couple of sand boxes for the NG loco, really enjoyed making them

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Hi Dougal, it's not a kit, I'm scratch building it and it's a freelance design.  This is my first brass scratch build.

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Hi some more progress on the new NG loco.

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Hi All, some more updates on the latest loco

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Hi All more progress on the new NG loco. Best Tim

Hi All, I've been making some vats for the Vat House.  Bit of an indulgence as they will hardly be seen.

I still need to wood stain then

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Next NG loco build

Hi All, just begun my next NG loco build a freelance scratch build in Brass on a Hornby chassis.

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Hi some more pictures with a bridge fitted between Brew House and Racking Sheds.

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Vat House almost complete, needs glazing and a few other details inside.

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On 01/06/2021 at 18:17, Giles said:

Just to update, this is the primary loco fleet:

 

Peckett (green) radio controlled 500mAh battery. Should be good for at least six hours

 

 

Peckett (black) radio controlled  500mAh battery

 

 

 

 

Quarry Hunslet radio controlled 700mAh battery full day operation

 

 

Bagnall  radio controlled  650mAh  - full day operation

 

 

 

Manning Wardle 'Jubilee 1897' 1000mAh battery - 2-days?

 

 

 

The layout will also be wired for DCC so various other locos may take their turns - but the ease, smoothness and reliability of the RC is a joy...... 'handing over' locos, less so...

Hi Giles, lovely locos.  Can you tell me where they are from?  I recognise some but where is the Peckett  from?

Cheers Tim

Hi All, doors and lucum now sprayed

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More images of the Vat house.  Window detail attached and ready for spraying.

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Hi All, progress on the Vat house.

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Hi All, track now laid in the East Yard.  This serves the cooperage, the barrel wash building and the new bottling  plant.  Droppers in but not wired up.

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Vat House

Hi All, I begun work on my next building a Vat House for Green Leaf.

Here are the photos of the foam board frame assembled.

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Hi All, more progress on the track laying. The dual gauge section is enjoyable and slow. The Butanone adhesive didn't seem that effective so I went for superglue, which seems to work well.
the first picture shows the two dual gauge lines. One on the left is the power station road. The R/H is the through road.
Second picture shows the Power station in place. Just at the end of the through road is where the gauges will split with a narrow gauge section and a simple standard gauge siding for the engineering shops.
The final picture looks back up the line.
Cheers Tim

Hi All, laid the first stretch of Dual gauge in the layout. Quite straightforward - curves will be more problematic.

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Hi All, I'm currently playing around with sight lines/ scene blockers for the rebuild.  I thought people might be interested in the ideas.

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Hi everyone, bit more progress on the layout rebuild.  Backscene primed and I've posed some of my old building on the layout to get a sense of what goes where.

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Hi here are are some pictures of the track laying and the back boards roughly fitted in place

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