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  1. My own humble effort: A goods shed to go on my boy's layout whenever we get that finished. Made from home made brick paper and scrap card, with backside of cereal boxes as roofslates, and pieces from an old umbrella as gutters and downpipes.
  2. My train set had it's annual escape from the closet today at a Children's fun day at our local church. A few updates included non working home made signals, and more detailing on some buildings. A busy day in front of excited children who could not always resist touching the model. Five small people dropped dead after being touched by big fingers, and a couple of seamoss trees were broken in a "storm", but otherwise the layout escaped without physical damages. The bonus was me and my boy could play train for a few hours in a well lit room before the doors were opened. Here are a few pics and a short video:
  3. Northam Central was recently visited by a class 35 Hymek, brought here by a friend who currently doesn't have a layout of his own. Wrong era, but a really nice loco, so here are a couple of pics. Also I have tried to make small drawings for the backscene to prevent the streets ending in the skies.
  4. Very nice presentation of a superb little layout. I got very inspired by the way you have continued the street into the backscene. You have achieved a wonderful effect here, which I have tried in vain to do on my own layout. Is there any chance you can upload some bigger pics, as I would love to have a closer look at how the buildings and backscene go together.
  5. After being stored away in my shed for the best part of the last two years, Northam Central had a rare glimpse of daylight today as I took it to a children-fun-day at my local church. Two simple loop-fiddle-yards made it a dogbone layout, as it had to be simple for the kids to have a go at driving themselves. Loads of kids coming in to see it, plus many dads who spent most of the day in front of the layout while their kids where enjoying other actitivites such as bouncing castles, inflatable slides, sumo wrestling and driving radio cars. No prototypical running, but here are a few pics and a short video; And finally, being back in the shed, with the smaller winther project above it: A short video from Youtube
  6. Great modelling of a real location. Thought I just would show a photo of the real thing, from Wikipedia: Another one here_ http://www.davidheyscollection.com/userimages/0001-class-47-standedge-tunnel.jpg
  7. Thanks for good feedback. The thing is "Northam Central" has been put to rest for the moment, as it is too big to set up in full length at home. The layout was built without too many thoughts about it's long term use, as I had set a target to exhibit at a local exhibition in October 2010. All points are short ones and insulfrog as well. So at the moment I consider it's future. I have space enough to store it, and sometimes put up about half of it and have small running sections with my kids. We even featured in our local newspaper on Christmas Eve-two full pages! But as Northam Central has not been a priority over the last year or so, I have kept making buildings, as that is my main interest within the hobby. The plan is to move all kinds of rubbish away from an insulated shed 325x190 cm and use that as a permanent railway room. It means that Northam Central will be stored there, and I will build another layout, portable if necessary, but mainly for the purpose of entertaining us at home. It will be set in the same era, around 1987-1993, but will feature a small town terminus, a combined goods yard and industrial sidings, and also a country section where my boy can have his farm, and play with cars/tractors etc.
  8. Yesterday, on the first really hot day of the year, I put up my layout in the garden, and took photos of it before I packed it away for the summer. Going through my photos, I came to think that a lot of modellers seem to prefer modelling pubs more than any other buildings. So, could we have a gallery of model pubs here on RMWeb? Here are my three for a start, all scratchbuilt from card, cereal boxes and brickpaper: (Funny they should all be positioned dead at the front of the layout, making patrons fall off it a real possibility)
  9. "Good" to see that other kids behave like my own loved ones. Just a week ago, my 9 year old son overcrowded my layout with his toy cars in a similiar way. At least he is careful enough not to break anything. At a recent exhibition, he was responsible for laying out the cars. And he ended up arguing with two lorrydrivers attending if the trucks could have been parked his way in the real world!
  10. Video from layout at exhibition can be found at youtube Also found some other pics from the exhibition at a Norwegian MR forum at http://www.norskmjforum.no/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=7390
  11. Home after Northam Central's second exhibition at the Stavanger club. Now measuring 610x70 cm, built on five seperate baseboards, it was a lot bigger than it's first outing a year ago. With reasonable finished scenics I got a lot of positive comments. And many couldn't quite believe that all but two buildings (petrol station and signal box)were built with cereal packets and mounting board, as plastic is used by almost all Norwegian modellers. I ran it together with a friend, with my young son drifting in now and then to help out with the industrial siding. Quite a few kids also had a go at the shunting. A turntable fiddleyard in each end proved quite succesful, even though I made the mistake of running too small radius into the fiddle yards, making some trains derail now and then. A great experience to exhibit once again, Thanks to the lads from the Stavanger club for setting up a great show! Below are som pics, mostly from the new sections. Apologies for few pics having trains. I will post a video later with footage of the running.
  12. Two new baseboards are now constructed, increasing the overall length to appr. 16 feet. I had to compromise a bit in the new corner as I didn't have space enough to let the track disappear right at the edge of the scenic boards, as my "railway room" is only appr 18 feet long. To be able to run trains at home I need to have part of the curve back into the fiddleyard underneath a scenic corner, now consisting of a main road leading out of town. I have started building from this corner, and will work my way towards the "old" layout. A few buildings need to be finished, but today I scattered Javis tarmac on the roads, after first painting the cards black/grey, and then gluing thin strips of paper for road marking. Reasonably happy with the result and much more realistic than the printed roads I have used on the first part of the layout. Here are a few updated pics on the progress: Two new scenic boards in place Busy traffic on the main road, while the corner shop need some goods in the shop windows. Close up on the road markings Scratch built terraced shops Overview of the scenic corner From another angle, showing the track disappearing under a bridge
  13. Thanks a lot for showing this to us novice scratchbuilders. Great to see the whole progress, and I must say a superb result!
  14. I have finally got back into some serious modelling after a few months with ice hockey and skiing taking main priority. Best (or worst, if you don't like snow and ice) winter in south-west Norway for almost 70 years is finally coming to an end, and it is time to go ahead with an extention to Northam Central. I thought about having a siding into a brewery yard, but as I run modern stock it is probably not very prototypical. Because of that I have changed plan to include a single track branch line disapearing behind the brewery into the backscene, but with a (derelict?) siding into the brewery just to be able to shunt a but if I want. The card boards are out on to the dinner table, and a few buildings are taking shape, all scratchbuilt using card and brick paper. Not the best photos, but here are a few samples: I will also include the Metcalfe Petrol Station and signal box, both which have long been constructed, on the new boards. Plan of the layout extention is as shown below:
  15. I have previously studied the terraced shops at the far end of this layout, and think they are very good models. Is there any chance of some more close up photos? I know I have seen some photos from Mr. Nevard somewhere on the internet.
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