saxokid

Ive had this with two of the New Colas 37521"s

I always run them in gentle with no probs but these two were prity awful

But my 3rd one has been spot on...

On ‎20‎/‎02‎/‎2020 at 16:33, young37215 said:

37049 renumbered as 37081 minus the cantrail dividers. Nameplate and white stripe to follow. I just hope I don’t spend time thinking about the cantrail!

 

Very nice

Ive seen people use hangen basket liners in the past..

Some lovely work here..

On ‎19‎/‎01‎/‎2020 at 21:51, 40 058 said:

I’ve done a few bits since last update. It’s not a huge amount, I seem to be struggling to get stuff done in comparison to some of the layouts on here!

 

The road and car park surface have been given a coat of grey. I had to do this twice actually as for some inexplicable reason the first try I mixed up some black & white paint, painted it on and the next day after it’s dried it was streaked with white lines!? It looked fine when wet but the paint must have somehow not mixed properly. Second try I warmed the paint up and mixed it much more thoroughly and it seemed fine. Never had that before!

The depot area has been given a first coat of concrete yellowish grey, more to do here though, but it’s all roughly the right sort of colour for now.

Then I moved on to the scenic break bridge. I’ve been using Wills brick sheets and plastic card to build up the bridges walls, the tops of which have a plastic card (white bits in the pics) sections added which will form the concrete load bearing sections for the bridges deck. I’ve also made up some similar retaining walls and pillars for the area behind the station where the two low relief tower blocks will go. It’s more or less ready for painting now then can be glued in place.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One other little job I've done in the shed is to get myself a couple of display cabinets. I got these off eBay, and for the price they’re not bad. I wanted them to display my growing collection of 1/43 model cars and military vehicles!

 

 

 

I think they look pretty good. I’d been buying the models for some time but they were all just being left in their boxes dotted around the house not really being seen so with these at least I can have them somewhere I can see them! I’ve separated them into US/Europe cars - just cars I like and ones I’ve owned 1:1 scale versions of or do own now!

The other cabinet is for Soviet Union cars I like and military trucks/vehicles I’ve got an interest in.

Certainly takes the plain-ness off that back wall anyway!

 

more soon...

Looking forward to another fab update now..

On ‎02‎/‎02‎/‎2020 at 10:44, Big And said:

Hi Rich - Thanks for the interest. 

 

Not much has happened on the layout recently although a couple new rolling stock projects are underway. 

 

We do now have the first exhibition confirmed - this will be for Bexhill Model Railway Club on Saturday 8 August at St. Richard’s Catholic College, Ashdown Road, Bexhill-on-Sea, TN40 1SE.  It will be great to finally get the layout out and used for it true purpose!  

 

Here are some photos from previous photo shoots, 

More top pictures here Big And...

thanks neil..

On ‎04‎/‎02‎/‎2020 at 23:11, 37058 said:

I tell you what, I have been following this for a while now (this is my first time posting) So very impressive and it just goes to show that even in this day and age of finely detailed models, with all bells and whistles, those Lima models still stand the test of time and are still extremely pleasing on the eye. 

 

Awesome scenics and a lovely setting. 

 

It's a huge thumbs up from me! 

 

Cheers

Anthony  

Totally agree with you here Anthony

Looks great start to me!!

Im following now

On ‎26‎/‎03‎/‎2020 at 09:07, rorz101uk said:

Tuesday manage to have a go at static grass! Need a have a bit more practice! 
 

 

Doesn't look to bad Rory my frend,

just keep trying you wil get there ...

On ‎02‎/‎04‎/‎2020 at 15:41, pendlerail said:

Long time no post, things have been happening on Logandale, 

New Signals have arrived, after a remodel of the sidings!

Scenic details are starting to appear like Balast and and Buildings 

And Here 26010 arrives with the coal empties from Ayr, for the local freight depot,

Any new updates coming on this nice layout build..

Not realy model kits these oxford HGV"s 1:76 scale

but ive been buying stobarts up and respraying then adding my own bits to them..

What sound decoder are you using??

I normaly use hanging basket liners for rought grass like ground cover and then build on it with Noch static grass colours like "burnt yellow" and different greens...

Then add coloured flock afterwards..

9 minutes ago, lezz01 said:

Yep they look like CCTV cameras to me. Nice job mate, totally from scrap too, impressive!

Regards Lez.

Thanks Lez,think theyle come to life more when painted up.

1st time ive made these from Scratch

cheers neil..

10 hours ago, Alcanman said:

EWS/DB 66023 at Newsham, Northumberland with this afternoon's North Blyth - Tees yard coal.

Looks great Alcanman

On ‎05‎/‎04‎/‎2020 at 14:23, grid56104 said:

Another batch of Scottish Photos. Max

A double headed Ravenstruther to Millerhill (ultimately to York) loaded coal approaches Kingsknowe station in Edinburgh

The driver of 56 066 asks for the road at Thornton Yard in Fife

56 066 passes the redundant signal box at Thornton Yard with a loaded train from Westfield Open Cast. 56 087 awaits entry into the Yard with empties from Millerhill

56 087 draws forward into Millerhill Yard with coal empties from Millerhill

56 076 trundles along the single track between Westfield Open Cast and Thornton Yard with loaded wagons from the former location

Great set of photos here

11 hours ago, smithlington smithe said:

On WNXX.COM today

According to this 56087 has been stored unserviceable,I wonder if it will be a spares donor 

Sounds interesting,did wonder were 56087 was

On ‎07‎/‎04‎/‎2020 at 12:39, Alcanman said:

Love all the detailing work around the depot. Great work!

 

Ive used fire extinguishers here from "super" detailed Hornby class 31 I had in for spares after it had chassi rot...

On ‎07‎/‎04‎/‎2020 at 22:02, Rhysb said:

To start with I have made some new frames for each section of the layout:

 

Kevin had previously built the layout on 2x1 PSE timber and this has proved solid over time but I wanted the layout sections to sit on their own individual ‘tables’ and then they can be bolted together and removed as initially they will go into the workshop before going into the layout room.

 

The original Part of the layout being setup in the workshop:

 

 

The old Leaford town section will be setup in another room. A deep clean first before anything goes back into place on the layout. I also plan to do a full re-wire as my electronic skills are not great so I want to re-wire To simplify so I can understand the layout electronics as much as I can. I will be switching the current block detection from team digital over to Digikeijs to match my DR5000 base unit.

 

Stay safe

 

Rhys

Coming along treat this Rhys,ile pop in again soon

Here are the cctv cameras ive made from plastic waste part of model kit.

Ive now started mounting these to the masts...

Please comment let me no what you guys think...

Lovely work here John...

thanks neil.

16 hours ago, Chris56057 said:

Nice work here. Where are the lamps from please?

Hi Chris I use Springside railway lamps in 4mm...

On ‎05‎/‎04‎/‎2020 at 17:04, big jim said:

Fixed a some more of the top boards down this morning as well as thinking about exactly how I want to set things up when it comes to scenery, as I’ve mentioned before i thought having a town one side and the station the other looks odd so I thought, how about moving the town over to the other side, I’ve just laid the low relief buildings out to get the feel for it 

 

How about replacing the mill

area with the castle and moving the mill to the new wider bit I have fitted where the castle mock up was, the narrow gauge line could skirt the outer walls? 

 

Along the back wall I’ve opened out the hidden lines into a cutting , the high level line also drops down to ground level, I have looked at putting the yard on the high level but there is only one way in to it from the right hand side of the layout so I think I’m going to drop it onto the lower level board where I can get an entrance/exit each end, I have put the fuel terminal on the high level which I’ll most likely keep there as well as branch line running past it that will start from the current mill area and finish where I mocked up a station on that side a few months back

Looking forward to some videos soon from your layout Jim...

On ‎07‎/‎04‎/‎2020 at 17:57, BoD said:

It has been a few days since I have posted but I haven't been idle.  Quite the opposite.  I am preparing for that task we all love to do - ballasting.  Unlike the water it is something that I am comfortable with, albeit still not really looking forward to it. Does anyone?

 

In preparation I have been doing:

 

a) a final test and tweak of trackwork, particularly the hand built points. Running over one was a bit less smooth that I wanted but that has been fettled.

b) preparing platforms to be fixed in place.

c) building buffer stops.

 

The buffer stops were white metal kits obtained from Lanarkshire models. They were easy to put together and IMHO are a good representation of the North British type.

 

 

 

 

I was aiming for something like this.....

 

 

 

but......

 

 

 

 

...….. the shade of green is not quite right and for some reason, although mixed from matt paint went on with a semi gloss appearance.  

 

I think everything needs toning down a bit although the sunlight does over emphasise the colours which don't look as bad from 'normal viewing'  distance.

 

 

 

 

very nice weathering on these