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Hope you dont mind me posting this here, great thread, wonderful work and very informative.

I am currently building my first CL Finescale kit. I have never done anything like this before as i was modelling in Peco 00 streamline up until now. The kit has a great set of instructions with it perfect for a beginner like me, much less daunting than i thought it would be.

I have to move the switch blades a bit and i am not looking forward to the soldering. I have ordered some Carrs 145 solder and flux but a bit nervous to say the least. Should i buy a adjustable tempature iron? as i only have a cheap one at present.

Thanks

Paul.

Looks really good.

What black paint did you use? I need to re spray a ruston in black and was thinking Halfords matt spray can???

I made an order just over a week ago,arrived today, and i must say how well packaged it was.

13 hours ago, tingleytim said:

My photo!

I am glad you took the photo, very nice picture and history captured. Hope you dont mind that i posted it.

4 minutes ago, RailWest said:

Given the chap stood on the running-plate

If it is a 4F, i thought they did not work the southern section late on, more likely a 3mt or such like. I must confess i have no idea on the date of the photo, hence why i posted.

I found this photo on the internet,i  hope i am not breaking any rules posting it.

Looks like a 4f loco but not sure, does anyone know details of the wagons, train, brake van etc?

Its a really nice picture who ever took it.

Hi Stuart, really nice drawings would love to see some others.

I cant find much information on Stur goods yard or the creamery, only a few shots with them in the background and then only partial.

Really nice work.

Paul.

Love Peco point motors, as you say a satisfiying clunk. I always add a peco accessory switch below the point motor to change the polarity to the frog and use a CDU.

Looking forward to seeing progress on this, it looks great.

Paul.

7 minutes ago, Pete the Elaner said:

We want point rodding on the club layout we are building.

The menmber who is most knowlegable about signalling (a 14 year old , who we encourge to speak his mind) is keen on installing the point rodding before any ballasting is done because he feels it is the best time to do it.

Point rodding before ballast everytime.

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Built the lean too next to the toilet block, platforms coming along and scenery to the south of the station.

Impossible to paint and weather track without the ballast glued in place, also watch out for sneezing.

Having way too much time on my hands i have made the decision to convert from 00 gauge to EM, i must be mad.

Hi Jack, why not put a double slip nearer to the road to give you more track for shunting, a bit like the piano plan? If the point is nearer the center of the layout you can shunt a longer train?

Sorry, can i ask just one question?

If i built some P4 / EM track could i alter a RTR loco such as a Bachmann 4f or 3f jinty?

I guess thats what you are dicussing on the thread,sorry if i am being a bit layman.

Paul.

Edit to add, is this what i have asked?

http://www.brassmasters.co.uk/4f_easichas.htm

Sorry to post my random thoughts on this thread but i really like the look of P4. I am starting to scratch build platforms etc in 00 and the out of scale gauge track is really noticeable to me now, i think one day i will have to give P4 a go, looks like a lot of hard work.

Sorry to interrupt.

Paul.

Started building the office and cattle dock area this week, was going to make a site visit to photograph all this but Shillingstone station is shut of course at the moment so using photos i can find on the web. Going to spend the weekend filling and painting the brick wall for a better backdrop.

Its so nice to see the work they put into these things, the quality of the engineering brickwork and iron work. I love the old footbridge at Blandford known to the locals as the iron bridge, spent my youth growing up around that thing.

I have got so into my modelling that i realised i forgot to post the plan up, bit late now as i have the basic track in place.

The real station soon, will have a siding behind the signal box up to the cattle dock as i have laid here.

I have a existing point up at the bridge and im not sure what to do with it, as its not going to be on the restored station. Do i take it out, run a extra siding or loop it into the other siding as it was in the 1960s?

To add, this is not to scale i am just using my eye for the layout, i might get it wrong again.

11 hours ago, jools1959 said:

I think if I was starting again, the S&D would be my first choice closely followed by the S&C .  As I grew up near Weston-super-Mare, the S&D has always high on my modelling interests and the thought of watching steam hauled 3/4 coach local trains and coal traffic from the Radstock coal fields rumble by on the layout would be very therapeutic.

The fact that Evening Star pulled a stopping 3 coach service through such wonderful countryside fills me with awe. I stand at locations such as the bridge at Durweston and imagine it passing over, must have been such a sight.

Started laying the track to the South of the station, adding the new siding to the up platform as it is today. Got to say, putting track down with the sleepers cut is a tad more difficult but looks ok, time will tell.

I took up the old platforms today, took ages to make and secounds to rip out.

I have been thinking about making the track look as good as i can, after research decided moving to P4 (edit, I was refering to EM gauge, as a layman modeller i didnt know the difference until another poster told me the difference) was a bit too much effort (a future project for sure) and have decided to stick with 00 gauge and space the sleepers in bull head style.

The big decision now is do i stick with code 100? i have loads already, plenty to finish the project or move to code 75 for the slimmer rail, my heart is saying 75, my head/ wallet is saying 100.

Following the current plan of Shillingstone it will have 3 sidings, i will post up a plan soon.

Tried spacing, my fav is the one with the pencil line about 5.5mm.

Hi everyone,

I thought i would start a thread about my plans to re build Shillingstone on this forum as i dont want to keep clogging up the blog section or the Somerset and Dorset forum.

I built the layout 2 years ago when i got back into the hobby, used Metcalfe platforms and the Bachmann buildings set and attempted to model the layout as it was in the 1960s. I made lots of mistakes with point work, clearances etc.(laying and ballasting before i checked everything fitted).

I am going to model it as it is today, they are still laying track so to early to start trackwork yet but i want to get the best out of the space i have 10 feet x 16 inches. I am going to use Peco code 100 with electrofrog points, motors etc. I will re use the Bachmann set but scratch build the platforms and other buildings as needed, the goods shed will have to go but can be re used somewhere else in the loft.

I would appriciate any help or advice on the track plan and maybe ways i can do it slightly different to make shunting etc a bit more interesting.

The current layout runs from single line South of the station to the road bridge 180 just to the North again single line.

I will be using photos from the Shillingstone group FB blog to work from plus site visits to photograph.

Thanks Paul.

That cab detail is stunning.

In 1986 when i was 16 i worked at Intasco next to Shillingstone station. Loved the old station and i used to try and walk the line but it was so overgrown it was impossible. Loved Stourpaine and Duweston halt to for the same reasons. I saw some photos today of Shillingstone, and my they have come on, what a wonderful thing, i never thought i would see the day.