Mickey

Slightly O/T but I see Hattons and Rails have the Farish Cement tanks as in stock now....so maybe we will see Moorswater "as is" shortly ?

I'm very typecast - I think all my layouts feature some kind of wharf or water feature along the front too

Very sensible idea to have a nice empty foreground for reaching over.....and great for reflections

Like the good chaps above, I'd not scribe the verticals......As Im typing this I can look outta the window at an asbestos barn roof, the typical "At Cost" variety; it just happens to be about 150 feet away and there is no sign whatsoever of vertical joints between the sheeting - it looks for all the world like two long strips of plasticard

It is very wet today so the roof is extra dark, but even on a dry sunny day there is no sign of the joints....

Good to see the return of CJ to these pages though

Indeed...though I must admit that at £12 a pop I hardly dare even touch 'em!!

I think I shall dig out some old Hornby OO ones to have a few practises on B)

yeah asa Scott says (so not written in invisible ink!!) CDAs are galvanised steel, just like the coal hoppers they once were - Scotts got the rusting bang on, though often you cant see the rust for the Clay.

Clay really does get everywhere, particularly in wet weather when it sticks. \one thing I have never seen so far on a model is jsut how much clay misses the hopper and ends up on the top of the frames and round the easy-sheet mechanism etc...

Pete

Are the weathered CDAs the ones sold as "weathered"?

They look like a prettttty good representation of a "cleanish" wagon.....

Sorry to hear things are on a bit of a downer / sticking point....Trust me I know where you are coming from here!

On the matter of individual panels for corrugated sheeting; I don't think I have ever seen them applied in that fashion that looks right in the smaller scales - as the photo shows you really can't make out where the joints are in the vertical plane, even though you know they are there.....

I don't know if its been mentioned so far but if you get really stuck you could always try copper or aluminium corrugated foil - as sold by Micromark, amongst others......

more of a Barca.....Though the overlap on corrugated sheeting on models is something I can never quite weigh up....it looks wrong if there isn't any,,,,,but it also looks wrong if there is too much :/ ......this latest effort seems to have got it more or less right and I imagine that the painting will reduce the visual of the overlap impact rather a lot

Always ready to take some tasty bait

Passenger always preference over freight...Class 2 train rather than a Class (whatever the clay was??)

Though as JV points out it is acceptable to have a 37 poking out under the bridge and a DMU at the station.....That can be quite a shock to come down the branch from Liskeard and straight into CJ and see a loco stood a few feet away on the same track....

Been & seen that one!!

yay!!! Im sure I mentioned somewhere ages ago that you really should get the incline in there somewhere - think it may even been back on old RMweb - To me, and obviously greater minds than mine It really is the signature of the branch..then again I may well have spent way too long lurking round there over the years...

The plan looks great and bang into proportion to my eyes...but then again your plans always do look that way.

Im far far more famillar with this bit of the line than the other end so if I can be of any use you know where I am

Looking very neat Pete - Good to see you back at the bench - Reading about CJ always keeps my mojo going and I have got a few CDAs to run ......

For glue Id use Evostick All Purpose.....Ive got a goods shed built many years ago and that hasnt delaminated yet - so its time proven by now....

Well the initial order list is drawn up - half a dozen CDAs and a couple of Bullets looking dirty and a few VGAs...and strangely enough probably a few cement PCAs too!!

No Traction yet 'cos Im not sure of the era intended, apart from post 88 obviously

All i need now is for someone to whisper in my ear that 2mm FS is the way to go for an idea that will probably involve a lot of track eventually

EDIT: I just seen the Farish 150 in RR...thats that sorted then!!

Well I seem to have looked at CJ for too long now.......Im on Hattons looking at a few CDAs - and a couple of Bulllets....and a few other things!!!

I really do like the look of those Peco CDA's....But I MUST be strong and resist

They are a bit expensive to buy a rakes worth - arn't they??

Oh! I've just had a thought as to how to run them "sort-of prototypically" in very short rakes B)

There are a fair few more people use CJ than is widely believed

Hmmm !!

An r-t-r model or complete kit for a 2mm scale Clayhood/fit .....

Given that the things tended to run about in Looong rakes, and a fair few people seem to be "into" such things, I imagine it wouldnt take to many people to run up a fairly substantial order...

I wonder if its possible to commission/persuade/beg some nice manufacturer to produce such a thing??

I know next to nothing about such production but I bet somebody on RMweb does.......

That really is a fine looking wagon...Im not sure if i could do that though! Only one way to find out I guess....

Arrgh! Thats another one of my thoughts that someone is about to do a whole load better than I could

Shall definately want to see this one as it progresses...one of my favourite places to take in a pint or 5

The lock keepers cottage certainly has the right "look" for the locale, though after the above mentioned trip to the F****** A*** I guess anything could look right with double-vision