RBE

Wanted dead or alive - Bon Jovi

If you are going for scale and accuracy then C&L or Exactoscale is the way to go, not marcway. I find their track a little basic TBH. Never really a fan of the rail soldered to sleepers with no chairs melarky. You can add cosmetic chairs but the C&L and Exactoscale with their lovely chairs etc are far better. Its easier to build than you would think too.

As for RTR track, I would go SMP or C&L for plain wooden sleepered track (I tend to use SMP as Marcway is only up the road for me) and fast track base with code 80/82 rail for concrete track (not strictly RTR but near enough for the better track you get) As for points no RTR track is really correct for UK but have read this I like the idea of the tilig. Pre darkened code 83 rail (which would work with the fast track base and code 80/82 rail) slight fexibility so that you can make more flowing designs and single bendy point blades. There are no RTR suppliers of bullhead pointwork to compliment the SMP but Peco code 75 will fix to it with minimum fuss.

I think its safe to say there is no 'Best track' its all down to preference. I personally would sooner spend my cash on a decent exacto point kit than a similarly priced tilig point, and for me Peco, or even more so Hornby, should be fiddle yard fodder. I'm sure there are others that would disagree though. However I don't think that code 100 has any business on a serious layout nowadays. In fact when I flopped open my latest copy of Model Rail this month I seriously thought that the cleckhuddersfax layout was N gauge on first look, the track looked so course (no critisisation of the layout I must add, just a realisation on my part). I guess we all get so used to seeing the fine stuff these days that code 100 sticks out a mile.

Cheers

Cav

It was my article on the 47 marker light conversion with brass tube and clear rod. I used it on an early Bachmann conversion pictured below (now in the hands of mr arnington off of here) I think it makes a world of difference to the no two end.

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Cav

A firm well done to Dave (Waton), the layout has I'm sure tempted a few to try 2mm scale. Of course all of the entries were excellent and a firm well done all 'round I think.

I'd also like to thank everyone who voted high for Outon Road. It's a great pleasure to bring something to the table that can hopefully inspire others. I intend to keep working on Outon to hopefully bring even more in the future.

Happy new year and thanks to all.

Cav

Looks excellent just what the doctor ordered,

I'm planning a 20ft by 10ft build in my garden with 5ft of it partitioned off at one end for my respray work. The rest would be for workshop stuff and probably a resident layout of about 15ft x 3ft. I need to get the cash together though as these things aren't cheap even with my materials obtained through working in the buiding profession as I do, so would probably have to be a replacement for my loft project. Have to see.

Cheers

Cav

Thats a pretty impressive play room there. That would probably be my whole garden if I built that in it! Nice work.

What size is it?

Cav

Actually this might look better, what do you think?

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Cav

Donor Photo courtesy of Ross Aitken

Slow Down - Blur

Surely, like anything else, it would have looked great in Loadhaul! I'll let the other guys tackle this, as they appear to have files set up for Kestrel already.

A couple of recent additions from me now

With the ex Fastline 66s currently off lease, what if they were given suitably neutral liveries to allow spot hire work? Here is LNER green 66303

So what if instead of sectorisation, BR remained one large unit, and as a replacement for blue adopted APT style colours.

A natural progression really, the APT was a success and put into production, so the livery was adopted on the HST refurbishment program in place of Exec, to give a fleetwide appearance

The APT livery, to my eyes, even makes a 66 look like a thing of the 80s! Reminds me of one of Gene Hunt's ties

cheers

 

jo

The HST wears the APT livery quite well! I wonder how it would look on a 47 or 87?

 

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David

Heres the 47 you've been waiting for. A bit shabby after years hammering away on the cross country services!!

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Cav

One Wild Night - Bon Jovi

Still haven't found - U2

Indeed I do! I really liked those two loco's I nearly kept them for myself!

I don't get the chance to really go to town on models so much at the minute as virtually all of my commision time is taken up with my recent repaint/weathering contract with a certain sheffiled based model shop who won't pay for all the stops out jobs!

Br Blue Lineup at Arnash Lane

Nice atmospheric shot harks me back to my younger days! Hmm I think I recognise that 47 in the background!! B)

Cheers

Cav

Turn it up - blur

The day we caught the train - Ocean colour scene

Somewhere out there - Our Lady Peace

Sweet child of mine - Guns and Roses

All I want - Skunk Anansie

Every Day is a winding road - Sheryl Crow

Justified and Ancient (All bound for Mu Mu land) - KLF ft Tammy Wynette

A couple on shots that I thought looked pretty convicing from my 2010 challenge layout Outon Road.

Cheers

Cav

I think you are right Will. To be honest the river on Waton is still cloudy and I'm sure it is still changing from day to day. It has settled down but I doubt it will ever clear completely. You really need lots of patience when creating water effects. Not my strong suit.

 

Cheers

Dave

I know what you mean. The tiny culvert on Outon Road is so small I wasn't about to splash out on a load of resin to do whats in effect a puddle. I tried PVA and it pretty much all just vanished, I tried humbrol gloss varnish which did the same. The only success I've had is with some clear nail varnish that I borrowed off the missus. I could lay quite a deep puddle and it dried crystal clear with quite a lot of volume remaining!! I would recommend it if you are doing small areas of shallow water. You'd need quite few bottles for a river though!!

Cav

Brandon Flowers - Flamingo

Another great, if diverse, album from the mastermind behind the killers.

You Don't Know - Cyndi Lauper

cry me a river - justin timberlake