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Hi I have been learning to do some cad with Fusion 360,i came across this series of imformative videos by Paul Mc Whorter to be very good https://youtu.be/y5tp4QXciK4 Terry

Hi Ray so glad to hear you had a good show,it was poor health prevented me coming down unfortunately,too long a drive in my current state .I will try another time to see your layout.Will keep a eye out.Terry

Hi RayHoping you have a great show,alas something came up,so won't now make it his weekend. Terry

Hi Ray I came across this thread a couple of months ago and I'm really impressed with 59th and Rust,a brilliant layout.Well done.I usually model British outline but through a friend have been tempted to North American in n gauge.Not got building anything yet,but plans will be afoot once get shed finished in the spring.A similar layout to yours would be right up my street. Good luck for show at Macclesfield,and weather permitting may make the trek to see it. Best wishes Terry

Thanks Kevo One thing i regret doing,is using larger magnets to have a bigger target area when uncoupling,i used the Brian Kerby method and to try keep magnets a bit more away from curved track as that caused problems with some of my stock too.Yes its a simple track plan but very good and you don't need much stock either.Look forward to seeing yours. Tel

Hi KevoThis boxfile by Colin Peek is how I got the idea to base my boxfile layout Stooperdale on,see link to my blog on it below.I did have links ,alas all seem to be dead now Tel

Thank you very much Hal I currently thinking through something similar into a four foot footprint. It made its first appearance at last years Bridlington model railway show and went down well,to my suprise . Tel

Thanks Brian,appreciated but wont take credit for original idea i seen similar used before ,wish could remember where ,but glad to have been able to have brought it to your attention. Tel

I know the feeling all thumbs in my case ,looking at photos ,very nice Tel

Hi All Well its been quite a while since i updated this thread and sad to say as far as this layout in its current form is concerned ,its the end of the line.. It didnt quite get finished for a number of reasons,ill health been one,but main one is because of a possible house move in the near future. In its current form ive never been really satisfied with my track plan,so instead of digging my self into a deeper hole,ive bit the bullet and decided to dismantle it and start again. I could run it as a roundy,or out and back but the next one will be a end to end and more prototypical. I will probably keep first two board but making them separate instead of been hinged .A third board will either have a fiddle yard or turntable fiddle yard.This will hopefuly allow me to continue with it in that form when and if i move.I could place this end board at 90 to layout to save on length, so that all three boards will form a L shape. Here is a link to some final photos i took.If you open photo up ive got a few bit of information on some photos. Visit Castle Bolton layout Album Ive still got a few other projects to carry on with aswell,one been my old boxfile layout Stooperdale, ,i am in process of making extra cargo/wagon loads and revamping it a bit as it has been invited by the club i joined to its/my first exhibition May next year.

I started getting junk calls to my mobile,really anoyed me,which is a android phone.Ive found that there are good free apps out there,one being called Call Control which has black lists and white lists along with options to just ring silently or hang up.It also has a number look up feature. There are even call recorder apps which ive found useful.usual disclaimer,nothing to do with apps but just a satisfied customer. Tel

Hi Ive been sorting through some old Railway Modeller magazines the other day and seen a mechanical means of lifting a magnet under track,think would work well with the Kirby system which i have been thinking of using.By what i seen of the Kirby they can keep clicking coupling open as you drive over them when not un coupling.Think this would eliminate that and would be cheaper than a electro magnet.It consisted of a L shaped bracket made out of wood pushing a magnet up a tube. It was pulled with a cord and spring to return.Looked quite neat. Tel.

Over the last couple of weeks we have been building up some scalescene low relief arches. We had to make them a little taller by adding a wall along bottom, to accommodate hiding the return loop at back of board. It took us a little longer than anticipated ,glad had the wife aboard to help,i did the cutting she did most of the covering.I printed the textured sheets onto A4 seld adhesive lables. The tunnel that goes through one of them will be for a road which will be dead ended with a suitable back scene inserted, to give a sense of a road going some where. Station area I had a little problem with sagging of my platform tops ,they had foam core sides and cardboard tops. I replaced them with some suitability thick wood i had to hand, the cardboard for the tops. Ignore the black road surface in photo, its just some off cuts of black paper i had to hand to get a impression of how the road width and look will turn out. There will be level crossing at this point too. With the fitting of new platforms, i finally got to get the station building fastened in place. I glues a block of wood inside and drill / screwed from under board. This will enable me to remove it to finish inside and lighting. Still needs canopy supports fitted and some of the painting done. The goods shed i wasn’t going to use but looking at it in the photos ,it doesn’t look to bad. Its a adapted superquick goods shed recovered in scalescene building papers. Needs some more work to complete but may do that now and keep it on layout . Goods shed Last thing managed to do today was start finishing the ballasting off, got the platform area done, but restricted time wise because of drying times, guess one of draw backs having it in a bedroom, small price to pay,as only place i could put layout for now. Until next time ... Tel

This week we have managed to get a bit of scenic work done to end board which contains the engine shed and turntable. View of Turntable board with scenery started In this shot we have just tried board back in place to enable to do a bit on the track infill's.I roughly ballasted it,once dry ,coated with pva glue then pushed in air dry clay ,carefuly keeping it off inside of tracks, followed by tampering it down with a stiff brush.I will paint it and may add some ask from BQ which i kept. This will be mainly around ash pit will paint mix darker ash on the rear track which will contain coaling stage or tower. The greeny on hills and grass banks still to finish on some you can see undercoat of hanging basket material .Once dryed backing will be teased off,some done, some can be seen in photo still to do.Got static grasses and other ground cover still to add,aswell as end sky back ground. The hill is in two parts,top piece,and bottom bit with retaining walls and tunnel.This is so can fold away without fouling. Once removed they store verticaly on rear non scenic board,held in place with velco straps. Its an amazing how adding a bit of groundcover transform the look.From bare board to landscape in a week Hopefully can get the time to do more next week. Tel

Hope you feeling better soon,i know first hand how fibromyalgia affects you as my wife has it and me to a lesser degree.certainly stops you doing the things you want to get done. tel

This week having got everything i need working for now. finished control panel ive looked at making a start on scenery.Im starting on the end ,engine shed board for now.Looking at it a while i decided to push the background board back a tad to make the hill over tunnel a little better looking.The background board is detachable anyway to allow the board to fold up,so moving the stops back a little still works ok and im making hill detach in two pieces aswell. The foundations of the hill section was made out of bits of foam core i had laying about. to this we started (HEY ! my nearest and dearest helping )adding cardboard formers.Also glued the retaining wall in place with contact adhesive.They are old Graham Farish ones made from vac formed plastic ,my dad bought them back in the late seventies.I have recovered them in scalescene brick paper and put a false back wall out of card so could lean them back and keep back wall vertical. bare bones hills Along the way had a little extra help if a little unwanted lol Little helper Today put the hillside on table and using newpaper scrunched up and masking tape covered the card formers.Also added a couple of rock faces make from a mold using expandable foam. Next we added strips of newspaper dipped in 50/50 mix PVA/water and covered the hill in two layers. Once that has dried overnight will add a layer of neat PVA and white tissue before painting. Im hoping this works out ok as not tryed this method before.Didnt want to use modrock as trying to keep it as light as possible.The rock faces will be blended in with some filler. Hope fully will get a little more done tomorrow.

Its been a couple of months since i last updated blog,but i haven't been able to get on doing layout as much as i wanted to. What i have got done though, is alter the track plan a little,so making it a bit better to operate ,nearly finished the turntable,butit is fitted ,only needs wiring up.Ive also been making up some retaining walls and trying to figure out how to make sure i have clearance when board is folded,this been the end board with the turntable.I had it planed but only today thought of a better way which hopefully will give a bit more in the scenic department.I will only know for sure when i try it out ,this week with luck. I also got my control panel finally done and tested.I had a pleasant hour or two playing trains Sorry no more pictures with this entry, but will post some more soon Tel

Thanks 18B Alas ive not got any shots of it working ,something been meaning to get around to do for a while,infact its not been run for over a year as ive been busy building a roundy roundy.(must update that blog too).Only problem ive had with it was the couplings,but i have one or two fixs to try to remedy that. When i get the chance i will post some updated pixs Tel

This may have been posted elsewhere on here,so apology's if it has, but i just found this link to some really nice Micro layouts by Mike lynch. here is the link to his web page http://www.paternosterrow.blogspot.com/view/classic Tel

I seen a sign on a building a while back which said something like ,In this place in 1885 nothing happened .

I thought at first glance it was Ronald Regan ! lol ,ive herd of the presidents brain is missing but ...... Lovely bit of modelling though ,building has a real solid look to it . Tel

i'll have to remember some of those tips,love to try o gauge sometime but like you this only way i would be able to afford it at present. There was a model program on a good few years back,cant remember what it was called but their was a chap on making gauge 1 and bigger traction engines and think tender engines nearly completely out of card even the traction engine wheels. What he did was laminate the card to get the thickness's he wanted and used shellac to harden it. You couldnt tell the difference between them and ones built and engineered out of metal. Think he said people used to stand open mouthed when he picked them up and put them under his arm, usually it takes a couple of guys and a transit van / trailer. He could carry three or four just in his car.Just limited by their size. His also said couldnt see point building something if only for show out of metal, ,he had done metal previously but could produce a lot more for the time they would require building and for a lot less money. Wish could remember what program or chap was called. Tel

Im impressed, lovely bit of modeling as are all the models in this thread.Think i will be moving on from just card buildings sometime in near future Tel

Hi Frank Thank you for your nice comments, here's a little bit more info about it as requested. The tunnel is 2mm card base, i used a old plastic tunnel mouth for template of the opening. i cut two of these, one for back.It was covered in scalescene's random ashlar paper. The wings are from the bridge abutment kit form same company, slightly shortened.I already had these from previous project.i did add supports behind from card scrap laying at 10 degree angle since wont be attached to back. The pillars are from balsa wood. the raise stone above opening and capping stones from lolly pop sticks and wood coffee stirrers from a certain Mr Mcdonold. the cap stone papers are off the abutment kit. The quoin stones from tunnel mouth are from windows and arches kit in stone,though had to fiddle about bit and half cut both sides,so could fold around arch. The tunnel wall is just cereal box cut bent in to arch and marked off for length. I used a combination of glue stick and pva glues to put it all together. I print out on matt photo paper. All i need to do now is use some artist's chalk to tone it down and lightly weather it,then give it a coat of matt varnish or fixative. Scalescene's do do a tunnel portal but since only usde bridge abutment kit once before, and had other papers,seemed a waist not to utilise them again. The beauty of these kits is you can print off as many as you like. Hope this gives you a better idea how it was done,feel free to ask again about anything not sure about. If you look at the card modeling section you will see some of the outstanding models others have built with scalescene kits and papers http://www.rmweb.co....odelling-forum/ Once i get it planted will post some more photos. Tel