Tel2010

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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

Had a great weekend, Terry, lots of interest in the layout, Saturday was busy,2 deep at times!!!

 

Ray

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

Thanks Terry, if you make it to Macclesfield, make yourself known.

 

Ray

Hi Ray

Hoping 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

 

stooperdale that is really good  brilliant pictures like the way the buildings fit in . I have started on some think around those lines to day ile post some  pics as soon as it gets going . its amaze ing just use ing that  simple track plan in a small place how many different ideas you can come up with

hi all , i have been look ing for ideas for micro layouts . and came across this really nice one . and can not find any more info on it . any one know who its by and if there are any more photos of it , thanks kevopeake700.jpg

Hi Kevo

This 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

In my post yesterday where I referenced another post on RMWeb re cassette connection to the main layout board, I neglected to name the poster.  I am therefore delighted to thank Tel2010 for his inspirational post which solved my problem exactly.

Regards,

Brian.

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 

Thanks Chris,

 

Shame you can't make it.  Are you south-west based?

 

More photos will be added after the weekend, and as I prepare for the Hayle show at the end of May.  It's getting there, but taking too long. For example, I'm adding staples to the coupling hooks, at the average speed of 1 every 15 minutes !!

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

Tel

what can i say

Hi Pete 

here's a link to cassettes i built.I soldered wire to rail ends so it would be joined by simply pusheing cassette up to it.And off you drive.

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/58638-cheap-homemade-loco-liftstorage-cassete/?fromsearch=1

 

All the above are great ideas too,im in process of rebuilding my layout so some of the above is useful information to me ,as ill be either usuing cassettes or a fiddle yard turntable.Thanks

 

Tel

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.

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 .

Lovely job Mick, about time you had some way of controlling all those signals, don't think the bobby looks much like you though...

 

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

thank you - this is only way i can afford to model in O gauge...

 

the loco used some plasticard, and the buffers were bought - but it is mostly card.

 

on the wagons, the bolts are peco track pins, cut off inside, the buffers are brass picture pins, with paper heads, the shanks thickened with stcky labels.

the axelboxes etc are all card, stiffened with superglue. not as strong as whitemetal, but much stronger than you think - and - to be honest, how strong does it need to be? if you arent going to abuse it, it probably doesn't need to be strong enough to withstand a nuclear blast.... that said, some of these have bounced well.

 

the couplers are bought, as are the wheels. have been tempted by trying card wheels. anyone tried? any luck? i know it has been done in the 50s/60s

 

thinking maybe the baseboard should be card too? keep the theme going.....

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

sticking to shapes that card can do helps I also find that laminating the sides from many layers makes for a very strong structure, and allows for lots of detal

all the models are designed on the computer first, then cut out. the computer gives me the accuracy; also i am too impatient to draw things out lots of times...

 

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

Some lovely modelling there and a great looking little layout to boot

 

Tel

Hi all

 

Here's the link to my effort, will have to get around to taking some better pix of it one of these days.

Tel

Stooperdale Engineering

John, have you ever considered just doing straight backscenes for layouts? I mentioned a modular backscene idea on the first page, but even urban-based backscenes that weren't modular would be useful. The old Townscene ones were good but they're getting on in years now, and the Peco ones are as old as the hills (and look poor these days, partly due to over-familiarity). I know a lot of people go for photographic backscenes now, but personally they never look quite right to me. I'd be interested in some urban backscenes that had artwork to the same standard as your kits, and from a commercial perspective there's nothing on the market at the moment for this really - even the Townscenes ones aren't as widely available as they used to be.

 

Printing might be the only issue (trying to join all those A4 sheets together), but this was one reason why I suggested the modular approach.

 

 

 

Hi Dave if you look at Johns South Oak Road layout thread via Scale Scenes site about half way down,you will find a couple of sky scenes that john took and you can download,i used them on my boxfile layout with futher building landscape etc,stook to it.You can get match with A4 sheets but joint can be seen.

Another site has more sky scapes and landscapes some of which may be of use www.cgtextures.com . I know what you mean about some photo backgrounds but you can alter the lighting and mute the colours with programs like photoshop.Hope this is of use.

 

Tel