Road Stone

A sad state of affairs indeed but what a great idea. Had no idea they "sagged".

Smashed windows and grill look really good.

Cheers, Jerry

G'day 47337,

Love the 25's and hit a buried memory of mine as I've actually seen something like that as a youngster. The rust on the 45 has really got the look.

Fencing noted, thanks.

I have made quite some progress on my layout but not for publication!! No courage.

Cheers, Jerry

Good to see you back at the top!

Love the fencing, what brand is it if you don't mind me asking?

Cheers, Jerry

Great pixs as always. Don't watch the vids due to our connection being so crap over here.

I always wonder why peoples buffer beams look so good yet mine are rubbish even though they have the same attachments fitted!

Cheers, Jerry

Great pixs as always. Don't watch the vids due to our connection being so crap over here.

I always wonder why peoples buffer beams look so good yet mine are rubbish even though they have the same attachments fitted!

Cheers, Jerry

Hi Gareth,

Bach 158? I think you did this many moons ago?

Cheers, Jerry

Once again, great photos. Interesting to see faces behind the names too!

The weathering is great, which I've taken on board given my heavy handedness in this area.

Keep the pics coming. I love the 117. Mines in the dog house at the moment, I don't think it likes the hot and humid conditions here!

Cheers, Jerry

I don't have the courage to show my efforts on this forum just yet!

Jerry

As a youngster I remember hating the NSE colours, they seemed more subject to fading, but have to say now they look great on your layout. The head on of the 47 is spectacular.

I say this with some bias, as I have that loco too.

Cheers, Jerry

Hello Brush47337,

Have just noticed the pixs of actual red ballast. Quite amazing so I looked for more pixs of red ballast on the net and it would appear that red supports a lot of track around the world. You learn something everyday.

By the way, where are more pictures? I'm close to starting mine and along with others anm grateful for the ideas I get from yours.

Cheers, Jerry

Good to see you back. The night time shots do give it a lot of feeling and that cold look mentioned.

Keep the pixs coming, in the next few weeks I'm about to start my layout I hope.

Cheers, Jerry

Fantastic layout and great pics, thanks.

Jerry

Love the Pix of the 37 & 25 side by side, really captures the station atmostphere.

Thanks and cheers, Jerry

Thanks for the kind words Roadstone + Unsoundmove + Poindexter

 

Roadstone - I wanted RED ballast because that reminds me of certain Scottish areas (well a kind of Reddish Brown) and I wanted my main running lines to be red with my sidings and depot areas to be anything from grey to black. My turn now - can I ask who you have as an Avatar - is there a theatrical story to be told there - looks to me to be quite a scary dude - hope I am not offending you.

 

Profound Question now to all RMweb experts............... I can hover over each photo and I get a text block that tells me how many times each photo has been downloaded. I presume each "author" can do this for their own topics on New RMweb.

 

Most photos have been downloaded 2 or 3 or 6 or 9 times (thanks) but the winner is very odd. I can sort of understand why my plan has been downloaded 20 times (just wish I had taken the time to draw the thing better) ------- but the most downloaded photo is............ me with my two boys! ...............WHY?.................... do 22 people really need a new dartboard photo of a fat bloke with two grinning (but handsome) boys?

 

Stuart

Not offending at all, and I hope likewise when commenting on the Red colour.

The picture is of GARY NUMAN, his music having a profound affect on my life.

Have to say I really like your layout. I confess to looking closely at your track plan but have not uploaded it or the pix of you!!

My layout is on the move from Uganda to Papua New Guinea and I'm getting a lot of ideas from layouts like yours.

Many thanks for sharing.

Jerry

Tis very red. I know nothing about ballasting but can I ask why red when the depot is grey?

Cheers, Jerry

Agreed, well done PaulRHB!

Love the layout and the 47's do look good from the camera angles used.

Cheers, Jerry

Stuart,

Many thanks for that.

I think the main thing learnt here is the over lying cork to smooth everything out. That would ease the stress on the rail joiners/fishplates that gave me so many problems due to minor flexing over a period of time.

Cheers, and looking forward to the next installment.

Jerry

Fantastic to see you back!

I actually looked through this entire layout topics two days ago, hoping to find Waverley re entered.

Keep up the great pixs, love the IC125.

Cheers, Jerry

G'day Stuart,

I'm interested in how you approached the "transition" issue on your incline, both as the track rises and levels out at the top. Reason being I have made a hash of this on a prevoius layout.

How did you "judge", for want of a better word, the rate of transition into the incline and like wise levelling out at the top?

Hope you can work out what I'm asking!

Cheers, Jerry

A great inspiration and I too was watching this one before. Love the depot, so much to look at and more to come. Intersted in your incline, can you tell us how steep it is?

Cheers, Jerry

Ah, the good old HMS Warspite. She, (the Battleship) holds the record for the greatest range guns have hit a moving target, that being a hit on the Giulio Cesare at a range of 26,400 yards! July 1940 in the Med.

I have 3 class 50's all fantastic runners at slow speed and very powerful love them. Great seeing other peoples, thanks.

Cheers, Jerry

Re visiting my effort of weathering. The victim being a Heljen 47 without expanding chassis (yet).

Had a lot of good advise on this forum re this so here's a re cap:

I started with it looking like this:

After some pointed advice, I rubbed off most of the paints leaving some as a base and started using powders and ended up with this:

So today I added a bit more gunk here and there and she now looks like this:

Scratched the black paint around the window frames to make it look like its peeling off or worn off. Can't really see it in the pixs!!

Two things to do now. 1) How do you get that "buffer" look? The silver with the black scratched/damaged paint look.

And 2) what is the technique in sealing the paint powder so it does not rub off? Piemanlarger has started another thread on this issue.

Many thanks for the help. It does look dirty!!

Cheers, Jerry

Thats great folks, thanks. They look good with a blue loco etc.

Cheers, Jerry

I seemed to of ended up with a number of bits and pieces in the "Dutch" livery. I have no idea what this means but focus on BR Blue. So can I mix these two liveries up? In my mind my trains are based around 1985 -90.

Cheers, Jerry

PS I am no rivet counter