Chris Gilbert

I find most times if you ask nicely they will ship to the UK but sometimes there is the odd one who has no time for us Brits...

An Atlas GP38, very nice, may I ask where did you managed to get that from?

A long search on EBay.com

The seller would not ship to the UK, so I a friend in the States bid on it and he then forwarded it on to me

Just for you Ray

The latest arrival at North Haston

Its yet to visit the weatherman

Guys

Just a heads up North Haston will be heading north next Feburary

I have just revived an invite to take it the Modelrail Scotland

Must get the Conneticut Southern amd Pan Am stock stored for the three day show

I'm thinking Conneticut Southern on the Friday

Guilford on the Saturday and Pan Am on the Sunday.

Might even had the Pam Am F-Units ready by then.

Andrew

I will be starting another project shortly which will have a number of trees on it

I'll do a photo shot as I progress if that's Okay

Here's a photo of the latest arrival

A U25B

It only takes a loco

Damin

Here you go.

It's feed by a three track traverser

It looks best when there is little or very few items of stock on it.

Jordan

You and Steve will be looking after North Haston tomorrow while I head to the pub with Roger Nicholls, I'm sure you'll find the Steve isn't that subtle at all

Phil

It's polyfilla roughly spread around and left to set hard, then a big dollop of PVA glue is spread over it .Ash from a log burner was sprinkled over it and then tamped down with a 2" paint brush and left to dry.

Amazing work in such a short time Chris,

 

Looking forward to seeing it at TVNAM

Thanks Dave

I like this one myself...

Ok here are a few photos of the layout taken today

Some photos of the wiring

First I marked the end of the points were so I could drill holes for the feeds

I also drilled out the holes for the point motors

Then tinned the bottom of the fish plates

Then tinned the feed itself

Once soldered the fish plates were fitted to the point and the wires fed down the holes

I also cut out the holes for the under track magnets

Hi Chris,

 

There was me thinking you were joking about creating a 'PanAm'ish layout!

 

Thanks

Just for you Phil

Chris, Good job you didn't buy the F-Type...

 

Best, Pete.

Pete

I looked at two F-Types on Thursday but there is just no way I could get a layout to fit. I'll just have to make do with the XF

Hi Chris,

 

There was me thinking you were joking about creating a 'PanAm'ish layout!

 

You need to slow down a bit...

 

48 hrs from being a sheet of mdf to being a layout baseboard - that's crazy.

 

Thanks

The planets were alined 

After a number of false starts, layout building mode kicked in good and proper on Friday.

A quick trip to B&Q on Friday lunch time to pick up a sheet of 6mm MDF 

then with cutting list I headed over to the saw 

After a couple of hours at home I ended up with this

but more importantly it fits in the car.

okay, thats sorted I should be able to post some photos now..

We're getting there this is with the buttons on the bottom

This is on its side

This one is with the sound keys at the bottom

ok guys I'm have a few "photo upload problems" with my iphone.

when i look at them on my Mac or iPhone they are the right way up but when i post them on here they could be sideways upside down, or very occasionally the right way up. 

I'm going to post three photos all of the layout to see which way is the right way up to hold the phone....

After a number of false starts, layout building mode kicked in good and proper on Friday.

A quick trip to B&Q on Friday lunch time to pick up a sheet of 6mm MDF 

I saw Orchard Road today at the RMweb day and I must say how impressed I was with it.

very good indeed

Thanks

Chris