2mmMark

Hi Pete , hope you don't mind, here's a few scribbled suggestions. Hopefully self-explanatory. I like the idea of the project very much.  With the careful positioning you can lose the baseboard join in solid scenery and avoid a join "in the water".  It's the water's edge where the interesting bit is any way.  Big expanses of water get dusty and can show up inconvenient reflections of the lights.

Pleased it worked out well. That moment when a loco steadily & smoothly ran in after we'd resoldered the crossing and rewired the switches was very satisfying.

 

Sounds like Keith needs to assert his rights with his credit card issuer, who may well be reluctant to offer section 75 protection as they are also an unsecured creditor but that doesn't absolve their responsibility.  My particular card issuer was and still is MBNA and in the E7even case, they were excellent.

I have a great deal of sympathy for Keith's position as I'm sure his preference would be to have the loco he ordered as JLTRT products do seem to be pretty good. Maybe we are inclined to be rather too tolerant of delayed delivery? There was a similar situation in 2mm where a builder/kit producer was offering bespoke RTR 2mm finescale locos at very good prices. Orders were taken but models undelivered after lengthy waits. Paypal was the payment mechanism as I recall and there is a date limitation in that channel.

Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 was very useful to me a few years ago when I pre-paid via credit card for an annual subscription for broadband access from the now defunct ISP E7even. The company went into difficulties in early 2006 but was not wound up until over a year later in April  2007.  Via section 75 I was able to reclaim the pre-payment very easily and quickly on provision of evidence of non-supply.  I was expecting it to be pro-rated to cover usage received but the whole amount was refunded.

Now that personal credit card payments are legally not subject to surcharges, there's no real reason not to use them.

Section 75 protection applies even if only part of the payment is made by card, so long as the payment is £100 or more.

In 2mm, smooth free movement is much better than anything which has any "stiction". It's all too easy to derail a fiddleyard full of stock if  sector plate sticks then suddenly moves.

Just occured to me that a taper roller head bearing would make a really good pivot. Something like ebay item 270924167058.  Taper rollers are self-aligning and automatically take up any clearance.

Where the blue & red lines cross over, the electricity will be marooned.

That's why it needs rescuing with an extra wire.

Are the blue people negative?

Don't forget to only use the Xuron track shears on soft materials!

Good to see that you've been able to remove the turnout without too much disturbance.

When you gap the timbers, filling in the cuts will help the turnout blend in with the Easitrac. I would strongly recommend soldering the feed wires on before installing the turnout, as you're working in a tight space.

Mark

Large scale historical maps from the Irish Ordnance Survey are available online

http://map.geohive.ie/mapviewer.html

Liking this a lot!

I'd encourage you to make the main line a shallow curve. For some reason, it fools the eye into seeing it as a longer distance. An Clár is nearly (600mm by 200mm) to the dimensions of the DJLC and has the track as an "S" curve running through the scene. When photographed from a low angle, it fools the eye very well.

Tim - possibly a better way to arrange a spring pickup like you need is to bend the wire like the coiled end of a safety pin. This should give you the springing you need in a small space.  I've done a similar thing in place of omega loops in point mechanisms.

Mark

Bit late to the party but what a lovely layout!  From somewhere to somewhere else in a small space.  Ingenious idea, very well excecuted.  I love it!

In the lengths that DIY sheds sell 12mm angle, there's plenty of material for motor mounts! This type of mount can also be tapped with a 5.5mm thread to hold a coreless motor. The name brand coreless motors (Faulhaber, Portescap, Citizen etc) come with a threaded boss.

I'm not expecting much wear, my 2mm locos don't do a lot of mileage.  The wear pattern of a worm & wormwheel is such that closing up the mesh doesn't really resolve the problem. The worm and/or the worm wheel tend to become throated. That's what we've observed on Copenhagen Fields.

Mark

The kit doesn't include anything like that. I have some 0.3mm square nickel-silver wire which I'm thinking of soldering in to represent the panel joins but looking at the photos, the joints are not that prominent and the rivets are very small in 2mm scale.  It might be as well to simply fill in the lines and use Archer rivet decals if they do one fine enough.

Don't feel too bad about the progress of your loco. I bought a Langley 14xx & Autocoach kit back in 1983.  I still haven't finished it.  Most of the intervening period was spent doing step 8.

Mark

It was good to see St. Ruth at Wycrail. This was the first time I'd seen the layout's new backscene. Most impressive!

The HDR shots are food for thought.

Somehow, I always expect to see a fussy little Belgian detective standing outside the Hotel Royale...

Looking and sounding good.  If you need some inspiration for clay dries, have a delve around Iain Robinson's web site. Here's a starter

http://iainrobinsonmodels.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/the-clay-driesfinished-at-lastor-are.html

Mark

I'm a sucker for vans too, which is why I've got a semi-Wisbech & Upwell themed layout. Hasn't modern N gauge stock got good?  I've still got several 2mm van kits to finish off so need to avoid temptations like these!

Nice work Pete.  If the runners are conductive enough, how about using them as a common return and then you'll only need 1 alignment rod.  On Burwell Fen's sector plate, I have the alignment rod going in vertically, so there's much less chance of derailing stock accidentally.

Fabulous stuff Mark. I hope it will be along for further running in trials on Tucking Mill at High Wycombe at the weekend.

 

Jerry

 Yes Indeed it will Jerry, Looking forward to it.

Impressionistic does it for me. Would this be as per Brill Tramway?

Don

Well, sort of.  It's a bit freelance, if I'm perfectly honest. I'm using a Nigel Lawton MPD18 chassis in the pusher wagon. This has a 18mm wheelbase, a scale 9ft.  The Ashbury  composite coach used on the Brill Tramway also shares this wheelbase, so it's a possible option.

Mark

Very nice work Ian. A real sense of achievement hacking stuff like this out of the raw, isn't there?

Very nice indeed.  Is that the plain "carriage brown" livery? This tends to be a bit under-represented in model form. Everyone thinks LNER = teak. I've done some 2mm coaches in plain brown but they need toning down & weathering.

Mark

Nice robust chassis design, food for thought, Ian.

How strong is the Milliput for holding threads?  My instinct would be to press in a plastic insulating rod and tap that but if Milliput is up to the job, then seems a lot easier.

Mark.

Coming together nicely.  I like the subdued colours, really important in 2mm.