chrismears

On 31/08/2021 at 18:18, Fen End Pit said:

Hi Chris

 

I'm pretty sure that the wheels were just Alan Gibson 7mm scale 3' diameter wagon wheels. They work out at 21mm but close enough. For my Binnie skips I use Alan Gibson Lowmac wheels.

 

Glad you're liking the blog posts...

 

David

Thank you for the notes on the wheel types. 

I have some of those Binnie skips here and the same question in mind for those too. I see Slaters stock comparable wheels (maybe they're the same thing as the Gibson ones you've used) and I'll have to order some to use. Thank you.

Chris

This is such a fantastic project. These last few days I've really enjoyed reading and rereading through your posts and learning how the models were built. I'm starting to wade into 16mm and scratchbuilding my own Ruston based on some drawings from the Merioneth Railway Society's drawings for a Ruston 16hp. I'm "moving up" from the much smaller scales and since my model is for indoors use think track power is still the way to go. That's a rambling way of my asking what you are using for wheels under this model?

I'm looking for a 20mm diameter wheel for my model. You mention using O scale wheels and I like their shape/profile so don't mind adopting that in place of an actual 16mm scale wheel. I'd like it in metal. 

What you're using look exactly like what I'm after. I know it's been a very long time since you wrote this post but I thought I'd ask anyway.

Chris

These look terrific. Those laser cut ties are a really smart idea.

I keep returning to this post. I am so very impressed with the presentation style - it's just really cool.

I like the way that certain views are provided to the audience to tease them into the scene as active members in the audience invited for a more intimate relationship with the model instead of just standing back in the crowd, perhaps more passively.

That neat view inside the station;

The way the single coach is framed almost providing a diorama vignette within the context of the greater layout;

And that traverser that breaks through the valance is still one of the neatest ideas I've ever seen.

This is perfect.

/chris

Hi again. I'm still scratching around this plan and I wanted to ask how you lengthened the original plan to 100"? Did the extra length get added evenly throughout the plan, was it absorbed in larger turnouts, or added to the siding lengths? In my sketching I find the forward track in the fiddle yard tends to wind up too short (this track is the centre of the three on the left side of the plan). I still really like how this worked for you using multiple units. When I first looked at the plan I was looking at it through "loco plus two coaches" eyes but found the more I considered the plan the less I see it working the way Carl proposed.

Funny. I see my earlier comment is from much earlier when I started on this project. Must be something about this plan that so caters to the procrastinators in the crowd eh?

Thanks

/chris

It took a while to find this thread on the new forum, but I'm sure glad I did. I'm going to soon start to embark on a layout in N scale based on this same plan from Carl Arendt's website. I too was always really interested in the potential of this plan. Having watched your progress and seen pictures of the real thing I'm really inspired to have a go myself.

/chris