Donw

I suspect the most effective method would be to drawn it up in a cad program get a sample or two 3d printed. Then use them to make a mould to resin cast them.

However I have no idea how you actually do that. Rich Brummit who posts things on RMweb is involved professionally in rapid prototyping and I has used these techniques for modelling. There may be a 3d printing thread on here somewhere.

Don

I saw those pictures of Dyffryn Ardudwy too. They are the ones I saw in the photo of Towyn too. In both cases they were along one platform only. Usefully one of the photos has some modern bricks nearby. These look larger than a normal brick it would be better to make any casting to cover several as it would be fiddly laying them individually.

At one time the station building was up for sale. Mrs W was not persuaded to move there. Now if we had known of the lovely walks through the woods it might have been a better bet.

Don

I checked what I could on Dolgelley. It was pretty conclusive that the ones I could see were 3x2 and 2x2 or at least in that proportion.

They were laid alternately as a big and little pair. The edging stones appeared to be 3ftx 2ft 4in with the white strip being 10in wide. eing laid on a different axis there were two edging stones to three widths of middle slabs. These do look a different shape to many of those in my photos.

Interestinngly from Tim's comment above Towyn appeared to have the blue diamond bricks on one platform.

I have put some more from the West Somerset on my Thread

Don

Dave just had a look through some photos. Some of the slabs do look 4x 2 some of the edge stones llok to be a 4x2 slabs laid along the edge with a painted white bit. These could be replaced jobs.  I will try to sort out some photos of GWR ones but I may need to blow up parts to show the paving. I will post them on my thread as I have trouble adding them onto Blogs

Although this one may show as it is posted elsewhere

Lovely model Dave and the detailing sets it off nicely.

The slabs sound right to me I suppose the question is would there be suitable stone locally or would the GWR use the smae source all over. Mike's sizes sound like the ones we had in the Forest of Dean although the sizes varied a bit especially the thickness. It all depends on how well the stone splits. 3x2 seems a common size to me in the days before they worried about lifting heavy weights. The modern stuff is all rather small

Don

Very pleased you had a good show. Those photos look very atmospheric.

Don

The article in MRJ is very good with some cracking photos.

Glad you had a good day out

Don

The printed side does look very good.

Don

Rather the wrong Weston for me. besides November may seem a long way off........

Don

That really is neat presentation.

Don

Having had the pleasure of operating Coldrennick road it does show of the trains nicely. I believe Devon reds would be rather darker than Torbay Bright, although we have what looks like some in a field we pass regularly most are darker but one is much lighter

Don

The seven wires with the spacing closer at the bottom was what there was in the Forest of Dean. However a lot of the fencing there had some bridge rail  posts. Not available to you unless you assume it comes from nearby relaid main lines nor would there be many recovered sleepers. I think oak posts. As for spacing this seems to be the gen

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/52355-gwr-post-and-wire-fencing/  post 10 by Miss Prism

Don

Lovely stuff again Mike. I do like the Van train. I have coaches of differing heights it seems typical of edwardian GWR.

Re Mikkel last remark perhaps in Edwardian days to the upper class young bloods perhaps railways seemed 'old hat' where as Motor cars were new and exciting. According to one of the old boys the first two motorcars around Much Wenlock one belonged to the Doctor the other the Bank manager ran into each other on a country road both were used to locals getting out of the way when they heard the strange noise of a motor car. I could see such an attitude suiting Charles.

Don

Very good Ian. The mixture looks good to me the addition of the beige makes a lot of difference and with the darker green clumps looks quite believeable for Devon to me. I think that at the turn of the century cheaper labour would have meant the sides of the bank would not be allowed to become overgrown. Any trees or bushes would be along the fence at the bottom of the bank.

Don

Nice work In I am particularly impressed with the trees.

Don

Well that's a reasonable number of locos Pete. I hope call in for a while on the Sat if I can.

Don

Sounds like you had a good time. The bit of damage must be dealt with. I had a tiebar break at one show and used a peice of thread to hold the two halves together. Next show an my co-operator said hang on there's a bit of cotton caught round the tiebar. I had completely forgotten to fix it. Still the temporary fix lasted out.

30 year life is pretty good for the turnout linkages. Are they all manually operated?

Don

Thanks Ian. I have a pair of forceps with a curved end which make a useful heat shunt

Don

Very fine work Ian. I think you are right about trying to add the top rollers. Does the expansion problems mean it would be wise to add all the  rodding wires to each stool in turn working away from the box.

When I first joined the 2mm SA thirty years ago the idea of adding all the rodding was never mooted it shows how far some have come.

Don

Interesting comments. I had thought the Pictroller was similar to the Pentroller.

In 0 gauge my coreless motors with high efficiency gearboxes respond well to a emitter folower type. I was interested because I have some 2mm coreless builds in the queue. 

Don

I love the result Mikkel the stacks of boxes in the first photo look just right.

Don

I consider that to be pretty quick work they look very good.

Don

Lovely work on this Ian. Signals do add a lot to the layout. I have been considering how to build some 7mm Cambrian ones to work out how to fit the servos and still make them removeable. I haven't dared to think about building 2mm ones but some very useful ideas here. I am really looking forward to seeing Modbury when it is ready.

Don

Very interesting. I don't think the pictures show the differences that well no doubt it would be clearer in the flesh. Texture is hard to model. Often you cannot see it at the scale viweing distance but the eye expects to see it. So the artistic compromise can work better because the brain/eye are happy.

Don

Good result there. I like the way you just say I turned the Dapol wheels down not the easiest of tasks I would think.

Don