wagonbasher

I take it back. It is clearly not pink.... more of a pale lilac now I would have thought.

amazing stuff, just look at that detail. Lots of things that are still there today that I thought would be big enough to see are just lost in a mush of buildings and trees. I will draw a triangle on a map and from BB to w'ton and the clent hills then suggest things that we might have been able to see then. Then we can decide if they could have been seen. Andy

A 5 arch suppository ?

The old gringo supplied the necessary data based on rail / chair / sleeper / cork and ply wood thicknesses. The upright pillars are 18mm thick (this allows a couple of mm for plasticard cladding). Spookily that is the same size as a local DIY stores planed timber. The internal width is 91mm so with the stores nearest dimension of 94mm x 18mm I only had to take 3mm off with the router. Cutting them to height means that the trackbed will be fully supported by the viaduct. The packing around the bottom of the pillars is the start of the flared bases.

Are they pink ? A lighter shade than the fox gloves perhaps? A

I received the plans for the layouts last week but unlike Indomitable I couldn't persuade the cat to pose. The viaduct is a shortened version of the one at Penkridge. Although it is not in the black country it's design is the same principle as a number that were built by the Grand Junction railway through the Black Country and into Birmingham. It has 5 equal arches standing on Stone pillars with the upper sections and parapets made from a mixture of stone and brick. First job was to transfer the key dimensions to two MDF sides. The flaring on the pillars was to be added later. The next image shows a home made attachment to my router. The stud towards the bottom of the ply base is 74mm from the center of the stud to the furthest edge of the routers cutting blade By drilling a 5mm hole (same size as stud) at the center point the router can rotate around the stud cutting a groove to form the arch (it is a little bigger than required to allow for layers of plasticard and embossed brick plasticard. Now running the router up a straight edge square to the base I cut out the uprights and a viaduct shape begins to appear. Johnny Gringo: Since the pillars will need to support the track bed, if we allow 9mm ply for the ply used for the track bed, what is the dimension from the bottom of the pillars to the underside of the track bed.

sorry, hadn't meant to apply any pressure... offer of North bound goods still stands if you need anything from down here... A

fantastic work. just let me know when you are ready for any board to move South or likewise if you need anything coming North. I am in Bawtry on Tuesday and Friday next week. A