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The timbering under his turnouts are square on to the mains, the timbering under the diamond is also correct, it is called equalised, all diamonds and slips are timbered to this pattern otherwise the special chairs or base plates for the noses and crossings cannot be properly supported. As soon as is convenient plain sleepers are used, as they are cheaper and easier to work with. The main requirement is that there is room to pack under the chairs and base plates.

Does your 'n lay eggs?

They might have been pressure washed and or sand blasted.A lot of buildings have been in the past few decades, particularly in the smoke. There are lots of buildings in London and other places that I remember as being black, which were subsequently covered in scaffolding and plastic sheet, thetvwhen they re-emerged were very very clean. Most have subsequently weathered a bit, but nothing like they used to be.

Splitter!! It's the Peoples Popular Front of Judea.

Hi Ralph Are you using the Roland blade to scribe the bricks or are you using something else? TIA SS

Not one of Mallards close relatives I hope.

It's a good job the station staff have cleaned those pens, otherwise the Finching sisters would be in deep @@@@.

Me another bloke shifted David Shepherds 9F with a couple of pinch bars with 8 foot scaffold poles slide over them, fairly easy once you get the bloody thing and all them waggly bits on the side moving and that requires getting the working in unison right. It also requires lots and lots of swearing.

I'm building a Frogmore AA3, see my comments on it's construction here. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/90514-etching-poor-design/page-3 Posts 71 & 72 This is the steel veranda one I still have the timber veranda to go. I've not had to much problem with the soldering due to having invested in a London Road Models RSU.. There are a lot of other comments I could make, but these include lots of four lettered words strung together in paragraphs.

I don't think that the Craftsmanship Clever button is enough a Super Craftsmanship Clever button is needed. That is absolutely stunning and totally transforms that aspect of the layout.

Doesn't involve tin cans does it? Or is it a small 0 gauge matchbox!

Hi Gordon i have found that if you get stuck on a problem a question on here will usually get an answer from the collective body of knowledge on here. Glad to have confirmed your method. SS

Hi Gordon From my apprentice days, if you want the outside track to rise level with the inner track you need to fabricate a helix, like a spiral staircase. To achieve this the outer track needs to rise at a different rate. The way I was taught was to draw triangles. Your inner track is rising at 1 in 100, your outer will need to travel further, so the first thing to draw the inner track to the required radius at 1 to 1 for the required arc and divide into a number of segments, now draw the outer track and draw lines from the centre through your inner track segments to the outer track. Now step in track the segments off on a horizontal line and mark the end, draw a vertical line equal to the amount of rise and draw the line to close the triangle, this will give you the length of board for the inner track and now repeat the exercise for the outer track. This is a bit simplistic but I hope it gives you the basic idea. If you would like a more detailed reply please pm me, and I will go on the pc to do drawing. I'm doing this on a tab.

Wasn't CSB was it? I found it slipped down easy until I hit fresh air and then boy did I slide down the slope very rapidly.

I've probably been on more warships than most people can shake a manky stick at and they were all painted various shades grey. 3, Rothsay's (type 12), 26 Leander's (type 14), 8 Amazon's (Type 21) 14 Broadswords ( type 22) 3 Dukes ( type 23), 3 real carriers, 2 Sued o Carriers (thru deck cruisers), 2 Sheffield class destroyers (Type 42) and 1 yank (less said the better). one or two that became warships and quite a few RFA's, RMAS and other boats that weren't technically warships including one with a dark blue hull and ivory upper-works and several that were privately owned. Oh and some wot didn't like to advertise their existence, but they were black. Sorry if I missed any but me memory ain't what it woz. The only constancy is that non had wheels.

I woz in the spoon@s coal 'ole or some such, swilling black cat **** porter luverly drop of black stuff, before that I had been in the Ring o' Bells, ordered a round of drinks and the barrel failed so had a pint of Otter, would have had more but no tables for noshing available. Good job we 'ad an extra hour to (try) 'n' kip last nite.

Rob Your modelling is going up by leaps and bounds and your DCC controller with sound chip selection is magnificent, chuff chuff noises and narration!!! Damn clever these chinese.

Ron Your attention to detail goes above and beyond the call of duty, I'm sure that if this was an exhibition train set that no one would notice a few mil plus or minus in structures of the size that you're modelling. You have my upmost respect. How much of this is now down to using the silhouette cutter? SS

The kniting structures are proceeding quite rapidly since my stay in Reading for Scaleforum.

Did I see this in a cabinet at Scaleforum, if so the etching is absolutely outstanding.

I have seen worse and heard better.

I would guestimate that if the rungs on the ladder are at 9 inch centres that the bottom aspect would be about 14 ft from the deck. HTH.

Hi Gordon The only flat surface was the track bed everything else was open plan until infilled with polystyrene sheet. SS

Chris. She is now looking the dogs dohdahs, the end is now in sight and you will be the proud owner of a splendid GW 1366 pannier tank. SS

Hi Gordon On one of our club exhibition layout We put a 1inch deep vertical 4mm ply strip under the 4mm ply track bed after we noticed that the track bed was sagging during construction. we had no problems after that and said boards lasted around 20 years this included a period of storage in a steel container and several years in a clubroom with extremes of temperature and dampness. The only reason for disposal was a move to more clement premises which are smaller than the old one. A new layout is under construction using similar techniques which hopefully won't be subject to such extremes. SS