Jack's in, or "Shortliners shortline"

[bertiedog]

Nothing yet, caught in an ash fog in the north!! I think all mail has slowed, a lot of staff are being transferred to road duties to get air mail sorted through by longer routes.

Stephen.

[shortliner]

You are probably right - back to the plodding donkey!

[alcoRS1]

nice, very nice.

[bertiedog]

If it's for display, and the real thing was wood.....a little "distressing", "weathering", "wood worm" holes, and old countshunk holes where the original screws were in the corners, complete with "rust" stains........ and paint the back a dirty brown, rubbed down, and stick a ticket with a number on it , and an auction number and ref in chalk.....genuine curio from the States.. Sir! ....obtained at great expense.....

 

Stephen...

[shortliner]

The original intention was to use it to hide the "fiddle", however it is probably too low - so it may get used as the layout "sign board" as part of a lighting gantry. OTOH I may attach it to the front of a deeper board and use it as intended

[bertiedog]

Got the letters, many thanks, a bit larger than the glow versions, which I think I will use because of the lights.

 

Stephen.

[shortliner]

Hi Stephen - I thought they might be, but it was worth a try

[shortliner]

UPDATE - Absolutely nothing has been done in the last few days, I have done something silly to my back, and can hardly move, it is a recurring problem and I just have to wait till it improves in its own time.

[Stubby47]

Sorry to hear that Jack, at least you can still surf ok. Hope you're back to full strength soon.

 

Stu

[alcoRS1]

UPDATE - Absolutely nothing has been done in the last few days, I have done something silly to my back, and can hardly move, it is a recurring problem and I just have to wait till it improves in its own time.

 

to make you fill better, I have lots of spinal problem from being blown up in Iraq, and this week I have done nothing during to losing the ability to grip good. (caused by a disk pushing on the spinal cord in the neck), but I will get back to modeling soon.

[shortliner]

Mine is certainly not as severe as yours, it just recurs at irregular intervals - it was originally caused by twisting in the seat of a Mini to remove a shopping bag from the back seat, at which point everything locked, SWMBO had to literally drag me out of the car, and I crawled into the house on hands and knees. The recurrences are nowhere near as bad, nor can I identify the trigger cause - it just feels as though someone has clamped me with a red-hot band around the middle, when I move from sitting to standing or vice versa - normally clears up inside a week, so far we are 3 days in! It is about 15 months since the last occurence, which cleared up in two days. I'd say it is just a PITA - except that it isn't the A that is affected!.

[bertiedog]

Sorry to hear that your back is so bad, same troubles here I am afraid.

Stephen.

[Gene]

Jack...the letter N in the word "on" appears to be backwards

[Shadow]

Done a bit of picture editing, and it does look better the other way!!

 

 

compared to original

 

 

but maybe that was the intention

[shortliner]

Yes - I do see exactly what you mean - but it will be a bit of a pig to remove all the "N"s and replace and respray - strangely that was how they are on the original vacpac card - I'll need to think about it

[bertiedog]

The N is the wrong way up for a serif font, .... N ....is correct, note, no serif on the bottom right hand corner, but why worry, blame the sign writer

[shortliner]

I've had a thunk about it and decided that it will be a royal PITA to change - if, at some point, it bothers me sufficiently I might change it - but for thr moment it will stay "as is".

[shortliner]

Easing the back gently into adopting positions it hasn't wanted to use, I have added the Caboose Industries ground throws to the turnouts today. All seem to work and all pass curent when the turnouts are thrown. Received an MRC soundbox ebay purchase today, with steam and diesel sounds for DC power. Haven't yet been able to try it out, but it MAY mean that my diesel-only one will be available for sale, at some point in the future. It has had little use and has been used to feed a set of amplified computer speakers with a sub-woofer - the result - turned up - is that the horn is loud enough to make your ears hurt! Sorry, DCC sound doesn't cut it for me!

[bertiedog]

Much better to have music to taste, with perhaps locomotive and ships noises in the background, DCC sound is a bit thin to say the least.......mind you a modeller I knew played Alpine and German band music all the time, yodelling still makes me think of US trains!!!

[Jerry1975]

Looking good Shortliner,

 

I am a fan of micro / small layouts and i am building one myself in N gauge, i have seen your other layouts you have built too, very inspirational.

 

Jerry.

[shortliner]

Stephen - if I was playing music over it , it would probably be country rock, rockabilly, truck-drivin' songs, or AC/DC

Jerry - thanks for the comment, and glad you are enjoying it.

[shortliner]

Just to prove that work is progressing slowly (but surely), here is the (unpainted ) entrance to the "float barge". Warren the N gauge bridge you sent worked perfectly after being cut down, as the I beam that crosses the top - thank you very much once more. currently trying to find suitable paint to represent the colours.

[alcoRS1]

you are welcome jack.

 

It is looking great.

 

for the paint, my guess a weathered black, then add some weathering to it after (rust chalk etc). The wood would be a dark wood stain.

[shortliner]

I'm using the last 2 photos of #320, dated January 1961 under "Locomotives" on this page http://members.train...loco/errhs.html as a reference for the colour of the float gantry

[alcoRS1]

I'm using the last 2 photos of #320, dated January 1961 under "Locomotives" on this page http://members.train...loco/errhs.html as a reference for the colour of the float gantry

 

yep the gantry looks like the color weathered black, I know polyscale has that shade, maybe Badger too.