Ah one of friends has some of those and I think amazing. I love the feathers...Half of the track pinned today and this arrived from Train Tech. Very impressive little signal.
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Ah one of friends has some of those and I think amazing. I love the feathers...Half of the track pinned today and this arrived from Train Tech. Very impressive little signal.
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Half of the track pinned today and this arrived from Train Tech. Very impressive little signal.
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What scale is this?
Thanks. I think it’s actually got some Fells in the background but I won’t say anything if you don’t.It looks excellent, a great addition!
Thanks. I think it’s actually got some Fells in the background but I won’t say anything if you don’t.
I can only assume that the sky was a bit clearer back then...Yes, on close inspection it looks a bit Lake District/Pennine/Southern Scotland, maybe that's why I like it
Ok so my backscene arrived through the post the other day and although I was going to save it until I had the timber to make the fiddle yard properly impatience got the better of me and I cobbled together some ply and just stuck the thing up anyway.
Well it was only £12 so when I do it properly I’ll just get a new one. The result is though that from certain angles if you crop the photos down it looks pretty cool I reckon.
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It’s made it all look a bit more 3D. I ended up spending about half an hour just staring at it from different angles...
Here you go Tom. They do all three main scalesLooks brilliant! Where did you get them from?
Here you go Tom. They do all three main scales
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Wow they look the part!
Wow they look the part!
They almost make me want to go back to 00...I’m really pleased with them. Not bad at all for just over a fiver a go.
They almost make me want to go back to 00...
In other news, you know that you probably need to get out more when you steal some black cotton off your missus and spend three hours wiring up tiny telegraph poles just because it’s difficult.
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(I know that they look a bit tight but I’m working on the premise that they’ll start sagging over a few months)
They look brilliant - well done! I'm now wondering if I could use that technique for my layout. I've seen a few electricity pylons on layouts but not too many telegraph poles with cables running between them. Very good work!In other news, you know that you probably need to get out more when you steal some black cotton off your missus and spend three hours wiring up tiny telegraph poles just because it’s difficult.
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(I know that they look a bit tight but I’m working on the premise that they’ll start sagging over a few months)
I love it!On and off over the past ten years I've been getting the odd waggon, loco and a few kits, but never had the space or funds to start a layout. Well with the two eldest children now flown the nest, the back bedroom has become my study / man cave. Sadly my mother passed away last November, and having received a little cash I now had the space and the cash to get a layout under way, but it wasn't until the lockdown did I really get started.
All but one of the loco's I have are DC, but wanting to go DCC I built my own controller based on the miniDCC project. I also converted an old GF class 25 to DCC, seen here
One of the original post at the start of this thread commented on the costs.... I couldn't agree more... it's quite frightening to realise that the loco, and the half dozen coaches is £250 - £300 running round in front of you. I joined the N-Gauge society and a good 50% of the wagons running on the layout are their excellent kits, which are a fraction of the cost of RTR, and you have the fun of building, painting and weatehring them.
I'm still not happy with the platforms, but I had to work with what I had, which was 9mm foam sheet insulation, sheets of sandpaper and the internet to scale and print off slabs etc. But as all modellers say "Its My railway"
Yes I’ve always used it Iskra. It’s not that hard to work with either, although the tighter the curve the more it wants to straighten again. It will stay in the shape you want it to a certain extent and personally I’ve always glued track down rather than pinned it because I don’t like the way pins can squash the sleepers if you go to far.Some excellent work on display recently
Does anyone have any experience with 'flexi-track,' is it easy to use?
Some excellent work on display recently
Does anyone have any experience with 'flexi-track,' is it easy to use?
Yes I’ve always used it Iskra. It’s not that hard to work with either, although the tighter the curve the more it wants to straighten again. It will stay in the shape you want it to a certain extent and personally I’ve always glued track down rather than pinned it because I don’t like the way pins can squash the sleepers if you go to far.
What I would recommend is getting something like a cutting disk on a Dremmel for chopping the rails level as the cleaner the cut the easier it is to get fishplates on.
Flexible track isn't hard to work with. It will follow the shape you put it in to a degree, and then you can pin it or use glue such as copydex with the pins being removed once dry. A mini drill of some type with a cutting disk is used to trim the end of the rail. I found that if you use a 0.7mm drill and pre drill holes every 4-6 inches normal track pins work well through a layer of 3mm cork on top of MDF baseboard. N-gauge flexi is more flexible than OO or O as the rails are thinner. I used an aluminium bar, around a metre long as a guide for keeping the straight sections straight.... It's not difficult to lay, just have a go
That’s sounds really interesting. I’m not sure quite what you meant by a quick release mechanism though @Jozhua?Anyone got any tips for say a quick release kind of mechanism, because I don't want to tear the track up once I've stuck it down just to connect it up
Somewhat inspired by your video @malc-c, I finally got around to uploading my first clip onto YouTube tonight.On and off over the past ten years I've been getting the odd waggon, loco and a few kits, but never had the space or funds to start a layout. Well with the two eldest children now flown the nest, the back bedroom has become my study / man cave. Sadly my mother passed away last November, and having received a little cash I now had the space and the cash to get a layout under way, but it wasn't until the lockdown did I really get started.
All but one of the loco's I have are DC, but wanting to go DCC I built my own controller based on the miniDCC project. I also converted an old GF class 25 to DCC, seen here
One of the original post at the start of this thread commented on the costs.... I couldn't agree more... it's quite frightening to realise that the loco, and the half dozen coaches is £250 - £300 running round in front of you. I joined the N-Gauge society and a good 50% of the wagons running on the layout are their excellent kits, which are a fraction of the cost of RTR, and you have the fun of building, painting and weatehring them.
I'm still not happy with the platforms, but I had to work with what I had, which was 9mm foam sheet insulation, sheets of sandpaper and the internet to scale and print off slabs etc. But as all modellers say "Its My railway"
It's pretty standard stuff. It works well but it's certainly worth buying a track cutter and file or else the track can only be laid on the straight. I would assume that you currently use setrack, remember that flexitrack will not keep a curved shape unless pinned down and that you will need fishplates.Some excellent work on display recently
Does anyone have any experience with 'flexi-track,' is it easy to use?
But as all modellers say "Its My railway"
Somewhat inspired by your video @malc-c, I finally got around to uploading my first clip onto YouTube tonight.
It’s of 33102 heading towards Barnstaple with the mixed stock for the early morning Barnstaple to Paddington service in July 1987.
Very nice - I like the added soundSomewhat inspired by your video @malc-c, I finally got around to uploading my first clip onto YouTube tonight.
It’s of 33102 heading towards Barnstaple with the mixed stock for the early morning Barnstaple to Paddington service in July 1987.