Please do post some photos Ian, I’d absolutely love to see your work.
2mm Finescale fascinates me.
Amazing stuff - are there guides somewhere about how to do this, or did you do it yourself? Do you canabalise stardard track for the rails and make your own sleepers? How do you keep the rails the correct distance apart?
The scenic section is currently crated up, and photos are on an old laptop. I will try and dig it out soon and copy some pics across from it.
I am currently working on the fiddle yard wiring, not my favourite job, and as it lives in the garage, it is too damn cold to do any out there at the moment, so progress on that has been very slow recently.
Unfortunately, I do not have space to put it all up at the moment, however, that will change in a year or so.
The best guide to track building is the 2mm Association's publication 'Track', which, although it was written for 2mm modellers, it has a great deal of prototype info, and a lot of the methods can be transferred across to other scales.
Rails are bought from the 2mm Association (members only) along with PCB sleepers/timbers.
Gauges, rails and sleepers are available for various scales and gauges, with the main suppliers for the larger scales being C & L, Marcway and Exactoscale or specific scale societies.
Starting is the hardest part, but frequent consultations in the book, and a willingness to scrap it and start again help.
I have my layout thread on RMWeb, along with a couple of associated threads. There are some really good track builders out there, who all put me to shame.
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I have already started a topic in "modelling musings and miscellany" in the hope of flushing out extra info and photos, however, as I have been dormant for far too long at the modelling workbench, I thought that I had better extract the digit and get on with it. Inspiration came from a couple of ...
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Paisley St James' fiddle yard is now complete, although not yet wired. Focus (through my bifocals) has now transferred to the main station boards. Temperature in the shed is too low for prolonged exposure not to result in exposure, so (temporary) permission has been granted to work on the dining ...
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There are other scale track building threads on there, too. One of the best is:
I have been asked to build a couple of P4 turnouts, in a GWR style. I have not been given much prototype details or specifications. Its a bit of a mix of C&L and Exactoscale parts. 2 bolt chairs are the order of the day, but neither C&L or Exactoscale do 2 bolt slide chairs. In addition I...
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I dip into this one regularly for ideas.
Regads
Ian