Garden Railway Forum

Thanks chaps... Strangely, I'm not down-hearted, it feels like an opportunity in many ways. And yes, I think a revived Russell will really help. It's one of the reasons I'm delaying making a decision on how to proceed - my main motivation in getting a Slomo is to aid realistic end-to-end running, bu...

Wonderful, well done Tom!

No word re the Slomo, but I think Terry may be away now. I'll keep you posted...

Cheers,

Andrew.

The FR version has been done and there was an illustrated method put up on a forum (or was it in the 16mm assn magazine?). In essence he drilled a line of holes on the entrance side and cut between them to remove the doors, the rest is lots of cleaning up the edges with a file. You would need to pl...

Thanks folks, I'm glad I asked!

There's nowhere for my tractor to go at the moment, but a future rebuild of parts of the railway (see the (WH)WHR thread!) may result in some more scenic space, and I rather fancy a barn, so perhaps that's the route I'll go down...

Cheers,

Andrew.

The Newqidas have been reallocated to the Skebawn and Castleknox and will slowly appear in late 1950s CIE Green. Several of the Cavan and Leitrim's coaches - the ones that had been rebodied at Inchicore using stuff plundered from Broadstone bus depot's scrap pile, ended up in dark green, I am just ...

Hello! Over the weekend I found some time to get out into the garden and undertake some long overdue maintenance on the line. All did not go quite according to plan... The main task (I so I thought) was to re-affix the slate cladding to the decking planters that form the landscape that separates my ...

Oooh, I'd missed this - I love a good Faller railcar conversion, and this one's fantastic, it looks brilliant, love the skirts. My own Faller railcar was just a very simple repaint job about twenty years ago, but I'm still very fond of it, and it's my wife's favourite. The colour scheme plans sound ...

That's looking great! I was tempted before, didn't realise they were so powerful though, I'm even more tempted now! I'd want to try to recreate the FR's version during one of its forays on to the WHR, so would need to model it without doors I think, don't know how easy that would be... https://hfste...

Hello again... I measured it up and thought it might just do, at a push, so purchased my toy tractor for the princely sum of £2 - I even haggled a little, most unlike me! Here it is in the garden - posed on the platform because I don't really have any fields or roads, and with a selection of figures...

Looks like fun Tom - nice to see Russell keeping such good company too! A lovely line - I really like the Col Stephens style building... Glad you're having fun with Russell, sorry she keeps throwing up extra problems! I wondered whether the regulator might be contributing to the RC problems - defini...

Thank you! From memory I reckon 20% overscale sounds about right, I'll let you know when I've been back with a ruler...

I'm working solely on my not-terribly-smart phone at the moment so can't work out how to re-size the picture I took...

Cheers,

Andrew

Thanks Philip!

I think my junk shop tractor's going to come out too big, but I can get back there on Friday and will check then if it's still there...

Cheers!

Andrew

Hi all, I've just come across a nice metal tractor in a junk shop. It looks roughly old enough for my 20s/30s era, but I don't know if it's the right sort of size. I can imagine a 16mm farmer sitting on the seat, but it does look a bit on the big side. Does anyone know roughly how long it should be ...

This has all gone rather well so far Andrew (should I have said that?) Yep, definitely! I'm very glad it's all going well - I was a little concerned that some of the RC problems might have been exacerbated by previous tinkering I'd undertaken... It's a shame Russell isn't much use to you until the ...

Yes, thought it must be - keep up the good work!

Andrew.

Looks like you got the chuffer slighter lower in the chimney than I managed too - it was almost flush with the top before, well done!

I'm very impressed with your progress - I hope I'm not in your wife's bad books for taking up so much of your time!

Cheers,

Andrew

I have been totally stopped on railway projects since February thanks to finding myself in the middle of a Church Planting effort which has absorbed a vast amount of my energy over the spring and summer. Anyway, the situation seems to be stabilizing a bit now, so I might be able to get on with both...

Two dead spiders?! Wonder how long they'd been there?! Russell lives in a plastic toolbox most of the time, so they must have been very determined little arachnids!... I added locoworks inner tanks, which I think help a little with the impression of solidity... The chuffer is one of my few attempts ...

Glad to see Russell's arrived safely and looking very at home! Looking forward to hearing what the RWLR shed staff make of it...

Cheers,

Andrew.

I love the shed scene - a lovely building and very characterful fleet of locos...

Cheers,

Andrew