Garden Railway Forum

We have seen a cat (not sure if it is the same one) sleeping on the roof of the Engine Shed - one of the little green vent pipes has been broken off but no other damage noticed yet - but we are a little conserned. Engine Shed.jpg My wife Erika suggest that the answer to cats is mothballs, but first ...

Last week a neighbour’s cat broke a bridge on the FBGR. Bridge Cat Damage.jpg The Cat had been observed for some time using the bridge deck as a jumping-off-point to climb over the back fence, but no damage had been noticed previously. The Bridge girders were made of Plasticard which were mounted on...

I've fixed in place this morning what was planned to be the last section of the fence buildings. This comprised of the right-hand (north) end of the factory - to which I have included an extra factory bay to balance out the structure, as well as sky and background. 02 Factory Complete 29Nov11 croppe...

I visited the FBGR this morning and fixed in place another gap filler – this time between the Hotel Post (fitted round the fence post) and the calcium carbide factory. Gap filler 3 24Nov11 cropped.jpg A bit of a woopsy where the sky / mountain interface on the new bit is above the all sky bit on the...

I went down to the FBGR this morning and fixed the background/gap fillers each side of the Rathaus. 02 Rathaus gaps filled 17 Nov.jpg Low but quite bright sun made getting a good picture difficult. Just the gaps each side of the industrial building to do now, and I have already started on these. JOhn

Two houses fitted to the fence this morning – yellow and purple - this should be the last of these.
Next is the gaps each side of the ‘Rathaus’ - I’ve started on these and with luck (baring changes of mind and mistakes) they should be ready next week.

JOhn

Dear Bryan, Doing little else the past year but making these buildings and retaining walls has given me plenty of practice. AND, I don’t seem to cut my fingers quite so much nowadays. I am now looking forward to getting the project completed though, so I can get stuck into something else - yes it wi...

Dear Bryan, The buildings are all constructed from Plasticard. Here is a pic of the back of the greenish house (3rd from left) before the widows (glazing with picture behind) were fixed - I completely paint and varnish the fronts at this stage, saves having to mess around trying to varnish the windo...

Fixed the latest house this morning.
This also shows the paving and aluminium brackets holding the retaining wall units.

JOhn

I converted our Baguley loco to Timpdon Radio Control last month. The manual control switch (forward/stop/reverse) was under some form of step or lump on the buffer beam, and was not easy to get to to start and stop the loco and the ‘full speed or nothing’ did limit any attempt at controlled shuntin...

The station and yard area on our railway is a timber decked portion, about 6½ metres long, alongside a timber boundary fence. The hiding and dressing up of this fence has been ongoing for some time and is now nearing completion, so this is an outline of how I have been doing this. I can go into more...

Decal Paper with an Inkjet Printer are find, but you can't do white - indeed any colour but black on a non-white background may need a bit of experimentation to get the colour your want.

JOhn