Garden Railway Forum

Does anyone know where I can buy a single printed copy? My daughter wants a copy and I can't find it in WH Smiths or Sainsbury's and when I look online I can only find subscriptions for a minimum of three months. I already subscribe to the digital edition and I got a free (hard) copy this month, but...

Looks like good progress is being made. No wonder your posts take so long to write, you have a fine attention to detail in both your writing and your modelling.

Rik

I think window frames would be an excellent starting point. I reckon most people buy frames when making their models and sometimes compromises need to be made to make the model fit the frames available. Also, quite a few techniques can be demonstrated with a even a simple window frame. I was about t...

FWLR wrote: ↑Tue Aug 11, 2020 11:19 am
Thanks to Phil Parker for an excellent magazine this month.

Hear hear!! Another publishing masterpiece, Phil.
I understand you've been more than a bit busy this month, so even more of an accomplishment than usual.

Rik

Great bit of modelling and excellent video editing.
Good to see the cat making an appearance as well - much more visible this time!
..... And there was me thinking you had also become a virtuoso on the uke during lockdown....

Rik

Looks mighty fine to me. Most of my errors are schoolboy - my wife reckons I'm a big kid so what the heck....

Rik

Just discovered a rather fine looking beam engine on Thingiverse which can actually be made to work ... https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1350988 It looks like I'm going to be firing up the 3D printer once more. By the look of the accompanying video, I may not have to rescale it, which will be a rel...

Soar Valley Light wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 6:42 pm ........but I wonder if you are going to reproduce the smell?
All the best,
Andrew

Not intentionally .......

Rik

steamyjim wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 10:50 am Yes, they are fitted with RC on the rudder and sail winch. Shall I send you some pictures? They're really lovely models, but my main interest is steam and I've far too many projects here - I've kept my steam boat fleet though!

PM sent

Rik

Looking good and great to see trains running.
Best wishes to your mum.

Rik

steamyjim wrote: ↑Sun Aug 09, 2020 11:38 pm Most of the boats are for sale if anyone fancies dabbling in some model yachting!

Are they radio controlled?
I did a fair bit of dinghy sailing in my younger days and have sometimes fancied the idea of getting back on the water, albeit in model form.

Rik

Philipy of this parish took a look at my SketchUp drawings and repaired them. It seems that you have to interpret the way the various lines and faces are presented on the screen to figure out if the faces are reversed and if lines are shape outlines or simply just lines. I'm not sure I've explained ...

Looks like it offers plenty of potential. A circuit with a reverse loop and the possibility of end to end if you ignore one of the links. Rik PS just realised that what I thought was a reverse loop link is probably a line into the shed. A reverse loop link somewhere would allow you to run out and ba...

They certainly look good! I'm not sure what Richard Maunsell would have made of the pink buffers though,

Rik

Update on today's progress I have finished printing out the widows. IMG_0953-001.JPG . Because I have a very cheap printer (or maybe I'm just no good at setting it up properly), I have to do a fair bit of cleaning-up after printing. But the windows do seem to have turned out OK. IMG_0954.JPG . As y...

Meanwhile, I sent off for some PVC foamboard and tried drawing some window-frames on SketchUp. The Sketchup frames looked fine on the screen, ...... Sketchup window.jpg . ....... but no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't get them to load successfully into my slicer software (Cura). Cura compla...

The first job was to survey the site at Bulkeley station where it would be located, to figure out what sort of space I'd have. IMG_0935.JPG . I reckoned I could squeeze in a building about a metre long by around 30cm deep. It would be modelled in relief, as I did with the brewery. So, I cleared the ...

Some of you may recall that I created a new siding at Bulkeley Station for another lineside industry. After some deliberation, I decided it would house a boneworks. One actually existed in the area near my railway and so I felt its existence on the line could be justified. I'm not sure I've ever see...

Positively delighted to see the Peckforton Light Railway in the September issue. Lovely article Rik one not to miss. Don Thanks Don I was worried the article might seem a bit long and wordy, but Phil seems to have been able to squeeze it into four pages. In the digital edition, there are several mo...

I wonder if the tree would tolerate having a bigger bite taken out of it? Trees seem to happily survive all sorts of abuse and this would be on the inside of the lean and hence under compression rather than tension.

Any arboreologists out there?

Rik