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. . . a similar system, though designed for plaster, and . . . My first build was a small PW hut, now designated for a quarry office, cast from resin plaster from Gedeo. The moulds work well in most casting materials. Cheapest is ordinary cement with fine aggregate and I have cast some dry stone wa...

Peter Butler wrote: ↑Fri Jul 10, 2020 8:57 pm Possibly some of us were influenced by these?.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM4uGgchFnM

“A whole train set for under £5”

Peter Butler wrote: ↑Fri Jul 10, 2020 4:08 pm And now for something completely different.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt-olVAQXTY

Imagine taking that for an MOT.

Probably the greatest inspiration for me was Rev Peter Denny's Trepolpen Valley Light Railway, which appeared in various guises through the 1960s and Rik Ditto. There is a chapter in his book “Buckingham Great Central - 25 years of railway modelling” that is devoted to the garden line too. It’s an ...

Building Ginnerbeck viaduct: Appendix Thanks for all the positive feedback. This includes praise for the quality of the stonework, and I really didn’t discuss this aspect at all just starting with “I used standard RLR building sheets”. The basis of all the stonework is the JigStone system. 2375D230...

PS a little concerned as to how your crew are going to get off the structure, a case of "watch the first step, it's a doozy!!!" Rylstondale is a very isolated place even to this day. Lots of the inhabitants still use Yorkshire vernacular and the place names have hidden Norse meanings. The...

Just a slight warning. When I finished my viaduct and before I laid track, I discovered I had built a perfect AQUAduct. I had to drill some 'weep' holes to let the water out. Mmmm . . . I did consider that. I was going to run some styrene tubing through the structure as a drain (remember I was fill...

I think these guys were all crazier than we all are?

Andy

. . . with a magnet on the track at relevant points and a reed switch in the guard's van? Rik . . . I was planning to do more, but I found the sound of the servos operating impossible to hide. . . These two quotes sequentially reminded me of an aborted project. I had a small digital video camera fr...

Building Ginnerbeck viaduct for the Rylston Light Final Part. The last instalment opened with the reveal of whether the newly assembled viaduct would fall apart on its first lift. Spoiler: It didn’t. This instalment opens with whether I survived after the debacle of the expanding foam in the dining...

Incidentally, how did you stop air bubbles forming in the resin? I recently saw a YouTube video where someone vibrated the table with a blade-less jigsaw to make the bubbles rise to the surface. Rik My technique in avoiding air bubbles is highly technical and laborious to describe so only read on i...

Being ignorant of such things, does this or did this viaduct exist in real life? Grant. Does now, Grant :lol: :lol: :lol: I admit I’m slightly flattered that you ask since it suggests I’ve captured a flavour of a real viaduct. No, it’s entirely the product of my own imagination. I looked at many im...

Building Ginnerbeck viaduct for the Rylston Light Part Three. The story so far: mixed two liquids together in a yogurt pot many times, pour into a piece of rubber, remove hardened blocks and stick blocks together with a smelly sticky goop on what used to be a perfectly good dining room table. Then ...

...both probably incorporating the same Italeri HIAB kit? Yup! Yours has more interesting detail. Very nice build. But I’m intrigued by the the difference in appearance of the HIAB itself. They must be the same but yours looks a tad chunkier. Shows the effect of a different paint job. I notice you,...

Building Ginnerbeck viaduct for the Rylston Light Part Three. At this point in the story I have a kit of cast parts. A flat curved track bed made of MDF covered with glass-fibre reinforced resin. Five U-pol cast internal arches that have had there side-edges trimmed to match the radius of the track...

Magnificent project Andy, of quite large proportions and handled with much inventive thought. I also share your grandfathers thoughts, having built a 5ft. long model tug after making a rusty exhaust stack, a large yacht after making an anchor (which still is not on the boat, LoL). There is somethin...

. . . but which silicon do you use for the moulds. I have used a variety. For small moulds I used Siligum; a two-part solid material. Advantages is that small volumes are easy, no mess and it cures for use within 20minutes. The disadvantages it is relatively costly and it is vey easy to have hidden...

Building Ginnerbeck viaduct for the Rylston Light Part Two. The next task was fashioning the track bed. This is a COVID-19 project and as I am fully shielding a trip to the DIY store was out of the question. The only thing suitable in the garage was an old sheet of MDF. I marked on the track radius...

Building Ginnerbeck viaduct for the Rylston Light Part One. My grandfather had a bell. It sat on his mantelpiece and for twenty years he claimed he was looking for a bicycle to fit it. Madness clearly runs deep within the family. This is the story of the build of Ginnerbeck Viaduct; built before the...

Thanks I thought it looked a tad on the fat side. I’ve tried a slimmed down trial in card again. It’s proportions are better. Onwards with the build. I’ll start a build record in the Projects directory. See you there! Andy Edit: A picture of one of the shorter piers with less pronounced batter. 76D9...