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To finish up before the worst of the weather, some more areas around the Station Yard area were covered in Foamboard sheets. Mostly only 2 mm thick, this material was obtained as scrap from a local signmaker. Hammered with a small bit of paving stone to put random dents over the surface and then jus...

The POLA Station has been sitting there all alone for a few years, and so I thought it was time it had a bit more platform (in Foamboard). A ‘typical’ Germanic railway building was also knocked up with Foamboard walls and Plasticard roof and details to populate the platform (plus a cast metal ticket...

I’ve added another little point of interest, a gallows hoist in front of an arch doorway – as usual all in Plasticard but not the chains of course. These came from my parts bin and so may even have been from some of Erika’s (the wife’s) broken and discarded jewellery (‘Argos Gold’), but I painted th...

The original painted-on bricks/stones to the three arch bridge (see top picture above) were done back in 2008 with a couple of home made rubber stamps using acrylic paint. The colour had definitely toned-down/faded a bit over the years. The FBGR is about a km from the sea-front and when a South-West...

Carrying on with the ‘paving’, I have added a little something to fill up an empty corner. I knocked up a length of fence and this old van body to act as a store. All Plasicard except the little brick piers and the deck made of sleepers in front of the shed is Foamboard – each sleeper individually f...

No Peter I don’t mitre the corners, I just stick together in a butt joint, although I do scratch the butting surfaces in order to improve the ‘grip’. I can just about manage to get square edges, but me doing lot of 45° angles would test the amount of board I have in stock. I also think that getting ...

After playing about a bit more with this Foamboard material, I started to use it to pave over the rough timber deck of the FBGR Station area, starting with filling in the space between the Arches and the Back Siding with what looks a bit like a cobbled street. DSCF3464 cropped.jpg Here is a bit of a...

The Board is Foamed PVC – used a lot for signs and displays.  There are other Foamboards, some of which have a paper surface, not suitable for outside, and not so easy to glue together. I have been getting mine from http://www.foamboardonline.co.uk/5mm_Foam_PVC/5mm_Foam_PVC_A3 at a cost of £18.00 fo...

The original three arch bridge was made of plywood in 2008. I took a lot of care in treating the timber before priming and painting it, finishing off with varnish. But still the damp got in and made a mess of the paintwork, and it has started to rot the timber. Some may say 7 years is not too bad. A...

The fence buildings were covered in the string done back in 2011. See - http://gardenrails.myfreeforum.org/about4814.html&highlight= I have also another building done since then See - http://gardenrails.myfreeforum.org/about6941.html&highlight= The first buildings are now looking a bit sad a...

There is no clutch peddle on a Ruston, the wet plate clutches (one for each gear) being engaged through the lever operated by the Right hand/arm when sitting on the seat. The other levers are, the brake lever operated by the left hand, the one with the ratchet catches, and the forward/neutral/revers...

Thank you for more kind comments. The card is a Deltang Rx60-22W which is described as “16V 4 Channel Receiver with Bi-Directional ESC”. I bought this (with two others and a Tx22 Controller) about a year ago, and I now notice that the Rx60 has been replaced on DelTang’s Website with the Rx61 which n...

Thank you for your kind comments.

The tractor type seat is from Cambrian Models (item NA25). Its not quite the right shape – should be rounder. I have tried to make one myself in the past, but don’t have the skills / equipment.

JOhn

Another little loco for the FBGR, this time a Ruston 10hp. Not based on any one particular prototype, but over 100 of this class was produced between 1931 until 1937, and several changes were made to the bonnet details during this period. I had hoped to be able to get four AA or AAA size batteries i...

When I presented the large Plastikard warehouse building on the FBGR I hinted that we shall have to wait and see what the weather will do to the paintwork, well it has been two years now, so it is time for a little comparison. First a little background.  The original topic is here - http://gardenrai...

I have just found a video on youtube of this class of loco – and I got something very wrong.(see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isKSI5Xl26w) I had assumed that the forward/reverse lever would be attached to the back of the gearbox, but this video shows the changing from forward to reverse being carr...

Just a few of pics to show this little loco recently finished that turned out quite nice. I didn’t start out making a Jung, I started out making a Ruston 12hp, and had made the chassis when I found I couldn’t hide the motor under the gearbox as well as get four AA batteries in. So, rather than disca...

Running on the FBGR this morning. 14D03 (88).JPG 14D03 (91).JPG 14D03 (96).JPG 14D03 (93).JPG Every thing went well, and it matches the SAR coaches wot I made some years ago (mostly in timber). 11thHour Tim - All interior ‘timber’ is Plasticard painted yellow then a thin uneven wash of browny colour...

Railcar now complete, painted, weathered and lettered. 14D03 (74).JPG 14D03 (76).JPG 14D03 (80).JPG 14D03 (81).JPG 14D03 (83).JPG 14D03 (85).JPG The curtains are washing cloth (a bit like J-cloth but without the indentations), soaked in watered-down PVA and then primed and painted (oil paint) to sti...

There was one, rather poor, photo included in the Narrow Gauge and industrial Railway Review article as referred to at the beginning of this thread, (which of course would be copy-write, so I cannot scan and display here) but I have come across no others. I have wondered just how much information th...