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- Mon Jan 08, 2024 11:43 am
- Forum: Videos
- Topic: Wallingford Industrial Railway Ltd - 4 January 2024 - Inside storage shed
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3965
Re: Wallingford Industrial Railway Ltd - 4 January 2024 - Inside storage shed
Thanks for the video! All this has got me thinking... Over the coming months, we need to repair/replace the deck which stands above Penlan station on my line. While we're at it, we'll probably remove the wood store - we live in a built up area, so barely light the stove these days due to the growing...
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 3:53 pm
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: Camera Vehicle
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2579
Re: Camera Vehicle
I wonder if a bit of soft (spongy foam) padding might absorb the vibrations. :scratch: I used that in my one and only bit of "driver's eye view" filming. Alas, the vehicle itself is not one of the most elegant ever to have graced these pages: https://gardenrails.org/forum/download/file.ph...
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 3:31 pm
- Forum: Videos
- Topic: Wallingford Industrial Railway Ltd - 4 January 2024 - Inside storage shed
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3965
Re: Wallingford Industrial Railway Ltd - 4 January 2024 - Inside storage shed
That looks great! I'm jealous though. I had a storage shed once (well, some sidings in the usual garden shed), but that was lost when we extended the house and I really miss it - setting up a run takes longer and stock gets damaged in the process. Good idea to standardise type and height of coupling...
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 1:23 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 125883
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Lovely! And plenty of BR Standard features, I reckon.
Lined black?
Lined black?
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 8:23 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Time to build a railway...but where?
- Replies: 3371
- Views: 1091469
Re: Time to build a railway...but where?
I had a few pages to catch up on here - what a fantastic beast that is! Congratulations Peter!
Looking forward to photos/video of it at the head of a long train come the spring...
Looking forward to photos/video of it at the head of a long train come the spring...
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 11:25 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Yr Hen Felin & Yr Orsaf Newydd
- Replies: 297
- Views: 52319
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 11:08 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway
- Replies: 765
- Views: 326846
Re: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway
Interested to hear about the Kerr Stuart. I've requested the book about KS narrow gauge diesels as my birthday present and am planning to find something in it to go with a soundcard I bought off eBay. These days, my loco builds seem more related to what bargains I find on eBay. Ooh, I reckon a KS w...
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 7:18 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Daisy, Daisy...
- Replies: 36
- Views: 11643
Re: Daisy, Daisy...
Hello again! The Regner project made a decent step forward over the Christmas Holidays with the completion (well, nearly) of the lining: Lined Daisy 1.jpg Lined Daisy 2.jpg Lined Daisy 3.jpg It doesn't bear close inspection, but (to my eye anyway!) it looks very acceptable from a usual viewing dista...
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 6:25 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway
- Replies: 765
- Views: 326846
Re: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway
Afternoon all! Firstly, apologies for my absence of late. Life's been busy, but the Christmas break has seen me find some time for my hobby - including my traditional New Year's Day run. I usually opt for steam power at New Year but, for various reasons, my little RH "Hercules" was the onl...
- Fri Dec 29, 2023 5:28 pm
- Forum: 3D Printing
- Topic: Tan-y-Bwlch Water Tower - Finished ( I think!)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 12066
Re: Building Tan-y-Bwlch Water Tower
That's looking very good indeed! The stonework looks excellent.
I'll be watching the detail go on with interest. It might even inspire me to have a go - after 35 years of garden railway-ing my poor locos STILL can't get a drink...
I'll be watching the detail go on with interest. It might even inspire me to have a go - after 35 years of garden railway-ing my poor locos STILL can't get a drink...
- Mon Dec 25, 2023 5:26 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Merry Christmas
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1891
Re: Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas everyone!
Sorry, I've not been here much of late, lots going on, but I'm looking forward to catching up - and maybe getting some modelling done - over the next week or so...
Sorry, I've not been here much of late, lots going on, but I'm looking forward to catching up - and maybe getting some modelling done - over the next week or so...
- Thu Nov 09, 2023 12:45 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Time to build a railway...but where?
- Replies: 3371
- Views: 1091469
Re: Time to build a railway...but where?
I like that A LOT!
Love the chains in particular, and the grimy finish too...
Love the chains in particular, and the grimy finish too...
- Wed Nov 08, 2023 2:37 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: A note from Anne (FWLR)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4175
Re: A note from Anne (FWLR)
I was thinking we hadn't heard much from Rod lately...
Thanks for letting us know Peter, and do pass on our best wishes if you get the chance.
Andrew
Thanks for letting us know Peter, and do pass on our best wishes if you get the chance.
Andrew
- Mon Nov 06, 2023 7:32 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: N&BLR Ongoing Projects thread
- Replies: 47
- Views: 16481
Re: N&BLR Ongoing Projects thread
Beautiful work!
- Mon Nov 06, 2023 7:24 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Daisy, Daisy...
- Replies: 36
- Views: 11643
Re: Daisy, Daisy...
I think you might be over-estimating my expertise here chaps, but I'll gladly give it a try - as I say, it might take a few weeks... In the meantime, I got started using Ian Stock's article on the old Garden Railway Realism wiki:[http://gardenrailwayrealism.pbworks.com/w/page/13270143/Lining%20locom...
- Mon Nov 06, 2023 7:17 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Time to build a railway...but where?
- Replies: 3371
- Views: 1091469
Re: Time to build a railway...but where?
When I drew up this wagon for Andrew, he gave me the chassis dims, which from memory he measured from another wagon, so are probably not accurate for this particular vehicle. However the footprint of my wagon is 118 x 64mm ie 7ft4 1/2" x 4ft 0" My body measures at 32.55mm but I don't have...
- Mon Nov 06, 2023 1:00 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Daisy, Daisy...
- Replies: 36
- Views: 11643
Re: Daisy, Daisy...
Hi all, A little more progress on this project (if not the loco itself) in that I've been having some trial goes at lining on some off-cuts sprayed with the same paint - in the rain, as is evident from the white spots! Green 4.jpg Not perfect, but I got better each time, so I think - as longs as I'm...
- Mon Nov 06, 2023 12:49 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Time to build a railway...but where?
- Replies: 3371
- Views: 1091469
Re: Time to build a railway...but where?
I think those long straight handbrakes, and the boxy design give these wagons a surprisingly modern look. I ended up building three, because Philip sent me his prototype as well as the two wagons I'd planned - I don't know how many the FR had originally, but there are only two now! It's lovely to se...
- Mon Nov 06, 2023 12:44 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Another Fowler rebuild at Scum Class Works
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7323
Re: Another Fowler rebuild at Scum Class Works
Just catching up here - I'm very impressed by the lengths you're going to to get it right. The finished loco will look great...
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 8:25 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Daisy, Daisy...
- Replies: 36
- Views: 11643
Re: Daisy, Daisy...
I have never tried resin prints with heat, I guess it depends on how hot the boiler actually gets as resin to the best of my knowledge, once cured is pretty resistant to heat, from memory around 250 degrees, and then they burn more than melt. Ah, I never was much good at physics! I assumed the prop...