North Avenue Line
- IrishPeter
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Re: North Avenue Line
Remember to make bag for the top of the lighthouse so that sunlight shining back through those lenses does not have an unfortunate effect on your lighthouse. I am sure that you started a camp fire, or fried beetles using a magnifying glass in your yoof.
Cheers,
Peter in Va
Cheers,
Peter in Va
Traffic Pattern? What pattern? Spuds out; grain in, but cattle, sheep and passengers are a lot less predictable.
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Very good idea I hadent through of that my garden gets the sun and gets very hot
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Never did beetles Peter, ants yes...IrishPeter wrote: ↑Tue Dec 11, 2018 3:58 am Remember to make bag for the top of the lighthouse so that sunlight shining back through those lenses does not have an unfortunate effect on your lighthouse. I am sure that you started a camp fire, or fried beetles using a magnifying glass in your yoof.
Cheers,
Peter in Va
ROD
Life is so easy when I run my trains.
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Life is so easy when I run my trains.
https://gardenrails.org/forum/viewtopic ... 41&t=11364
https://www.youtube.com/@fairywoodlightrailway
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Your build is getting better the more I see it develop....
ROD
Life is so easy when I run my trains.
https://gardenrails.org/forum/viewtopic ... 41&t=11364
https://www.youtube.com/@fairywoodlightrailway
Life is so easy when I run my trains.
https://gardenrails.org/forum/viewtopic ... 41&t=11364
https://www.youtube.com/@fairywoodlightrailway
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Lighthouse update fixed some mirror plastcard inside the part that will turn .iv also fixed some mercarno to the end that will attach the gearbox. The gearbox is from an tamiya rc car with the diff locked on one side and iv got a model boat motor that should turn slowly on very low volts.the builbs are 12v car leds
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I'm hoping to get some more done tonight and will post some more pics. I got a lot of plastcard for Christmas so some of it will go towards finishing the lighthouse
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You have put some real thought into this build Jim. I love the gearbox and motor, a real thought out idea.
ROD
Life is so easy when I run my trains.
https://gardenrails.org/forum/viewtopic ... 41&t=11364
https://www.youtube.com/@fairywoodlightrailway
Life is so easy when I run my trains.
https://gardenrails.org/forum/viewtopic ... 41&t=11364
https://www.youtube.com/@fairywoodlightrailway
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Looking good, Jim. Those bulbs are stunningly bright, you'll need to wear shades to look at it
Rik
Rik
- tom_tom_go
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It's like a Blue Peter creation but one you actually want to build!
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I really like your dented quarry skips and a realistic well - worn look. Take a look at my 'backscene on a fence' post. You have a lot of fence.
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Very slow progress on the lighthouse as works busy at the moment.iv decides to make the roof look like it's Copper. I sprayed it with copper spray paint then iv weatherd it too look green
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- Peter Butler
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I like the effect you have created there Jim, that colour is very difficult to get right. The old artists used a trick galled 'glazing' where the paint was mixed in clear varnish and brushed all over to give a regular finish but allowing shades of base colour to show through. A matt varnish might give that effect here?
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I agree with Peter there, Jim. The matt varnish may allow the copper to show through.
The old artists can teach us a lot, hey Peter.....
The old artists can teach us a lot, hey Peter.....
ROD
Life is so easy when I run my trains.
https://gardenrails.org/forum/viewtopic ... 41&t=11364
https://www.youtube.com/@fairywoodlightrailway
Life is so easy when I run my trains.
https://gardenrails.org/forum/viewtopic ... 41&t=11364
https://www.youtube.com/@fairywoodlightrailway
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Thanks for the kind comments. Iv got some matt varnish I will try it tonight .Thanks for the tips
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You could also try the Citadel "Nihilakh oxide". This dries like a weather copper oxide - it can also look like there is an aged 'peel' to it.
These technical paints are really designed for detail in the cracks and joints - not for the large surfaces that you have - but worth trying around the panels joints etc.
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Te ... lakh-Oxide
These technical paints are really designed for detail in the cracks and joints - not for the large surfaces that you have - but worth trying around the panels joints etc.
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Te ... lakh-Oxide
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More progress tonight on the lighthouse. Thanks for the tip about vanishing the copper bit looks a lot better. Iv sprayed and wheatherd the top of the lighthouse
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- Peter Butler
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Nice work Jim, the roof has come up well.
It looks as though your pictures are in reverse order but I can see what you mean.
It looks as though your pictures are in reverse order but I can see what you mean.
The best things in life are free.... so why am I doing this?
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Yes they are in revuse order .hopefully il get the light turning tomorrow eve
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Looks good Jim, a lot better now.
On the loading of the photos mate, Click the last one first if you are loading more than one. It's the way the system loads them onto the forum. If you look at them loading you will see them start at the bottom and go up...
On the loading of the photos mate, Click the last one first if you are loading more than one. It's the way the system loads them onto the forum. If you look at them loading you will see them start at the bottom and go up...
ROD
Life is so easy when I run my trains.
https://gardenrails.org/forum/viewtopic ... 41&t=11364
https://www.youtube.com/@fairywoodlightrailway
Life is so easy when I run my trains.
https://gardenrails.org/forum/viewtopic ... 41&t=11364
https://www.youtube.com/@fairywoodlightrailway
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