Garden Railway Forum

Gremlin:72232 wrote:Thanks all looking really good, we can all appreciated the time and effort involved. cracking job

Thanks very much , although i need to start winding down how much i spend on railways since my parents are on my back about getting my drivers license so all my money is having to go to that

Got a nice package from Swift sixteen today :) and they are right when on their website they say well packaged! *it also came in a sturdy cardboard box* http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u422/sammmmm190495/2012-06-26111502.jpg and after 30mins the bodies are all done .... http://i1067.photobucket....

I bought some hornby tinplate track to use on an oval and coal yard but the point levers got in Ragleth s way. So I sawed them off.  As they re not really needed on the overgrown yard I though I d use the on the Peco points( old ones  I bought) havnt done it yet but its just a bit of wire and screw...

Thanks for the replys i may try the tenmille ones or possibly brandbright have some but they maybe just the tenmille ones ???

AVOID them i just spent £30 on bits of plastic that might aswell just be for show they are appauling, does anyone have any suggestions on better ones

Mr. Bond of the DVLR:71953 wrote:Could you take us through how you weather them please Lewis?

Yes please do!!

Here is where I got the samples from if you can't find it locally: http://decorativeaggregates.com/resin_bonded_aggregates.html Cheers, Tom Just looking at their prices !! there great !!! i need a bulkbag of Cotswold buff stone and from b and q its £140 inc delivery... From that supplier its £87ish...

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a48/Catweasel/th_DSC_0003.jpg There's hope for me yet then. The garden is a jungle at the moment,I don't know what wildlife is buried 'neath the nettles, but seems I do have a bit of space to have an oval with a couple of sidings. Hooray! Does seem like a bit of a j...

Well done Sam thats a great railway in the making Thanks very much =], got alot of time on my hands since dropping college, so hopefully with will be finished soon ( when money permits = "]Great progress - good stuff! Thanks!, ill be making sure when ever i do something ill take a pic and slow...

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heres a pic as promised ballast is actually alot lighter! it had just been hosed off after wirebrushing the sleeper tops

right so update again :D this is what the garden looked like 2 months ago ... http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u422/sammmmm190495/WP_000227.jpg Now for progress pics Trench starting to be dug for starting the last phase of construction (about 1in80 the whole way up http://i1067.photobucket.com/al...

Thanks for all the replies! The compost was in there for moss growth :) tried another mix with less sand more cement, but same outcome again, ( maybe the water is washing the cement away who knows :S) But i have decided to go back and try using some 'wet' mix, quite runny and applying by hand after ...

Hi, yesterday i put down some ballast in the form of 4 parts sharp sand 1 part fine compost and 1 part cement ( the rapid stuff) mixed together for about 2 mins, then applied dry, brushed in and then watered using a watering can with the 'rose' head turned so its facing upwards, but today i come to ...

MDLR:69845 wrote:No - that's Precision Paints LNER Excursion Stock green & cream, as once used by the FR!

Ah Brill thanks !!

Thanks to you as well Dan

Thats brilliant! Thanks Brian, also did you use the bog standard aerosol paints from halfords, if so which one for the cream ??

Hi, I have got wind that for my birthday in 3 days that a present from my girlfriend is a IP VOR Matchboard coach kit :lol: I was just wandering if anyone had pictures of the completed model, in different liveries as i love the stained one shown by IP, but cant imagine it in my head as choc/cream or...

Gremlin:67821 wrote:Nice work and good foundations, great new loco too.

Thanks, yeah the old foundations were nearly non existent, this is hopefull the last ever rebuild ill have to do!!

Thanks Keith! A new update, parents have agreeed to me building a full loop, and then turning one terminus into a siding and keeping the other, hopefull going to acheive 1in75 - 1in100 up to the rightside of the garden as there is a short section of 1in50 lower down the loop which had to be compensa...