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by RylstonLight
Tue Jul 06, 2021 9:09 am
Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
Topic: Best paint or other medium for real wood
Replies: 12
Views: 4249

Re: Best paint or other medium for real wood

If you want to stain real wood with home-made goop, I can attest that the vinegar-steel wool goop works well as per Jez kirkwood's post: <URL url="https://gardenrails.org/viewtopic.php?f">https://gardenrails.org/viewtopic.php?f</URL> ... od#p127579<br/> <br/> It really doesn’t look promisi...
by RylstonLight
Sat Jun 26, 2021 7:55 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Developing South Yard at Rylston
Replies: 11
Views: 4210

Re: Developing South Yard at Rylston

PART TWO The strip-wood (seen as loads on the waggons in the previous post) was cut down from B&Q oak strip. These strips were then aged using vinegar-steel wool goop as per Jez kirkwood's post: https://gardenrails.org/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=5146&p=127579&hilit=ageing+wood#p127579 htt...
by RylstonLight
Sun Jun 20, 2021 4:41 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Developing South Yard at Rylston
Replies: 11
Views: 4210

Developing South Yard at Rylston

Developing South Yard at Rylston Running Shed As previously alluded to, development of the garden is beyond my current health resource. This hasn't stopped me planning, and progressing some lighter jobs. In fact Rylston Light Railway (tag-line: The Line that Forgot to Be Built) is in danger of bein...
by RylstonLight
Sun Jun 20, 2021 10:37 am
Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
Topic: Radius and retaining walls
Replies: 5
Views: 2390

Re: Radius and retaining walls

Hi Wow, two VERY big topics in one. I read your post last night but waited for those with greater experience to respond. However I realise the disappointment of waking up to no replies, so I thought I’d offer some input. We need more information, such as scale and gauge. Gauge One (standard gauge) 0...
by RylstonLight
Sat Jun 19, 2021 5:07 pm
Forum: Photographs
Topic: Testing Flikr - No merit
Replies: 5
Views: 4988

Testing Flikr - No merit

Sorry guys but wanted to test using Flikr as a host. The picture of little merit - a blurred polaroid from the early 70s. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51257893029_603d823b3f_z.jpg Neglect by Andrew Sykes , on Flickr Breaking the fourth wall for a moment; there IS some merit as looking at the ...
by RylstonLight
Tue Jun 08, 2021 10:44 am
Forum: Photographs
Topic: Oil tankers
Replies: 11
Views: 6843

Re: Oil tankers

Lonsdaler wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 10:09 am . . . and found it to be ridiculously heavy with the solid resin tank, so I remodelled that part using a length of drainpipe (and copious nail gems as rivets) instead.
Thanks for heads up as I did wonder.

Andy S.
by RylstonLight
Mon Jun 07, 2021 8:48 pm
Forum: Photographs
Topic: Oil tankers
Replies: 11
Views: 6843

Oil tankers

The running sheds at Rylston are land-locked from the road. Consequently fuel has always been moved in by rail. The advent of IC engines meant the need for a storage tank and two narrow-gauge tanks to transport the fuel oil in. These were painted in a somewhat fanciful livery in the early heritage e...
by RylstonLight
Sat Jun 05, 2021 2:14 pm
Forum: Locomotives - Electric
Topic: Kerr Stuart...ish
Replies: 14
Views: 7718

Re: Kerr Stuart...ish

If an exact prototype didn’t exist then it should have. This looks real which is the best testiment to a well-thought out free-lance loco (or anything else for that matter). Nice :thumbup:

Andy S.
by RylstonLight
Tue Jun 01, 2021 8:42 am
Forum: Photographs
Topic: Transporter wagon
Replies: 10
Views: 7868

Re: Transporter wagon

Photograph from Linsdsey Porter “The Leek & Manifold Valley Railway” (ISBN 1 874 723 82 6) has what I think is the same waggon from a different angle (the barrel and box are in the same positions). EB42E143-7236-44CA-BEB4-CE35E08BE881.jpeg This clearly shows the vertical pipe but in the same boo...
by RylstonLight
Tue Jun 01, 2021 8:15 am
Forum: Photographs
Topic: Transporter wagon
Replies: 10
Views: 7868

Re: Transporter wagon

Thanks Andrew, now that you have said that I can see what I think is a Staffordshire Knot emblem on the wagon. I was puzzled by the chalk writing, the strange buffers and the very tall vacuum brake pipes, which I haven't noticed on L&M stock before. I have seen pictures of the transporter van w...
by RylstonLight
Tue Jun 01, 2021 8:07 am
Forum: Photographs
Topic: Slumber
Replies: 10
Views: 6057

Re: Slumber

The other innovation tried is noise reduction. I find the earlier box vans (like the Tenmille kit in grey above) have a very echoey noise on track especially track embedded in Rowland’s mix. I had a half tube of builder’s expanding foam leftover from the viaduct build, so decided to fill the Pickle ...
by RylstonLight
Tue Jun 01, 2021 7:57 am
Forum: Photographs
Topic: Slumber
Replies: 10
Views: 6057

Re: Slumber

It looks great for a time served goods waggon. I also like the detail of the door closures, as well as the brake detail. Were those details 'home made' or features of the original kits? The door closures are soft soldered from 1.6mm brass inserted through small eye screws. The brake detail is a res...
by RylstonLight
Mon May 31, 2021 6:56 pm
Forum: Photographs
Topic: Tool waggon
Replies: 2
Views: 3764

Tool waggon

I couldn’t resist another shot whilst I was out taking the photo of the Rylston Pickle van. I hope another shot of the backyard is not too boring. This time the PW tool van from the later heritage era. 5329A4F4-279F-4038-892D-86DCAE3BE2BC.jpeg The lights suggests an illegal trespass one early summer...
by RylstonLight
Mon May 31, 2021 6:47 pm
Forum: Photographs
Topic: Slumber
Replies: 10
Views: 6057

Re: Slumber

Roofs been done and tarp removed. You can see the irregular edge of the livery (eg “The Original & Best”), where the Cricut cut stencil pulled off earlier paint layers. With judicious weathering I hope it just looks aged. 35DAB445-5770-4BF7-8B85-0560EBD26D45.jpeg Posed by the side of a RLR stand...
by RylstonLight
Sat May 29, 2021 1:43 pm
Forum: Photographs
Topic: Slumber
Replies: 10
Views: 6057

Slumber

Despite the photographers epitaph, the surviving example of a Rylston Pickle company van spent the better part of a decade in the backwaters of the yard awaiting a new roof. Although dwarfed by the combined output of the quarries, the Rylston Pickle factory contributed a steady stream of traffic to ...
by RylstonLight
Wed Jul 22, 2020 6:54 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Car railcar
Replies: 18
Views: 7824

Re: Car railcar

Excellent Rik. You’ve really captured the Edwardian feel in the dress/jacket. Must be a windy day, as I can’t believe there hats are in danger from the speed of the railcar. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Andy
by RylstonLight
Wed Jul 15, 2020 9:08 am
Forum: Projects
Topic: Experimenting with in-brakevan video
Replies: 3
Views: 3387

Re: Experimenting with in-brakevan video

gregh wrote: Wed Jul 15, 2020 7:19 am So after a few experiments I'll put some more info up on my topic.
Look forward to seeing them.

Andy
by RylstonLight
Tue Jul 14, 2020 2:47 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Experimenting with in-brakevan video
Replies: 3
Views: 3387

Experimenting with in-brakevan video

This is a re-hash of an old abandoned project. However having been greatly inspired by Greg’s brilliant thread on in-cab video I decided to hunt out the remains of my experiments and have a play. My title is a respectful nod to Greg’s thread whose approach is to use a RC controlled servo to pan the ...
by RylstonLight
Tue Jul 14, 2020 1:10 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Experimenting with ‘in-cab’ videos.
Replies: 9
Views: 5447

Re: Experimenting with ‘in-cab’ videos.

Thanks for the link Greg, very interesting. I too abandoned my attempts for an in-train camera for some years, as the camera I got from Maplins was too low res and wide-angle. Also the noise of the servo was dreadful transmitting to the camera through the mount. Interestingly you don’t have such a m...
by RylstonLight
Sun Jul 12, 2020 4:05 pm
Forum: Photographs
Topic: Summer night
Replies: 7
Views: 8697

Re: Summer night

Looks a lovely place to escape for an evening.

Andy