Garden Railway Forum

G'day all. Following on from various preliminary posts, I felt it's time to get a move on with a few things. I'm not new to modelling but I am new to garden railways, hence the thread title. I've signed up to the 16mm association and done a lot of reading but think it's high time to get my hands di...

11/04/24 Cheers gents, glad you like it. I really do. :) Those of you keen to see weathering will either be intrigued, or disappointed - maybe both. I've decided for this one, to try something new. Something a little different from my growing little fleet. I want this one to look like a recent repa...

I have now made three models of an early version of the Southwold Railway Cleminson coaches. The first one is now a couple of years old. Its roof was made from five 3D printed sections glued together. After fixing the passengers inside, I decided to glue down the roof using prototypical arched batt...

I use fibre cement sheeting, I have found that I have to use the external type as the type for use under eaves does not really stand up that well to being wet. Its OK while in place but handling it wet takes a lot of care. I overcame that by painting it with a cheap exterior weatherproof paint. I fi...

Looks like a generic safety warning to satisfy regulations. A bit of proof reading would not go astray, Maybe I look at the world differently but all that made sense to me. :shock: :shock: Could be the years evaluating technical manuals that did it. But I do agree with keeping away from children. :D...

How long does it take for the snow to melt and where does all the water go? Does it just soak into the ground? Looking forward to seeing the progress you are making. I'm not having much luck with making progress with my re alignment. https://ringbalin-light-railway.blogspot.com/2024/03/3-stage-6-02-...

Latest post to the blog showing a minor setback which resulted in a change to my well laid plans.
https://ringbalin-light-railway.blogspo ... tling.html

I can't imagine the trauma the train drivers go through every time this happens too. :dontknow: The consequences for the driver's of trains that strike vehicles/people can be life changing, even if the driver survives without injury. And clearing up the remains is very traumatic. I have a friend wh...

ge_rik wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2024 8:49 am I do like locos with those sorts of open sided cabs.

Rik

We have one at the Cane Railway a lot cooler to drive than one with a closed cab in summer.

Coming along fine there Greg should look right at home on the Pottsville Claymine branch

Can confirm that printed ones with metal wheels give enough weight down low, eliminated a derail problem I had. Yeah I really liked the heavy trucks, sounds like the printed units with metal wheels sets will work just fine, thanks for the heads up. I also glued steel washers to the back of plastic ...

Thanks for all the comments and help, much appreciated. As far as printing them to make a mold, I was thinking for a low temp metal cast, I like the weight of the ones I used to get from NENG. BUT I'll try them first with metal wheel sets, might be perfect and less work. Again, thanks everyone I'll...

I 3D printed a heaps these and they look good under my 1:20.3 wagons. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1799120 Picture down bottom of the page. https://ringbalin-light-railway.blogspot.com/p/1203-rolling-stock-scratchbuilt.html The one in the picture was a first run (printed in white, the ones fitt...

Couple of noisy neighbours there Greg

As promised pictures of the motor, there is no radiator so presumably it is an air cooled diesel. In mid picture is the decompression lever and down the bottom the crank handle slot. Planet Engine Front.jpg The switch in lower part of picture is used once the engine is starting to fire. Planet Engin...

Looking good so far, makes my current build look like a pile of garbage..... (I mean, it is but....) Don't be so hard on yourself; my early build were rubbish but I learned by my mistakes (there were heaps of them) and tried not to repeat them. Nobody is a master modeller straight up it takes time....

If I was faced with that problem I would bite the bullet and replace the section with a new piece of rail. The issue I see is that there is a straight piece in the middle of a curve that has to be bent to fit the curve. If you put a straight edge down the middle of the track at the end of the curve ...

That's interesting. Has it been fitted with a smaller engine and moved the radiator to under the bonnet? Rik It is powered by a small diesel engine which I think is air cooled, I've never noticed a radiator. I'll check that out next Monday. This is an old photo of it before restoration Planet.jpg

This is a 3D printed one I have been looking at. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4844519 and one in On30 https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4866417/files Along with these I am thinking of making a scene for my extension in the shed of a small ore train running to a coal loader using an existing tun...