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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.

Andy

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

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 ...

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...

Looks a lovely place to escape for an evening.

Andy

. . . a similar system, though designed for plaster, and . . . My first build was a small PW hut, now designated for a quarry office, cast from resin plaster from Gedeo. The moulds work well in most casting materials. Cheapest is ordinary cement with fine aggregate and I have cast some dry stone wa...

Peter Butler wrote: ↑Fri Jul 10, 2020 8:57 pm Possibly some of us were influenced by these?.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM4uGgchFnM

“A whole train set for under £5”

Peter Butler wrote: ↑Fri Jul 10, 2020 4:08 pm And now for something completely different.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt-olVAQXTY

Imagine taking that for an MOT.

Probably the greatest inspiration for me was Rev Peter Denny's Trepolpen Valley Light Railway, which appeared in various guises through the 1960s and Rik Ditto. There is a chapter in his book “Buckingham Great Central - 25 years of railway modelling” that is devoted to the garden line too. It’s an ...

Building Ginnerbeck viaduct: Appendix Thanks for all the positive feedback. This includes praise for the quality of the stonework, and I really didn’t discuss this aspect at all just starting with “I used standard RLR building sheets”. The basis of all the stonework is the JigStone system. 2375D230...

PS a little concerned as to how your crew are going to get off the structure, a case of "watch the first step, it's a doozy!!!" Rylstondale is a very isolated place even to this day. Lots of the inhabitants still use Yorkshire vernacular and the place names have hidden Norse meanings. The...

Just a slight warning. When I finished my viaduct and before I laid track, I discovered I had built a perfect AQUAduct. I had to drill some 'weep' holes to let the water out. Mmmm . . . I did consider that. I was going to run some styrene tubing through the structure as a drain (remember I was fill...

I think these guys were all crazier than we all are?

Andy

. . . with a magnet on the track at relevant points and a reed switch in the guard's van? Rik . . . I was planning to do more, but I found the sound of the servos operating impossible to hide. . . These two quotes sequentially reminded me of an aborted project. I had a small digital video camera fr...

Building Ginnerbeck viaduct for the Rylston Light Final Part. The last instalment opened with the reveal of whether the newly assembled viaduct would fall apart on its first lift. Spoiler: It didn’t. This instalment opens with whether I survived after the debacle of the expanding foam in the dining...

Incidentally, how did you stop air bubbles forming in the resin? I recently saw a YouTube video where someone vibrated the table with a blade-less jigsaw to make the bubbles rise to the surface. Rik My technique in avoiding air bubbles is highly technical and laborious to describe so only read on i...

Being ignorant of such things, does this or did this viaduct exist in real life? Grant. Does now, Grant :lol: :lol: :lol: I admit I’m slightly flattered that you ask since it suggests I’ve captured a flavour of a real viaduct. No, it’s entirely the product of my own imagination. I looked at many im...

Building Ginnerbeck viaduct for the Rylston Light Part Three. The story so far: mixed two liquids together in a yogurt pot many times, pour into a piece of rubber, remove hardened blocks and stick blocks together with a smelly sticky goop on what used to be a perfectly good dining room table. Then ...

...both probably incorporating the same Italeri HIAB kit? Yup! Yours has more interesting detail. Very nice build. But I’m intrigued by the the difference in appearance of the HIAB itself. They must be the same but yours looks a tad chunkier. Shows the effect of a different paint job. I notice you,...

Building Ginnerbeck viaduct for the Rylston Light Part Three. At this point in the story I have a kit of cast parts. A flat curved track bed made of MDF covered with glass-fibre reinforced resin. Five U-pol cast internal arches that have had there side-edges trimmed to match the radius of the track...