Garden Railway Forum

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...

Magnificent project Andy, of quite large proportions and handled with much inventive thought. I also share your grandfathers thoughts, having built a 5ft. long model tug after making a rusty exhaust stack, a large yacht after making an anchor (which still is not on the boat, LoL). There is somethin...

. . . but which silicon do you use for the moulds. I have used a variety. For small moulds I used Siligum; a two-part solid material. Advantages is that small volumes are easy, no mess and it cures for use within 20minutes. The disadvantages it is relatively costly and it is vey easy to have hidden...

Building Ginnerbeck viaduct for the Rylston Light Part Two. The next task was fashioning the track bed. This is a COVID-19 project and as I am fully shielding a trip to the DIY store was out of the question. The only thing suitable in the garage was an old sheet of MDF. I marked on the track radius...

Building Ginnerbeck viaduct for the Rylston Light Part One. My grandfather had a bell. It sat on his mantelpiece and for twenty years he claimed he was looking for a bicycle to fit it. Madness clearly runs deep within the family. This is the story of the build of Ginnerbeck Viaduct; built before the...

Thanks I thought it looked a tad on the fat side. I’ve tried a slimmed down trial in card again. It’s proportions are better. Onwards with the build. I’ll start a build record in the Projects directory. See you there! Andy Edit: A picture of one of the shorter piers with less pronounced batter. 76D9...

Help please. I am currently building a 5-arch viaduct as a pre-build project for the new Rylston Light. I’ll post on the project board later with build details but I need opinions on the batter of the supporting piers. I have mocked up a pier out of thin card. Have I got the angle of the batter righ...

I decided to take a short break from casting the 5-arch viaduct for the Rylston Light whilst awaiting a mould hardening. I had some reclaimed timber from an earlier bridge which I thought would make a nice ballast bin for a PW hut. Mostly I kept the reclaimed in its naturally weathered form but need...

Rylston Pickle factory

It is quite a simple meterological term really. It means 14% of any rolling stock left out will get wet

Andy

. . ., and must be large, as well as heavy! It has a kind of brewery appearance to it, hardly surprising really. It is modular; each module is one block of aerated concrete. But it is bulked out by (originally plywood but now) styrene fascias that add the impression of bulk with very little extra w...

I thought I’d share this afternoon’s “work”. I spent quite sometime weeding (nettles, brambles, creeping buttercup), so I thought I deserved some “railway” time. In preparation for Mark 2 of the Rylston Light I need to repair, renovate and repurpose a certain degree of Mark 1 infrastructure. Who kne...

Okay, I felt it was a tad over-done by error, but you’ve all reassured me still believable. In fairness it is part of the PW fleet. Thanks everyone. Andy

However since they havn’t visited since the opening inspection . . . Aaaaaahhh!!!! Shall I put you on the Inspectors list for a visit then, Andy? :twisted: :twisted: Arn’t they mandatory before approving a line for re-opening. Slow but steady progress is being made prior to the cutting-the-sod cere...

Peter Butler wrote: ↑Sun May 17, 2020 5:16 pm I would call that a triumph, not a disaster.

It took a lot of work to make acceptable From above it is revealed just how buckled it is

Andy

When I assembled a pair of Brandbright hopper wagons I wanted a slightly wavy edge to the steel side as though they were battered. I couldn’t work out how to do this with the supplied laser-cut plywood sides so went to some trouble to make up styrene-sheet replacements before using a heat gun on the...