Garden Railway Forum

philipy wrote: ↑Tue Aug 22, 2017 7:45 am Your loco does run beautifully Tom, and the line looks amazing. I particularly like the water mill with the mill pond above, and the weir.

I agree. Looks like water is a strong feature in this garden. Works well ....

Rik

If the speaker is in the smokebox, could you cut a slot in the footplate beneath it and let the sound out there instead of having the door open? Nice idea, Philip. Unfortunately, the motor block is under the firebox - the batteries extend into the smokebox. If I move the batteries back to make room...

Great looking wagons. Top notch scratch-building.

Rik

Lovely job as always Rik. Thanks Phil. Of course, I should have done her as a scratchbuild - quite a few compromises have been made. She started off as a quickie bash for the Otto but I was captivated by the charms of Kettering Furnaces No.3 (and No.2!). However, if I had built her to scale, I doub...

Great work Rik - I love the way you bring all the changes together with the sound and great control via Deltang - looking forward to seeing it morph with its new paint job. Thanks Mark. Still a bit more detailing to be done before the paint job. Some half-round brass 'wire' arrived this morning to ...

I'm impressed, even the driver is capable of rotating to face the direction of travel. :thumbup: Seriously though another of your very impressive projects. Thanks Phil - so glad someone spotted that. Not automated it - he's mounted via a peg in one foot so easy to spin him around. I might try chang...

A great runner Rik as usual from your works... Thanks Tom. I can't take a great deal of credit for the running. Those ToyTrain motor blocks and motors are so well engineered that I gave up trying to make my own years ago - and the Deltang Tx/Rx combination makes for good slow running and fine contr...

Part 9 - Wiring up the electrics and test running

Wiring has now been installed (Deltang Rx65, 3 x 18650 li-ion batteries, MyLocoSound soundcard) and so some test running was needed to check all was OK and the weight was sufficient.


Rik

Soar Valley Light wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2017 7:27 pm I agree with the others Rik, it's a lovely job.

Andrew

Thanks Andrew
Fingers crossed I don't make a hash of what's left of it.............

Rik

Very nice conversion Rik. Proportions look good despite the variation from the original. Spectacle plate a vast improvement on the first one and worth the effort. A spray primer will make all the difference to the overall effect and tie everything together Please show a picture of that before the f...

tom_tom_go wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2017 2:04 pm I like it Rik and agree the chimney looks too big.

Hi Tom
Yep - looks like the felt tip and biro drawer is going to have to be raided yet again!

Rik

Looking good overall, Rik. I think the spectacle plate looks good as you have it now. I thought your previous wider one still looked a bit skinny, tbh. Hi Philip Yes - I agree. The problem is that Otto is wider than the Black, Hawthorn and so even if I did the spectacle plate to scale it would stil...

Part 8 - Taking shape (and weight) Latest progress. The new brass sheet arrived and I've cut out the spectacle plate. It's a few mm wider than the temporary wide plate - I did try making it even wider but it didn't look quite right. Because Otto is wider than No.3, it's difficult to get the proport...

Greak work! :thumbleft: by pure coincidence I did an approximate scale drawing of Kettering no. 3 earlier this week to get a feel for it as a 16mm scale loco on 32mm gauge, looking forward to see how it turns out Mine will very much be an 'approximate' model, inspired by the original. Btw - if you ...

Sorry - just seen your other question re soldering brass. The most important thing is to have a heavyweight soldering iron. Mine is 75 watt, but others use 100W. This ensures you can get enough heat into the brass for the solder to run - it just won't work with a small iron. I use ordinary multicore...

BCATRR wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2017 7:00 am Great bespoke seats and for the price you have a winner.

tom_tom_go wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2017 8:12 pm They are very realistic Rik, brilliant.

Sorry for going off topic Rik, but just noticed tom_tom_go has posted 1952 times, the year i was born : Posts: 1952

1951 for me ......

Rik

Great build Rik, can i ask a really stupid question, you say you have used cardboard for the running plates and other stuff, is this just templates for cutting out for the brass, i have never done anything like this before and i am wanting to have a go at a bit of scratch/ kit bashing myself. do yo...

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I too hope that the FBGR railway is still around in ten years, and that your still enjoying running trains on it. Grant. PS, I do lament the passing of proper Creosote. Hear hear to both those sentiments. On the subject of creosote. I am still using the fence panels, which were erected when the hou...

Rik, I'm wondering if the spectacle plate could be a little lower. On looking at the relationship between the drivers head and the roof plate in the video. Just a thought, perhaps cardboard could be used to see how it would look before cutting brass. Grant. Hi Grant Yes, I think you're right. The p...