Garden Railway Forum

Zach, I noticed your momentum van wasn't behind River Butley, but it seemed to handle the line well? Yes indeed - I was all prepared for it to end in disaster - I allowed rather more speed on the straights than I'd have liked to get it round the bends but the loco performed really very well indeed ...

Thanks Rik for an inspiring visit, as always! It was really lovely to get two of the DVLR's locomotives out of hibernation and I was pleased with the performance. Even Rene seemed to enjoy himself. I wish we'd have more time to enjoy the sunshine and beautiful garden at the PLR. That's now 3/4 of th...

Thank you, I'll try to give one of those a try and report back!

Thanks Tom, Sorry I've been a little quiet of late - I had a couple of deadline crises in a row followed by a May Ball to build things for...

I thought I heared that Regner were in financial trouble or was that just heresay?

It's been a little while since I've put together a video, now coming back to it I've realised that with Windows 10 on the laptop now I can't stand using the new version of WMM. Sorry to dredge up the old topic but what is the latest on free/cheap video editing software for garden railway videos? Wha...

Liveries, yes... Blue, yes. White rooves, double yes. https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4286/35701997585_b3104aed5f_z.jpg https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4055/35702004495_05ea1139f2_z.jpg As to carriages - teak and dark blue go very well but I like olive green and cream for carriages. I did try with tea...

Sorry, should have been more specific. The paint on the buildings, vehicles and stock.

As ever wonderful. I think the colours you use add greatly to the realism. Do you mix them yourself as Peter Jones did to represent "scale" colour?

Impressive! How well does it perform?

Thank you for the kind words - its been very much trial and error over the years! The truth is that I rarely get a chance to run a train these days - I generally get everything looking back to normal, take some photos then its the end of the day and that's that! So, already aware I have enough on my...

Hullo all, I'll spare you the "I got back from Uni and I found this" photos but needless to say today was spent most of today picking up all the leaves and ripping up the MYOB. Bits of the railway have really settled in very nicely so I thought I'd share some naff phone photos of it with y...

There are many in 16mm who do the same thing. As commented on by a fellow 16mm NGM member last week regarding some of running in the latest 16mm NGM DVD - I was very conscientiously running my Roundhouse Alco at a typical scale snail speed as he was videoing it close in. Chris Cairns I did try to s...

Another work of art. Masterful use of materials and a crisp finish as ever. Have you thought of entering your models into the MOTY photo category?

River Tang, a modified little wonder.

Local rivers all the way. River Deben River Alde River Butley River Tang Luckily there are tons of little water courses (barely more than streams) given names in the local area so I won't run out! My 5" gauge steam loco is called Madge (it was the name it came with) and the name plates were so ...

A Merry Christmas from all at the DVLR!

The whistle sounds a little restricted - as if it isn't being fed a high enough volume of steam. Is the pipe run particularly long or have any kinks in it which would cause a large pressure drop? What pressure are you running at? Could you supply a picture of the mouth of the whistle?

Make sure no air can get into the water feed for the injector - that will knock it off straight away.

Nice wagon - I like the prototypical arrangement with the load being taken by the bars running through the chassis. Where are the wheels from?