Garden Railway Forum

New video is great, a very relaxing way to spend a weekend!

Nomis wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 1:33 pm P.S.
My youtube videos don't seem to resize in the thread - am I missing something?

Is this when you view the forum on mobile?

It has always been like that from memory, I haven't put anything in to resize it.

I will wait until you start a thread about the Wren before asking anymore questions about it

I would be interested in a new thread regarding your Wren build even if you did not build it yourself. Particularly interested in how you went about painting her as that is the stage I am at with my Sweet Pea and I hate nothing more than spending hours preparing and painting parts to then have them ...

Humbrol brought back their paint production to the UK years ago as mentioned and all the new tinlets I have bought are good quality.

To get the best out of them store upside down and mix throughly!

Was your Wren built for you as a new loco?

SeamusOD wrote: ↑Fri May 22, 2020 9:38 pm Tom you need to make some dome nuts for the valve covers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdSOd8zcPEM

I don't think I have ever seen domed nuts used on valve covers before. I would of thought that using them would limit how much you can tighten down the cover itself?

What sort of body are you planning to make and fit?

You must be very healthy to be able do all that manual work, well done. My job is mainly desk based and leaves me with endless aches and pains so to then attempt that amount of digging and manual labour at the weekend would leave me very broken for Monday morning! Next time you steam the Wren up at ...

I meant did he hire mechanical equipment not employ contractors Peter.

I have more questions when you have finished your posts but I have to ask now did you dig all this without any mechanical equipment?!

The voice narration works for me Rik, I prefer it to the random captions you normally display.

I have used one of these for years as a top up bottle: https://www.jacksonsminiatures.com/railway.html The 'syringe attachment' you have been sold in the photo looks like just a piece of copper pipe which won't create a seal when inserted into the top up valve so you need to use an appropriate sized...

I forgot about this video so I thought I would share it just to show that without a long thin scale exhaust pipe the smoke output looked far more realistic:

Start a thread if you can as I would like to see more of your railway please.

It's a shame in the app they don't give you the code to be able to embed into a page but I am glad you found a way.

Looking forward to updates!

I have seen your Wren on YouTube before and your new railway is coming along!

Do you have a 5" gauge line in your garden?

I still remember most of the episodes!

Reminds me of this Thomas the Tank Engine episode: