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Plastic moulded rivet heads and bolts with nuts (range of shapes and sizes on one sprue) are available here.... http://cambrianmodels.co.uk/ I have used them on many models and although fiddly they look good when applied. Thank you Peter - some handy stuff on their website, I'll get a few sprues an...

Very nice work! I love projects like this so look forward to seeing the progress!

Re. the body work, I love geared locos that make a feature of the motionwork and gearing and don't hide it away.

Some lovely modelling, thanks for sharing. Thanks also for the couple of shots which show your workshop - impressively tidy and organised at the back ( unlike mine) but impressively untidy and disorganised on the bench ( exactly like mine!). :D I share the workshop with my granddad so there is a lo...

Issues with my 3D CAD package stopped me from working on the design of the Ironworks to go with the wooden loading shed, so I got on with something else. Started this coal mine 4-5 years ago with the engine shed, got it operational then got bored... The coal mine winds into a piece of drainpipe sink...

And I rescued this rather knackered crane that came from the same 0 gauge railway as the water tower. New side panels, base, jib, handle, platform, stone pillar, and new cross braces. Meccano hook and a dodgy set of Mamod wheels as a load! 84387933_10164231904265497_5161417480005314971_o.jpg 8427343...

I'll get an order in for some coffee stirrers on Amazon I reckon - I'm trying to avoid going out as much as possible at the moment... Another productive day! Made an imitation cast iron water tank for the rear of the engine shed to feed the water tower... 75250824_10164231566815497_73256276103557891...

A bit of progress while I'm on furlough... Engine shed nearing completion. 106491533_10164226046355497_3969525270791674725_o.jpg A coal store and a water tower. The water tower body was from the remains of an 0 gauge garden railway I was given many years ago - added to a base I think it looks the pa...

A bit more progress today between working on other bits of the line - fitted the windows and the edging around the roof.

LNR wrote: ↑Sun Jun 28, 2020 4:27 am Those doors look great, top selection of timber too. Whole building looks good as well.
Grant.

I'm forever scrounging handy off cuts from a friend who does a lot of large carpentry - his bin has all sorts of useful sized bits for this sort of stuff!

The ash ballast looks smart indeed! Perhaps a darker ballast may be a good idea seeing as being indoors my line will not naturally weather...

I've normally got a ready supply of the stuff but she hasn't seen a fire this year yet!

After 4 or 5 years sat half finished in the shed I've finally got around to putting a set of doors on this. Laser cut MDF shell covered in wooden stone cladding a la Peter Jones. Loosely inspired by the the Pockerly Waggonyway engine shed at Beamish. Still needs the roof tiling and a water tank moun...

Thank you chaps! I'd found that green granite from Resin Bonded Aggregates while having a search around yesterday, but it seemed like I had to pay for a pallet of it to be delivered!

A friend of mine has just said he has some 3-6mm crushed stone knocking about, so I'll pop up with a sieve!

I'm finding myself with some time to work on my indoor line at the moment and would like to start ballasting the track. Being an indoor line I can ballast it in the 'conventional' model railway way with PVA, but I wonder what people recommend for use as ballast. I think I'd like a grey ballast. Than...

We still work to a six foot space on the Natioanl network guys, except of course where it's narrower. Places like the Cumbrian Coast come down to about 5'-6" in the platforms. That's back edge to back edge, you need to add on twice the width of rail you're using to arrive at a gauge to gauge d...

WDLR had parallel tracks at 10' centres, so it sounds like 160mm centres would be pretty good rule of thumb in SM32.  I do 1:20.3 scale/3' gauge and use 6" centres (metric only goes so far with me) which would be about a scale 10'2" which works rather well as most of passenger vehicles ar...

That's a very sedate winding speed Jim. I forget the different winding speeds now for men and materials but both were fairly quick. I think materials went down pretty much on free fall at the start of the wind. Well, certainly with steam, where the braking was frequently achieved by putting on 'bac...

Also, what are peoples thoughts on clearance between double tracks? I'd like to be able to run anything on here so I was going to make it pretty generous. I guess I'm asking how wide should I make the baseboards. Current biggest trains will be a Cheddar Hercules with Cheddar coaches, but you never k...

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Thank you for the tips - I had been more concerned about getting up the hill and hadn't considered too much the need for slowing them down on the way down.

Andrew, thanks for the invite, I shall be back from university early in June so would love to come and have a steam up then!

I should also say that I will be mainly running live steam...