Garden Railway Forum

Seasons Greetings from me to all. Thank you to everyone for the help and friendship received during the year and a special thanks to Tom and other mods for their sterling work in keeping things running smoothly. Finally, the Yule card from SWMO to me, which I pass along to you all, with our very bes...

Both nice litte loco's, and yet another forum member with metalworkng skills that I can only look at wth envy. Do show us the painted end results, please.

steamer68 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 18, 2017 7:27 pm I was toying with the idea of laying roofing felt to the raised layout boards to protect them.

That is a good idea. Not only does it give the wood a bit of protection but it also looks more like ballast than wood does, and if you do add proper ballast you have a rough surface for it to stick to.

I like it Dwayne, very impressive cave!

The only trouble I have with tidying up the heap of junk I laughingly call my workbench, is that afterwards I can never find things.

Looks good Jim, more or less exatly how I would have done it.

Interestng that you've gone for a single door instead of the original two. Presumably thats because it looks more in scale?

Lovely job Rik.
Once its weathered in and gone a bit green it will really look something!

Whatever it is, I won't be able to afford it, so I'm not really bothered what they do.

Come on then "Dear", tell us what it is??

They have whatever you want to put on it. Its your loco, your railway, you say what goes.
Hwever if it was mine I'd probably have the name or initials of the railway on the tende,r and the loco's fleet number on the cabside.
Nice model btw.

Well, I have to agree with him, I find your posts entirely legible!

Ok, we'll let you off with that one!

Lovely Peter. The forecourt and railings really add a finishing touch.

I'm sure you have it in mind, but it needs a notice board with service times and the name of the Minister?

Think he could be mite late, if he's waiting for a train to be able to get on with his rounds.

Aah nose nozzin', but I think Dwayne is your man for hand built spiked track.

LNR wrote: ↑Mon Dec 11, 2017 10:09 pm
I'm really running out of new angles for pictures, so many are just the same thing on a different day.

Grant,
Sorrry, but the only answer to that is a big tracklaying spree!!!

Rik, Yes it is similar. The 'acteone polish' basically consist of suspending the object in a closed container above a pool of acetone. The Acetone vapour then slowly softens the surface of the model and allows it to flow and 'lose' the layer imperfections. The difference is that being surrounded by ...

Tom : I think Peter has said it for me. Yes there is some fettling to be done and it gets tiresome sometimes. However If I were to try scratchbuilding this vehicle from flat stock HIPS, it would take me many many hours to achieve the same thing, without any guarantee that the overall effect would be...

Just a joy to behold, Grant, as always. Thank you

Looking good Jim. Interesting that you chose to mould the bogie sides rather than 3D print them. Presumably you decided that trying to clean up 8 complicated surface prints to a decent standard would be too problematic? Agree with your comment about the pleasures of building. I've found before that ...

Not sure tbh, Rik. Probably less strong than an ABS extrusion but I think they are strong enough to do the job though. The oval chassis frame itself is pretty strong because it is I-section and printed curved so the filaments go lengthways round it, and any internal gaps are printed as a honeycomb s...