Garden Railway Forum

Thank you, again being in Teesside, it feels a little more natural to have something representative. Something I wished I had gotten by Lady Anne in the green so I could have done her as an NER loco. He loved trains and most other things with wheels. Just active encouraging really, one thing me and ...

Lovely work Rik. This CAD/3D print malarkey is certainly becoming very tempting.

It wasn't too bad, what I saw, as I'm currently working on a 009 gauge project it was quite invested in it until family duties called. I do wish Hornby and Bachmann would stop producing things to tempt money form my wallet though.

Thank you everyone. It was quite an enjoyable rebuild. Much more than my current 009 gauge one. As mentioned before the IP Engineering stuff particularly are nice and simple kits both in the build and their design. I've found just a little more effort in them than the one Brandbright kit I've made b...

Why thank you. They're all works in progress and for the moment continue to be. So, whilst continuing the the trend of updating and modifying current stock I set my mind to the brake van. Going back a few posts (and many many years ago) I built my brake van. At the time I was fairly happy with it, I...

Thank for the heads up - as per sods law they just got back to me.

Quick query. Has anyone had any contact with IP Engineering recently. I've messaged them a few, days ago about something I mistajen ordered to get replaced and still have had no word fron them.

Right, cheers. Looks like a got a dodgy kit as I have no double doors. Either that or I've somehow lost that bit which is equally plausible. It's not a major issue as as I wasn't actually going to use them as doors but to cut them down to go flush with the end parts as, I plan to also modify mine bu...

I've just opened up a kit for an IP Engineering MOD Powder van and noticed on the instructions it shows that the doors look to be one piece. I have look through the kit but can only find the sides of the wagons come in eight separate parts. Is this correct?

Another absolute cracker from yourself.

You lending yourself to be our prime 'eye scale' modeller.

Thank you chaps. It's been a funny few weeks having to get used to everything with coming to terms and the likes. Slowly back on track and all that. Anyway, I've managed to get some modelling sorted, cracking back on with the garden railway. Over the last few months I've been restarting my old signa...

Finally some extra bits and pieces. The steam up bay as been re-ashed (which for the better part is a bit of a waited effort but it has muted the sand beneath it. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50331193087_b71c195d2a_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50331194117_9cf9bb25c9_c.jpg I also ...

Next up, a small table for the steam up bay. A few months ago we received a new cooker and instead were some wooden batons for padding. The tragic order in me saw some potential at the time (though I had no real idea on what). Eventually I decided to turn my hand to some basic wood work. Not bad for...

I'm going to spread this over a couple of posts. A few weeks ago I managed to finish the water tower to go along with the coal stage. Taking previous advice the bag is some heat shrink which was carefully and very very quickly heated to help it wilt a bit and cling to the arm of the tower. I made a ...

Lovely stuff. Will be keeping an eye on your progress

Thanks chaps, I think the finish could have been a lot worse. Certainly not enough to damage by stripping but We'll how it goes when elements and coal hit it. Great idea Phil, managed to get some heat shrink today. Just one question. This might sound a bit daft but did you heat it up or just attach ...

Thanks chaps, I think the finish could have been a lot worse. Certainly not enough to damage by stripping but We'll how it goes when elements and coal hit it. Great idea Phil, nanaged to grt some heat shrink today. Just one question. This might sound a bit daft but did you heat it up or just attach ...

A perfectly innocuous photo. But when you see it...



courtesy of my 18 month old.

More work on line saw an on the whim project which I had in my mind for a little while. A coal stage, taking inspiration of the likes of Hayling Island (For the record I'm an LNER man rather than Southern but the Hayling Billy holds a particular fascination) Here is a photo run down of the whole pro...

Thank you gents for your kind words. The buffer stop is a little on the low side for most of my stock. Should have added another strip of wood to the top but it works fine for roundhouse locos.