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Hello! I've finished the seats now and am very pleased with the results - might try to sort some photos at the weekend. Just figures, doorknobs to the covered saloon section and a roof to go now. Mine's based on an old IMP kit I puchased for £25 (still great value even if I have replaced half the pa...

Peter Butler:95283 wrote:Thanks for your comments and encouragement.  
I'm already working on one or two new projects so I'll keep posting.

Looking forward to them already... This loco's looking great, a real "workhorse", congratulations!

Andrew.

Like the GVT coach, very nice. I've just built an IP carriage and added detail including a basic interior (sides cut from card to hide the glazing), Brandbright brass door furniture and some hinges cut from plastic rod. I always make roofs from individual wooden planks now - sellotape 'em together, ...

I have to agree those boards look nice.  You should be on commission from locoworks you've convinced me to dip into the train fund.  I have been looking at their site for a while and every SMT seems to have something new. Tom's very pleasant to deal with too, which makes a difference... Your loco's...

Those are wonderful, well done! And I thought you said you were slow - you're making fantastic progress. I've not even tried curved windows (actually that's not true, but it's painful to talk about...), and the lining's great too. The complete rake's going to be a fine sight... Thanks for posting yo...

MDLR:94938 wrote:Looks a bit big - the ones I saw at Dungeness were small enough for you to sit on!

Now I don't want to be accused of Health and Safety gone mad etc etc, but that doesn't sound like a great idea to me!!!

Thanks, useful info... I plan to use some slate kitchen tiles for my stone buildings, obtained very cheaply (broken tiles in Wickes) or free (out of someone's recycling bin - the Council don't do mineral recycling!). I'll stick them to a wooden frame and "mortar" with exterior Pollyfilla. ...

Very atmospheric, love the fly-shunting!

Andrew

Lovely, that Emett rake is wonderful... Fellow parents of young children may wonder whether the creator of the Ninky Nonk was similarly inspired...



Guess the zig zag-striped one on the back is the guard's van?!

This is great, inspirational stuff!

I'm thinking that maybe I could use this to recreate the brick bits on a NWNGR building I need to make - the stone parts will be real slate I think, wonder how the two techniques would marry up?

Hope Mrs B's feeling better...

Sure enough, I did get a second one of these this morning, along with a pair of PVMR 3 ton slate waggons. Got something to be getting on with anyway Well those 4 are going to make an unusual train... Like the bogie van, very nice! Watch out for the clearance between floor and wheels on the 3 ton sl...

Fantastic, thank you! Good luck with it...

I'm planning a model of Louisa but trying to get the efficiency required has been proving tricky... That is until someone suggested a single oscillator between the frames. As the most it will ever be pulling is 5 slate wagons it should run fine. Sorry to be dim, but what (who?) is Louisa? I'm intri...

Very nice indeed! I can see why you'd be tempted to try and adding something to replicate very work paint though, just to see if it's poossible - maybe you could try on just one? Can't think how you'd do it, very difficult to improve on the look you've got there. Did you use iron filing-type rusting...

I'm guessing it's not the sort of thing you're thinking of, but my single-cylindered geared Regner Konrad is fantastic. OK, it looks a little odd (Vincent is slightly more conventional), but it's powerful, contolable and runs beautifully. If anything I plan to make mine look odder - big headlamps (f...

Wasp stripes are a fairly common theme there, would look good on that chunky beastie I reckon... And lots of grime...

Morning all, Thought you might enjoy this - http://vimeo.com/81993035 It's called Book Hive, and it's a living sculpture celebrating 400 years of public libraries in Bristol. All of the structure and the mechanisms are laser cut from ply and MDF, and it uses little servos controlled by movement-sens...

Hello, I used the reed type stuff on my old line, nailed into the concrete blocks with horseshoe nails. Here it is when new: http://memberfiles.freewebs.com/08/94/56009408/photos/The%20IP%20diesel%20escapes%20from%20the%20yard.JPG I was pretty pleased with it, especially once the sticks had mellowed...

Librarian... About to be offered voluntary redundancy so I'll be watching this thread for alternate career paths!

A useful thread, thank you, I'll be adding poles at some point myself... Thought I recalled seeing something about making poles somewhere and just found it - here's a step-by-step guide! http://gardenrailwayrealism.pbworks.com/w/page/13270197/Telegraph%20poles Putting them in a tube seems a good tip...