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Re: The Pine Hill Railway (PHRy) - a Norwegian Garden Railway

Post by Peter Butler » Tue Aug 28, 2018 11:23 pm

My Universal Hobbies Landrover started life as a Red Cross marked vehicle with full length soft-top. not quite what I wanted. It was also left hand drive, again, not suited to my needs, so.....
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Post by KjellAn » Wed Aug 29, 2018 1:35 pm

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I like that a lot. :D

The frame and rimes needs som rusty enamel colors mixed with powder colors.
The tires and sides of the car will look better with some mud. Try to apply mud acrylic colors mixed with plaster.

Then the pig would feel much more comfy ...
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Post by Dasher » Thu Aug 30, 2018 6:24 pm

I don't want to hijack the thread - but can't find anywhere else to post this:

My Universal Hobbies TD5:110 arrived today and I've taken some measurements and compared against the real thing. Firstly the LR official length of 4660mm is wrong - unless the "Puma" 110 is shorter than the TD5 (which I doubt). My Puma measures 4370 from the outside of the cowl to the rear panel. The Universal Hobbies 110 is 239mm over the same measurement - which is 1:18.28. The floor to outer flat rooftop (behind the driver's "B" post - where the panel seam is on the roof) on my 1:1 scale is exactly 2000mm. The UM 110 is 109mm over the same distance, which is 1:18.34.

Most important, the truck looks right when sat against 32mm track. Yes, it is out of scale, but not by much and, after all, it is a Landie - they aren't exactly precision built themselves. The model is much better built than the 1:1!!
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Post by Peter Butler » Thu Aug 30, 2018 6:46 pm

I would be happy with it, looking forward to seeing what you can do to it now.
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Post by Dasher » Thu Aug 30, 2018 7:22 pm

It will stay as it is for a while as I have some rolling stock to get on with! It's actually a pretty good model - I've seen a lot worse. It will probably end up black and a Utility back. A Puma bonnet would be nice - but it is quite a lot of work as the TD5 depression is difficult to work with. Still, I can just pretend it's a replacement as they end up nicked in any case!!
Not used to bashing in this scale, most of my Defenders are from Hart Smith kits - sadly no longer available. Yours and KjellAn's are setting pretty high standard!

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Post by KjellAn » Sun Apr 21, 2019 7:34 pm

April 2019

Here is a video and some pics of the first run with my RH Jenny on my Pine Hill Railway (PHRy).



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There was a new experience for me to run a manually operated engine. My line - PHRy has no steep gradients, so there were no real mishaps or derailments.

The little engine will soon have r/c, a whistle and some nice extras. There will be more pics and questions in some time ...
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Post by KjellAn » Mon Jun 03, 2019 11:34 am

June 3. 2019

A few new wagons has arrived to my garden railway. Little John in front of those small nice quarry and works wagons.
Here is some pics. Hope you like them.
  • Roundhouse - 3 Plank Coal Wagon
    Line Side Hut - Coal Wagon
    Atropos - Penrhyn Quarry Rubbish Wagon
    Harecroft - Threlkeld Quarry Tub
    Line Side Hut - Runner Wagon
    Slater's Plastikard - 4 K Class Skip wagons

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Post by tom_tom_go » Mon Jun 03, 2019 11:37 am

Looks the part, nicely weathered.

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Post by philipy » Mon Jun 03, 2019 11:44 am

All looks good, but the rust on the last two wagons is superb!
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Post by SimonWood » Mon Jun 03, 2019 3:08 pm

I love how you finished that Lineside Hut Oakley Quarry wagon. Well, I love all of them, but especially that one!

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Post by Andrew » Mon Jun 03, 2019 3:40 pm

I agree with the others, that's a wonderful looking train, beautifully done, congratulations!

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Post by Peter Butler » Mon Jun 03, 2019 9:50 pm

Top marks for finishing on the wagons, they all look well worked and tired, just as they should!
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Post by KjellAn » Tue Jun 04, 2019 10:34 pm

Thanks for all comments! :D

I like this kind of weathering: I do a mix of humbrol paints in different rusty colors and rusty powder colors on top of the wet paint.

The wagon which I would like to make better is the Line Side Hut Runner Wagon. The lasercut ply makes a little strange look compared to real wooden planks.
Anyone here with some advises about a colorsceme to those flat wagons used for tools e.g.?
It's not too late for improvements … ;)
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Post by KjellAn » Mon Sep 09, 2019 1:16 pm

August 31 th - 2019

We had a steamup the last saturday of August. A few enthusiastic livesteam'ers did find the way to the PHRy, and had lot of fun running trains. And enjoying the barbecue and refreshments

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Tom L og Per Martin K are waiting for steam to raise ...

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Rune S 's Silver Lady with 3 coatches shrouded in steam on the trestle.

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A grey Roundhouse Clarence.

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Silver Lady heading along the engine shed into the main station.

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Roundhouse Jennie - my basic engine on the engine shed track.
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Post by philipy » Mon Sep 09, 2019 2:13 pm

Looks like a good time was had by all.
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Post by KjellAn » Fri Jan 17, 2020 6:57 pm

New rolling stock have arrived to The Pine Hill Railway (PHRy) - a pair of bolster wagons loaded with logs.

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Post by LNR » Fri Jan 17, 2020 8:46 pm

Always good to catch up with your line Kjell.
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Re: The Pine Hill Railway (PHRy) - a Norwegian Garden Railway

Post by Andrew » Sat Jan 18, 2020 5:12 pm

Very nice! I really like the log load, and the securing chain...

Do they run well? I'll probably build some for my line quite soon - I wasn't sure how well they'd run with the long fixed coupling?

Thanks for the picture,

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Post by KjellAn » Sat Jan 18, 2020 8:25 pm

Andrew wrote: Sat Jan 18, 2020 5:12 pmDo they run well? I'll probably build some for my line quite soon - I wasn't sure how well they'd run with the long fixed coupling?
They run well. The logs do not move longitudinally because of this spikes in the bottom of the cradle.

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The drawbar has elongated holes at each end to handle some movement between the wagons.

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Re: The Pine Hill Railway (PHRy) - a Norwegian Garden Railway

Post by DonW » Sun Jan 19, 2020 1:26 pm

Nice looking logging trucks. I expect the Drawbar is just there for the ride when loaded. Provided the logs are no longer than the coaches you use there should be planty of clearance for curves.

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