Merlins Castle Line

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Re: Merlins Castle Line

Post by FWLR » Sat Mar 24, 2018 8:52 am

Hi Julie, Love your line, It’s looks brilliant. :thumbright:

Have you tried sending your photo’s to your Mac by Airdrop. It’s an app that should be built into you phone. :) :)

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Re: Merlins Castle Line

Post by Just Julie » Tue Apr 17, 2018 12:15 pm

Thank you Peter and Diane for a lovely afternoon and running my locos on your line :sunny:
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Re: Merlins Castle Line

Post by Just Julie » Tue Apr 17, 2018 12:22 pm

Thank you Rod, for your help with photo issue, I have had to get a new phone so I think all is well now. I haven't done anything more to the line yet but hopefully will soon :thumbright:

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Re: Merlins Castle Line

Post by FWLR » Thu Apr 19, 2018 8:34 am

Any time Julie…Love your Locos by the way….the Railbus is brilliant, but they all look great… :thumbright:

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Re: Merlins Castle Line

Post by IanC » Thu Apr 19, 2018 10:31 am

Julie,

Great to follow the progress of your line. I wish when I bought my house I'd known I was going to want a railway in my garden. I'd have made sure my garden was bigger. Now I'm limited to a small plot. At the time I wanted something easy to maintain.

If I put a shed in my garden the size of your's it would take up half! Nevertheless I'll figure something out while saving up and acquiring everything I'll need.

For the time being I'm limited to running my trains as a guest on local lines belonging to modellers of the 16mm association.

Enjoy your railway. I'm sure it will provide you with much enjoyment.

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Re: Merlins Castle Line

Post by Just Julie » Fri Jun 29, 2018 10:51 pm

Hi All, I had not done anything much with my railway planning until now. A visit from Peter and all things are go. Here are some pics of the last 2 days. Thank you Peter for your help and inspiration. Have to wait until next week now for next delivery of materials. I am so happy :lol:
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Re: Merlins Castle Line

Post by ge_rik » Sat Jun 30, 2018 8:25 am

Looks like things are progressing nicely, Julie - even though the sub-contracted supervisory workforce does seem to be taking it a bit too easy ...... ;)

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Re: Merlins Castle Line

Post by bazzer42 » Sat Jun 30, 2018 9:16 am

Nice bit of workmanship in the hot conditions. Some of the pictures really show the slope you are working on. It's looking good.

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Re: Merlins Castle Line

Post by Peter Butler » Sat Jun 30, 2018 10:01 am

A very pleasant couple of days working together to get things moving forward after a short break. The temperature reached 33 degrees on Wednesday so a number of rest periods with cool drinks were needed. We 'seniors' don't need to rush!
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Re: Merlins Castle Line

Post by Dwayne » Sat Jun 30, 2018 1:06 pm

Looking good. :thumbright:

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Re: Merlins Castle Line

Post by Just Julie » Sat Jun 30, 2018 11:36 pm

Hoping now that it keeps dry for another week so that it can be all up and running. Then it will be deciding how to arrange the centre, have a few ideas in mind tho. I can't believe how quickly it is coming together now. :)

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Re: Merlins Castle Line

Post by invicta280 » Sun Jul 01, 2018 10:05 am

Great progress there Julie. You are facing the challenges of a steeply sloping site head on. You may have a brief pause in construction, as the weather forecast is talking of heavy rain and possible thunderstorms heading for Wales and SW England.

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Re: Merlins Castle Line

Post by Peter Butler » Sun Jul 01, 2018 5:57 pm

At last we have had some rain here, just enough to wet the baked ground but welcome nonetheless. I think we were on the edge of a thunderstorm as a momentary power-cut occurred early afternoon.
I know it will not put Julie off her work programme as she is now determined to press on with her railway.
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Re: Merlins Castle Line

Post by Just Julie » Sun Jul 01, 2018 6:57 pm

Just managed to paint the woodwork with preserver before the rain came, lucky it had dried first and the rain wasn't heavy.

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Re: Merlins Castle Line

Post by Soar Valley Light » Sun Jul 01, 2018 7:31 pm

What a beautiful location!

The bones are coming together very nicely. It's not often you see modellers using a chainsaw in the furtherance of their projects! :thumbup:

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Re: Merlins Castle Line

Post by FWLR » Fri Jul 06, 2018 7:34 am

Peter Butler wrote: Sat Jun 30, 2018 10:01 am
We 'seniors' don't need to rush!
So agree Peter…. :lol: :lol:


Julie, the more I see of your brilliant location and that view….the more I love it….

Getting help from “The Legend” Peter Butler is one of the goals in my life, sad isn’t it :lol: :lol:

Seriously, that is going to be some line and one that everyone will be impressed with and with Peter’s help, it will be one to admire and be proud of… :thumbright: :thumbright:

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Re: Merlins Castle Line

Post by Just Julie » Sat Jul 07, 2018 5:24 pm

Shed has now had 1coat of preserver, but not sure now if I prefer the natural look. Too late now tho :roll: It will be a bit of colour in the winter tho.

What a busy day on Friday, luckily enough not for me tho, Peter and another friend kindly came over to help again. Thanks both.
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Re: Merlins Castle Line

Post by Just Julie » Sat Jul 07, 2018 5:27 pm

Some more pics.
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Re: Merlins Castle Line

Post by bazzer42 » Sat Jul 07, 2018 5:30 pm

That is looking good and apart from the battery drills it looks a very peaceful spot to live.

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Re: Merlins Castle Line

Post by Just Julie » Sat Jul 07, 2018 5:40 pm

I am so lucky to be living in this beautiful spot, in this weather it is great. 8) Winter is very different heavy winds and heavy rain. But we stay indoors as much as possible then, or this winter in the shed. :lol:

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