Being out in the sun was rather nice, but the wind whipping around the back corner of the house was a nuisance! However, it did let me know that I need to ballast these vehicles quite a bit more than I am used to doing. If I remember correctly, the Darj iron vans weigh about 2250kg, so when the conversion and scaling shenanigans are finished that works out to 11 oz. I think they only weight about 4 at present, so no wonder they were trying to blow away!Andrew wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2019 4:13 pm It's great to see some track going down - and doesn't your new stock look fantastic in the sunshine?!
The "I only do this to enjoy it" rule is a good one - and one I often only remember after I've tied myself up in knots over some obscure and irrelevant detail or other!
Cheers,
Andrew.
The irrelevant detail thing is something I can fall victim to also. One reason I do not model the Isle of Man Railway is that I am too familiar with it and would pick up on every single mistake. The Skebawn and Castleknox, and now the Far End Tramway project have their roots in a definite prototype, but they are not intended as scale models but rather homages to a particular type of railway - the Irish roadside tramway, and the Mountain Railway respectively.
Anyway, I am suffering from rain stopped play today, and according to the weather forecast (usually frustratingly accurate) it is in for the day. I had hoped to finish varnishing the front and back doors (about an hour) and get on with some outside work with the railway, but not with water falling out of the sky I'm not! When I have tidied up a few work related things, I suppose I ought to think about some wagon building.
Cheers,
Peter in Va