The CVLR gets it's new home (WIP railway & stock)

taliesin001 · Post by **taliesin001** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 10:56 pm

some lovely pics there

Sir haydn · Post by **Sir haydn** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 6:41 pm

looks brilliant. wont be long till i can run some trains!

looks like a fun time was had by all

Dr. Bond of the DVLR · Post by **Dr. Bond of the DVLR** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 6:47 pm

Yet more brilliant progress. Just smashing!

Pendo Pilot · Post by **Pendo Pilot** » Tue Aug 10, 2010 1:31 pm

Decided to finally bite the bullet & start weathering my accy wagons. Maybe it's just me but I find clean wagons look wrong... :D After all my railway is not a preserved affair but a working line (set between 1920-1960). Have made a start anyway, have not done weathering like this for years since my 00 days.

(Not that it shows up very well in these pics!!)

The rest of my accy wagons are half way done as well now.

Also a few wagons arrived from the Elmtree line (Thanks Keith). After regauging them the CVLR decided to save money in expensive repaints by just modifying the GW lettering, cheapskates.

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Tue Aug 10, 2010 1:47 pm

Wow, what excellent weathering. They look very authentic now!

90733 · Post by **90733** » Tue Aug 10, 2010 2:01 pm

Nice, that 'relettering' is clever and hardly noticable is the paint.

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Tue Aug 10, 2010 5:21 pm

Wow, they look great! and as jack said, it isnt that obvious that you have changed the letters as it doesnt stand out

Tom

taliesin001 · Post by **taliesin001** » Tue Aug 10, 2010 5:30 pm

Weathering looks great, as does that lettering

Pendo Pilot · Post by **Pendo Pilot** » Tue Aug 10, 2010 8:04 pm

Remind me to finish the end of that brakevan!!! I just rechecked the pics & I have missed a bit..

:roll: ;)

Finished off the rest of the accy fleet & decided that was a good excuse to run them all behind a few loco's...

Whilst "playing/Operating" a recurring thought popped into my head again.

That space on the left would make a nice spot for more sidings!! I was going to leave it until I finished a circuit but as I have had no time to do groundworks for that I may just tinker with this. My thoughts are that it's a little squashed at the moment in the station area. Also with it being below ground level then you don't get to see much down there between the two embankment sides. Widening the cutting would make things more open....Hmmm.

Oh & I just liked this pic from this evening. :D (even with the oily fingermarks on the loco!)

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Tue Aug 10, 2010 8:09 pm

Pendo Pilot wrote:That space on the left would make a nice spot for more sidings!! I was going to leave it until I finished a circuit but as I have had no time to do groundworks for that I may just tinker with this. My thoughts are that it's a little squashed at the moment in the station area. Also with it being below ground level then you don't get to see much down there between the two embankment sides. Widening the cutting would make things more open....Hmmm.

Cut the lawn back a bit, then make it slope down more gradually to the level of the trackbed, so you get more of a veiw into it.

taliesin001 · Post by **taliesin001** » Tue Aug 10, 2010 8:12 pm

I agree with you there, lovely pic

MoelygestLR · Post by **MoelygestLR** » Wed Aug 11, 2010 1:50 am

mhlr wrote: Cut the lawn back a bit, then make it slope down more gradually to the level of the trackbed, so you get more of a veiw into it.

I'd do that too!

Pendo Pilot · Post by **Pendo Pilot** » Wed Aug 11, 2010 10:14 pm

Well I had an hour or so spare this afternoon so I decided to just measure up the station area for widening..Then I thought I would just try something...Whoops....

So this was it before, tight, dark & hard to view...

A bit of measuring......with a shovel :roll:

There you go, that might work..

Just need to build some custom pointwork now....Hmm, never tried that before..Oh well! Two new sidings may well go in here, not sure yet. Have actually moved all the slabs back another inch or two from the trackbed now.

laalratty · Post by **laalratty** » Wed Aug 11, 2010 10:26 pm

oh yes, that looks much better now

90733 · Post by **90733** » Wed Aug 11, 2010 10:27 pm

Nice, but what are the paving for?

Pendo Pilot · Post by **Pendo Pilot** » Wed Aug 11, 2010 10:30 pm

90733 wrote:Nice, but what are the paving for?

Feet!

Going to build a sleeper built bench on the edge of the lawn, so you can just sit down there & watch trains go by hence the paving slabs. Also makes an edge to the line. Will hopefully wall it from the railway in slate. May also have a loco shed there yet, the slabs will at least allow a decent place to kneel as you fettle your loco.

90733 · Post by **90733** » Wed Aug 11, 2010 10:32 pm

Pendo Pilot wrote:
90733 wrote:Nice, but what are the paving for?
Feet!

Going to build a sleeper built bench on the edge of the lawn, so you can just sit down there & watch trains go by. Also makes an edge to the line. Will hopefully wall it from the railway in slate.

COOL

taliesin001 · Post by **taliesin001** » Wed Aug 11, 2010 10:34 pm

Big improvement

Pendo Pilot · Post by **Pendo Pilot** » Wed Aug 11, 2010 10:35 pm

taliesin001 wrote:Big improvement

Yeah I think so too, the wife however has not ventured up the garden that far yet. Will get the official report tomorrow no doulbt!!

Pendo Pilot · Post by **Pendo Pilot** » Wed Aug 11, 2010 10:56 pm

Meant to add this video before. It's only a little play around I had yesterday evening. Nothing really new but if you have just over 6 minutes with nothing to do then here you are. It's now of course out of date as the lines changed since then.

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