Garden Railway Forum

August 27th 2018

Here are some new pics from the Pine Hill Railway (PHRy). There are some new buildings: A goods-shed, a beam engine pumping house, and a small chapel.


Victoria with passangertrain arriving the main station.
A new goods-shed with a concrete ramp along the loading-track.
A modified Pola kit.


A Modeltown beam engine pumping house. Fitted with a Modelsound soundmodule and a smokegenerator.
(It has not yet made any smoke - maybe it needs more power than the 12volt that the manual says.)


A small chapel with the vicar standing outside awaiting the crowds for today's worship service.
A Pola kit.


This sign needs a translation:
"Bicycles and kicksledges are prohibited on the platform"

Great to hear from you again Kjell. Some interesting developments on your railway. Really like that goods shed - is the bike something you have made or something you have bought?

Rik

Lovely pictures Knell, I love the copper steeple on the chapel and the busy body style vicar. No trouble with kick sledge over here but if we get a winter like last year it may become problem

ge_rik wrote: ↑Tue Aug 28, 2018 9:34 am… is the bike something you have made or something you have bought?

The bike was bought in a dollhouse-shop in Leeds. Too much fancy small details to make this by myselves ...

philipy wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 8:00 am I wanted a Series1 Landy some while ago and couldn't find one., I've just looked at Minichamps and they don't seem to do it any longer, but I did find them on Amazon, for.... (gulp) £130 + £15 postage! Not something I'd want to weather or leave outside at that price.

Not a Series 1 but the Universal Hobbies TD5 Defender 110 Police Battenberg is not too expensive (compared to the rest of them) - I've found one on Google from a toy farm specialist for £39. It is nominally 1:18 BUT it is advertised as 240mm LoA and the LR Dimensions are 4600mm over the bumpers so 1:19.2. I'll measure mine when it arrives and post dimensions on here. Mine won't be staying looking like a Police car for long!!

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.....

Peter Butler wrote: ↑Tue Aug 28, 2018 11:23 pm IMG1302.JPG

I like that a lot.

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 ...

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!!

I would be happy with it, looking forward to seeing what you can do to it now.

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!

April 2019

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








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 ...

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

Looks the part, nicely weathered.

All looks good, but the rust on the last two wagons is superb!

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

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

With best wishes,

Andrew.

Top marks for finishing on the wagons, they all look well worked and tired, just as they should!

Thanks for all comments!

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 …

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

Here are some pics …


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


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


A grey Roundhouse Clarence.


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


Roundhouse Jennie - my basic engine on the engine shed track.

Looks like a good time was had by all.