Model Railway - Rail Blue
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Model Railway - Rail Blue
For the few rail guys like me on here.
https://www.scoobynet.com/non-scooby...scrapyard.html
First crack at this ......I started a year ago and this is how far I have got to date.
http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/ind...n-region-1982/
https://www.scoobynet.com/non-scooby...scrapyard.html
First crack at this ......I started a year ago and this is how far I have got to date.
http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/ind...n-region-1982/
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The grass needs cutting, and the builders have left a load of pipes in the middle of nowhere
Seriously, looks very good. I was quite a keen model maker as a youth and would have killed for a layout like that
Seriously, looks very good. I was quite a keen model maker as a youth and would have killed for a layout like that
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Started from scratch. Made mistakes along the way. (A bit like tuning subarus )
Most of it I scratch built and MOST of it turned out better than I hoped. Two huts I bought and weathered though.
And I deceided to leave stuff off to give it that end of life feel.
This is what gave me a start point in feel
http://www.kentrail.org.uk/Rochester_Goods_Depot_4.htm
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Thanks for sharing that with us.Another skill & talent that I don't have.
I don't know about model railways but that is fantastic.It has a uncanny sense of realism & atmosphere.
Keep us updated.
I don't know about model railways but that is fantastic.It has a uncanny sense of realism & atmosphere.
Keep us updated.
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The smaller layouts you can put more detail into in a way.
It is going to be completely disguised. A sofa will butt up to it long wise and it will have a polished wooden box section built over that hinges up. I am hoping it will look like a wooden shelf running behind a sofa when put away.
I have a mate who is a good builder/chippy something I am not! So he is going to do that bit. I am the extra pair of hands.
IF you get started on something Gary ...let me know. I have spare stuff lying around you can have
Last edited by Steve Whitehorn; 12 December 2013 at 10:26 AM.
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Pontificating
I'll have to have a look at that when I get home Steve as the US server we have at work blocked all of the pics
EddScott has an impressive layout, sent me a link to his blog a couple of years back
EddScott has an impressive layout, sent me a link to his blog a couple of years back
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Really love models and the detail and effort you've invested here has really paid off!
Question: Once it's 'finished' what do you do with it? I always assumed train sets could allow you to set the train off to go around a track of some sort, but with this one it's just a station with dead-ends, so do you just lurch the trains forwards/backwards?
Question: Once it's 'finished' what do you do with it? I always assumed train sets could allow you to set the train off to go around a track of some sort, but with this one it's just a station with dead-ends, so do you just lurch the trains forwards/backwards?
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Very nice
I have a mountain of late '80s period 00 gauge stuff in the loft, I built some baseboards up there a couple of years ago and loosely laid out some track, but then other things, like cars & bikes, took priority
I do occasionally bring down a couple of pieces of rolling stock and spend an evening or two detailing and weathering them, but that's the extent of my activity at the moment
I have a mountain of late '80s period 00 gauge stuff in the loft, I built some baseboards up there a couple of years ago and loosely laid out some track, but then other things, like cars & bikes, took priority
I do occasionally bring down a couple of pieces of rolling stock and spend an evening or two detailing and weathering them, but that's the extent of my activity at the moment
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Really love models and the detail and effort you've invested here has really paid off!
Question: Once it's 'finished' what do you do with it? I always assumed train sets could allow you to set the train off to go around a track of some sort, but with this one it's just a station with dead-ends, so do you just lurch the trains forwards/backwards?
Question: Once it's 'finished' what do you do with it? I always assumed train sets could allow you to set the train off to go around a track of some sort, but with this one it's just a station with dead-ends, so do you just lurch the trains forwards/backwards?
So it is more of a realistic modeling exercise. It all works of course. But is more of a shunting layout
Often people have what is known as a fiddle yard. Which is a bank board off to one end of the layout with enable trains to run on and off the layout.
Thanks for the encouraging comments all
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Photo nerd F23 Zoom 2.1 Nikon xyX ect ect ect
(By the way those shots were about as good as it gets with me - camera pointing in right dircetion .....but I guess you know that )
Hope you are keeping well mate
Still in the same place?
Last edited by Steve Whitehorn; 12 December 2013 at 10:15 PM.
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For the rail nerd follows of this thread
No burnt out cars or dead bodies ...yet !
A few pics of the first finished loco.
Note each length of rail is to a scale 216mm long (4mm = 1 ft on this layout) And each rail end has fishplates on. These are a total bitch to get into position
No burnt out cars or dead bodies ...yet !
A few pics of the first finished loco.
Note each length of rail is to a scale 216mm long (4mm = 1 ft on this layout) And each rail end has fishplates on. These are a total bitch to get into position
Last edited by Steve Whitehorn; 22 December 2013 at 04:03 PM.
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Superb weathering Steve, way better than the mess we used to make at the turn of the 80's !
It needs a couple of kids in Parka's with army suplus bag and note pad in hand
It needs a couple of kids in Parka's with army suplus bag and note pad in hand
#29
Right Tony
I need to model a burnt out classic 1994 WRX
I am also on the hunt for donkey jacketed late 70s early 80s figures for the layout.....I think I might have found some.
Sorry about the bad spelling and letters missing chaps. But I am dsylexic I try my best to get it right.
I need to model a burnt out classic 1994 WRX
I am also on the hunt for donkey jacketed late 70s early 80s figures for the layout.....I think I might have found some.
Sorry about the bad spelling and letters missing chaps. But I am dsylexic I try my best to get it right.
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Right Tony
I need to model a burnt out classic 1994 WRX
I am also on the hunt for donkey jacketed late 70s early 80s figures for the layout.....I think I might have found some.
Sorry about the bad spelling and letters missing chaps. But I am dsylexic I try my best to get it right.
I need to model a burnt out classic 1994 WRX
I am also on the hunt for donkey jacketed late 70s early 80s figures for the layout.....I think I might have found some.
Sorry about the bad spelling and letters missing chaps. But I am dsylexic I try my best to get it right.
It is nice to get encouragement as it pushes me on to do more.... so thanks. Also it looks better in real life, as the camera shows up all sorts detail horrors the eye does not see!!