Pottery Quay. EM test track / shunting plank.

[Phil O]

Hi Tim,

The boats arrived intact sometime on or before Thursday, I did PM you on Friday with my thanks.

Thanks.

 

[Phil O]

And now back to a bit of modelling, I have got the basics of the first pair of doors sorted, it took a couple of attempts to get a satisfactory result.



The doors are just roughly placed in position, whilst I consider how to proceed.

 

[Phil O]

OK, a little more work done.



A rail added for the door runners and a top for a pelmet to protect the gubbins from the weather.



Pelmet front and doors placed in situ until I have painted the main building, as I don't know what might be visible when put in place. Opps! looks like a bit of filler is need around the window.

 

[Phil O]

Just by way of a quick update, before I go on holiday. I foolishly volunteered to build an 'N' gauge turnout for a club layout as the Peco one was causing problems, it has taken me a lot, lot longer to construct than all the trackwork on here. I still don't know if it works, as the other club members have yet to sort a switching mechanism.



Before I left, I plonked all the wagons on the layout and the bits and pieces of low relief buildings, as a sort of state of the layouts current progress.
















Sorry about the quality, of some of the snaps and the general detritus spread about the place, but it was a last minute effort to catch the ferry, back last night.

 

[RichardG]

Just by way of a quick update, before I go on holiday.

Did the holiday ever end?

This layout is an inspiration to me, both in the results and in your approaches to the various tasks.

 

[Phil O]

Hi Richard,

Yes that holiday ended and I have had several more since, the next one starts in 10 days time. I'm glad that my modelling efforts are providing you with some inspiration. I have enjoyed the journey as far as I have progressed, thus far. I will be well chuffed (pun intended) if it works, without to many faults.

Although the actual layout has seen no real progress in recent times, I'm trying to build a couple of locos, so that I can test it. I thought that a couple of Nucast tank engines would be a relatively easy task, but they are severely trying my patience. I'm signed up for a weekend at Missenden Abbey, in the vain hope that I can put them to bed.

I have also been trying to sort out gremlins on Ruan a club exhibition layout, I have stripped out the wiring, but random faults keep occurring, since it was at the Bristol show in May.

 

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Yesterday I got the backscene fitted, but not without incident and a fair bit of swearing, I started at the left-hand end and all was good, I thought, but as I turned the corner the backscene started running up hill and it was well stuck to the double-sided tape. I cut my losses by cutting it at the baseboard joint, this left a gap of about 4 mm at the top and nothing at the bottom. The 2nd half went fairly well, but isn't quite flat at the join. To hide these faux pas, I will be erecting a couple of chimneys to cover them up.

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As you can see it's at its most noticeable when looking from left to right.

The light and the backscene really are effective Phil!

 

[Phil O]

Thanks Simon,

I can adjust the brightness/dimness of each of the two strings to give different effects, for working, I crank both strings up to full, it definitely helps to see what I'm about.

It will be good to get something up and running, but getting a couple of club exhibition layouts in a fit state to show and suitable stock has much reduced the time to do much.