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The only way you develop skills is by practicing. Read and watch some tutorials, give them a go. If they dont work, learn from where you went wrong and try again. You dont have to become a master, just happy with your efforts and have the desire to improve.

Correct.

I never had the tools and materials to practice but since i have dealt with jhb171achill i now have rolling stock and paints to start.

but it always feels like i need to be buying more.

Need platicard - need card for card building -need colour ink for printer need an air brush to get the results id love most.

Need to find that hard foam for layout building - need scenic materials apart from the 2 or 3 that i have.

Its a never ending list that gets bigger the more i practice lol

Have a couple more examples?

Are they all crystal clear or are a few in soft focus?

Horses for courses. For some it will be authentic scenery through which railways run, for others it will be more about trains on the move and track work accompanied by scenery. Both equally valid preferences.

 

Many middle to older members may have been introduced to the hobby as youngsters with 'table top' model railways where designing and plugging different track formations together almost like meccano was as much part of the hobby as running trains, or adding scenic accessories to enhance the 'imagination'. Others may have evolved or were drawn by the challenge of incredible modelling skills to represent authentic scale scenes. Reading 'Railway Modeller' mag 30-40 years ago inspired many by showing what was possible.

Totally agree Noel it is horses for course's of course

that's why i was just curious.

I dont have the ability to do highly detailed modelling.

Some like end to ends some like tail chasers everything about this hobby is so different but yet still the same

That to me is Option 2: Track with Scenery placed around it

Its all about the track and just line side scenery. no big town with multiple streets behind the railway.

And that is a great example of both rail with scenery around it and of them blending together.

Evening folks,

 

Photos from the past few days have now been uploaded:

 

- Saturday around Portarlington waiting for the HOBS to make an appearance. They finally did on the 1750 departure.

 

Monday was a ramble around Co. Wicklow with the RPSI Easter Shuttles at Kilcoole and Newcastle, then onwards to Avoca and the Wicklow Gap.

 

Photos start at http://smu.gs/1HJ1kLP

 

The Wanderer.

 

 

Great image, good angle perfect leading lines. captured the smoke perfectly.

Really great shot

Something like this http://www.amazon.com/History-Trains-Railroad-Educational-Poster/dp/B004OXWTTY but for irish railways

I'm not sure what's available in Dcc detection systems,

This will be a DC system. will be a long time before i go DCC.

hahaha bring some of them fumes back with you in a can and sell it lol

Great pics. Never been on a steamie before. looks interesting to say the least as a driver or shoveller lol

Love the first one so atmospheric.

Last image is great. nice clear shot of the cab.

Turns out my 2 latest paint jobs are styled the same as image 049 (Colour wise only)

So i think its safe to assume that every one agrees the biggest issue is with slowing the wagons down without them smashing into each other.

And that smash would get harder after each wagon added to a track due to momentum and less stopping distance so any retarder system will have to increase its breaking system as another wagon is added so a static system wont work.

that leave some kind of dynamic system or a system that slides forward toward the hump as a wagon is added.

AND each wagon will have different momentum speeds due to weight and free wheeling ability.

Anything else im missing here?

Amazing....had to re-read most lines over and over and to compare to the image to figure it all out but wow. That is an impressive example.

Due to the in depth nature of this post i assume this is like a Drivers instructions plan for the layout? or something to that nature that you had most already done.

If that is the case id love to hear about

a much bigger layout loosely based on Belfast York Road, which uses the same routing technology, plus fully working, and interlocked, colour light signalling.

But only if you already have it written As im hoping to do automatic lighting system to show which track a wagon is going down on my hump yard project.

Does it use the 3 light system as in green on top with 2 reds below as default for an all clear ?

do you have any images of the lighting system or layout either electrical or track?

I am even more curious now.

My eyes??

The price is right - COME on DOOOOOOWN

Im sure we all know about the fumes from superglues turning things white.

So my question is. Is it possible to repair plastic windows that have been whitened by these fumes?

Is it possible to make them transparent again? - If not how does one make the best of a bad situation.

Windows of a carriage have turned white from using white spirit which in turn soften and dissolved glue. - Well that.s my theory.

One thing i love about a garden layout is the lighting.

I think i will have to get me some weathering powders and sealer's and try weather the building a bit.

How do you view layout?

1. Scenery with track running through it ?
   
2. Track with Scenery placed around it ?
   

Thats it in a nutshell!

Thanks patrick and your hand drawn diagram explains a lot . cheers for that.

Is there such a thing as a poster containing different liverys of the Lococ, coachs and carriages.

Like a history of CIE - Iarnrod Eireann - Irish Rail poster or through the years poster showing various different designs and what year they were ?

more than twice your age but i dont even have a tenth of your skill. Great work.

so basiclly we are talking break up the track into isolated blocks. Use on-off-on switchs for each block and controller one would have controll of all up switched track and controller 2 has control of all diwn switchex track?

Thanks huntslet . checking it out now.

Just curious but what would you be expecting for something like this?

I know most if not all of you have moved to DCC, so you must of started off with DC first.

How many locos have you had running on your layout?

Did you have a separately wired shunting area off your main running line?

Did you have multiple tracks ?

Thanks DiveController that was what i was looking for.

Can someone please explain the purpose and how coal staithes where used. I do these coal bunkers .. ground level and raised but have no idea how they functioned. The same with water towers.

Very hard to add them to a layout if I don't know how the worked or where used.

Do you guys know the time table for all these runs you just so happen to get ?