Whiterock

[Darius43]

Canopy structure started.

Cheers

Darius

[leslie10646]

Are you going to build York Road (as pre WW2) next - you could have ready for Bangor 2026?

No shortage of volunteers to run it for you!!!!

[Broithe]

3 hours ago, leslie10646 said:

Are you going to build York Road (as pre WW2) next - you could have ready for Bangor 2026?

No shortage of volunteers to run it for you!!!!

No point in imposing unnecessary limits - just do the whole island in 00 - it will fit neatly inside Phoenix Park.

[Darius43]

22 minutes ago, Broithe said:

No point in imposing unnecessary limits - just do the whole island in 00 - it will fit neatly inside Phoenix Park.

But probably not my spare room - even with T gauge…

Cheers

Darius

[Darius43]

Further progress.

Cheers

Darius

[Patrick Davey]

Love how the vertical face of the platform changes, suggesting a later extension.  Superb!

[Colin_McLeod]

14 hours ago, Broithe said:

No point in imposing unnecessary limits - just do the whole island in 00 - it will fit neatly inside Phoenix Park.

LOL,but it wont fit in Phoenix Park!

Ireland is 300 miles long and Phoenix Park is 2.6 miles (measured along Chesterfiield Avenue) 

 

[Broithe]

1 hour ago, Colin_McLeod said:

LOL,but it wont fit in Phoenix Park!

Ireland is 300 miles long and Phoenix Park is 2.6 miles (measured along Chesterfiield Avenue) 

 

Yeah, but the rails don't go right to the extremities.

Don't be dispiriting the lad - he's probably already done about a quarter of it...

[Darius43]

Canopy building painted.

Columns made using 2mm sq. Plastruct, plasticard and tape strips.  Supporting header beam made from 2mm thick card.

The columns slot into the beam and can be adjusted up/down so that they all touch the platform surface before final fixing. 

Cheers

Darius

[Galteemore]

Now that’s clever. Were you some kind of structural engineer ?….

[Darius43]

I was a civil/structural engineer for 39 years- just retiring now

Cheers

Darius

[Broithe]

38 minutes ago, Darius43 said:

I was a civil/structural engineer for 39 years- just retiring now

Oh, how much fun we mechanicals had, showing the old Yellow Pages heading to you lot..

[Darius43]

Yeah, like I’ve never seen that one before

[Darius43]

Columns painted and fitted.

Cheers

Darius

[Galteemore]

Fabulous. How did you do the trefoil type valance ?

[Darius43]

I drew the pattern big scaleee in MS Paint and then shrunk it and printed strips of them on clear decal paper.  These strips were applied to the painted valences.

Cheers

Darius

[jhb171achill]

Absolutely TOP class!