Chevron Posted March 1, 2015 Posted March 1, 2015 So here are some Work in progress pictures of my 00 in the garden. Used green hanging basket liner for the grass on the hill. Some potted herbs and carpet spreading Alinpas to try cover the hill when it matures Brown hanging basket liner between the tracks to make it look like dead grass. And black nonslip tape along the side of the rails to try make it look like ballast Quote
DiveController Posted March 1, 2015 Posted March 1, 2015 LOOKS WELL! Are the buildings plastic? Are the platforms TREATED timber? Do you have a 'weed-sprayer' train to run if algae grows all over your hard work? Are the tracks powered or the locos are battery powered with IR control? How does it run when wet/damp conditions? Quote
Chevron Posted March 1, 2015 Author Posted March 1, 2015 Yea the buildings are plastic. Put a light in the station. They are from the part works railway magezine from last year. No the platform is not treated. just sprayed grey. Needs to be redone. No weed killer sprayer. Only oned i have are from the caledonian belle hornby set. Track is mains powered. Only gets wired up when using. Havent really run it when it was really wet but runs fine when damp. Quote
DiveController Posted March 1, 2015 Posted March 1, 2015 Havent really run it when it was really wet but runs fine when damp. Amazing no ectrical problems in the moist conditions! Quote
Chevron Posted March 7, 2015 Author Posted March 7, 2015 A little bit added. Arched retaining walls at the Train yard side of things. You see on the left corner here will be some low releif building with a road and path so double o people can look over wall to the trains. Need to come up with a way of making a weather proofed double engine shed. Quote
Chevron Posted March 10, 2015 Author Posted March 10, 2015 My complete collection with a dummy mallard Quote
Broithe Posted March 10, 2015 Posted March 10, 2015 Nice. I believe that is now compulsory under an EU directive that every model railway must have a Norstand wagon. Quote
Chevron Posted March 19, 2015 Author Posted March 19, 2015 Not much to update on but Added more arche sto both ends and started on a very short street on the upper level. started on a very short street on the upper level. Looking for ideas for the white background and how to make use of it Quote
heirflick Posted March 19, 2015 Posted March 19, 2015 great stuff! would love to have a garden layout but this lad..... ....would make very short work of it! Quote
Broithe Posted March 19, 2015 Posted March 19, 2015 great stuff! would love to have a garden layout but this lad..... ....would make very short work of it! He just needs to be given some responsibilities - and a uniform - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tama_(cat) . Quote
heirflick Posted March 19, 2015 Posted March 19, 2015 He just needs to be given some responsibilities - and a uniform - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tama_(cat) . Quote
Chevron Posted March 20, 2015 Author Posted March 20, 2015 testing out a macro lens i got for my phones camera. i think i got the right plants for scale foliage Staples need to be touched up with black paint a job for a dry day. Quote
jhb171achill Posted March 20, 2015 Posted March 20, 2015 Looks fantastic already! Plants are never easy to match. Quote
Kinvara-Train Posted March 21, 2015 Posted March 21, 2015 great stuff! would love to have a garden layout but this lad..... [ATTACH=CONFIG]18382[/ATTACH] ....would make very short work of it! nice Dog Herr Flick and good watch Dog:-bd Walter Quote
Chevron Posted April 6, 2015 Author Posted April 6, 2015 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. Quote
irishthump Posted April 7, 2015 Posted April 7, 2015 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. I don't think there's any need. "The Weather" will do all your weathering for you! Quote
Chevron Posted April 7, 2015 Author Posted April 7, 2015 I don't think there's any need. "The Weather" will do all your weathering for you! i think il have to unplug the station and let the dog roll it around in the much. He done that with my cottages and they look a "little" better. maybe if i painted it with the colours its already in and then it wont look so plasticy? Quote
Chevron Posted April 19, 2015 Author Posted April 19, 2015 Started making a building front to go over the arches. based off a prefab modular building i seen an image of online. and while i was in lidl's the other day i saw a "grass" mat for camping and picked one up. Placed some down today for a test. also tried some sky blue enamel spray on the background doesn't show up very well in the photos. but it does take the plain white/under construction look away a bit. and through the carraiges to gauge the height with an old man standing at the front of the new grass hills/field. Quote
Chevron Posted June 8, 2015 Author Posted June 8, 2015 Finally got a shed in the garden so now i can have a proper train yard/fiddle yard on the bottom right my first attempt at using switch's and isolated rail joiners. 2 on-off-on switches decides which track has power. view from just outside the shed into the yard out of the shed over the dog run and the final straight where it joins up to the the main loop. just need to decide on a backdrop for the yard. i want an industrial style one but all i can find are country scenes. Quote
Chevron Posted June 8, 2015 Author Posted June 8, 2015 (edited) Yea it is. i am debating how best to deal with that. Thinking easiest would be to make a gutter shaped dip in front made of grass mat and maybe a hill behind it of same material. A lot of first's are happening in this update. First time using flexi track and isolation joiners and even cutting track to fit. Edited June 8, 2015 by Chevron Quote
Broithe Posted June 8, 2015 Posted June 8, 2015 I had one that had a three-foot drop onto concrete, and we had a live steamer on it, so we put a two-inch high Perspex "fence" - it cost a few bob, but just one catastrophe would have cost more... Quote
Chevron Posted June 8, 2015 Author Posted June 8, 2015 the perspex looks better than the traditional wooden ones most use. im trying to avoid the wooden one if i can mainly due to cosmetics. i love the clean look that setup has. very nice. Quote
Broithe Posted June 8, 2015 Posted June 8, 2015 We had a hardboard fence along the back, as you can also see, but the Perspex looks a lot better (in the sense that you can hardly see it!) and gives you good vision for re-railing, track cleaning, etc. It will follow round a fairly tight bend, too, as you can see. That section is seen in the early stages and got a bit more stuff as time went on. Quote
Chevron Posted June 8, 2015 Author Posted June 8, 2015 The hardboard at the back works as can be painted like a wall like yours. Quote
Broithe Posted June 8, 2015 Posted June 8, 2015 The hardboard at the back works as can be painted like a wall like yours. Yeah, you can do what you like at the back. It's the front that needs some thought. Quote
Chevron Posted June 8, 2015 Author Posted June 8, 2015 Did your perspex not go cloudy with the weather ? The little covering on the left of that image. does that track go indoors there? Quote
Broithe Posted June 8, 2015 Posted June 8, 2015 Did your perspex not go cloudy with the weather ? No, hardly at all over six years, and it was under a polycarbonate car-port roof in strong sunlight - some of the cardboard buildings faded and a lot of the "grass" did, too. Modern plastics are much more resistant to UV degradation. The little covering on the left of that image.does that track go indoors there? Yes, there was a crossing there, so the outside track was a figure-of-eight with the other loop inside the garage. Quote
Chevron Posted June 8, 2015 Author Posted June 8, 2015 id love to see the full figure of eight you have. am always interested in seeing others outdoor setups. what is the full width you have there with the double loop? Quote
Broithe Posted June 8, 2015 Posted June 8, 2015 id love to see the full figure of eight you have.am always interested in seeing others outdoor setups. what is the full width you have there with the double loop? It was under cover, rather than fully outdoor - that bit of polythene in the far corner and the two sponges are there for a small leak we had.... (though, the chipboard top never really objected too much, it had a good slap of primer before it went in) It's about four feet deep there - just able to reach the back. Full tour. Quote
Chevron Posted June 8, 2015 Author Posted June 8, 2015 Now that is quite impressive for a outdoor semi outdoor. how covered is that car port? must be large enough to keep the wind and rain away from it cause there is no way in hell you could have those buildings out in British weather lol you have me thinking now about semi covering with carport material. hmmmmm Quote
Broithe Posted June 8, 2015 Posted June 8, 2015 The car-port is on the left here - - it goes right back as far as nextdoor's garage front and then the "internal" part in the garage starts. There's a polycarbonate roof and the front is boarded in, as you can see. The long edge is mostly nextdoor's woven fence, with plastic sheeting to avoid the driving rain and wind. The garage was lined with 25mm expanded polystyrene foam. We had no great trouble, really. Willow seeds, dead flies, the odd roof leak, expansion/contraction (solved by expansion joints), a bit of oxidation on the rails in really damp times, etc... No more trouble that the real railways have.. Quote
Noel Posted June 8, 2015 Posted June 8, 2015 It was under cover, rather than fully outdoor - that bit of polythene in the far corner and the two sponges are there for a small leak we had.... (though, the chipboard top never really objected too much, it had a good slap of primer before it went in) It's about four feet deep there - just able to reach the back. Full tour. I could watch that all day long. Enjoyable viewing. Like the clever design. Great layout. Quote
Broithe Posted June 8, 2015 Posted June 8, 2015 I could watch that all day long. Enjoyable viewing. Like the clever design. Great layout. If you click on the title, it will take you to it in YouTube - you can then click on the channel and there's two other videos of it, one at night. Quote
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