Chevron Posted June 8, 2015 Author Posted June 8, 2015 I could watch that all day long. Enjoyable viewing. Like the clever design. Great layout. i couldn't agree more. Quote
Chevron Posted June 8, 2015 Author Posted June 8, 2015 What buildings do you are they ready made / kits? where do you get them to withstand the weather. Quote
Broithe Posted June 8, 2015 Posted June 8, 2015 What buildings do you are they ready made / kits?where do you get them to withstand the weather. They're mostly Metcalfe and Superquick cardboard kits - the mill is a Wills kit and the mine came from a continental manufacturer - the balsa/paper power station was meant to represent our local Meaford station, but it is now Ferbane on a different layout (videos also on there) and only has two towers in "operation" - the towers were turned from solid wood... There's some Skaledale stuff and the big station is a balsa/paper affair. They had no special measures taken - the cardboard ones did fade in the Sun, but it was no great detriment - weathering by the weather, I call it... Quote
Chevron Posted June 8, 2015 Author Posted June 8, 2015 After seeing your layout .. you have turned me in to a thief lol im gonna try rob some of your ideas lol Quote
Broithe Posted June 8, 2015 Posted June 8, 2015 After seeing your layout .. you have turned me in to a thief lol im gonna try rob some of your ideas lol I'll send you an invoice - in Euros - with VAT.... Apart from a few leaks, we never had much water trouble - the rain never got in much above the baseboard level. The heat was the greatest problem, in fact - apart from expanding the rails a bit, it shrank the woodwork a lot as it dried out after the winters. The cold was just unpleasant, but didn't do much harm - it made the live steamer very impressive - I have some video of that somewhere.... It was well worth putting up with the problems for the sheer size of it - I once got a Murphy 181 and a few coaches to take 11 minutes to go all round it. Even at a reasonable speed, a train would go over the crossover into the garage and be almost forgotten about before it came out again.. Quote
Broithe Posted June 8, 2015 Posted June 8, 2015 The seeds from the local willows used to blow in and I often thought of getting something Yank, as we had 00 scale tumbleweed blowing around - but it did get into the works sometimes. Flies often seemed quite suicidal - we had a few track fatalities. Just to the right of the suspension bridge, you might see four of these Fleischmann expansion joints - looking like a crossing. ..they saved us a lot of trouble on the long straights.. Quote
Paddy Mac Namara Posted April 9, 2017 Posted April 9, 2017 hey there "chevron", if i remember right, u got a load of railway modeller mags from me... hows the layout going? cheers paddy mac Quote
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