A few pics follow with my Triang/Kitmaster coversion being an interloper... It does highlight the touch up needed following the fitting of the LEDs in the front though!
Friday, 9 November 2012
Blue Pullman unpackaged
Again another quick post but I have now had the Pullman out of the box properly but due to the layout still being in lots of bits can't connect it all together and test it!
A few pics follow with my Triang/Kitmaster coversion being an interloper... It does highlight the touch up needed following the fitting of the LEDs in the front though!
A few pics follow with my Triang/Kitmaster coversion being an interloper... It does highlight the touch up needed following the fitting of the LEDs in the front though!
Thursday, 8 November 2012
Quick update
A very quick update after a real lapse since August.
Quite a bit of progress has been happening but mainly under the surface trying to get all the wiring sorted on the station boards - still need to order switches for the control panel - but the main connections are all (hopefully) in place even through the actual connectors between boards still need to be decided upon....
The real purpose of todays update though is this little box that arrived this morning. Only had a quick look so far but it makes my ongoing project to create a 'decent' cross hybrid of Triang & Kitmaster 8 car Western Region unit look very beginnerish!
Quite a bit of progress has been happening but mainly under the surface trying to get all the wiring sorted on the station boards - still need to order switches for the control panel - but the main connections are all (hopefully) in place even through the actual connectors between boards still need to be decided upon....
The real purpose of todays update though is this little box that arrived this morning. Only had a quick look so far but it makes my ongoing project to create a 'decent' cross hybrid of Triang & Kitmaster 8 car Western Region unit look very beginnerish!
Saturday, 18 August 2012
MPD Update
So doing things in the wrong order as normal I decided to have a go at trying to get at least one part of the scenic section started that already had the wiring done. This may prove to be a silly idea as its the part nearest the back and as such will have me leaning over it for the rest unless I take the board down (which is probably too sensible).
It is quite impressive what half an hour, two used Morrison's Savers Herb pots and a small Oregano pot can be formed into. The backwall is just plasticard and may yet change for the entire length. The depot is a Bachmann one with a scalescenes pit with LEDs fitted. The fuelling point being a Knightwing one without the supplied base. Infil is a mix of card and ballast which has been scribed and then painted 'concrete' colour. This will all be weathered well at some point but I wanted to make sure things still ran and the point worked before doing too much more.
On a ballasting note how do you stop the glue going into blobs and thus lifting the perfectly prepared ballast?! I have followed all the tricks available (pre-wetting it, adding washing up liquid to the glue/water mix and going atleast 60/40 water/glue) but still it does its own thing!
Some bad pictures taken this morning in South Yorkshire's August sunshine (read grey sky and murky) on my iPhone don't really show things that well - except all the rest of the junk that always seems to pile up on the layout! They also show the final board fitted and the basic extension of the platform and buildings in place (rather than in a box and on the floor) - though it needs to be about 8" deeper...
Oh and while I'm on have a look at my eBay items finishing later today - moving on some items that definitely don't fit with a Eastern feel or are projects that are never going to be done - see here
It is quite impressive what half an hour, two used Morrison's Savers Herb pots and a small Oregano pot can be formed into. The backwall is just plasticard and may yet change for the entire length. The depot is a Bachmann one with a scalescenes pit with LEDs fitted. The fuelling point being a Knightwing one without the supplied base. Infil is a mix of card and ballast which has been scribed and then painted 'concrete' colour. This will all be weathered well at some point but I wanted to make sure things still ran and the point worked before doing too much more.
On a ballasting note how do you stop the glue going into blobs and thus lifting the perfectly prepared ballast?! I have followed all the tricks available (pre-wetting it, adding washing up liquid to the glue/water mix and going atleast 60/40 water/glue) but still it does its own thing!
Some bad pictures taken this morning in South Yorkshire's August sunshine (read grey sky and murky) on my iPhone don't really show things that well - except all the rest of the junk that always seems to pile up on the layout! They also show the final board fitted and the basic extension of the platform and buildings in place (rather than in a box and on the floor) - though it needs to be about 8" deeper...
Oh and while I'm on have a look at my eBay items finishing later today - moving on some items that definitely don't fit with a Eastern feel or are projects that are never going to be done - see here
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