Ditto

Ed

Sorry guys, it's been pretty manic of late.

A client decided that the 3 month deadline previously agreed upon really had to be completed in a single month!! Why do they do that?

Needless to say that there has been many long days and even some weekends worked and as a consequence little progress has been made in the layout room.

However… There has been a little progress.

The first storage rack for the cassette system has been made. It fits in here, under the cassette table like this…






5 trains to a rack. Shortish ones, 14 wagons, brake van and loco or 3 coaches and a tender loco, but then it's a branch line and the passing loops aren't capable of much more…yet!






Since we were talking of a different perspective of the layout here's a couple of photos of it from atop the bunk bed showing current state of play. Firstly, Pentrecourt Halt and the Mill…






And then to the right of the first photo, Henllan Station and the Green Grove Milk Factory. All of the buildings for this section are RTR and are just place holders until scratch building what is/was actually there takes place.






Further right the line just loops around and eventually Newcastle Emlyn station will fill the space.


Questions, comments and suggestions welcome as always.

Especially now as the last drawing went out the office door this afternoon.

Cheers

Marty

wow Marty what a difference now,it looks great,haven`t had time to see it all yet,but it`s on my list
:thumbs;-):cool:

Great Stuff Marty!Love the"aerial"shots…..The clouds on the backdrop look excellent.Cloudy but with a chance of showers….

Cheers,John.B.:thumbs

Thanks John,
More than just a chance mate, this is Wales and you're going to need your wellies!!!





cheers

Marty

You're attention to detail is amazing. If I didn't know better, I would assume it is OO scale. ;-)

Cheers, Gary.

Cheers Gary,


I like doing the detail, I have to fight to stop putting in the detail… After all… It is N scale… and I only have one lifetime!


Marty

[user=19]Marty[/user] wrote:

Cheers Gary,


I like doing the detail, I have to fight to stop putting in the detail… After all… It is N scale… and I only have one lifetime!


Marty

I think that's why it's so interesting to look at Marty, quite amazing.


Ed

Marty,
          You just keep sticking those details in there mate,thats what makes Newcastle Emlyn so damn good!

Cheers,John.B.:thumbs

Thank you gents, and so I shall continue…



Another big step forward for the layout last week, something that I've never done before and has been a long time coming…


Lighting in the buildings.


In the photo below a Camarthen based 57xx Pannier with a short cattle wagon train works it's way up hill in the gathering dusk, past the late shift working in the Alltycefan Woollen Mill.






Cheers


Marty

Very effective Marty without going overboard.

Lovely work as usual Marty. That's a great little scene.
What sort of lights did you use in the buildings ? I like the nice 'soft' light they give. I've found some pre-wired SMDs on e-bay which give a very similar light and are very easy to install as they already have the resistors incorporated onto the little PCB.http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111333602725

Looks lovely. The dim yellow really works well. I will ne referring back to this post in future!

Thanks lads, your kind comments inspire me onwards.

Trevor,

A chunky 3mm yellow LED and resistor as shown in the picture below. I wanted to see if I could do it myself, soldering, etc and the little bit of PCB also allows me to hot glue the assembly inside the building.






Now I know I  can do it I'll start looking for and working with smaller components I think. Thank you for your link. Very useful.


I'd like to make up a platform light for the halt, from what I recall they were lanterns, one on the pagoda shelter and the other on a post near the exit.


Need to build the Halt first!



Marty

G'day Marty,

You just keep coming up trumps with the pics ! Brilliant. :thumbs 

Cheers, Gary.

Gotta say Marty, that looks excellent to me, there are of course many other superlatives that could be used. Many of them have already been used. So I'll just say in the language of my homeland 'that's a proper job my ansome'.





 

I have to say that's the best lighting I've seen as the softness of it really complements the whole "picture" and thus enhances the realism.    Great work Marty.

Ken

You never fail to inspire Marty.Really looks the business.:thumbs

:):)Super job Marty.

Thats one lovely railway build you have constructed with plenty of atmosphere.

Thanks for sharing,

Derek.