A small portable train-set based around an 'Inglenook' layout

[user=312]dooferdog[/user] wrote:

Roast chicken today, parsnips, carrots, potatoes and cabbage from the garden. Now, if I could just get some seeds for 'chickens' I'd be self sufficient!

Bon Dimanche,

Doug

Can't you just plant some chicken feathers and grow them from these…??

On a serious note, the baseboard/backboard is looking great. :thumbs I now wish I had of rounded out the corners on Linden Ford…

Cheers, Gary.

Morning Doug

Hope you enjoyed your lunch……I noted there was no mention of RLW……I guess its a bit scarce where you live  :roll:

Like the baseboard…..good idea to raise the height of the backboard

Regards

Planting fevvers….woss 'e on, eh John?

Not  RLW today, SWMBO, who is a little more refined than I prefers P(pink)LW with chicken. I thank Jimmy Jesus we have the privilege of choice.

Doug

I always thought that Chicken seeds were called eggs?

Nice work with the boards, lucking forward to the buildings to come.

I reckon you'll be much happier with the high back scene Doug.  Doesn't have to be anything more than sky at the top but it will make photography easier.

At least, it has on NE.

Marty

Great job of the baseboards, looking forward to whats coming next

Toto

Round Corners……AAaagh!

I intend to use wallpaper lining paper as the base layer of the back-scene  so I primed the inside surfaces with oil-based paint as a precaution against the interior quality ply de-laminating or warping.

1.   I first tried to use several layer of cartridge paper painted with shellac and formed around a cling-film covered plastic drain-pipe, but as the paper dried, it did so with random wrinkles. [So do I these days after every bath….]

2.   I cut some exactly 90 degree arcs of the same 100mm x 2mm wall pipe, stuck them in place with PVC pipe adhesive, intending to fair in the edge after drying…yes, you are ahead of me, I'm sure.

The glue melted the paint just like Nitromors, the paint ran down like treacle followed by melted PVC….

New 90 degree arc pipe pieces, clean scraped plywood and another attempt with Evostik. Success!

Then I tried to fair the pipe in with Polyfilla. Now, the pipe wall thickness was 2mm so filling it and sanding it back just gave a transition curve each side of the pipe infill, giving twice the number of noticeable lines so I ripped it off, together with some of the ply face….

3.   Several glasses of SLW later, to bed, and this morning cut out two 80 degree slices of pipe and scraped the edges back to a feather edge with a scraper to leave something that looks like large bath surround seal. I stuck these on with Evostik, sanded any lumps away and faired it in with filler. When it's completely dry I'll sand that back and cover the whole with lining paper [I hope…]





Just in case this doesn't make sense…


It does seem obvious, but it didn't at the time, this might save someone else the same aggravation,

Poop-poop!

Doug

Thanks for showing us the way Doug - a neat solution. 

John

Good one Doug and it does not eat up baseboard space.
Derek.

Today has gone quite well. I haven't achieved as good a result as I wanted but it will do quite nicely. I didn't leave the paste on the first piece to soak long enough and it wouldn't stretch well sufficiently to get a smooth lay-on, but after leaving the next piece for a quarter of an hour it went much better. I think the remainder of the paste on the boards helped, too.

Also, below is the proposed track plan, after ToTo's it looks simplistic, but he's not going to be lugging his across Europe in the near future! I'm thinking of incorporating a run round, but as it is I'm proposing to shuttle a rail-car backwards and forwards to the station platform.







Hmm, seems I can't upload Bitmap images so I'll have to play 'electron shuffling'…


Doug

Yere tiz!  Faststone allows you save images as all sorts of things very simply…




I'd like to have the rear area raised, a slopey road down to the back of the station, for the station building I'm going to try the old Bear's End building but I think it will be too big. Well, I always need kindling. An alternative is to try kit bashing John Wiffen's lovely new Edwardian school kit, a very yummy model.  http://scalescenes.com/products/T036-School


Poop-poop,

Doug

Hi Doofer,


hope you get your electrons sorted out. New track plans are exciting. You are right about carting half way across Europe, I would need pickfords. I'll stay firmly planted in the shed thanks.


These corners have turned out good. I'd be happy with that.


cheers for now and keep it coming.


toto

Hi Doofer, I think my last post must have crossed yours.


Is there going to be a separate fiddle yard module. Just when you mention concealing the exit track. I have seen the school building and it looks good. I like the big window detail on it. A bit different.


cheers


Toto  

I am not planning a fiddle yard, but the LH track does exit at right angles so if I change my mind it is possible. I hope it can go ito a removable tunnel, perhaps.

Doug

I read earlier in the thread you were looking for an N scale outside frame 08 Class, are you still going down the N-gauge route or have you changed your mind back to OO, as you have mentioned possibly using the Bears End building ??

Cheers, Gary.

Hi Gary,

This will be OO, but I am looking towards OO9, not N gauge when we return to UK primarily because I have to downsize.

This is to be a portable effort to keep me sane!

I have a GWR railcar and a pannier to work it if I chose not
to go down a LBSC/LSWR format, though I have a early BR crest Beattie well tank (ex Bodmin Road), not that I can think what to run with it…

Doug

DIS-AS-TER!

Why could I not leave well alone?

Just a little air bubble, so a tiny slit to push some glue in, and a gentle press to spread it, and…it has torn. Further, as it has dried out it has strechd and torn even more.

I have no more lining paper, I don't want to try scraping off the dry stuff to start again, so will have to wait until Friday when my daughter visits from UK with some more linng paper.

ust when I have some coving adhesive and some polystyrene tiles  

Doug

Daft suggestion…..but you can't paint it out as cloud or conceal it later? I suppose it is right at the top and really obvious?:roll:

That's a real PITA Doug - and I have a whole roll of lining paper ………………………………;-)

I've found that lining paper seems to need far more "soak time" than ordinary wallpaper - don't know why because it's usually thinner :???:

Don't think I've replied since you did the corners - they look great but then we'd expect nothing else from you ………….:thumbs:thumbs

Sounds like you need a trip to Bergerac, Doug. :lol:

Bad Luck, indeed!