Somewhere SW of London. Somewhen before today

For want of a pin …… 
I'm out of rail joiners.  No idea why.  I mean yes they have all been used which is why I have none left but ….. I need to join four ends of track and there's none left.  :thud

Such small packets.  Small value.  Hardly worth adding £4 postage from Camborne to a £6 order.  Thank goodness for the Rainforest Delivery Company and someone somewhere who is happy to sell a couple of packs and not charge me for the postage!  :Happy

Hi Rick, just searched Ebay for SL-10 and came up with £4.80 & free postage, you might be able to improve on that.
Regards
Roger

[user=2213]fourtytwo[/user] wrote:

Hi Rick, just searched Ebay for SL-10 and came up with £4.80 & free postage, you might be able to improve on that.
Regards
Roger

Cheers Roger.  Â£3.89 postage free here so a tiny saving which would be of no consequence to me in the scheme of things.  Two packs of Code 100 and two of Code 75 ordered with the latter being marginally more expensive and yet to arrive as they are coming from a different place.  Both ordered through Amazon however.  

Early turn shunting duty. 

That looks good Rick - presumably all your own weathering ?
A short "what I did" would go down well for we novices …… :roll:

What a delightful shot and great weathering Rick.

Defo a +1,

Bill  :thumbs

[user=6]Petermac[/user] wrote:

That looks good Rick - presumably all your own weathering ?
A short "what I did" would go down well for we novices …… :roll:

In that particular case the van is commercially weathered (by Lord & Butler "Dirty Boy") by airbrush though I have run a dirty powder-brush over it as well.  The work on the loco is all mine.  

I shall have to see about the "What I Did" though you can hardly call yourself a novice.  There's a video on my You Tube channel.  Let's see if I can find the link.  This was done originally for the Hayle MRC virtual exhibition when Covid caused them to cancel the "real" one last May.  

Oooh look. A new 2EPB unit on a delivery run. 

Push-pull testing at Waddlemarsh today.
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Very nice videos. Starting to blur the lines between model and real!

Agree… terrific modelling Rick… just ask Nigel in his brown suit to stand up straight when you are filming will you, there are places for slouching, Rick's railway is not one of them.  :lol:

Wow - that looks so good Rick. As Chris said - starting to look just too realistic to be a model.   :thumbs

Gents - thank you kindly for your generous comments which are very much appreciated.

6-car trains are marginally longer than I can comfortably run on the passenger line. Only one siding at one end will accommodate them; the other hidden turnback holds five but six tuck in clear of the points (though foul of the other line) so can be run out and straight back. 
Here a Bachmann 2-EPB unit leads one of their 4-Cep units and proves that two motored units plus a mix of power-bar and loop couplers can cope with the sharp curve just off-scene around the corner of the room. 

https://gwiwer.smugmug.com/ModelRailway-1/Model-railway-videos/n-S4bmc/i-pXDQgbM

Waddlemarsh will not feature a shed although it does have a “shed road”. Water cranes are already fitted but the need to disguise a surface point motor presented the opportunity to create an “informal” coal heap on the departure roads. 

 E4 32494 looks to be in need of a bunker top-up. 

Clever. Could have been a pile of ballast or stack of sleepers but I like the coal. 

I like that adea of the informal coal heap, Rick. I could use that and ballast heaps for some of my above board point motors, but will have to be careful not to overdo it.

Waddlemarsh has really come on in leaps and bounds.

:cheers

Main line stock through Waddlemarsh as a 4-Cep unit runs in beneath the footbridge. 

Excellent layout and a great weathering video Rick. When you have finished applying the weathering powders do you spray with a fixative of any kind, matt varnish perhaps?  If not, what prevents the powders from being removed with handling?
Terry

Thanks Terry. I don’t routinely seal the powders but do handle stock with rags (old t-shirts cut into large squares) to prevent the dreaded finger prints. Those are the enemy. Powder does sometimes come off over time just as airbrushed paint can turn a bit glossy and look odd. 

 I do sometimes use the hairspray as seen in the video which works well but only in cases where powders really don’t grab. Some roofs require that. It can also be used to brush in streaks which then stay where put.