One station of the Devan & Summersett

It looks really nice now Ron.   I can easily imagine that being a corner of the real world.:thumbs

Nice Sol. :thumbs

I like the weeds between the tracks and the "rough ground"  to the left.

Are you leaving the old disused loading dock top right with the lifted track bed in place ?  Looks authentic, particularly if you "dilapidate" it a bit. :cheers

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

Nice Sol. :thumbs    Thanks Peter

I like the weeds between the tracks and the "rough ground"  to the left.

Are you leaving the old disused loading dock top right with the lifted track bed in place ?  Yes  Looks authentic, particularly if you "dilapidate" it a bit. :cheers   Still plenty of detailing to do .. … a never ending work-in-progress

Some changes have occurred for operational purposes

before


as of now



the gradient road has gone with some additional trackwork leading to the curved track to the left

Hi Ron            Lots of inspiration for my "Bogged Down Plans" but would you please tell me the baseboard dimensions.                                                            all the best  Kevin

Like the changes you've made Ron. Looks great!

Kevin, my layout room is 12 x 20 ft - baseboards vary in width from 14" up to 40"

looking towards one corner when one enters the room


to the left in the other corner


turning 180 degrees looking towards entrance


now to the left looking at the doorway & the lift up on which Barnstable resides




and attached is the basic block plan of the layout

The layout is looking quite impressive and the changes around Barnstable have worked out very nicely. Great to see some open shots of the layout. :thumbs

Congrats on 'Alan's Pic Of The Week', well deserved. :cheers

Cheers, Gary.

Thanks Alan for the photo of the week.

Putting a new display panel for turnout indicator LEDs and signals using 3mm MDF



when fitting 5mm diameter LEDs, they protrude through quite some       distance


on the big wall panel which was 5mm MDF,


they were OK but this       time -  I needed some form of washers.

an old ball point pen no longer usable, was cut into 1.5  - 2 mm       thick washers




and when fitted into the panel…



f course close up photos show a few painting mistakes…

Great Ingenuity using a pen body as a washer Ron.

Cheers Connor

Those panels look brilliant. I've been pondering panels lately and that wall panel with its LEDs looks the business.

What are the three colours? I can guess red and green, but the yellow?

As for the washers - genius! What kind of saw did you use to get them like that?

Mike, just selected 3 colours for some difference between the tracks.

Cut the washers by using a razor saw.

A highly sophisticated means of glueing the LEDs in place …..

Works for me, Sol.   :thumbs

[user=269]MaxSouthOz[/user] wrote:

Works for me, Sol.   :thumbs
 

Yes I know how sophisticated you are Max !


No doubt there are better ways of holding them in place but $ plays a  big part ( plus what I have on hand to do the job …)

will have to try the pva bit Sol,looks ok
:thumbs;-):cool:
Owen

Cheers Ron. Perfect attachment method! Re colours, I meant the LEDs on the large panel. I assumed red was for the un-set route and green for the set route, but wondered what the yellow was for. Looking closer, are the reds signals?

OK understood. on the big panel, LEDs within the track diagram are turnout indication- green main line, yellow branch line & red stop.

Signals are in little cutouts to the side of the track diagram.

Early Barnstable


then with an extra track across the liftup for Marabost


then the "final" change for operational purposes…


still some ballasting to do in the turnout & scenery tidied up - can't rush these things…

The town of Barnstable on the coast had to be abandoned as climate  change as flooded the town and the people relocated to Marabost - even  the new business Barnstable Electrics has closed up…