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

Following the visit of 'The Axe' to Bear's End, the 'Feenix has wisited', and a new layout will  hopefully rise out of the ashes…herewith the start  of the new 8ft x  1ft-10" portable base board with nesting legs which will form the basis  of 'New End'.

This will be a new thread, Bear's End will be left to gently maunder under the weight of the trillions of electrons wasted therein.








I am a little nervous that I post this [currently] next to 'Granby', John, be gentle with me……


Doug

Some nice carpentry there Doug.

Have you come up with a track plan yet Doug?

Nearly there then I see.  Will that tea mug be the centerpiece of the new layout?

Seriously though, very impressive woodwork.  The nice thing about a new layout is that you can correct all those things you didn't like about the last one.  Layouts take a long time and in that time we (well me certainly) tend to learn a lot about how we should have done it.

John

Thank you, Alan, and no,Reg, not as yet, but I am tempted to put two 'Inglenooks' end to end, one on each board!

I still have a hankering for the OO9 but loco building is a big learning curve. I shall look out for a second-hand N gauge Graham Farish old style 08 shunter with outside frames and try the RT Models chassis add-ons first, with a 100 watt soldering iron, a twelve inch bastard file and a 3lb lump hammer I stand a chance of completing it, [don't I?…]

:)Neat bit of timber work Doug,Has Bisto approved it :cool:.

Your proposed Narrow Gauge should fit nicely.

Cheers,

Derek.

Looks very neat Doug. :thumbs

You could look here for inspiration re the track plan:

http://www.carendt.com/

Terry

Got to love an Inglenook layout, they are a lot of fun to operate. But if you go down the route of one on each baseboard, that can only mean one thing…. 'Twice the operating potential, twice the fun…' :thumbs

Cheers, Gary.

Nice carpentry - decent workshop.  Now for some card models.  Please.

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

I am a little nervous that I post this [currently] next to 'Granby', John, be gentle with me……

Doug

Doug you have to be joking:roll:

Some of the longer serving members may recall that it was Doug who dragged me kicking and screaming away from plastic and converted me to card although I havent taken the ultimate step of eating Corn Flakes for breakfast. Our relationship is very much one of master and pupil…….rather like Bisto I know who is boss!

In the moribund thread I have already complimented you on a very spick and span workshop…….like many others I look forward to the models to come.

Kind Regards

Coo! How 'barassing…:oops:, ta muchly.


The old boat-building adage 'You can't have too many clamps' holds good with base board building too…

Some progress as 'Er indoors didn't find anything for me to do today. 'Praps because I was grumpy yesterday as we are trying to sell Doofer Towers and we had a viewing … ON A SUNDAY!!!!!As a result we burnt the crackling on the pork, an', an', an', any way not the best Sunday an', an', it's poured wiv rain for the the last 72 hours, an', an' oh Bu%%er it!



So, back scenes supports in course of construction. I hope I will be able to stow one board on top of the other to make a closed unit for transporting it all. Below is an idea I don't think everybody knows yet, cheap and effective clamping for corners….might help someone out. You don't need posh 'G' clamps for this jobby not like the HD Record 8" there which now is £30 of anyone's money, the HD malleable thumbscrew pattern is hard to find new now. [showing off, I've got 6]



John, the mug has gone, replaced by a beer, yes Bisto has approved it [at least the front RH leg], Terry thanks for the Carendt link:thumbs.

I wonder if I get another chance of a bit of wood butchering time tomorrow, I heard mention of two things guaranteed to strike fear into the heart of the strongest man….a supermarket shop, 'an, 'an….. changing the sitting room curtains…Aaagh..

Doug

Elegant timber work, Doug.  :thumbs

The corner clamp idea is very cool.  :cool:

Indeed, very cool. Stored away for future reference. Thank you.

I'll ask, 'cause no one else has, how have you joined the two board halves together? Guide dowels and bolts with wing nuts or something cleverer.

Marty

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

Indeed, very cool. Stored away for future reference. Thank you.

I'll ask, 'cause no one else has, how have you joined the two board halves together? Guide dowels and bolts with wing nuts or something cleverer.

Marty

Hi, Marty,

Little did you know the angst your question has caused, I find that none of my Photobucket photos are showing on the topic containing these pictures….much fiddling, no result, so I have extracted the img codes and pasted them here, hopefully they will come up?

Any P'bucket eggspurts out there?

Basically I used two mating pieces of copper pipe [in UK you could use a a 15mm slip coupling in each board end and a length of 15mm copper] to align the ends by clamping them together with 'G' cramps and drilling through both at the same time before epoxy gluing the two halves in the hole on each side. The wire spring keeps the inner piece from falling out, I think it looks like an earwig, so if you put ' earwig ' into the forum search bar you'll get the full story.






for more details see

http://yourmodelrailway.net/view_topic.php?id=3124&forum_id=5



Hope this makes sense,

Doug

I find I don't have to use Photobucket to post pics here Doug.  The photo insertion window works for me on IE11, but I recall having issues on Chrome.

Photobucket tells me that IE11 is not supported but things still seem to work.

When posting Photobucket pics (or linking, or any kind of cut and paste) on RMWeb I have to use Chrome - all very silly.

John

Hi Doug - have you got the original pictures on your hard drive? I have found photobucket to be a bit fickle and I have lost quite a bit of old stuff.

Bob

John/Bob,

Thanks for that, I have it working now, I do have the originals on three thumb-stick things, but like a silly ass I haven't indexed them….Aaagh.

It is often quicker to load from elsewhere.

Re the Photobucket thing, I have the answer thanks to a User Forum post.

It seems that IF YOU HAVE A GO AT SORTING YOUR BUCKET into albums AFTER you have used and linked a picture, the link is BROKEN between the picture and the original destination.

HOWEVER there is no means of 'Un-albuming' an album to restore the old link except by 'Bulk Action', i.e. turn on 'organise', select the album, right click on the first picture, press and hold arrow-up/caps key, press the last photo in the album, whereupon all pictures should display a blue outline, then at the bottom of the page [you may have to scroll up] click 'Move' and select 'Your Bucket'.

Your entire album will be put back to the original [main] bucket and the former link re-established.

Phew, what a palarver, eh?

Doug

PS John, I had the P'bucket account to send images to another [U.S.] forum which at the time did not support direct uploading like YMR.

Photobucket is not on my Christmas card list and their emails are classified as "junk".  I only keep using the thing because I have such a lot of stuff on there.  I never tried to organise the pictures - which makes it a PITA to find anything.

John

I agree with John,I chucked Photobucket into a bucket some years ago.Nothing but hassle with that site.
Good to see you building a new railway Doug or at least at the woodwork stage.
Cheers,
Derek.

The 'keener-eyed' [or the terminally bored] amongst you will see that I have replaced the 15" high back/side scene boards with 24" sides and backs.  It occurred to me that should I nest the two halves together for storage and transport, I would have to limit the height of permanent structures to about 5" unless I try to solve a spatial 3D jigsaw to allow a high structure to coincide with a low structure on the opposite board when nested. Life is too short, so I have designed the nested box to be 48" x 28" x 21", a size which will give me more freedom of choice yet still fit in the rear of my current car with the 2/3rd rear seat folded down.






I have given the fascia and the back/side panels a coat of oil based ivory paint prior to [hopefully] fairing in a stout card 1/4 curve of 4" radius in each corner to try to avoid shadows/hard line contrast at the inner corners. The jury is still out on exactly how to achieve this, I'm toying with laminated card strengthened with shellac, the edges shaped in an abrasive right-angle device to facilitate fairing in with the mating surfaces with lightweight filler.

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