Branch Line - Roundy, roundy with some shunting

Hi Ed

The scalescene factory can be made even higher, you just keep adding stories.

A very versatile kit.

sorry its the opposition but…..

North lights on Scalescene warehouse - Fen End Pit's Blog - RMweb

Scalescenes Warehouse....Photo's | Model Railway Forum

Paul

Pipes are normally colour-coded so that engineers/builders etc can see what is what. Suggest you leave at least some of it yellow.

Hi Paul

It does look to be a very good kit like all the other Scalescenes kits from what I've read, and my experience with the retaining wall.

I'd already seen your first link on 'that other forum', and it is impressive.

Second link is interesting. If you scroll down to post #7 it gives an idea of how many sheets you need to print for the basic four storey, four bay kit. Think I'd need six bays (if that's the right term) to make a building 372mm long. Ouch exclam:

If you go to the second page on that thread, post #27 by another modeller shows a flat roof. Good idea and shows how it can be adapted, he is also building it to hide a chimney breast, which isn't a great deal different to my gas pipe. Just bigger.

The kit itself is cheap enough and would do what I want, just not sure now if I have the patience or space to undertake what would be quite a long project, and my printers colour ink cartridge has just run out


Ed

[user=1235]60019Bittern[/user] wrote:

Pipes are normally colour-coded so that engineers/builders etc can see what is what. Suggest you leave at least some of it yellow.

Had a feeling that could be the case Mick, which is why I didn't want to attach anything to the pipe, just have something sitting around it.

Might cover some of it with painted paper and make sure the pipe above the back scene remains yellow.


Ed

Hi Ed

Lifted from the instructions

1 bay deep by 4 bays wide

Sheets 1 to 12 x 2
Sheets 13 to 15 x1
Sheets 16 to 19 x2
Sheet 20 x 1 per storey
Sheet 23 (windows) x 1

Phew for 4 storeys high thats about 40 sheets of paper, happy cutting

Paul

The warehouse/factory option has grown on me and I've decided that's the way to go.

I've bought and downloaded the model railway scenery Low Relief 1930's Factory, which I can start building when it gets too cold to go out in the garage. Plan for this to go at the end of the baseboard next to where the dummy tunnel is/was.

To cover the pipe I need a taller/bigger building and as much as I like the Scalescenes Factory-warehouse, I think it's too large a project for me to take on, especially as the only workspace I have outside of the garage is the kitchen table. I'll have to keep searching for a suitable alternative and just cover the pipe with painted paper to a level the same as the top of the back scene for now.

Meanwhile, the early snow has begun to melt.



Once I put some paint on I was able to see more clearly the cracks and gaps in the plaster, so that's the next job.

While I have been waiting for paint to dry I put in two of the Peco PL11 point motors for the storage area.



I'm going to have to move the choc-block on the left a bit as I've got micro-switches to go in for point indication.



Point control is by home made stud and probe re-using the CDU I built for the first layout.





And finally, mission control which used to be a computer workstation.



The keyboard shelf is now the control panel with a extra shelf added for the CDU and any additional power supplies I may need for lighting.

The printer shelf has the programming track.

The whole thing is pushed back under the baseboard when not in use.


Ed

 

Of course, there is always another way of getting rid of the pipe

  Hey hey……where`s the pipe???

  Well Ed your layout is moving along at a good rate. It`s good to have projects to tackle whilst the weather is too cold for the garage. I tend to think I will do that sort of thing when it`s either too hot or too cold to be out in the shed, but so far it hasn`t happened. Maybe next time????

  I like the way you are re-using the computer desk as control central. You get extra points for recycling….well done!!!

:doublethumb:doublethumb:doublethumb:doublethumb

:cheers  Gormo

Take a picture of the wall that's behind the pipe, print it out and wrap that round the pipe :-)

Hi Ed. Re the pipe, keep your eye out for one of those cardboard poster tubes ,gently slice it open down the full length and you could then either paint it or cover in printed paper as suggested and then just ease the cut over the pipe to make an easy to remove cover
 Great looking layout BTW
  Cheers.       Matt 

[user=644]Campaman[/user] wrote:

Take a picture of the wall that's behind the pipe, print it out and wrap that round the pipe :-)

That is just sneaky…. but I DO like it.
Great work on the warehouse planning Ed…. I too think it's the winner.

cheers

Marty

Morning or evening all.

Don't know about recycling Gormo, bit more like make do and mend.

You may notice the additional holes under the track diagram on the control panel where the perspex has been used for three previous versions. I also had to adjust where I had the lines for this track plan to try and utilise some existing holes, as if I drilled to many more it may have fallen apart. It looks more like a piece of Emmental cheese from the other side, that's why the track plan isn't very neat but it will do for now.

Andy/Matt/Marty

Thanks for that. I've got another kitchen towel tube I painted the same colour as the back scene yesterday, but a picture of the wall stuck to a poster tube sounds good. I'll try and source one and give it a go.

Ed

:)Hi Ed, I do like your control setup.I think I will pinch your idea of useing a redundant computor desk.

I also like your converted biro to a point pencil idea.

It all looks the business.

Cheers, Derek.

Hi Derek

Can't take any credit for the converted Biro as a probe, I read about it elsewhere and I think it's something that someone dreamt up years ago.

I've had the computer desk for years and it became redundant about three years ago when the desktop PC got moved on to a cupboard to act as more as a file storage/data server/spare TV.

I was going to dump it, but it's turned out really useful because it's on castors.


Ed

  Dump it !!!!!!……sacrilege!!!!….thank goodness you kept it Ed.

  Most of my railway is built from bits of unwanted recycled furniture…..God Bless the people who threw it away.

:cheers  Gormo
 

My baseboards are L girder but all the storage underneath is old furniture, all mounted onto castors so its easy to move, even have a drop leaf table mounted on castors to act as a mobile work surface in the shed.

Great idea Andy, just wish there wasn't as much non-railway stuff stored under mine,.

Mind you, it is a garage.


Painted a cardboard tube yesterday same colour as the back scene and does 'take the eye' away from the pipe a bit.



Had a sudden thought that we may well have, or will soon certainly have, cardboard tubes from Christmas (bah humbug) wrapping paper lying around, which might do the same job as a poster tube.

Meanwhile it's only 13⁰ C in the garage, so the extra piece of track going in (wire droppers sticking up) to make both the sidings and the head shunt all the same length, will have to wait.

If it's going to stay cold now, it may soon be time for some of the rolling stock to come back in and be stored away.

Ed

Progressing well Ed.
Just had a thought.Those wall blocks behind the backscene.
Maybe a splash of paint on a couple of courses above the back scene will take the eye away from the dreaded pipe and blend in the scene more with the sky whatever colour you go for ?.
Cheers,
Derek.

That's not a bad idea, but it's going to have to wait until the spring now as I don't get much daylight in the garage at this time of year.

Thanks Derek :thumbs

Been far to cold to do much this week, but I have been thinking about ground cover at the goods yard next to where the warehouse/factory will be.







The centre track I've now added needs to be wired in and ballasted.

The infill on the right hand track next to the loading ramp is a black styrene strip that I've scribed to look like planking and painted various shades of muck, but it doesn't come out too well in the picture.


Ed