The upload limits have been increased Jeff, can you see if you can now upload more pictures.

Noted you changed your picture size before uploading, and I've been shrinking all my pictures to 1500 pixels wide since we had problems with picture limits on the old forum. I just automatically do it now for any pictures I upload anywhere not just on YMRC,.


Ed

Thanks Ed.

Ikea Alex drawers:



Box files from Officeworks, with felt added:

Box files look just the right size  


Ed

Good to see you steady at it Jeff.

So glad at least one GWR tank engine has made it into the recent collection!

Marty said

Good to see you steady at it Jeff.

So glad at least one GWR tank engine has made it into the recent collection!

From “Post #288,492”, 20th August 2023, 6:16 am

Thanks Marty.

I do have a few ex-GW locomotives, three of them are 57XX pannier tanks, two of which are in London Transport livery. One is the one I showed in the video clip, the other LT one has an old body (ex-split chassis) on a newer DCC-ready chassis, and the third is the newer body from that swap on the old split chassis, but still converted to DCC and painted in a fictional industrial blue livery. One more pannier tank is a Heljan 1366 class painted into blue as another industrial.

Yet another ex-GW loco is "Hogwarts Castle", which is actually the incorrect Hornby model … it is actually a Castle, when the "real" "Hogwarts Castle" was a Hall!  

I do have a couple of other ex-GW types, but those have split chassis and don't run all that well, so haven't been converted to DCC.

Returning to the hill I was working on, Two of the photos I tried to post before, with the glue still wet. It looks even better now the glue has dried. As before there is still more work to be done, but I am very happy with the results to date.

More progress on the hill and garage scene: close up photos highlight things that need fixing, such as the gap under the front of the garage that has now appeared - the base has warped slightly. I have some thin foam board that will form a more rigid base, and raise the level slightly further. I can always print more of the road textures.

It's looking a bit better. Excuse the clutter in the background, but as it is a work in progress, I need it all to be handy.

I was toying with some barbed wire fencing from Bachmann, but I think the roadside needs hedges between the road and the rough field.

I am also toying with the idea of drilling a couple of subtle holes through the road to allow me to pass some wires through to illuminate one of the Rapido Daimler Fleetline buses and a motorcycle that I have in a drawer. I might also add some lighting to the garage so the interior can be seen better without having to lift the roof off.

There is an old fashioned petrol pump on its way from P D Marsh, to go near the road. And I have a few suitable figures to add as well to bring the scene to life.

A bit more work done, with more static grass and a bit of grass mat added, and some blending in of levels.

You've been making a lot of lovely progress on both your fleet and your layout, I see. It was cool to read about you sorting wiring issues like Dapol's botched directional lighting, and even using jumpers to expand on decoder capability.