Scalefour Forum

Just to draw a conclusion to the Marilli-ness in this thread, here's all five (post 1989) members of the band in loco form on Cadhay. These are all Hornby Railroad industrials. It appears there's a prog rock fan in Hornby's graphics department and he's been sneaking in prog related locos for years! ...

The other bit of "blindingly obvious when you think about it" I'd add here is that if you're mixing magnet sources on the layout this can cause a problem if they have differing strengths. All my magnets on Cadhay are EM1s from Guaugemaster as mentioned by Gordon above. I've got pretty reli...

Agreed. They get better with age and are still original in almost everything they do. It's been a great ride for more years than I care to think about. Looking forward to another new album sometime next year, and the gigs with orchestral friends in the autumn, plus of course the weekend in April. Th...

Paul All (alright both or 3 if you count the drummer change) incarnations of Marillion treated equally here! Straws, Anoraks, fishes, "aitch"es whatever...…. Although given the state of the country at present perhaps I should concentrate on Fugazi. I'm gutted I can't get to Cambridge for S...

Actually 2 of the albums I listened to whilst tiling where FEAR and Brave! Apt indeed.

They may all involve anoraks?

There's actually a Marillion album called Anorak-no-phobia.

CDG

Busy preparing Cadhay for it's trip to Houten show in a couple of weeks. Tiling/slating roofs is a job I find a bit tedious. The roof on Factory B has been languishing in grey paint (thanks to Ray Nolton at Glasgow last year) for far too long so over the weekend I set to with a clutch of Marillion a...

My mate Ian Terrell has done a Hornby 700 which has run a couple of times on Cadhay. It looks lovely but the comment was that he'd had to take "as much as I dared" from the back of the splashers to get the Gibson wheels to fit. Still it's run pretty well. As you might imagine we've also ha...

No Tim, When the Sidmouth Junction fiddle yard got it's traverser it became 2" too long to fit diagonally in the lounge (even with the telly removed!). It now lives in my refurbed workshops at the end of the garden and if I take the SJ fiddle yard off I even have room to work in the workshop!!!...

Latest additions to the Cadhay Roster, some even had their first pass of weathering!











All have had their AJs fitted fettled and checked, so can enter service this weekend.

Cheers

CDG

Thanks for the comments folks. Steve - I agree entirely. I have my exhibition lights permanently set up above the layout (another advantage of LED strips) so all colour matching can be done in the knowledge that it will look right everywhere. Peter, the road surfaces are profiled in filler (Screwfix...

Pete, thanks for the comments. The grass on Cadhay is generally static grass of varying shades. Unlike a lot of advise, I start with brown painted landform, mainly just Burnt Umber acrylic with a few blended highlights of yellows/greys/etc. Then I tend to put over a base cover of (mainly) short fibr...

So been a while since I posted on this one and a lot done since! I didn't want to jinx the performance of the wagons at Scaleforum and have hence deliberately not reported on what we did to them after Glasgow as per the discussions above, but I'm happy to say we were quite pleased with how they perf...

Thanks Tim, sorry we didn't get too long to chat on Saturday.

CDG

Just back this evening in Fife from Aylesbury, Scaleforum 2018. There should be some more photos coming but here's 3 that sum up my weekend: 18-9-1.jpg 18-9-2.jpg 18-9-3.jpg Thanks to everyone that took the time to speak with me and the crew. Really enjoyed the whole thing, and coming third behind 2...

Here's what the Ambis FPL kit looks like made up:

Despite holidays (and a layout delivery to Norway!) impacting attendance, we still had a good turnout for today's meeting of the East Group. The morning comprised mutual modelling with members doing various modelling including kit building, tree making, Rolling stock building and loco work. The afte...

Whilst most of my free modelling time since the Glasgow show has been spent on Cadhay's stock, I have managed to do a bit of scenic stuff on the layout, and after a conversation with Tim Lee at Railex I took a few "in progress" snaps of the climbing rose that has recently found it's way on...

Ahh, the loco that started it all...….

Great stuff as ever Jim

Chris

We had a good weekend making the long trip down to Railex with Burntisland. The newly painted Engine Works made it's debut, having been "in the white" at Southampton. It's the work of several members (taking a building each) and has involved a few group sessions to get it to this stage. He...

HI Tim, I started with 0.4 nickel silver for my rodding but switched to 0.6 as I found the 0.4 was just a little too flimsy/bendy. The 0.6mm rodding has generally behaved well over the years, and my only issues have generally been the transfer of the radial movement through the baseboard. Any repair...

As you might imagine, I'm all in favour of this sort of thing Tim - looking good. In my experience with similar on Cadhay the weak point there is the through the board movement, so your plan to keep everything above the board is, I would think, a good one. I also found in practice the Ambis stools I...

Been there - had those worries and I would echo what Rob has said. The only additional bit I would add is try and make sure you get a few little breaks over the weekend. At Scaleforum in 2015 it was 1530 on the Saturday before I realised I'd not even stopped for a drink!!! Looks good and I'm also lo...

Or model the gates almost shut with the driver's mate just starting to open them, so the view assumes the building over the road is further away than it actually is.

Either way it's looking great to my eye.

Chris

Hi Andrew, Came across this old photo posted by Dave Clare on the "Wolverhampton in old Photos" facebook group: Tettenhall1.jpg The group quite often has railway related pics posted from the area. There was also a link to the Tettenhall Transport Heritage Centre. There are some internal an...