Scalefour Forum

I can't believe it's 5 months since the live Templot session I did after the virtual Scaleforum show in September. Time to do another? The Gauge 0 Guild are doing a similar virtual show on March 6th , so I'm planning to do another live evening ...

... showed my naivety as my thoughts are they would be arrival/departure roads for good yards/exchange siding on either side of the mainline. The Templot plane needs a little TLC, timbers shoving, turnouts, and plan track checking but thought I better find out if I'm on the right track... Rospeath ...

... the cheapest (Poppy’s WoodTech) and the most expensive (Avonside). Chris showed us one of the cassettes he has made for his fiddle yard and a Templot trackplan for the lines between Waterloo and Vauxhall. Nigel said work on his layout had come to a stop due to a shortage of the cardboard he ...

... will consist of a couple of cassettes about 18inch long for a small loco plus 3 or 4 wagons. 20210131_182918.jpg The sidings are longer than the templot drawing, this was just drawn more for the turnouts than anything else. One part is missing which is an extra siding accessed from the fiddle ...

... section and BS 110A was only just beginning to appear. Colin Graig's kits are far too recent and have a different geometry which isn't covered by Templot either. (That's if you can obtain any.) Thus it was going to be a DIY job. My first attempt at a crossing vee was less than successful, so was ...

... and used a sawcut in a ply or MDF offcut to hold oneside of the foot while the other side is filed down.. The planing length is shown on the Templot diagrams and easily marked on the offcut as a filing guide. There should not be a recess in the stock rail head but you do need a recess in ...

... above, I'll need to include gauge widening at the design stage. Will and Julian, many thanks for the links. I did search both the Scalefour and Templot Forums before starting a new thread, but somehow missed these. From Will’s plots, it looks as if gauge widening won’t strictly be necessary ...

... doing the very centre to start with, and this has the advantage the point rails don't have to fit into an absolutely exact prescribed length. The Templot template came out with a very few timber lengths that didn't look symmetrical between one half of the diamond and the other (I must have done ...

... cosmetic chairs in place. I haven't ever tried shellac on paper for models but I do like using mountboard offcuts. I'm trying gluing rail to a templot printout on card at the moment as a quick experiment. Andrew

Sorting out skewed images can be done in The Gimp, Martin Wynne has tutorials on his Templot site.

... geometry mindset, and that it is no more difficult to make pointwork on a curve than straight, thus in combination with the amazing tool that is Templot, real prototype trackwork as it flows and fits into the locality can be modelled exactly. Really it is as simple to make a turnout as plain ...

... track circuits and automatic block signalling. Can I offer a suggestion though, can you make it so the 3D output files (presumably .step) from Templot include or exclude the rails as an option. 3D Printing the trackwork and S&C as just sleepers and chairs, then just sliding in lengths of ...

... 3/4" (0.25mm) for blunt vee nose. (GWR is 11/16" for both.) You are welcome to the info -- it's actually in the K-crossing help notes in Templot, and has been there for about 20 years. :) cheers, Martin. This reply is a bit out of sequence now, but I would just like to clarify that I ...

I thought it would be worth a mention that Codeweavers are offering Crossover to run Windows software on Mac computers ; If you have ever tried Templot you will know that it requires Windows software, if you have a Mac computer you will need Crossover to access it unless you feel like buying a ...

... for EM-SF, a sizeable market of former P4 and existing EM modellers might build up for it, and where else can they get EM-SF...? :) It's listed in Templot and there are some discussion topics on Templot Club with several members showing interest. At least one layout is being built. cheers, Martin.

... 3/4" (0.25mm) for blunt vee nose. (GWR is 11/16" for both.) You are welcome to the info -- it's actually in the K-crossing help notes in Templot, and has been there for about 20 years. :) cheers, Martin.

... a finer point on the point rails using steel rail? With my NS rail a tip that has any strength comes to pretty much the blunt point mark on the Templot template. Would seem I will have to have a rule on this layout just as the rule Tony mentions above, no stopping on the single slip. Though ...

Hi Tony and Keith Thank you for your helpful comments. Yes the timbers are done by Templot and look to be at right angles at the centre of the obtuse crossing. So the unchecked distance is say 4mm even in exact scale or a foot in reality! So running depends on perfect ...

... your local Area Group! Incidentally, I would echo Andrew's comments about alignment accuracy when using multiple pages - but when I got my entire Templot plan (about six metres long) printed on a roll some years ago, following Martin's excellent instructions, and plonked it on the baseboards, ...

... that creates an ordinary single-sided turnout with contraflexure. The switch deflection is on one side only. To produce such a template in Templot takes about 2 seconds simply to set the curving radius negative in a standard turnout. That's the correct type of turnout to use on the inside ...

I have found this old scruff video clip, showing the basics of a symmetrical Y-turnout in Templot: https://flashbackconnect.com/Movie.aspx?id=FxKoMusLKl-B3vZws7U2yA2 But very often when folks are asking for a Y-turnout all they really need is an ordinary turnout with ...

I expect Paul has given all the info needed.

But in case not -

Have a look near the bottom of the page, instructions from Martin how to do it in Templot.

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Can anyone point me in the correct direction to find a 'Y' turn out? Or has in been discussed before? Thanks PS I've tried Templot I'm sure that "Y" turnouts have been discussed before on the Templot Forum. I'm not sure if it's been discussed here - unfortunately the search ...

Can anyone point me in the correct direction to find a 'Y' turn out?
Or has in been discussed before?
Thanks
PS I've tried Templot

Martin Wynne wrote:Users of Templot have another useful calculator available at utils > metric/scale calculator menu item:

Another Templot feature I didn't know about