Scalefour Forum

It's not the arriving, it's the journey that counts.

And, you have learn't a lot of lessons, maybe had some fun (or not). Next time you'll probably do it quicker.

That grin says it all Ian!

Keep an eye on the Pendon website ...

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Takes me back, putting the train set on the floor ...

We'll have to rerun that special at Scaleforum!

However after listening to Tim Venton for 20 mins training a new visiting Clutton signalman my brain hurt as much as when my 4 year old granddaughter chatters at me in Italian. Martin was not used to EKT working, but picked it up very well, even crossing trains. Set up Friday, trains were running w...

Rod

I think you need to amend the title on the first post with the new date.

However I find mine perfect for a test track/rolling road on part built chassis and completed locomotives when used for running in or debugging purposes. I always "chip" a model as virtually the last step in the process, and it's handy to have a clean, compact controller on hand for testi...

It was when I had yet another Pentroller failure that I weighed them in and went DCC.

Good riddance. There are better methods of control out there.

Where as 3ft again needs to be lower again...an example of clutton where the width of the boards is a lot wider, TIM might tell us... looks right lower down as it is an overall view of the scene that pulls us in to look at the smaller details. Clutton is about 5' deep. I actually tried raising it b...

Eye level?

Whose eye level?

This is all set out in Iain Rice's books, have a read of Model Railway Layout Design, other books by Iain are available.

Finally running satisfactorily, found the balance weight was being rubbed by the coupling rod.

On with the brake gear, utilising these frame spacer jigs.

That's odd, we had no problems a couple of years ago with Clutton.

Yes, I am open to offers.

The air bush was angled to hit the rails and chairs almost (but not quite) horizontally.

This track was getting 10 steam trains a day over it.

Note how the rust has gone onto the ballast under the rails.

Concrete sleepers in the picture, but I painted mine with an air brush, but masked off the sleepers.

What photographs are you following for track colouring?

I drove through Burford today, didn't see the station anywhere ...

Did bump over some large flanges in the road!

Alas, I fear I shall have to abandon this plan because of the considerable eccentricity of at least one of the wheels in this elderly collection, as shown on the attached picture, which may be of interest in showing my set-up for measuring the degree of eccentricity present – in this case .013”! Wh...

Better get on and finish it ...

Going with the Burnham crowd to Scaleforum.

Tuning the Ivatt tankie, plus built some leads so we can have some spare controllers.

I would have thought that information would have been 'classified' at the time?

I have the codes for 1950, from my ABC.

I tend to pick them up as I see them - model engineers shows usually being good for this sort of thing.

Warley also showcases some excellent models, not necessarily in 4mm scale. If you want to go with closed minds, so be it, I personally found plenty to look at.