Scalefour Forum

Rhobat Bryn wrote:Am I right in thinking that tea and cakes will be available..?

Tea, coffee, crisps and buiscuits definately and maybe a cake or two.
Rod

What is the lunch provision? Is the supermarket walkable from the centre? Tim A huge Sainsbury's has opened just down the road. Easily walkable and has a coffee shop. Failing that there a new Indian opened at the end of the street. Look forward to seeing you. Mike and, for the less discerning, a Mc...

steamraiser wrote:Have a good day chaps.

Thanks Gordon, I'm sure we shall, and we'll try and give more notice next time!

Mid-chrome green?

Justin
Will we be able to see the Peak run at the NAGNAG open day on Saturday?
Cheers
Rod

Tim V wrote:In the diary.

I hope we don't have to wait another 42 years till the next one....

That at least may mean that Little Mill is approaching completion !

Newport MRS Open Day alias Gwyl 4mm Gwent / Gwent 4mm Festival Newport MRS in association with NAGNAG (the Newport and Gwent Neighbourhood Area Group of the Scalefour Society) are holding an open day on Saturday 2nd March 2013 10:30 to 16:30 The Idea Flushed with the success of our last open day, wh...

Ross

First welcome to the fold.

On the FB/BH question if you could say which period and railway you intend to model there could be a forumeer who might be able to advise you what that railway used at that time.

Cheers
Rod

PS If it's Brecon and Merthyr ca 1910 I could be your man.

Thank you John, that's clear enough. It looks like a good solution to the problem.

And thanks Jim for the bandsaw tip - and at twenty quid for a 8' x 4' 50 mm board it's not going to cost a fortune.

Rod

Re6/6 wrote:Have you considered a method of SE that we have used successfully on TT2 at DRAG for the two middle circuits using Tillig superelevated styrene underlay?

Re6/6 - that looks very interesting. How much lift does it give to that outer rail (at 18.83 mm) please?
Rod

Edit - verb-noun agreement

Let us know how you get on, John, as we'll want to do the same thing on the NAGNAG/NMRS layout, Little MIll Junc - http://www.newportmrs.com/littlemilljunction.htm

Unfortunately, jf, standard practice is to superelevate each track separately, so it's going to be that little bit harder to do. But worth doing nevertheless!
Rod

Andrew If you want to see for yourself we have implemented servo control with the MERG servo boards on the Fiddle Yard for Little Mill Junction (see http://www.newportmrs.com/clubgoingson.htm , towards the middle of the page). Come along to a Nagnag meeting (second and last Tuesdays of the month) in...

David I've failed too and ended up with a pot of shapeless mush, but our club chairman and Society member, Dave Hagger succeeded admirably, look here http://www.newportmrs.com/clubgoingson.htm . I have a set of growing instructions which I can send to you if you like. Cheers Rod Edit: spelling corre...

Terry Bendall wrote:In image 3973, what is the purpose of the short lengths of rail inside the 4 foot way? Strengthing the joint between the track panels perhaps?

Just boring old continuity, I'm afraid Terry, just as Paul surmised.
Rod

Pete We experimented with all sorts of glues in the Newport MRS in trying to glue down Templot print-outs for our Little Mill Junction layout. PVA, whether dilute or neat, always caused the paper to expand excessively. Photomount-type spray glues we rejected as we wanted to lay the track on top of t...

Philip, Thanks for the tip. I've thumbed through the various volumes of Hale's (indispensable) Steam in South Wales, but haven't found anything yet. I'll keep on looking though.
Rod

Thanks Philip, I think that picture would be new to us. Now if you remember where you saw it ...
Regards
Rod

Philip, Great to see that someone's following the progress, albeit slower than we'd like, on Little Mill ( here ). I hadn't realised that we didn't mention the trains to and from ROF Glascoed and it's certainly our intention to include the Dumpers, as they were colloquially known, in the layout's wo...

Best of luck for tomorrow from the S4 Area Group in another Newport - NAGNAG.
Rod

Not quite 'a major pre-Group company', but the Brecon and Merthyr did too.

Sam,
I think you'll find the PowerCab a good choice.

You might also like to look at SPROG (http://www.sprog-dcc.co.uk/) as an aid to programming and test running locos.

Regards
Rod

JFS wrote: I am considering making the etches available ...

I'd be interested!
Rod

Alan
You might also like to look at Realistic Railway Modelling - Layout Design by Iain Rice, pub Haynes ISBN: 978 1 84425 635 8, RRP: £25.00 (or £16.50 from Amazon).
Cheers
Rod

One for me please.
Rod