A little behind the scenes of my upcoming video…
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Stowaway on the guard’s van #ModelRailway
The pub is now built. I need to order some chimney pots to go on the stacks but otherwise that’s it done.
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Day off work today. That means some model railway work is happening…
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Another video of trains circulating. The Class 37 and a V2. Lost count of the number of circuits but no derailments or shorts so far today. Unlike yesterday when the Class 37 was detailing over a curved point and shorting out across the single slip. Both apparently cured by cleaning the track (not that I believed it).
Good Fences Make Good Neighbours on Pembroke
…There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’…Mending Wall, by Robert Frost
Behind the engine shed on Pembroke, the fence separates track from a (probable) hay field. The engines are hardly going to jump up and roam the hay field, and the hay isn’t likely to cross over and sue the railroad when it gets run over. And anyway, if either of them took a mind to getting across the fence, this puny wire fence is not going to be a deterrent. Still, there would have been a fence there.
Thanks to Rob Kirkham, the 1.5 metres or so of fence required actual fence material, and consequently, it took about as long to put up as a real fence of comparable length. To lay out the holes for the 1/16″ styrene fence posts, I bent a piece of wood that was marked at 12-scale-foot intervals. At each of the marks, I drilled a hole, and planted some post material.
When building the cattle pens, I found it was best to keep the fencing under some slight tension, which is easiest with the material on the outside of a corner. So, I put the wire material on the far side. This choice also made it easier to hide the dots of CA holding the wire in place.
Was it worth it? You bet! But I’m glad Pembroke is a small layout.
A piece of wood marked for the fence panels helped make the fence smoothThe posts need to be trimmed for length now that the wire is in placeThe wire is really noticeable at the front of the layout.New acquisitions: a pair of ICI hoppers from Accurascale. These are the Hatton’s models (somewhat improved, I believe). However, the only downside is that they use a shortened version of the NEM pocket (by about 3.4mm), so KaDee couplings aren’t held rigidly in place. Plastic sheet ordered to make an adapter that will sit behind the provided NEM pocket to stop the rattling. The tension lock coupling’s NEM “peg” is also 1.7mm thick while the KaDee is only 1.5mm.
I quite like these hoppers (although I don’t want any more) but the one thing that lets them down is the bogie design, which is very chunky and I’m sure could be improved if Accurascale chose to do so.
Well, that's quite something to have on your #ModelRailway… https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/226757611790
Paddington gets a cab ride on Linda, but is a tad small… #ModelRailway
Thanks Mum! #ModelRailway
Last nights print, has now finished! If you guessed a church, you would be 100% correct.
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A cheeky Monday evening print. Anyone wanna guess what it is?
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