what are people doing on their layout right now

[davieb]

Spent a very pleasant 3 hours in the garden performing mindless destructive violence on totally innocent plywood to further create backscenes/boxing for Bletchford.
Managed to drill through a piece of wood with my finger behind the wood but luckily just burred some skin off.

So that's sharp knives and now powertools that you are banned from using   

dave 

[Sprintex]

Tonight, I have mostly been . . . painting staples

It has got to be asked, why the heck are you painting staples?   

Yeah and I still want to know why Paul was painting staples (or was that STABLES for MLPs) 

As do I. Come on Paul, spill the beans!

Wonder no more

Link


Paul

[Caz]

Thank you Paul, perhaps I'll manage a good night's sleep now, been really bugging me.      It does look quite smart though.   

[Malc]

I just bought some Kato platforms and I'm adding a few figures and some of the Trackside Signs I purchased a while ago. I'm having a Goon Show/Little Jim experience....the figures keep falling over. One done 3 more to do.

[Newportnobby]

I'm having a Goon Show/Little Jim experience....the figures keep falling over.

Ah, but have you any water they could fall into

[steve836]

I'm having a Goon Show/Little Jim experience....the figures keep falling over.

Ah, but have you any water they could fall into

no its all in your belly button

[joe cassidy]

My daughter has gone on holiday so my layout, which normally gathers dust propped up against the wall, is now squatting her bedroom.

Yippee !

3 weeks of serious loco/train testing ahead !

Best regards,


Joe

[richie894]

Just finished building my 8" helix. Being made from threaded rod and nuts it is fully adjustable. I still have to tweak it to get the perfect gradient. According to my calculations the inner loop will be within the 3% recommended and the outer loop around <2.5%.

[zwilnik]

I decided I needed to do a new control panel for Ivebridge before I wired any more of the points as the old panel box (originally designed for the smaller Ives Yard layout) was getting way too small to work with.

The new panel is printed on an A4 sheet and laminated together with 2 (very) thin sheets of steel/tin alloy that used to be a cheap whiteboard. The reason I picked this material was so it would be thin enough to easily mount the jack sockets used for the power connectors and still be rigid, while being easy enough to cut with scissors

It's also got the benefit that magnets will stick to it, so I can still do my overlay sheet idea by printing the overlays onto magnetic printer paper

Here's the panel in its closed position. I've still got to sort the trim for the surround.



And this time I've built it on a hinge, so it's easy to pop open and work on the wiring.

[mr bachmann]

Building my funicular... Its a little further on now so i can start on the cliffs

water balance we hope ... 

alan

[EtchedPixels]

Dismantling things and playing  is the box for X'

Moving in 11 days...

[Les1952]

two layouts-

Furtwangen Ost is having repairs and some relaying after it took a bash getting it into the car after the Great Central event- not claimable as it was self-inflicted.

Hawthorn Dene's proscenium is under construction- a tricky one as it is a ten-foot span unsupported in the middle but which has to fold in the middle to get it into a Citroen Picasso....

The workbench also has had a procession of locos being renumbered and weathered, and rolling stock being weathered for HD's first outing at Grantham in September.

All the very best
Les

[texhorse]

Thank Gawd for that!  The layout is finally fully converted from DC to DCC!!!!  Now I just need to remember to keep my locos without decoders in the stock box, and not put them on the track until they've been assimilated....

Andy

[Wingman mothergoose]

I am currently trying to alter Sherwood Central to make it mirror the prototype railway more correctly, by adding a set of trap points into the Up station loop, as well as making a tart on getting rid of most of the Setrack points in the main lines so that all of my locos will be able to traverse points without protesting or derailing. This also has the added bonus of actually making some of the loops and sidings a bit longer, as I'm moving the toe end of the points slightly further away, as medium radius are obviously a bit longer than Setrack points!

Anybody who isn't familiar with my layout, check it out on YouTube, my channel is Sherwood Central.

Chris

[tutenkhamunsleeping]

as well as making a tart

I'm sure you'll find something in the Preiser range 

Anybody who isn't familiar with my layout, check it out on YouTube, my channel is Sherwood Central.

Just having a shufty now...