what are people doing on their layout right now

[Tdm]

Well - now that it is nearly complete, I am enjoying running trains on it.

After waking up with a sore head this morning after attending a neighbour's house warming last night, I took a pill and went to play snooker, and after I returned home visited my store room where the layout is, added a few pieces of scenery & did a little painting, then sat back and ran a couple of rakes of trains, and apart from one uncoupling incident everything worked beautifully.

Just need a remaining package from Hattons & Gaugemaster to turn up with the things I need to finalise the layout, and then I can video it and enjoy it even more.

In June we will have been residents of Tenerife for 11 years, and hope to celebrate that fact by having finished the model railway layout I first started in September 2013.

[Newportnobby]

Running some trains into the station area of Bletchford in order to establish where the Dapol magnets should be sited for optimum operational pleasure (that's OOP to thee and me)
Purely in the cause of research, you understand

[Sprintex]

Ten Dapol milk tanks converted to NEM pockets at one end (since they'll only ever be shunted in pairs) and Easi-shunt couplers fitted

Just got to convert one end of my Class 31 somehow now 

Further to this, and in the same vein as NPN's post above, Bachmann Farish 31 285 now has an Easi-shunt at one end after a scary amount of hacking with a scalpel 







And after some initial experimentation with a spare length of track and some tiny neodymium magnets I'm seriously impressed with their operation 


Paul

[Caz]

Paul, what glue are you using to glue on your EasiShunt conversion boxes?

[Sprintex]

Superglue Gel - seems to have worked so far


Paul

[deibid]

Last nigh I started to put little people in place... I was leaving it for later because I though it to be a bore... not actually, is enjoyable to make them do things that they will do... FOREVER 
Infinitely more enjoyable than ballast, for sure!

[Newportnobby]

Last nigh I started to put little people in place... I was leaving it for later because I though it to be a bore... not actually, is enjoyable to make them do things that they will do... FOREVER 
Infinitely more enjoyable than ballast, for sure!

Howzabout posting some pics of your little people in (in)action?

[deibid]

Will do will do... as soon as I take some decent photos. But sure, you don't ONLY want to see little people do you?   

[Newportnobby]

Will do will do... as soon as I take some decent photos. But sure, you don't ONLY want to see little people do you?   

NO!!!!
People will think I have some strange heightism addiction

[daveg]

Will do will do... as soon as I take some decent photos. But sure, you don't ONLY want to see little people do you?   

NO!!!!
People will think I have some strange heightism addiction

And what, pray tell, is the matter with those of us who may be considered as vertically challenged? 

Dave G

[Newportnobby]

Will do will do... as soon as I take some decent photos. But sure, you don't ONLY want to see little people do you?   

NO!!!!
People will think I have some strange heightism addiction

And what, pray tell, is the matter with those of us who may be considered as vertically challenged? 

Dave G

Some might say that, me being 1.76m tall, I have to look down on them but I couldn't possibly agree with that sort of thing

[Caz]

Been embedding another 20 odd reed switches in the track bed, now have nearly 80 operational and still need about another dozen to finish the job.  Has been really worth the effort for the extra control they have given.   

[sparky]

Ballasting points....fingers crossed they still move in 48hrs time!

[Sprintex]

Keep moving the tiebar back-and-forth a few times every half hour for a few hours, it's what I did with mine and not one stuck


Paul

[GeeBee]

Finally sorted out the warped track relaid and spent several hours (Happily) running 3 loco's around the layout to check the track work is OK now all I have to do is repair and renew Pam's beautifully made scenery