What I've been up to. Z gauge and Z narrow gauge.

[Oldman]

   Started stripping some rail from  some offcuts of flexitrack.
Idea is to use it to make some 120mm radius points. Plan if I get finished will be
2RH, 2 LH and 1 Y for the new layout.

[Oldman]

Just to prove to Jerry Howlett I am still card modelling. These are the larger scale versions of ones already built in N.  Both buildings are lit.

[Jerry Howlett]

Good for you,  Mike.

Remind me what were these Kits I like them....... The lighting effect looks really good in ("Shhhh") grown up scale.....
I am persevering with the canal, about to build a wharf to finish it off but still don't know how to put it in place...  However I have finished the power station after all these months.

Keep at it.

Jerry

[Oldman]

Cheers Jerry,
The kits came from  http://www.clevermodels.net/, The track in that last shot is a length of N Flexitrack  - not purchased any 009 track yet.
Currently working on a Scalescenes Platform kit.
The whole layout will be built using A4 sized modules in a larger frame. It enables me to work at the dining table without causing too much disruption.

[Oldman]

The railway works,  provisional layout fits on a sheet of A4 paper.
Will include working turntable. Room for 5 Locos.

[Oldman]

This other scale  stuff is getting scary, first attempt - not yet finished 120mm radius point.

[Jerry Howlett]

Is that a convertor point from Narrow to Broad Gauge ? 
Seriously Mike, looks like a nice piece of soldertrickery.
Jerry

[Oldman]

Just because I have not put the rest of the rails in yet  - no Jerry it will be 9mm gauge.
Any way where are the pics of your boiler house that you say you have finished?
I posted the brickwork pictures and have done lots since. No Excuses.

[EtchedPixels]

Looking good so far. I think I'd have chickened out and gone for stub points like a lot of quarry railways did 

[Jack]

Well impressed!!    I wish I could get my soldering to look so good,  . It's a good job all mine is hidden. 

[Jerry Howlett]

Just because I have not put the rest of the rails in yet  - no Jerry it will be 9mm gauge.
Any way where are the pics of your boiler house that you say you have finished?
I posted the brickwork pictures and have done lots since. No Excuses.

OK still not found a place to put it yet so here it is on the kitchen  balcony...




However I have just found ANOTHER source of card kits albeit 1/160 and its a postal delivery job, this one is Crofton Pumping Station....

I have tried to add other pics from photobucket but I keep wining a new Italian smart phone.....  Moving to angry thread.

Jerry

[Oldman]

Cheers guys, that point is my first attempt using just a paper template.
No jigs or special tools used.
Sleepers are std copperclad fiberglass, rail is code 80 pulled from an offcut of Peco flexi.   Every thing done using the mk1 eyeball for the bends etc. Soldered using an Antex 15w Iron and std electronic Multicore solder.
Only track gauge I have is the small block one that is supplied by Microtrains and contains their coupling jig as well.

Alan -I did think about stub points but decided to go this route, next up when this one is finished will be a Y

[Oldman]

Station building - for the narrow gauge



Finished point. Lever will keep blades in place

[Jerry Howlett]

Mike,

Station building with lights looks like something from the Will Hay "Ghost train" set, you are doing well. The point is also impressive and being narrow gauge has the right look about it.  My efforts into 009 were years ago with the Gurgle Wobble Railway.

Jerry

[Oldman]

A couple more bits of track built.

Straight will be for a trestle bridge.

First attempt at a Y point

Pair of conventional points