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

Oldman · August 03, 2015, 10:01:49 PM

Don't care tonight, just taken 2 Tramadol

Trainfish · August 04, 2015, 12:32:31 AM

Good luck OM. I know very well from personal experience what Tramadol can do so if you can get onto something else then please do so. A lot easier said than done though as they really do help

Oldman · August 04, 2015, 07:55:42 PM

On a totally different vein I have made a couple of mini dioramas the largest being 15 x 3 inches.
The 1st one is my entry for the competition at ExpoNG.

Model of the Steffenbach Bridge in Switzerland.
The Diorama. photos in sepia

Newportnobby · August 04, 2015, 09:22:21 PM

Looking very good

Trouble is, it has just served to tell me my middle scenic board for 'Bletchford' is, in fact, an oversize diorama

Oldman · August 04, 2015, 10:01:13 PM

Quote from: newportnobby on August 04, 2015, 09:22:21 PM
Looking very good
Trouble is, it has just served to tell me my middle scenic board for 'Bletchford' is, in fact, an oversize diorama

Cheers, Sadly my choice is building the scenery and stuff not the running of the trains- hence I can knock up a diorama easily but a full scale working layout is a problem I cannot get my head around. To give an idea of the scale involved here the picture below is during the construction of the bridges with a 5p coin for comparison

Oldman · October 07, 2015, 03:26:11 PM

Busy trying out different building ideas- 6mm wargame models so slightly small for Z.

Oldman · January 12, 2016, 06:43:09 PM

Time to update you on what I am doing.
Staying with the tiny stuff but have also had computer issues and found Photobucket is a current pain. Pictures have become a thing of the past so I only use my mobile phone to browse forums.
Health is still causing issues - have just changed doctors so hopefully that may improve.
Currently looking at some stuff from IDL to do something different using some Z gauge micro scenes that can be laid over their linear power track - if I can do it right I will be able to have different locations and run different styles of trains in the appropriate settings.

Newportnobby · January 12, 2016, 09:35:46 PM

Sorry to hear about your ongoing health issues and hope the change of doctor brings you better treatment.

Oldman · January 12, 2016, 10:37:52 PM

Thanks Mick.
When I have some results I'll let you all know.

jonclox · January 13, 2016, 10:53:24 AM

Quote from: Oldman on January 12, 2016, 06:43:09 PM

Health is still causing issues - have just changed doctors so hopefully that may improve.

A new broom, they say, works wonders.
Well not so much wonders but I know that changing my GP last year has given me a bit of a future. Theres no miracle cures available yet and the future on new medications can make life bearable for most of the time now so I wish you luck and a future

Oldman · January 25, 2016, 02:07:15 PM

As I am currently housebound and not allowed to do anything that involves heavy lifting I am playing with fitting micro magnets to my Z scale WW1 stock ready for when the IDL track is ordered.
I ordered the little wooden box that the smallest loop of track fits in and think that this idea is very promising.

Oldman · February 14, 2016, 09:30:58 AM

Not a lot happening at present, have got to wait for the weather to be more friendly to enable me to do the next stage that involves having windows open.
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Oldman · February 18, 2016, 05:05:59 PM

In between my painkillers I have had the windows open and have been busy building some Swiss centenary , the soldered ones are fine but not happy with the ones I built using superglue.
Unfortunately I will not be able to rebuild those because all the extra bits that have been fitted.

joe cassidy · February 18, 2016, 06:19:10 PM

Also I believe it's dangerous to heat up set superglue.

Best regards,

Joe

Newportnobby · February 19, 2016, 04:10:33 AM

Just catching up on things. Did the change of GP help at all?