Tonight I 'as been mostly.......................

[kaiwhara]

I was actually quite surprised how easily it went together actually, however i found the Instructions a little hard to follow - as there didn't seem to be much logic to how the the instructions flowed, it seemed to go left to right, up to down, back to the right, then a picture with some arrows and text that told you some of the things you had to do, and then another random bit of text that should have applied to the same picture but was a little disjointed.

This is not to say Metcalfe product isn't good, far from it. It's just I found the instructions a little hard to follow.

On the other hand, Scalescenes are a bit more fiddly, but have much clearer instructions. Food for thought...

Thanks for the comments. It was a great way to spend a cold weekend!

[Sprintex]

Strange, I've built the main station building, platforms, and terraced houses and each time found the instructions pretty straightforward. Suppose each person perceives things differently 

Looks good that pub though, shame it's just a bit too 'oldy worldy' for my layout 


Paul

[Donkey]

Lovely job kaiwhara 

[EtchedPixels]

Looks good that pub though, shame it's just a bit too 'oldy worldy' for my layout 

Not hard to modernise though - change the signs a bit, put a cash machine in the wall add a kebab shop next door, add a drunk woman on the floor in the side alley and a couple of blokes taking a pee and you are half way there...

[Tank]

Looks great to me.  10 out of 10!!!

[MinZaPint]

That's a very good build and would certainly get a place on my layout, well done  and as JH says no layout should be without a good pub! Mine will have at least 3!  Whoops 4 I forgot the one in the village by the castle

[Alex]

...........not doing much except making some ladders for my steel caboose.



The body needs matt varnished and then the windows glazed before it get stuck to the chassis. Then the end ladders and rails will be added.

Alex

[scotsoft]

...........not doing much except making some ladders for my steel caboose.

The body needs matt varnished and then the windows glazed before it get stuck to the chassis. Then the end ladders and rails will be added.

Alex

Hi Alex,

Do you hire workers from "The Lilliput Ladder Co."?
You must have rock steady hands to make those 

A very subserviant John.

[Alex]

Hi John,

I'm not that clever. They're simply brass etched ladders that have had the top 6 rungs cut off and then folded over.

I'll be glad when this caboose is finished. It's starting to drag out longer than I wanted it to.

Alex

[Fratton]

Gluing together N Brass loco's dummy signal kits here's on i made last month i have in front of me for reference,,,,

[SD35]

Crumbs, my eyes are going square just looking at that. 

Neat work.

That reminds me, I hope that stand with the lighting and magnifiers on is at the N gauge show again this year. 

[davieb]

doing a service on a bach/farish class 25

i picked up a 25 at the exhibition at wigan on saturday for a reasonable price BR 2tone green un-weathered
it is a reasonable runner quiet, smooth but seemed a bit slow so tonight i had a really good look at it and it looks as if
someone has been running it on a trackbed of cotton wool    there is fluff everywhere

having a break at the moment to catch up on the forum and to find the coupling spring that shot off into the carpet monster 

you never know this could turn into my next detailing project 

dave 

[Newportnobby]

having a break at the moment to catch up on the forum and to find the coupling spring that shot off into the carpet monster 

you never know this could turn into my next detailing project 

dave 

Great stuff, Dave. I've never seen a detailed carpet monster before

[davieb]

i mean the class 25     

there are enough detailing parts in the carpet monster already  :'(
i guess you could call it super-detailed 

found the little blighter its now super-glued to the rapido as was my finger   

dave 

[longbridge]

having a break at the moment to catch up on the forum and to find the coupling spring that shot off into the carpet monster 

you never know this could turn into my next detailing project 

dave 

Great stuff, Dave. I've never seen a detailed carpet monster before

SWMBO thinks I am a carpet monster    it was very cold the other day so I decided to paint a model in the house, I knocked a bottle of Tamiya red enamel paint over and it all landed on the newly laid carpet, now the house stinks of turpentine and we have nasty red paint smears on the carpet