Bambridge

[RAY NORWOOD]

After building Feltham Road MPD. I have been busy biulding kit locos and two scatch built locos. I thought I would start on building a new layout and I was inspired by the turntable or sector plate at Bembridge on the I O W it was used as a point for running round its train and thought that would be somthing diffrent to model as a small country terminal layout. So its going to be a micro layout that would fit into a chrismas tree box. 

I have got to admit that I did start this last Janurery. 

The basebourds I got from Scale Railway Scenics, one for the scenics and a smaller one for the fiddle yard useing cassettes. When i built them i covered them with two coats of PVA to seal them as they are of MDF and then paint the backs with blackbuild paint then varnished them. For the back scene I painted with blue emulsion and then for the clouds I used my airbrush with white with a very small amont of Black.

The Track plan I did on Templot then printed off and glued to the baseboard I then cut the turntable out with a 5ins hole saw and used the bit I cut out for the turntable then glued stiaring sticks from your coffee shop on top, the track on the turntable I had a few chairs left from when I did Feltham Road.  The track is built with copper clad sleepers that I got from Amazon as a complete sheet, I cut it into stripes on my band saw then cut the stripes to length with sharp sissers as required lenghts according to the track plane, the rail is code 75 soldered to the copper clad useing my gauges. The bridge as a scenice break was built from photo mount board with emboss stone plasticard. The platform I used faomboard for the walls with the stone plasticard and also for the platform supports the top i used the photo mount board. 

The Goods shed is a wooden clad shed the back of it is on the platform I built this much the same as the bridge with photo mount card around the bottom I put on the stone plasicard then the clading was done with plasticard cut into strips and glued onto the card then I put boarding down the corners. 

Thats is the state of play at the moment.

If anyone going to Minehead Exhibition on the 1st of june this will be there as work in progrees. 

 

 

 

The baseboards as a flat pack.

 

The baseboard built with the black paint on the back.

  the track plane on Templot

lasy suesy for the the turntable

The turntable I have built on the 9mm plywood is bolted under the baseboard.

       

[Temeraire]

Ahh Ha you've broken cover Ray! I take it its come on a bit more since I saw it? Look foward to catching up in a few weeks time.

[RAY NORWOOD]

Some more photos of Bembridge. 

 

 The turntable with the coffee steras.

A side view showing the lasy suse.

Under the board of the turntable the servo opperating the table with the micro switch to change the frog Polarity. the small electric board is the MERG pockit money kit. 

Under the board is the MERG DCC system and one of the servo kit which opperate the three points and the point servos with the two micro switchs one is for the frog Polarity and other is for the block working of the signals.

  The clouds sprayed on with my airbrush. white with a very little black.

 

[RAY NORWOOD]

More updates.

 

Track sprayed with Sleeper Grime

The station platform with the photo mount card and the wall around the turntable was made from foamboard cut down the sides to form the curve with stone plasticard around with the coing stones on top made from platicard cut into each stone then glued on top, the same with the stones around the edge of the table.

 

The goods shed made from photo mount card 

 

The track with the ballist down. The siding is for a coal yard the ballist for that I mixed with ash.

 

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[RAY NORWOOD]

Still more Photos.

The bridge as the scenic break was made from photo mount card with stone plasticard with coping stones on top.

The fiddle yard with the three cassettes.

Another photo of the bridge. O I forgotten the end wall I have ut a mirror the so you can see the other side of the wall n the bridge. I forgotten to say the Ihave put a shee of 9mm ply on the base board first to bring the board to the hight of he cassettes.  

Well that has brought me up to date so fare.    

I have Bambridge at Minehead as work in progrees on the 1st June 2024 

Edited May 8 by RAY NORWOOD

[RAY NORWOOD]

48 minutes ago, Temeraire said:

Ahh Ha you've broken cover Ray! I take it its come on a bit more since I saw it? Look foward to catching up in a few weeks time.

Yes that would be fanastic. Its a shame im not not stopping over night as I am only an hour away from home.  

[Matloughe]

Its looking good @RAY NORWOOD!

 

What sort of station building are you going to have on the platform?

Kind Regards,
Gary

[RAY NORWOOD]

6 hours ago, Matloughe said:

Its looking good @RAY NORWOOD!

 

What sort of station building are you going to have on the platform?

Kind Regards,
Gary

I am looking at Barnstaple Town Station.

[RAY NORWOOD]

Update. 

I have made up the home sighnal and the two ground signals from MSE and waiting for servo motors to be installed.

The ground signals. One on the left is a caution signal protecting the main line and the right is a shunt ground signal. The Stop signal has a ground signal for a shunt movement.

[RAY NORWOOD]

The update on Bambridge. The signals are working, I made up the wall to go infront of the houses with foam board and two layers of photo mount card half the height of the wall, i put them at the back of the wall to make the wall is if it is away from the houses. Then i put stone plasticard on the front of the wall. I then put some very small stones on the top of the wall these i got from Amazon they are used for the bottom of fish tanks. The houses are from Sankey Scenics and cut them out and glued them on the backscene with a glue stick. Then glued the wall into place.

I will be taking Bambridge to Minehead show on the Saturday 1st June. Come and say hi 

 

 

 

[RAY NORWOOD]

Had a fantastic day at Minehead show today with Bambridge showing work in progress. Ìi had lots of good remarks and on the sector plate and something different.

 

 

[RAY NORWOOD]

A small update on Bambridge. 

I made some trees to go behind the wall against the back scene from Seaform. I brushed PVA on the truck to give it strength then used a strong hold hair spray over the branch's then sprinkle scenic floc over the tree when dry I glue the tree behind the wall. On the platform by the goods shed Road I put a etched brass fence with Sankey Scenics advertising boards.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 8 by RAY NORWOOD