Matt37268 Posted September 20 Share Posted September 20 37 minutes ago, Rich_F said: Crikey, I don’t really like Spoons yet that’s giving me a semi 👍🏼 4 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizz Posted September 23 Share Posted September 23 Well the upgrading of my modern German layout has been a partial success. On the up side Im hugely please with the new DCC led lighting, a vast improvement on the old ‘grain of wheat’ light bulb set up. But on the down side the colour setting on the camera monitoring system is already knackered. Shame really because it had a great deal of atmos, when it was working……really must did out the warranty. Also I’ve got to finishing dimming down some of the lighting, especially on the locos and buildings in the for ground. Although I’m pleased with the yard lights, just about the right balance. Probs the greatest success was putting tiny pin holes in the back scene, with a large light behind it. It has worked quite effectively for depth perception, for the distant towns and villages. At least I was able to reuse a bunch of the Faller and Vollmer kit built buildings from previous layouts…. 12 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted September 23 Share Posted September 23 I hope that's T scale ............. otherwise you're going to have problems reaching to clean the far tracks ! 3 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted September 23 Share Posted September 23 1 hour ago, Grizz said: Well the upgrading of my modern German layout has been a partial success. Sorry, it might have German trains on it, but I don't believe it's really a 'German' layout. There's no mountains on the backscene, no river in the foreground, and not a single bottle-brush pine tree in sight!! 🙄🙄🙄🤦♂️🤦♂️🤣🤣🤣 3 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railsquid Posted September 23 Share Posted September 23 Also needs a burning tax office, a bordello and possibly a lake with nudist sunbathers. 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 6 hours ago, Grizz said: At least I was able to reuse a bunch of the Faller and Vollmer kit built buildings from previous layouts…. Did you also finally find a use for that big stash of old Hornby straight station platforms? No other layout looked believable with so many straight platforms. But at least the lamp posts could go into the holes usually used for platform canopies. 1 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Colin_McLeod Posted September 24 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted September 24 Bradford:St Dunstan's Cutting,1963. The GN line from Laisterdyke to Bradford Exchange station ran in a deep cutting towards St Dunstan's Junction,before joining the main line into the Terminus. The tracks running right gave access to the Queensbury branch from the Leeds direction. Info: jsb303 (flickr) Photo: Ken Field. 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 Whoever laid that turnout seems to have used up all the odds and ends of sleepering he had laying about ! 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mol_PMB Posted September 25 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 25 A rather awkward interface between the terraced houses and the retaining wall. I suppose the backscene stopped the modeller setting the houses back by half an inch. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railsquid Posted September 30 Share Posted September 30 (edited) I admire anyone who takes on the challenge of modelling one of the big London terminii, but here's a clever approach which avoids the complexity of reproducing the architecturally complex station frontage, while making the actual trains more visible than they would be hidden away under the overarching canopies. https://www.flickr.com/photos/55727763@N02/54018106493/ Edited September 30 by railsquid 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mol_PMB Posted September 30 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 30 Nice. Great attention to detail on the low-relief buildings against the backscene. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted September 30 Share Posted September 30 4 hours ago, railsquid said: I admire anyone who takes on the challenge of modelling one of the big London terminii, but here's a clever approach which avoids the complexity of reproducing the architecturally complex station frontage, while making the actual trains more visible than they would be hidden away under the overarching canopies. https://www.flickr.com/photos/55727763@N02/54018106493/ 18 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said: Nice. Great attention to detail on the low-relief buildings against the backscene. You just know that the tracks do a sharp U-turn under the canopies to go to hidden storage behind the backscene. 5 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted September 30 Share Posted September 30 Personally, I'd not have painted that tower block on the backscene - beautifully subtle though it may be - so the layout could be easily back-dated to the days of green diesels and/or steam for a bit of variety. 🙄 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railsquid Posted September 30 Share Posted September 30 3 hours ago, F-UnitMad said: You just know that the tracks do a sharp U-turn under the canopies to go to hidden storage behind the backscene. The thought did go through my head, and I was reminded of this little gem: 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted September 30 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 30 (edited) I have seen something similar modelled. Just 25% of the station visible and the rest under a 'shopping centre'. (IIRC it was a through station.) Edited September 30 by PhilJ W 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithHC Posted September 30 Share Posted September 30 I have often thought about the north end of Gatwick station. So from the station buildings to the M23 links road bridge. Keith 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted October 1 Share Posted October 1 I try not to think about any part of the Gatwick complex ......................................... 2 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted October 1 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 1 (edited) Waverley West on RMweb has done this with the, well, western end of Edinburgh Waverley. Has modelled Princes St. Gardens/Mound tunnels and station throat into the platforms, which then feed into fiddle yards and return loops hidden by 'the station' If you just took it from the exits of the tunnels into the station then it could be self-contained (with loops/fiddles either side) Edited October 1 by keefer 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithHC Posted October 1 Share Posted October 1 9 hours ago, Wickham Green too said: I try not to think about any part of the Gatwick complex ......................................... Ah my workplace for 9 years the airport not the station. My last office looked out over the apron in one direction and in the other the north end of the station. I was in heaven aircraft one way and the Brighton line the other way. Keith 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Steven B Posted Thursday at 12:00 RMweb Premium Share Posted Thursday at 12:00 Photographing a model outside can really lift it model. Shame about the flat baseboard fields in the fore ground: The owner's obviously gone down the route of matching wagons based on type rather than destination though... 10 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted Thursday at 13:27 Share Posted Thursday at 13:27 an' that dark photo backscene doesn't really match the lighting on the foreground. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Pilotman Posted Thursday at 13:49 RMweb Gold Share Posted Thursday at 13:49 1 hour ago, Steven B said: Photographing a model outside can really lift it model. Shame about the flat baseboard fields in the fore ground: The owner's obviously gone down the route of matching wagons based on type rather than destination though... Apart from the EFE Rail PBA “Clay tigers” and the Revolution Cartic at the back, he’s used all Graham Farish stock. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted Thursday at 14:14 Share Posted Thursday at 14:14 22 minutes ago, The Pilotman said: Apart from the EFE Rail PBA “Clay tigers” and the Revolution Cartic at the back, he’s used all Graham Farish stock. Remarkable how far N Gauge has come, these days!! I was going to call the modeller out for sticking his brand new, fresh out the box, open wagon in right behind the loco, when everything else is weathered to various degrees. 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris M Posted Thursday at 17:52 Share Posted Thursday at 17:52 Yes the field is unrealistically flat but at least the builder has made the track a bit higher than the field. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted Thursday at 19:43 Share Posted Thursday at 19:43 Is that near Ely? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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