Monthly Archives: November 2013

More skip diving

Posted on 29/11/2013 by Bob Hughes

I salvaged a broken venetian blind this morning. The primary intention was to make a safety wall around the outer edge of the baseboard to prevent trains hitting the floor in case of derailments but there’s plenty of slats left … Continue reading →

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Priceless Princesses and the Jones Special Tank

Posted on 28/11/2013 by Bob Hughes

Having spent much of this morning cursing my attempts at soldering wires to rusty rails I have eventually got the siding from the outer circuit working. With additional electrical switching to isolate the outer main line section on the same … Continue reading →

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Skip diving

Posted on 26/11/2013 by Bob Hughes

When I took the dog out for a walk this morning I had a look in Sonitech‘s skip and fished out enough eight core cable to keep me in layout wire for ages! As a result of this today has … Continue reading →

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Caboose

Posted on 24/11/2013 by Bob Hughes

Over on the MTI forum Giles Barnaby has posted regarding converting an old Tri-ang Transcontinental Railways caboose for use with On30, I’ve got one of these old toys which I was intending to do an On30 chop job on too, … Continue reading →

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Southern electric on Princes Road

Posted on 24/11/2013 by Bob Hughes

I dug out my Tri-ang Southern Region EMU this morning with the intention of borrowing its power bogie to use in Andy’s Blue Pullman, which has some parts missing from its own power bogie. However, the electric unit looks quite … Continue reading →

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Juice!

Posted on 21/11/2013 by Bob Hughes

Soldering to rusty steel is damn near impossible, even after scraping the rust off and applying generous daubs of flux, so I’ve gone for an old bodge that I used way back when I was still at school. Separate the … Continue reading →

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A trip down memory lane

Posted on 20/11/2013 by Bob Hughes

I’ve added a new page to the website this morning. It has a few pictures of some old layouts, while looking these out I even found a few that I’d forgotten about! Click here to visit the page.

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De-rusting

Posted on 18/11/2013 by Bob Hughes

Princes Road was dismantled this morning so that I could attach some battens to the underside of the two end baseboards. These enable the layout to rest on my paste table without any additional support as the layout is longer … Continue reading →

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More tracklaying

Posted on 16/11/2013 by Bob Hughes

I eventually decided to stick with Super 4 throughout for all the track on Princes Road and the layout has developed even further since the original track plan (below) was drawn up. In addition to the isolated branch line for … Continue reading →

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Phone a friend or ask the audience?

Posted on 15/11/2013 by Bob Hughes

Well, I can’t have fifty fifty on an either/or question can I? The either/or choice refers to an extra bit of track I’ve added to the plan for the Princes Road layout. This is a short branch line where the … Continue reading →

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