em gauge

I've read so many great layout build threads on this website I thought I should lower the skill level demonstrated and share mine. I have to admit i do get rather distracted with rolling stock so the layout gets left alone for long periods so I've decided to set up this thread to kind of keep me...

INTRODUCTION:- Well, it's time to offer up my meagre attempts at modelling in a proper thread. As some will recognise from the title it is loosely based on the BP&GV. The chosen location is Pontyates, chosen because I regularly pass it on the bus travelling back from Carmarthen to Llanelli. I...

My journey towards a layout to follow Old Parrock has been interesting to say the least. There have been an embarrassing number of ideas, concepts and plans in an embarrassing number of scales and gauges. However, I have now settled on a new project - and ironically I’ve returned to my first...

Hello, Greetings to you all.... With encouragement from @AJC @Rob R and @john lewsey I've started this post to tell the stories of the various bits of rolling stock I build. Or try to..... This continues from a previous thread 'Greetings from Gosforth East' but for necessity of completeness...

I’ve decided to start a workbench thread, having lurked on here for a while and having seen the images vanish from my RMweb thread. To get started, here’s a picture of the (rather untidy) bench itself. Like many houses in Sheffield we have a cellar, and it’s great to have a dedicated space...

Who doesn't appreciate the looks of the lovely Hornby T9? Back in 2014 I bought 30726 with the six wheel tender thinking it would be a quick win conversion to EM using a SEF T9 etched chassis. How hard could that be? Some of you will know where this is going! The bogie was built up, and...

A lot of razor saw action in this month's update with the bravery award going to @Kier Hardy for butchering the better part of £300 worth of RTR DMU from 117 to 125: EM Gauge Layouts, Models & Projects Pete Johnson's heavily bleached 03 is my particular favourite from this selection, not least...

I am about to embark on building an EM gauge layout and have been gathering as much information as possible with regards to track building. I will be using Exactoscale code 75 bullhead rail with four bolt chairs. I have been looking at several forums on track building and came across an article...

I have just received an order of track components from The EM Gauge Society and hoping to start building points and track for my layout. Amongst the items I ordered was an EM gauge block by D.D.Wheelwrights which I tested on a short length of Ratio EM gauge track and to my surprise it did not...

Doing some test prints for scratch built EM gauge track. Here is a 3D printed Midland Railway check rail chair with a 1mm gap for EM gauge I have produced. I plan to create a whole range of Midland Railway chairs that aren’t commercially available for point work.

A small chink of light, in the context of this damp dreich day, in the November update from Kier et al. Very pleased to see the multiplication of 47s on Hornsey Broadway (should there be much else?!) and Hywel Thomas's superb chemical tanks as well as Karl Crowther's impressive Kentside project...

It's that time again [September]: EM Gauge Layouts, Models & Projects The highlight - for me, anyway - is Hywel Thomas's inspired and convincing ROCO-bash of a VTG chemical tank. Marvellous. And now it's October: EM Gauge Layouts, Models & Projects - more interesting chemical tank bashing and...

[Assumes the voice of Ringo Starr] Thomas had been a very useful engine. He had six small wheels, a short stumpy funnel, a short stumpy boiler and a short stumpy dome. After many years he was worn out and placed at the back of the shed. But the railway was busy and so the Fat Controller sent him...

So as a result of the whole Covid thing and a couple of other issues, I decided to have a play with the new EM turnouts and track. Result is an inglenook style layout on a 4’6” piece of extruded polystyrene foam. Plan is for a small terminus ams shunting plank somewhere in the West Country. Bit...

This group has been created to include the possible activities listed below : · Discussions/talks on modelling methods and skills · Talks on historical and prototypical subjects · Visits to member’s homes for running sessions on layouts · Assisting other members who may be new to EM or P4...

Yoker depot, (65G). I am currently building a layout in EM gauge of Yoker Motive Power Depot, (65G), In the British Railway period from 1948 until its closure in 1961/64. I started this a few years ago and progress has been faily slow due to a house move and having built a railway room behind...

This is - as ever - superb. Well done @Kier Hardy et al and particularly, Hywel Thomas, whose Morfa Bank Sidings is seldom anything less than glorious. EM Gauge Layouts, Models & Projects Adam

Morning all. I thought I'd put details of what I'm working on presently. Don't quite know when the modelling bench got christened the 'tinking table' but it was some time ago. Anyhow, this is what it looks like in its tidier moments. Last off the production line was this Bachmann 2MT tank...

It's here and not only the trains move - the influence of @Giles is clear to see (among much else): EM Gauge Layouts, Models & Projects Adam

With the usual caveat that this may or may not happen, though we are (finally) in a position to have a house - and thus walls - of our own and I have one, and possibly two, walls of the end of garden office (10' 6" x 10' 6"). Going all the way round is out and I want to do something that will...