4mm Llanfair
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LarryG
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This layout is evolving as it slowly progresses and one bugbear was the bottom corner. I didn't want to see trains on the sharp curve! However, I started off by shaping some rough timber with a jigsaw as a basis for an embankment....
I discovered that if I used the slightly sharper Set Track curves, there was room to insert an almost straight section under the bridge. Signs of the original curve are visible on the baseboard .....
The shot below gives a better idea of the modifications. I'm currently awaiting Code 100 track and turnouts for the fiddle yard. The Hornby Riddles 2-6-0 negotiates the Set track curve without fouling the front steps. All the Code 100 will be pinned down to give much quieter running...
Track level view to see how things will look ...
I discovered that if I used the slightly sharper Set Track curves, there was room to insert an almost straight section under the bridge. Signs of the original curve are visible on the baseboard .....
The shot below gives a better idea of the modifications. I'm currently awaiting Code 100 track and turnouts for the fiddle yard. The Hornby Riddles 2-6-0 negotiates the Set track curve without fouling the front steps. All the Code 100 will be pinned down to give much quieter running...
Track level view to see how things will look ...
LarryG
Western Thunderer
This was the scene 4 years ago showing Llanfair's embryo in November 2020, and in 0 gauge too...! It was a mirror-image of Llanfyllin back then, but the station been at the brightest end of the shed ever since...
Positioning the road bridge closer to the station has made the scene more compact, so from now on construction should be straightforward...
Positioning the road bridge closer to the station has made the scene more compact, so from now on construction should be straightforward...
LarryG
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Half the Code 100 curve to the fiddle yard has been glued down, ballasted and weathered. From hereon, the track will be pinned seeing as it is outside the scenic section. Even when glued and ballasted, running is noticeably quieter on the Code 100 than it is on the Bullhead. Dunno why. Scene with the bridge removed....
Scene with the scenic break bridge in place. It was pure good fortune that the backscene mismatch ended up behind the bridge....
Scene with the scenic break bridge in place. It was pure good fortune that the backscene mismatch ended up behind the bridge....
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timbowales
Western Thunderer
Larry, lovely work as always.
Yorkshire Dave
Western Thunderer
A few judiciously placed trees will disguise the mismatch - which can lead up to the corner where you earlier alluded to having a wooded scene.
LarryG
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The Kernow GWR water tank has been a feature of the layout for some years now and was the reason for the gap between the tracks. However, when the greenery began to be added, it somehow became a scenic break and one too may since bringing the bridge nearer the station....
So its now mounted on the far embankment against the backscene...
It makes sense as well now. The turnout on the 'mainline' (red arrow) acts as a form of trap with it set for the goods yard on the left. The mainline is never used as a back-shunt, therefore locos needing water will not be stood on the mainline. Auto-trains will of course take the coach with them. The embankment between the tracks might be lifted later on as scenery advances. It cant be justified except that I like it for the moment......
The grass is only laid as a base. It will be grassed and what-not later on.
So its now mounted on the far embankment against the backscene...
It makes sense as well now. The turnout on the 'mainline' (red arrow) acts as a form of trap with it set for the goods yard on the left. The mainline is never used as a back-shunt, therefore locos needing water will not be stood on the mainline. Auto-trains will of course take the coach with them. The embankment between the tracks might be lifted later on as scenery advances. It cant be justified except that I like it for the moment......
The grass is only laid as a base. It will be grassed and what-not later on.
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Captain Kernow
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Hi Larry - the new arrangement with the water tower is much, much better!
Re: the embankment between the running line and the siding, I'd personally lose that, as I'm not convinced that it would have been a topographical feature in real life. Better, perhaps to have some flat, rough ground, perhaps with a couple of nondescript huts, maybe a PW motorised trolley hut with the characteristic piece of track at right angles to the running line, that sort of thing?
Re: the embankment between the running line and the siding, I'd personally lose that, as I'm not convinced that it would have been a topographical feature in real life. Better, perhaps to have some flat, rough ground, perhaps with a couple of nondescript huts, maybe a PW motorised trolley hut with the characteristic piece of track at right angles to the running line, that sort of thing?
LarryG
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I agree completely about the minor embankment between the tracks, as I was uneasy once it was there. I'll 'grass' the nearer side of the baseboard next before taking further decisions.
LarryG
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Simple tasks involving PVA take ages in cold weather. Anyway, the ballast has been laid between the tracks but it needs properly grinding down when dry. Weathering wil be done tomorrow followed by static grass. I painted a corrugated hut to match Bachmann's water tower...
timbowales
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Gwaith godidog
LarryG
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Diolch.
LarryG
Western Thunderer
I carried out and photographed several experiments, photoshopping each one to get an idea of how things could look. Slewing the mainline over next to the headshunt was even considered, and that grass mound went back between the tracks twice! Anyway, here is the result with very little to show for two days of making my mind up...
In a way, it is like painting the scene on the pieces of a jigsaw as it goes together ...
Viewed from the bridge. Some work was done around and on the water tank plus every length of rail was given a new coat of rust...
One of those little nooks. Rust at the base of the iron railings and around the buffers. Not happy with the brickwork but it can wait...
Almost the whole scenic entirety from the buffers to the bridge. Lots of grassland to add on the leading edge of the baseboard.....
In a way, it is like painting the scene on the pieces of a jigsaw as it goes together ...
Viewed from the bridge. Some work was done around and on the water tank plus every length of rail was given a new coat of rust...
One of those little nooks. Rust at the base of the iron railings and around the buffers. Not happy with the brickwork but it can wait...
Almost the whole scenic entirety from the buffers to the bridge. Lots of grassland to add on the leading edge of the baseboard.....
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sjp23480
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Its the little things that really make it so realistic - lovely work Larry!