Dear All.
Well, I'm somewhat of a captive audience today as I've a plumber in repairing my tank - long, rather boring story as these things usually are (no, not the tank you're thinking of Mr. Fixit
) so thought I'd post something here by way of an update.
I haven't been totally idle since my last posting..............it's just that after completing the third hand made point I referred to in my previous post, I decided that it was an improvement on the previous two - used the method of frog fabrication endorsed by Iain Rice - which themselves were an improvement on the first offering I made using the newly acquired NMRA standards. So, you've guessed it, I rebuilt the previous two offerings to bring them up to the standard of the third - if you follow my gist
Although I promised myself I wouldn't do this lest nothing ever gets finished, well...........I'm simply incorrigible.
Anyway, spent a rather pleasant couple of days relaxing in the garden during this unseasonally excellent spell of 'LA' type weather we've been experiencing in the UK of late, cutting and laminating more bits of veneer into some sort of representation of sleep.....oops!! ties (sorry biL), so you see, some work has been completed afterall!!
I've also committed wholly to the new project by 'stripping' ALL track, roadbed and....sniff! wire in tube point control from the board which I'd previously named board #2
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so now there's NO going back !!!!! (Shaln't miss that Kadee under track magnet, though
).
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as both Bandini Fertilizer and Industrial Street (Patch) cannot be realistically accomodated in the space I will have available - approx 7' x (width to be determined) including fiddle yard of 3' x 1'. Essentially, I'll have just 4' length available for scenics, although I'm thinking of taking leaf out of Dave Long's book by not screening the fiddle yard whose length can then readily supplement it.
So there you have it................three working points - to an acceptable degree of smoothness anyway - a plan and the basis of a baseboard, so onwards and upwards.......but haven't been here before ?
Next job ( when said tradesman has departed - probably tomorrow now as I'm visiting this evening
) is to join fiddle yard to board #1 (formerly known as board #2..yawn!!) and to place some templates on top in the desired configuration........runround loop with one....yes 'one' siding/team track .....to work out the dimensions of the width. I'm going to be adventurous, seeing it's only little (diorama) and make an attempt at curving the front, sides and rear, but as I'm useless at carpentry as well, that might not actually happen, but we'll see
Once the extra bits of timber are cut to facilitate, I shall return to the issue of tracklaying and , at last, get on with fabricating (one done already) - but most importantly - fitting those excellent little manual point controls to 'Kurt's' design. Just hope mine actually work.
Perhaps this one will actually get built afterall?
Best wishes,
Jonte
) ..... is the same as that used by Iain Rice except that he uses an old tobacco tin for the purpose. Great idea, but in my case, I'll have to use paint due to the PCB ties in between :cry: ... Jonte
:oops: )