First Garden Railway of Tom (aged 58 and three quarters)

[Tony]

So Tom are we planing a Z gauge garden railway in the Garden of a house in your garden railway !!!(i think thats enough gardens)
Tony

 

[stevelewis]

I have been at it since'76

and only got this far!!!!!!

 

[pugwash]

Yes, that's a 1:220 scale model of a 2' 6" gauge mining track. How sad is that?

Well it proves one thing: at 58.75 your eyesight is better than mine
I mean I gave up Z (damn, he'll be here like a flash) because I couldn't see it then thought OO9 would do, same problem. Now, if ever I can't see G I think I'll be in a wooden box.

 

[C&S]

What can you get for a garden railway for 20p?

Have a look in oddments boxes and toy collections at boot sales and markets. In the past (admittedly mostly while on holiday in France) I've scored a dustbin, and several individual G scale figures (sometimes needing a little re-dressing - two looked like something out of Startrek, but had their suits remodelled with filler to make them into bib-and-braces overalls - all for around 25/30 cents each which is near as dammit 20p.

 

[pugwash]

two looked like something out of Startrek,

I thought they had been phased out

Coat, door, gone

 

[vsmith]

Thanks for the encouragement lads.

As you might have seen in the 'Track' thread, I've ordered the Piko loop and sidings - so once that's here, I'm off and running (well, walking a bit fast anyway).

The reason for the 20p is that my last layout was Z scale and on another forum, that I'm a member of, is populated by OO/HO modellers and they needed a reference point - so I used a 20p. Since then, anyone posting a picture of something that isn't OO/HO has to include 'the forum 20p piece'.

This is the picture that started it off:

Yes, that's a 1:220 scale model of a 2' 6" gauge mining track. How sad is that?

YIKES! I'm surprised you still have EYES left...nice model, good choice on the Pikie track.

 

[trammayo]

Yes, that's a 1:220 scale model of a 2' 6" gauge mining track. How sad is that?

I think that's brilliant - not sad! I had to look twice (thats why I had to go G Scale!). Well done.

Mick

 

[C&S]

Found these pictures of 20p people

"Space cadet" retraining as driver of Heywood style Gn15 steam loco.

Same driver tries out an internal combustion loco

The other "space cadet", now in driver's overalls

An LGB pick-axe man, with arms and head re-posed made a useful driver

 

[Zman]

I mean I gave up Z

8|Aw, no one likes me

 

[pugwash]

Oh we do! Unless you're the same Z as in

in which case we might be worried
If there was enough of us we could stand round you for a Teletubbie-style Big Hug.
Maybe not :bleh:

 

[Gizzy]

two looked like something out of Startrek,

I thought they had been phased out

Coat, door, gone

Shouldn't that be coat, sliding doors, transporter room?

Okay, beam me up Scotty....

 

[Zman]

Oh we do! Unless you're the same Z as in

in which case we might be worried
If there was enough of us we could stand round you for a Teletubbie-style Big Hug.
Maybe not :bleh:

or Chief Zed, so start worrying just in case

And as for your last comment, it's along the lines of "let's all join hands and see if we can circumnavigate Z", so I may just have to visit and see if your bar can be drunk dry Went to Canada once on the strength of an advert

 

[Old Tom]

It was a nice day today, so I laid my indoor track outside, on bricks so that the track was at the same level as the bonsai trees. I wanted an idea of how it will look on the 'proper' layout (when the track arrives!):

I don't think it looks too bad, as a start...

 

[stockers]

That looks great - brill photo.

 

[Mez]

You beat me getting the track outside!
Ive got no bricks or wood in my locker.
Good photo.What camera?

 

[Old Tom]

You beat me getting the track outside!
Ive got no bricks or wood in my locker.
Good photo.What camera?

It's a dead cheap Sanyo Xacti 'Digital Movie Camera' wot I got from Argos about 3 years ago Mez. It's stood the test of time and has never (touch wood) let me down. Most of my YouTube vids are made with the same bit of kit. The film editing software package that came with it is good as well.

 

[Old Tom]

I thought I'd post some pictures of how the railway is getting on - but I've just seen the rest of the newly posted pictures on this thread and I'm not so sure now . My little railway isn't quite up to your standards, but s+d it, here goes!

The track finally turned up last Thursday (Darren at Slotsn'Trains apologised profusely - he got my address wrong) and so I laid it out on the area of the patio that I have 'borrowed'. It's going to depict a simple 'afternoon out with the kids' type ride-on railway - hence the extra bricks providing the road to the station:

Today was nice and sunny so I got down to infilling the voids with potting compost:

I then started to add the ballasting but when I did, I had this terrible urge to wear a Hi-Viz jacket! Working at this scale means you have to lay and tamp each bit of track - just like the real thing.

Tomorrow will see me finishing off the ballast in between the sleepers and generally tidying up.

After that, it's getting down to making the station platform, the roadway and the swings and roundabouts that I hope will make it come to life.

 

[Mez]

Hi
Still ahead of me!

 

[stevedenver]

oh boy
nice starter
run it at night inthe garden


i did z for a short time-marklin
surpirse set one xamas from swmbo-i have always loved miniature things-i used to dream of a z scale size train as a younkg kid-there was no such thing other than cast plastic or metal dummys

nice work on your
really like your new garden layout too

 

[marshman]

It's looking good Tom.Like the use of the caboose body.How is that little Davenport doing?