New Project For 2016 - Time To Sort Out The Junk Corner.
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Lordraglan274
Too much of a good thing is nearly enough.
I didn't make any measurements for my line when I installed it, just a rough diagram like yours. I then bought the track and physically loose laid it to see if if would fit! At least the LGB track you know it will join up. Once it all worked I secured the trackwork then put in the garden round it!!!! Good luck with yours, it is all worth it
Lordraglan274
Too much of a good thing is nearly enough.
Here is the original plan and the before and after photos.
5H17
Railways and Diesel preservation, American cars
I can only do that to a certain degree, because I'm laying the bit at the shed end of the garden on raised boards. I wasn't going to board the entire area though, so I need to have some idea where the track will be in order to put the boards in the right place. (does that make ANY sense at all? It did in my head....but now I read it back I'm not so sure!)
Anyway... Whilst clearing the junk corner I've decided to leave the little roundy roundy loop at the pond end of the garden (which is, after all, what got me back into G scale after a few years away). It was a lovely morning when I got up, so I thought I'd do a spot of RC testing. Rude not to.
I really must get around to manufacturing a smokebox door for Otto. He looks a bit lost without it.
Lordraglan274
Too much of a good thing is nearly enough.
It is looking good. I miss my Otto as I repainted her, when I was planning a fleet livery of lined blue, but before she was even finished I took her to visit the 'Sprowston and Norwich Railway' and the owner was so taken with the loco I was persuaded to part with her. She is still there and safe, but the owner has moved 200 miles away leaving the line out of use. Hopefully one day I will get her back!
GAP
G Scale Model Trains, 1:1 Sugar Cane Trains
I would post picture but they are packed away awaiting transport to their new home when I retire. I am slowly packing up my railway ready for the move.
5H17
Railways and Diesel preservation, American cars
Not much progress to report at the mo other than a lot of clearing out down the side of the shed (which wouldn't make very interesting pictures!). This morning though I did at least re-lay and re-align the existing track round the pond to tidy it up a bit and make it a bit tighter to the pond edge. Rain stopped play though.
5H17
Railways and Diesel preservation, American cars
She is probably more worried about the 'land grab'.
Is the right answer! Normally I would agree about wives and sheds, but in this case she has agreed to forfeit having a shed for all the gardening stuff so that I can grab that area of land for the railway.
An unfortunate side effect is that I've had to 'donate' part of the main shed to her gardening cause. It was either that or she was going to claim squatters rights....
beavercreek
Travel, Art, Theatre, Music, Photography, Trains
I have sort of covered bits of my layouts where there is high scenic detail specially buildings constructed from wood.
In one area is behind bushes and accessed through a gate that matches he other side of an arbour leading to the decking. I constructed a flat roof (made from corrugated clear plastic sheet on a 4'x8' pressure treated trellis) on stilts with camouflaged wooden uprights and 6ft high bark roll as a background to which I affixed a photo background.
It has a rolled up tarpaulin at the front to drop down for when the weather is going to be really bad or when we are away from home for extended periods. This has kept everything nice and dry and protected from most garden leaf litter....but not from spiders who think that it is paradise!
Another area is totally under a bush which is under a fir tree that sheds very painful 2-3 inch needles. I 'wove' a camouflage PVC tarpaulin, cut to suit, into the branches of the bush and the tree to keep the needles and the rain off as there are many wooden buildings there.
The camouflage tarpaulin is very hard to see in the bush/tree unless you are really looking for it and has really done the task well, even when the storms have hit us, it only needed small repairs to a couple of the wire securing tags.
I have used the tarpaulin system in another place to the same effect.
One other system that I have employed where rain is not the problem, but falling leaves are, as there are two deciduous trees right above that area of the layout, is by using green house mesh attached across an area using garden-wire 'cables'. The mesh was sprayed with some brown and different green to 'camouflage' it and the wires are also 'camouflaged' and mainly hidden by the foliage behind, above and to the side of the mesh.
It is not very obvious to the casual glance and blends in well with the non deciduous foliage around it.
This has worked really well and allows me to take all the fallen leaves off of the mesh in one or two hits during the year and keeps the track and scenery below, pretty well leaf and twig free.
This shows where the Arrowhead 'roof on stilts' is situated behind
Arrowhead with the bark roll and background
The tarpaulin covers are woven into the fabric of the bush and tree branches to the left of the arbour.
The mesh over the spiral to keep the birch and elder leaves off (and the leylandii hedge trimmings!). It can be seen above the bridge.
In one area is behind bushes and accessed through a gate that matches he other side of an arbour leading to the decking. I constructed a flat roof (made from corrugated clear plastic sheet on a 4'x8' pressure treated trellis) on stilts with camouflaged wooden uprights and 6ft high bark roll as a background to which I affixed a photo background.
It has a rolled up tarpaulin at the front to drop down for when the weather is going to be really bad or when we are away from home for extended periods. This has kept everything nice and dry and protected from most garden leaf litter....but not from spiders who think that it is paradise!
Another area is totally under a bush which is under a fir tree that sheds very painful 2-3 inch needles. I 'wove' a camouflage PVC tarpaulin, cut to suit, into the branches of the bush and the tree to keep the needles and the rain off as there are many wooden buildings there.
The camouflage tarpaulin is very hard to see in the bush/tree unless you are really looking for it and has really done the task well, even when the storms have hit us, it only needed small repairs to a couple of the wire securing tags.
I have used the tarpaulin system in another place to the same effect.
One other system that I have employed where rain is not the problem, but falling leaves are, as there are two deciduous trees right above that area of the layout, is by using green house mesh attached across an area using garden-wire 'cables'. The mesh was sprayed with some brown and different green to 'camouflage' it and the wires are also 'camouflaged' and mainly hidden by the foliage behind, above and to the side of the mesh.
It is not very obvious to the casual glance and blends in well with the non deciduous foliage around it.
This has worked really well and allows me to take all the fallen leaves off of the mesh in one or two hits during the year and keeps the track and scenery below, pretty well leaf and twig free.
This shows where the Arrowhead 'roof on stilts' is situated behind
Arrowhead with the bark roll and background
The tarpaulin covers are woven into the fabric of the bush and tree branches to the left of the arbour.
The mesh over the spiral to keep the birch and elder leaves off (and the leylandii hedge trimmings!). It can be seen above the bridge.
sparky230
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I found even just running Stainz locos, that I ended up, removing the R1's and using R2's