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I have ordered a few "sample" wagons from eHattons. I will be ordering a full rake in January the contenders are between the ever popular EWS HTA, Container Intermodal, and Tarmac JGA. The BRA/BYA are a bit boring and the MBA is far to American.



It would seem that the 40' and 20' container accessories do NOT fit the Intermodal container flats without chopping off the lugs and using tacky-wax.



Tom

I have glued down some B&Q underfloor laminate foam using Copydex and have started track laying. The fiddle yard oval is complete but I would like to wire this up before I continue with laying the sidings.

I have received my order from ehattons and now have a small rake of 13 "Tarmac" JGAs. Unfortunately two of them have conducting axles and so will have to be replaced

I also ordered the Scenecraft Market Hampton Station, Waiting Room, Gentleman's Toilets, Ladies Toilets, Signal Box and Sectional Lineside Hut.



Concrete Mixing Hopper, Aggregate Weigh Station, Industrial Silo, Electrical Sub Station and Site Office.



Also Dapol OHLE which is very well made from a strange sort of impact resistant plastic, Lineside workers and Knightwing moldings (from Gaugemaster)

The fiddle yard is now complete and all working. The only thing left to do now is install the point motors which hopefully I will get next month.



The mainline tracks are kept 40mm apart for clearance on the corners, this tapers in for the scissor crossing.

It also turns out my long weekend trip in March coincides with The London Festive of Railway Modelling which was a nice surprise.

I have started landscaping below is a photo looking eastbound.



A close-up of the area around the bridge and cement works.

You are making good progress on the layout Tom. Well done!
I will be following this thread with intereset.
Matthew

Hi ClawzCTR,

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by getting the angles on the board. I have placed a 9mm sheet of MDF (two because B&Q ran out of full sheets ) over the main baseboard and traced the outline of the track.



I then cutout the outline of the embankment with a hand saw (jigsaw on the internal angles) and packed them out with 2"x"2 planed to various thicknesses. When this is finished I will scribe in some more 9mm MDF to cover the gap at the front.

Exactly the way I did mine Tom, nice work

Paul

OK I have tried three different methods of building up my scenery:

1: Oasis Modeling Foam, absolute and complete failure. It's to spongy, to expensive, and impossible to glue because it absorbs everything.

2: Expanding foam / Foam glue, alright but not ideal. It's very strong and light weight but difficult to shape into anything realistic.



3: Hardwall - http://www.british-gypsum.com/products/thi...e_hardwall.aspx

No good if you have a exhibition layout as it's to heavy, but if your layout is stationary its a ideal filler material. You can shape it with ease and sand it to shape.