Category: Miscellanea

I’ve recorded my modelling in a couple of other places online. I started on the RMWeb Forum as jhmcaleely. I’m still on the newer ‘community‘, but only as a reader (to date).

Notable threads I started there:

• My 00 Inglenook: Phoenix Yard
• Getting started in P4: Can I buy all the bits I need at Scaleforum? (Yes!)
• My first P4 track work: An A5 point kit from Exactoscale
• My first contributions to JMRI: Hornby Decoder XML files

I am also a member of the Scalefour society (since 2008), and post on their forum under my own name.

Threads there include:

• My first ‘from scratch’ point work: “Workshop Homework“
• My first P4 loco: A Hornby 08 conversion
• My first brass chassis: A Highlevel Class 03 Chassis
• Something more ambitious: 60163, Tornado
• A test bench, for the CHEAG spot-on (ish) competition

I recently changed projects at work, and took advantage of that to have a few days of modelmaking therapy.

I decided it was time to build some baseboards for my next layout, which I tried to build in model form previously.

I’m very pleased with the result:

Seen in front is my current 00 layout, and I’m just trying out the boards to see if the track plan still fits!

Following on from Paper Model 1, here is a second go around:

The scale is the same, with one square being 50mm.

I’ve re-assesed the size of the concrete oil bunker, using this photo. if I assume the grid visible is 8’x4′ panels, then it appears to be about twice the height of a railway wagon. So the new model is only 500mm tall, which should be much more manageable.

I’ve also dropped the backscene panel on one side, so that the model is viewable from two edges.

Food for thought – it will still be considerably larger than Phoenix Yard, so I need to think about whether it should be possible to split it up for storage. The fact that the pointwork is in the centre of the plan will make this awkward at best.

You can see that on this model I printed off a trackplan from the Templot plan I have. The wagons seem a tight squeeze, so I will need to check the sidings have enough space in them for the 5/3/3 inglenook I want this plan to be.