Captain Kernow's layouts

[JimG]

All I have to report is just more cobblers...

This is as far as I have got, scribing the granite setts 'for real', representing about 4 evenings work (although you have to limit each session..):

I do like these cobbles. - Quicker than slates.

Jim.

 

[28ten]

It might be slow but it is worth the effort there is a nice texture and they sit right in a random wobbly sort of way

 

[Simon]

That looks very effective indeed, the texture of the filler, lack of exact uniformity of the "faces" and slight random shape effect noted by Cynric all contibutes.

How's your average time per sett getting on?

 

[Geoff]

You are doing a superb job there Tim, having scribed cobbles in my creamery yard I know exactly what you are going through. I used to set myself a daily target doing a little here and there between other jobs and after a time found it rather relaxing !

Geoff

 

[Neil]

You are doing a superb job there Tim, having scribed cobbles in my creamery yard I know exactly what you are going through. I used to set myself a daily target doing a little here and there between other jobs and after a time found it rather relaxing !

Geoff

I like these sorts of jobs too, where you know what you're doing, tools and materials are to hand and you can steadily beaver away making measurable (if slow) progress.

 

[Chris Nevard]

Classy work Tim, but I'd expect nothing less from you!

I'm glad you posted your map, oddly enough I was at Coalpit Heath week before last snapping full sized trains which in turn spurred a little further investigation into the history of the area - I do like the way you've bent history with Frog Lane Colliery.

All this resulted in finding this useful OS map http://www.flickr.com/photos/8507625@N02/6152528632
Right clicking bringing up a HUGE scan...

 

[Captain Kernow]

I do like the way you've bent history with Frog Lane Colliery

Keeping 'Lord Salisbury' there in my time continuum seemed like a no-brainer to me!

All this resulted in finding this useful OS map http://www.flickr.com/photos/8507625@N02/6152528632
Right clicking bringing up a HUGE scan...

Cheers Chris, that looks potentially very useful!

 

[Captain Kernow]

Been doing some more cobbling tonight, this represents the edge of a cobbled area, where it meets some more recent tarmac, but where the tarmac surface has started to break up already:

 

[Steve Cook]

Thats a great bit of work Tim, the whole granite sett / cobbles scene looks fab

I've a read back through the thread and I couldn't see it mentioned - do you mark out the setts before scribing or just get straight in there?

10/10 for patience and application

 

[lancer1027]

Fantastic work. The cobbles showing through the smooth surface is excellent

Rob

 

[Captain Kernow]

I've a read back through the thread and I couldn't see it mentioned - do you mark out the setts before scribing or just get straight in there?

Hi Steve,

I have some plasticard templates that I use to get an approximate measurement for width and length, but in practice the size of the setts varied quite a lot, so although I measure each row, I then just get on with the scribing.

 

[Steve Cook]

Cheers Cap'n

Have you got much further to go?

 

[Captain Kernow]

Cheers Cap'n

Have you got much further to go?

Well, full cobbling will be done inside the blue line, between that and the siding, with just a few patches of broken tarmac outside of that...

 

[Steve Cook]

You're on the home stretch now then Looks very impressive from 'up here', I particularly like the curve of the setts to meet the angle of the siding, a very nice touch indeed...
Steve

 

[Captain Kernow]

Done a few wagon conversions recently, having tired of the cobbles for a bit.

All are straight wheel drop-in conversions to P4, no springing or compensation. All wagons have been shunted at unlikely high speeds on Callow Lane, both singly and in multiple with others, also run on the DRAG test track, and no problems encountered, fortunately.

First of all, a view of the first 4 conversions - a second-hand Mainline bogie well wagon, which was an unexpected Christmas present from a friend in the club, a Bachmann SR 'Pillbox' brake van, a Bachmann LNER van and an LNER steel open:













I was then pondering whether to return to the cobbles or start this conversion:


So, in the end, I did neither, but converted three Bachmann Presflos instead, also rigid...

 

[Captain Kernow]

A final 'push' with the cobbling saw it finally completed this evening:

 

[Jon Gwinnett]

Well done! Perseverance pays off in the end.

Can I go back a bit and ask about the Presflos, whose are the nice brass instanter links you've used?

 

[Captain Kernow]

Well done! Perseverance pays off in the end.

Can I go back a bit and ask about the Presflos, whose are the nice brass instanter links you've used?

Jon - they were Exactoscale ones, IIRC...

 

[SteveO]

This looks lovely, you must have the patience of a saint. Really like your trackplan too!

 

[john lewsey]

My favourite layout on the forum really nice