MOVING COAL - A Colliery Layout in 0 Gauge

[Suffolk Dave]

Your approach to painting the brickwork has produced great results.

 

[SimonT]

SEFinecast do vac-formed brickwork sheets in English Garden Wall

I tried some recently bought new from Squires. It's not the product it used to be with uneven wavy brick courses. If you want to use it take a ruler to check the coursing.

 

[BetweenTheTunnels]

I tried some recently bought new from Squires. It's not the product it used to be with uneven wavy brick courses. If you want to use it take a ruler to check the coursing.

Simon,
Do you mean it now has uneven wavy brick courses ... or that it used to and doesn't now?
Richie

 

[SimonT]

Richie,
the sheets I bought last year were after the take over of SE Finecast. I didn't have the problem five years ago. I can't say that it was recently manufactured stock. Just check!
Simon

 

[PhilH]

The progress so far on the loco shed with gutters, downpipes and windows added.


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The gutters are K&S 4mm x 3mm brass channel with the sides cut down to 2mm high and a 1mm x 10 thou strip soldered on the top outside edge. The rather rough edge of the hardboard roof will be hidden by the roof covering.

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The gutters are supported on brackets of brass wire with the ends flattened and soldered to the underside of the channel, then fixed in pre-drilled holes - shown just before they're pushed into position with a dab of super glue on the wires.

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Downpipes are 2.5mm brass tube with Modelu brackets, fixed with brass wires hidden behind the brackets as shown previously with the weighbridge office. The window frames on the prototype are metal with a very thin frame round the outside, when I cut out the window openings that's something I should have been aiming for, but missed ! Window glazing on the visible side is 1mm perspex.

tbc