Tony Overton
Western Thunderer
Having found a couple of spare short lengths of rail, an off-cut of cork sheet, and an off-cut of MDF I’ve decided to knock together a small diorama/short display track for wagons, nothing fancy but it’ll also be useful for when I want to photograph stock. The ultimate plan is to create something representing a Midland Railway siding shunting neck of circa 1905 set against a high L spaced brick retaining wall in a country setting. So far I’ve built the track and created the board it’ll go on. The track is built using ply sleepers from an old layout sorted, cleaned up and re-stained – why throw them away if they can be re-used. The MR chairs are by Exactoscale (7CH103A), as are the fish plates. I could have used Templot to help me with sleeper spacing but with so few sleepers I decided to set them out using a ruler – most are to MR 1885 30ft 85 lb rail sleeper spacing. I say most, the sleepers around where the Ragstone MR rail built buffer stop will go (left hand end) needed easing out a bit to accommodate it. After a dry run to see how it goes together my next task will be to build it. Leaving the length of track loose for the time being and therefor easy to pick up/handle allowed ‘rust’ painting (first coat) to be done with relative ease this morning.
As I say nothing fancy .
So that’s where I am at today.
Cheers
Tony
As I say nothing fancy .
So that’s where I am at today.
Cheers
Tony