Ok, well the board is coming together.. This is what it looks like so far. The Elevations are complete, the board is finished, now for teh cork, which is also 90% finished... then the nightmare begins, track laying, Motorizing the points (Ive never bothered before but will now) and *gulp* wiring. (anyone bored and wanna help!!!) This is Looking South, from the crossover on the east side of the board. More here, tell me what you think so far.. Not a huge fan of the Foam, easy, but cookie cuttin next time. The Pics are here for you to drool over, not that that is very likely, the pics arent the best, new camera doesnt help (fuji S602Z) Thanks Bruce [ 24. January 2004, 00:18: Message edited by: virtual-bird ]
Don't worry about it! Take your time! It will all come together very quickly! There are good books available. Wire it up a section at a time. That way, if there is a problem, you can trouble shoot a small portion. Rather than the entire layout. Post more photos of future progress! Boxcab E50
Great stuff, keep up the great work, it will all be worth it! Love the shots of Cam(eron?) in the layout!
Looking good to me. The nice thing about wiring, once you have it figured out, its the same thing over and over and over and over again.
I wish I could see it, but certain websites are blocked from my viewing. Where you have your pictures posted must be one of them because all I can see is a little white dot where the picture should be.
Bruce, Looking good just one comment the grade the SD7 is on looks to be pretty steep, what is the maximum grade you intend on using?
Boxcar: Yes I got the book on wiring layouts, its a little daunting, they go into such detail, they forget the little bloke that just wants to run trains with a few sections! Pete: yea he was my 'helper'... Coaltrain: was 37c that day! sweat coming off my sweat. rsn48: I have the wiring down pat in my mind, its when it comes to doing it that could be an issue!!! Hoss: You running a Firewall? I'll up them to a different server little later today for you. Paul: The grade is 3-4% this I was told by the local dude was quite fine for Nscale, Now its down and looking at it it to me looks steep too! but not much I can do at this stage. will get it runnin, see what happens. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thanks heaps for the replies. Will try to get better photos of it today, as soon as I read war and peace the manual for the camera.
as long as my train goes around for a while, I'll be happy, you should remember Im not that serious! If then dont, then will do something about it
ok, heres some more photos http://members.optusnet.com.au/~biggus2/pics/nscale/march_04/ the first few dont have the elevation across the lower track, so you can see the lower track! theres my assistant in there too Thoughts as to where others would put blocks or isolations on the track, I have a few in place but have to be up in 6 hours for work... Struck another problem, the cork I got from Sydney is thicker than the stuff I can get from down here in Melbourne Actually 1/2 a thick, so gluing 1 on top of other is a pain on corners... Also added some pics of the casters that it runs on as some were asking about them, dont look at the carpet, its rooted from dust and crap! Photo 124 gives an idea of the small section left to go till its a complete layout as such, then can finally do some wiring to run a train and see how many times they can fall off in 1 lap.. Will add more tomorrow..
layout looking great!! so how big is the area you are modeling? it looks like its not much more then 3foot by about 4foot??? I have that layout size your layout looks interesting with the grades like that and all I am thinking about doing the same thing and your pics gave me some great ideas on how to work some ok that into my layout thanks Mike
Mike.. Thanks for the words, the board is 7.5ftx4ft.... Its taken me actual working days, 8 days in total to get to this point. The elevations are a little steep, but yea with the area allowed, to do what I wanted, I had no choice. Not sure if I want to put more industry in the middle, or maybe a cross over off the top to a mine in the middle to 'break it up'... Next issue is where to run the blocks from where to, and how many, then the problems if wiring up, and then a control board of some form... Anyone know where to get a 'stencil' made up of a layout to overlay onto a controlboad, then I could just add my switches for points and power onto that?? Thanks people.
VB, It's easy enough to make your own. Paint the blank board (1/4" Masonite works well) white. When dry, lay out your pattern using automotive striping tape (available at any auto parts store) and then spray black over the whole thing. Peel the striping tape, and there is your pattern.
Yea too easy Peter!! was thinking of all CAD people, and paying things, but thats too simple Hmm will have to hone my artistic skills A LOT thanks for the tip.. This is a modified section of the first image in this thread, the cross over now has a bypass to allow 2 totally seperate loops.
Virtual, I'm sure you are know it but in case you don't, those cross overs are referred to as double cross overs. Wiring on them somtimes can be a bit of a bear, if you encounter this, post a pick of it in the appropriate scale and and ask for help.
