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One end glued on, it's well and truly stuck which is a relief (me and glue have a long and tempestuous relationship). One slight problem with this is getting a centre line along the tank for fitting the walkways above and chassis below 'straight'. Clamp it in something. Set callipers (or similar) t...

as long as you are aware that some RTR N - especially older product - has 'wayward' wheelsets, thus some rewheeling is likely to be necessary unless you can be very selective in your purchases. Yes, my initial locos are my old early 80's Farish class 33 that I've just stuck new gears on and dropped...

Plan? I always liked the idea of building track and turnouts, I've never owned anything other than N gauge but have worked on other peoples EM layouts and enjoy building track and that and making things look less uniform, like building complex crossings on curves etc. Not ridiculous to build mine us...

Thanks guys, at least I'm on the right track! I'm not trying to skimp on the tools but I am going off piste, hand building N gauge track using 2mm components so not got any off the shelf jigs and tools to use.

For track. There's examples of filing and assembly jigs in this thread on the Templot forum. https://85a.uk/templot/club/index.php?threads/rail-filing-jigs-3d-printed.226/ I was just after a general idea of what other people use, I'm assuming not everyone that hand builds track uses off the shelf ma...

I see various filing jigs available from several suppliers and clubs but if I want to use different angles and sizes this can get expensive buying half a dozen variations. What did we used to do before these were all available? I was thinking of making a multi angle filing/alignment jig. Simplest op...