Frankland: N gauge Southern Railway

[EWIYmike]

SouthernBoy, i'm southern green with envy!

nice pun *steals*

[THE CHIEF]

Well ive seen the pannel test but you kept the cabs quite. Well played The sub is looking great! Is that a 108 chassis youve got for it? I only ask as its the 57ft lenght you need.

[SouthernBoy]

Spot on Chief - it's the 108. Although with the cabs added the carriage length is increased by a few millimetres, so I've cut and shut a small section of Plasticard to increase the length of the chassis (photos in next update).

[BROADTRAIN1979]

Well done that man great detail and like the fact, that your using the 108 chassis ,for the emu model, as thats what im intending to use, for my 501 emu and with sound blown on to a lok mini decoder, from the 00 scale sound 4 cep emu .Love those suburban houses and trams too

[EWIYmike]

i have a bit of a n00b question but, you designed this layout on anyrail right? and then printed it out to scale and layed the track out on that? if so, was anyrail acurate and was it easy enough to follow?

[SouthernBoy]

I used RailModeller (Mac programme), then printed it out and layed track over it - See page 1 of this thread. I'd say it was 95% accurate.

[EWIYmike]

ahh looks very similar to anyrail, but yeh i think ill be adopting that approach

[SouthernBoy]

Frankland Update No. 16




Hello, welcome, and here is the news broadcast from Frankland:


Until recently the carriage sidings at Frankland looked like this:




Recently The Chief kindly offered me first refusal on stock he was thinning out - so now my carriage sidings look like this




The Chief kindly threw in a couple of bonus points (below). I'm specially pleased with the utility van, it's a cut-and-shut job from two of the Dapol vans. Thanks Chief!



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3-SUB

Continued from previous post ...

For the two driving units I filled in windows that weren't needed and used a bit of fuse wire to create the second of the double doors for the guard/luggage van.




Everything was primed.




I stuck sections of self-adhesive address label onto the carriage sides - then cut out panels to create the effect of raised beading.






Here's a driving unit with first coat of Southern Green. You can see where I cut grooves in two of the panels to represent the ventilation louvers of the originals




Next I added Plasticard running boards etc.



To create the domed roof of the two cabs I also used Plasticard which I filed and sanded to shape.




More Plasticard was used to modify the bogies.





Last week I took a holiday and powered through the remaining jobs ...


... and last night had a finished 3-SUB up and running


Here's the first train running into Frankland.








And some close-ups so you can see detailing better...







Here's the motor - it doesn't take up too much space.



There are a few minor details to add such as a couple more cab-front cables, chains for the coupling hooks, and the cabs need a final coat of varnish, but otherwise it's a finished job






I guess I should add some third rail next ...

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And that's the end of the news.

[Zunnan]

That 3-SUB is a work of art!

Now that you have cut your teeth with converting the Farish generic coaches, have you given any further thought to giving the corridor stock a hack about to produce some Maunsells a la those made for Porkington?

[SouthernBoy]

Hello Zunnan, thanks!

And yes, I was thinking about that only a few days ago. Looking at the book 'Maunsell's SR Steam Carriage Stock', it seems his earlier carriages have the lower corridor windows, like on the Farish generics, so they're an almost perfect match. They'd just need repainting and fresh decals - so definitely 'on the cards'

[0121modeller]

Excellent & inspirational work as usual Mark,
great photo shoots too,... I think I need a better camera now I'm into N gauge,.. my 6.1mp has "close up" but not macro facility which I think is needed for that sort of quality.

Great modelling mate, keep inspiring !

Dave.

[EWIYmike]

wow things are looking really great on frankland!
wish i had that many coaches =[

[Dead Man's Handle]

Always nice to see a good bit of butchering. The thought of doing it in N terrifies me... I'm struggling to get the right number of rivets in 4mm

Looking good!

Ade

[SouthernBoy]

Thanks for comments chaps ...

0121modeller
I probably take at least twice as many pictures as I show, and make sure I've got good light too. The camera is a basic Lumix, nothing special - the main factor for me was it had the largest viewfinder which I think helps.

EWIYmike
You can never have too many coaches! My next layout will have extensive carriage sidings. I just love looking at that sea of green

Dead Man's Handle
Butchering !?!
I work with the precision of the most practiced surgeon and the finesse of a fine artist

[rabbitaway]

Hi Southern Boy

The 3-SUB EMU looks brilliant it must have taken hours to build!

Are you going to do some more scenic work as it would be great to see some of your buildings progressing?

This is going to be a stunning layout when it is finished