New layout pics.....

Phat Controller · Post by **Phat Controller** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:58 pm

....... can you tell me where you got the lattice type girders from? I like the way you've used them to hold up the top layer of your layout

HornbySucker · Post by **HornbySucker** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 4:05 pm

50p at a car boot sale - was a signal gantry, ready made - broke it into pieces and reused it in a more appropriate manner !

Phat Controller · Post by **Phat Controller** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:16 am

thanks for that ...... I'm now scouring EBay for spare bits of gantry!!

m.levin · Post by **m.levin** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:35 am

Hornbysucker posted:

Got to ask. What happerned to the bridge, it looks like it has melted.

Metrocamel · Post by **Metrocamel** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:07 pm

Maybe it's meant to look like a derailment has bent the metal.
Great picture by the way.

HornbySucker · Post by **HornbySucker** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:33 pm

WILL RELOAD IMAGES AS SOON AS I CAN

mortyfootball · Post by **mortyfootball** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:51 pm

Do you have a pic of that 56 in Trainload coal on it's own?

Cheers,

Shaun

m.levin · Post by **m.levin** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:10 pm

Ok

HornbySucker · Post by **HornbySucker** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 1:05 am

only have this pic Morty - probably not what you're after, but will take a good full length pic for you next time.

mortyfootball · Post by **mortyfootball** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 6:22 pm

Cheers

rmg1919 · Post by **rmg1919** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 12:43 am

Excellent layout you've got there. One thing you might want to try though is looking up the "macro" function on your camera. It took me a while to discover it, and it makes taking close-up photos look much more sharper and "in focus". I only discovered it 3 years after getting my digital camera - and suddenly I found my photos looking infinitely better!

Anyway, excellent layout... I've just started on my one, and I'd kill (well, almost!) for it to turn out as well as yours. congratulations!

HornbySucker · Post by **HornbySucker** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 1:47 am

The camera is quite old now, about 6 or 7 years - it's a Fuju MX1700 and I think 1.5M pixels. I do need to upgrade to something else. The circuitry does start to wear out after a while - this I am certain of. It doees have a macro function and I may have used it in some of the shots.

mortyfootball · Post by **mortyfootball** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 5:13 pm

HornbySucker wrote:1.5M pixels.

It's funny to think that some mobile phones have 3 megapixel cameras these days!

HornbySucker · Post by **HornbySucker** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:47 am

rmg1919 - LOVE your website ! Looking forward to watch it 'appen !!

rmg1919 · Post by **rmg1919** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 2:32 pm

HornbySucker wrote:rmg1919 - LOVE your website !

Thank you (though I still need to finish it)! I have to say the idea came to me when I was thinking about what "era" the layout would be based on. Because I quite like the old Intercity (Swallow?) livery and the NSE livery, but at the same time want it to be a present-dayish layout, I have opted to create a bit of a fictional background: i.e. my layout will be post-privatisation-done-different; i.e. BR would have continued operating trains in competition against the 'private' franchises (hence I can justify NSE and InterCity liveries, while justifying Virgin, FGW, etc.). The overall idea being that "Maidenfield Railways" would be responsible for the track and signalling rather than Network Rail/Railtrack.

Looking forward to watch it 'appen !!

So am I! I headed down to B&Q today to look at MDF, timber and cork. Have got it pretty sussed. Going to (hopefully) pick it up tomorrow (when it's not so busy) and make a start knocking the baseboard together.

The track should be arriving on Wednesday, so will hopefully have some proper pics and a final layout by the end of the week.