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26 Aug 2019, 6:36 am

My last railway took me a month and a half of every evening working on it just to do the wiring. Usually ten year projects, why my last one never got finished.

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26 Aug 2019, 6:46 am

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My last railway took me a month and a half of every evening working on it just to do the wiring. Usually ten year projects, why my last one never got finished.

that sounds very involved, engineering intense.

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26 Aug 2019, 6:59 am

Is why I decided to make a little portable one which I assumed it would take a couple of months, but a couple of years later... Mind you, I have not taken the easiest route making my own track and also I don't work on it often. Once or twide a month maybe. I get stages where I do a lot but then I do nothing for a while...

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26 Aug 2019, 7:08 am

^^^the more complicated something is, the more delays.

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11 Nov 2020, 6:28 am

It has taken me ages to get thw handrails done as I could not get my fingers or eyesight to do small things. Not finished yet, but things are slowly moving ahead!

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11 Nov 2020, 6:30 am

^^^wow you did that one yourself? that is handiwork there :wtg:

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11 Nov 2020, 6:37 am

This one is a Smallbrook body kit on a Hornby chassis.

Take a look at this for more.... Click here ⊙ Quite a few pages on the thread to look at.

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11 Nov 2020, 1:07 pm

You’re doing a wonderful job on this train and I’m sure Ms P is going to love it!!

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11 Nov 2020, 3:36 pm

I will do a bit at a time until it is finished. Not a lot to do now.

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11 Nov 2020, 5:18 pm

Very nice job on the handrails ...... your engine is just coming along .

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11 Nov 2020, 7:52 pm

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Is it normal to have hobbies which are more then just a hobby.

Using myself and my life as the only reference for answering ...
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YES! :lol:

Hobbies have led to individual friendships, clubs, & even 3 different formal jobs while my defective body was up to working, with the last one being manager of a franchise hobby shop.

Have in past also made informal money doing custom hobby work for people.

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11 Nov 2020, 7:55 pm

Mountain Goat wrote:

... but things are slowly moving ahead!

Ahh yes, the many slow-motion adventures to be had in railway modeling,

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Now the modern Hornby Chinese made track pins also have domed heads and the dome part was fowling the wheel flanges. Another point I needed to alter whilw building in this way was the need to drill four pilot holes through every sleeper as the track pins would split each sleeper if I did not. Now fortunately I had lots of old Hornby Margate track pins which have flat heads and I had just enough if I only used them on the insides of the rail where the flanges go.... But the Margate flat head track pins were thinner, so needed new thinner pilot holes to be drilled. This meant that I had to move every sleeper on the layout to a fresh undrilled location and had to re-drill each one in two different sizes which ended up as quite a time consuming job...

Points and diamonds are things I've not yet tried scratchbuilding.

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11 Nov 2020, 8:33 pm

Worth experimenting with scraps of old track.

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12 Nov 2020, 11:44 am

TRAINS TRAINS TRAINS .............

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24 Nov 2020, 6:09 pm

I found this.

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27 Nov 2020, 12:30 pm

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I found this.

Lurking in the annex to an aerial installer's website I found this railway gem :
http://www.wrightsaerials.tv/annexe/wagon-shops.shtml
Scratchbuiling wagons at 305mm to the foot.

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