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Unread post by **Rp0thejester** » 20 Sep 2023, 20:50

I'm assuming your building all these as places as miniatures for an outdoor railway set on your garden which heads back to the terminal in your shed?

NewcastleFalcon · Unread post by **NewcastleFalcon** » 20 Sep 2023, 21:06

That would be good, but expensive so not on the cards right now.

Neil

Unread post by **Rp0thejester** » 20 Sep 2023, 21:13

It's surprisingly cheap to buy the materials to build these stations in miniature form. Most expensive bit is your time and effort

Unread post by **myglaren** » 20 Sep 2023, 21:17

May be heading for something of this nature.

Unread post by **Rp0thejester** » 20 Sep 2023, 22:30

I was thinking smaller as in back garden size with no strangers turning up, as in, in and around the plants curving track, there's the blah blah signal box station in front of the roses etc..

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NewcastleFalcon · Unread post by **NewcastleFalcon** » 22 Sep 2023, 16:34

This summer the Falcon younger generation visited Hamburg and the "Minatur Wunderland", and found it fascinating.

So how do the cars trucks buses fire engines etc work in the city? Magnets and wires under the streets, explained here

https://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/dis ... -carsytem/

Not quite Mick's idea the other day on Car news Global and domestic, but if it works in miniature, could it in real life

Neil

NewcastleFalcon · Unread post by **NewcastleFalcon** » 27 Sep 2023, 18:46

Time to start putting some "glazing" in the window frames. It's around £20 a window for the Acrylic (3mm) cut to my specified size. With having effectively 12 sub-frames in each of the 8 windows, the 3mm is going to have plenty of support/ mounting points to give it rigidity and prevent flapping about. Going up to 5mm or 6mm doubles the price and a bit unnecessarily OTT.

Just got one sheet today see how it works and the best way of mounting it. The sheet is 82.5mm x 62.5mm and will remain as such for the mounting trial, and not be cut up into 12 individual panes. If all goes well I will apply the same method to the remaining windows and get the other sheets measured and ordered.

: Bay plastics Finest
Tyne Tunnel Trading Estate

Neil

Unread post by **myglaren** » 27 Sep 2023, 19:39

There is also Amari on the Team Valley Trading Estate Neil, may be a bit far for you to go. I used to get polycarbonate (Plexiglass) sheet from them but have no idea of the prices as it wasn't me who paid the bills.

NewcastleFalcon · Unread post by **NewcastleFalcon** » 27 Sep 2023, 20:40

Thanks Steve always good to know where these specialists are. I've used Bay before, and they were pretty good today. The penny eventually dropped for me on what the guy at the counter was saying. They custom cut whatever size you specify, and don't have racks of pre-cut standard sizes. My craftsmanship hasn't evolved to making all 8 windows exactly the same size, so the custom cutting will be called upon anyway.

Neil

Unread post by **mickthemaverick** » 27 Sep 2023, 20:51

Just a thought Neil, I can't tell from the pics but if any of your windows are openers I would advise 5mm glazing on them. The continual movement and torque stress from the wind etc on open windows warrants a stiffer pain to avoid warping. If they are all rigid then I agree 3mm should be fine.

NewcastleFalcon · Unread post by **NewcastleFalcon** » 27 Sep 2023, 21:08

mickthemaverick wrote: ↑27 Sep 2023, 20:51 Just a thought Neil, I can't tell from the pics but if any of your windows are openers I would advise 5mm glazing on them. The continual movement and torque stress from the wind etc on open windows warrants a stiffer pain to avoid warping. If they are all rigid then I agree 3mm should be fine.

Thanks Mick. In the actual signal box, only windowa 1 and 4 are openers...sliding as opposed to opening outwards. I have kept things simple...all the windows are fixed non-openers

: Alston windows two openers, two fixed

: alston sig box inside

Neil

NewcastleFalcon · Unread post by **NewcastleFalcon** » 29 Sep 2023, 19:40

POTD Damsons link to

to the special railway for the Wilkin and Sons Jam Factory and Tiptree Station

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiptree_railway_station

Tiptree railway station (postcard)
A.G. Wallis, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Neil

Unread post by **myglaren** » 29 Sep 2023, 21:04

Just bought some of their Tomato ketchup in the hope that it will be better than the Heinz et al crap.
Lidl/Aldi used to have some excellent Chinese tomato ketchup that disappeared a year ago

NewcastleFalcon · Unread post by **NewcastleFalcon** » 01 Oct 2023, 22:12

Draft finishing touches, double signals and homage "gates" loosely based on Downham Market, and Alston sign in Orange and white.

: Falcon Original

Neil

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