Fantastic build and especially in N. So good to see scratch building going on, and particularly in your case, to a very high standard. It seems to be a bit of a rare art and not many of us giving it a go, when the rewards are massive. You can build exactly what you want. I’ve not come across any manufacturer who makes skew bridges, let alone to the size you want nor the correct angle of the road below. Great job.
Thank you - after seeing your high standards, that means a lot. I’m really enjoying scratch building and that’s why I was so pleased to find your channel!
Brilliant! Build looks fantastic, you can almost hear the dripping water! LOL! Just discovered your channel and have subscribed as a fellow N gauge modeller.
Thank you for subscribing, Karl! I am pleased you like the build. The viaduct is almost finished now. Lockdown has enabled me to get it done quicker than I thought I would. The next video will show an iron arch I’ve scratch built from card and then I only have three more arches to do.
Hi Michael. Great work on the bridge. I must say that I was surprised at the gauge of piano wire you have bought; I'm sure other modellers have used a narrower gauge. Didn't notice the patch until you mentioned it! Good to see you are eating healthily.
That's interesting. As with everything I do, I just make it up as I go along. I know the Cobalt point motors have really thick wire, so I just went with about the same. It will have a long way to travel (about 120mm from motor to track), so I thought anything thinner would bend and not throw the point.
That archway looks absolutely brilliant. I cannot believe how excited one can get watching someone finishing off his archway LOL. Those edging bits really finish it off. Regarding the slight crease inside the arch, you wont see it when its down and we are all our worst critics. The amount of detail is amazing and I think people forget we are working in N gauge when the end product is so good, most think along the lines of 00. Shame about the piano wire going through the roof of the arch but if you had not pointed it out I dont think anyone would have noticed. As you have so much piano wire I would have built a angled base for the point motor to fit on than attach it underneath the layout so that the wire goes through the arch pillar at an angle into the point mechanism as its only got to move it sideways. I have seen points operated like that before with no issues but never tried it myself. I really love the track work leading into your terminal, bit like mine which is why I wanted to copy Bognor apart from living nearby. Brilliant Michael, not many could pull that angle bridge off as you have. Regards Chris
Thank you! Yes, I’m always my own worst critic but I do love how the viaduct has ended up. It never occurred to me to bend the piano wire. I’m not an engineer, that’s for sure! Thank you for your kind words!
i have revisited this video a few times, and been thinking about your point activator going through the arch. As it will probably end up beside the road, maybe even on the kerb, why not glue a small traffic sign onto it, paint the bottom "galvanised steel" colour and above the sign a mucky sort of brick colour. Makes a virtue out of a carbuncle.
amazing build, as always. Only thing I would have done differently and this comes down to personal taste, is have the bricks on the underside of the arch bridge run horizontally, not diagonally. From my perspective it just looks... odd, that the discolouring of the bricks runs on an angle instead of straight across. Personal taste, that's all.
Thanks Ken. This diagonal ‘twist’ is actually prototypical. The effect is caused by the brick course having to run perpendicular to the bridge buttresses. If you do a Google search for “brick skew bridge” you will see some examples. But there’s nothing wrong with having it straight of course! 😀👍
Nice scratch build and beautifully executed. I used the same method, more or less, on my own layout to build a similar skewed road bridge over a couple of lines going into the fiddle yard. Can I ask the size of the layout - love the tracks over the arches, think you have the start of a pretty impressive layout. Cheers Euan
Thank you for your encouragement - it’s good to hear. I’m away at the moment and don’t have the exact measurements to hand but Chandwell is built along two walls of my office (garage!). I think it must be about 2 metres on one edge and 2.5 on the other, of which 1 metre is the fiddle yard. I’ll let you know exactly at the weekend and I may put up a short overview video.
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It gets better and better.
Thanks,
Bob
Thanks Bob!
Even when you get a close up of the arches, which then look like 0 guage, they still cracking, excellent modelling. Rob
Thank you Rob, that is very kind of you to say. I’m really pleased with how well things look in close up. Thanks for watching. Michael.
Fantastic build and especially in N. So good to see scratch building going on, and particularly in your case, to a very high standard. It seems to be a bit of a rare art and not many of us giving it a go, when the rewards are massive. You can build exactly what you want. I’ve not come across any manufacturer who makes skew bridges, let alone to the size you want nor the correct angle of the road below. Great job.
Thank you - after seeing your high standards, that means a lot. I’m really enjoying scratch building and that’s why I was so pleased to find your channel!
Brilliant! Build looks fantastic, you can almost hear the dripping water! LOL! Just discovered your channel and have subscribed as a fellow N gauge modeller.
Thank you for subscribing, Karl! I am pleased you like the build. The viaduct is almost finished now. Lockdown has enabled me to get it done quicker than I thought I would. The next video will show an iron arch I’ve scratch built from card and then I only have three more arches to do.
Hi Michael. Great work on the bridge. I must say that I was surprised at the gauge of piano wire you have bought; I'm sure other modellers have used a narrower gauge. Didn't notice the patch until you mentioned it! Good to see you are eating healthily.
That's interesting. As with everything I do, I just make it up as I go along. I know the Cobalt point motors have really thick wire, so I just went with about the same. It will have a long way to travel (about 120mm from motor to track), so I thought anything thinner would bend and not throw the point.
That archway looks absolutely brilliant. I cannot believe how excited one can get watching someone finishing off his archway LOL. Those edging bits really finish it off. Regarding the slight crease inside the arch, you wont see it when its down and we are all our worst critics. The amount of detail is amazing and I think people forget we are working in N gauge when the end product is so good, most think along the lines of 00.
Shame about the piano wire going through the roof of the arch but if you had not pointed it out I dont think anyone would have noticed. As you have so much piano wire I would have built a angled base for the point motor to fit on than attach it underneath the layout so that the wire goes through the arch pillar at an angle into the point mechanism as its only got to move it sideways. I have seen points operated like that before with no issues but never tried it myself.
I really love the track work leading into your terminal, bit like mine which is why I wanted to copy Bognor apart from living nearby.
Brilliant Michael, not many could pull that angle bridge off as you have.
Regards Chris
Thank you! Yes, I’m always my own worst critic but I do love how the viaduct has ended up. It never occurred to me to bend the piano wire. I’m not an engineer, that’s for sure! Thank you for your kind words!
i have revisited this video a few times, and been thinking about your point activator going through the arch. As it will probably end up beside the road, maybe even on the kerb, why not glue a small traffic sign onto it, paint the bottom "galvanised steel" colour and above the sign a mucky sort of brick colour. Makes a virtue out of a carbuncle.
Great idea! As it happens though, because I so rarely actually run trains, I have decided not to bother with point activators at all! :)
amazing build, as always. Only thing I would have done differently and this comes down to personal taste, is have the bricks on the underside of the arch bridge run horizontally, not diagonally. From my perspective it just looks... odd, that the discolouring of the bricks runs on an angle instead of straight across. Personal taste, that's all.
Thanks Ken. This diagonal ‘twist’ is actually prototypical. The effect is caused by the brick course having to run perpendicular to the bridge buttresses. If you do a Google search for “brick skew bridge” you will see some examples. But there’s nothing wrong with having it straight of course! 😀👍
Make the piano wire into a lamp post...?
Good idea!
Nice scratch build and beautifully executed. I used the same method, more or less, on my own layout to build a similar skewed road bridge over a couple of lines going into the fiddle yard. Can I ask the size of the layout - love the tracks over the arches, think you have the start of a pretty impressive layout. Cheers Euan
Thank you for your encouragement - it’s good to hear. I’m away at the moment and don’t have the exact measurements to hand but Chandwell is built along two walls of my office (garage!). I think it must be about 2 metres on one edge and 2.5 on the other, of which 1 metre is the fiddle yard. I’ll let you know exactly at the weekend and I may put up a short overview video.
I've added a short video which includes the size of the layout. ruclips.net/video/GfOj-gTBW28/видео.html