Just another thought, if youre using a lot of screw terminals in areas where you may meed to disconnect them eventually, id highly recommend use of Squires tools 'choc-bloc' connevtors, which are screw terminals, two sets, kust one of them (the sets of blocks) has a pin which locates into the other set, making it easy to clip the joints together. Hopefully you understand what i mean 😂
Just a thought about ballast - I use Pets at Home Calci Sand - about a tenner for a couple of Kilos. It's real stone too and looks incredibly fine and pretty realistic too. Much better value than other types, I highly recommend you take a look at some of that for the bit that needs reballasting 😁
All of the ballasting is done on the layout apart from that little section, and I'd quite like it to match, plus I can buy it in small quantities (as little as 50g) so it's ideal for just patching up small sections. I will definitely keep it in mind if I need some scenic aggregate for any of the sidings though, thank you!
Thankfully this didn't take me too long, maybe around 2hrs 30mins and that was with filming and setting up shots / re-recording explanations that I messed up! Odd that it's not isolating, not had that problem myself yet. Maybe a metal fragment in the mechanism?
I have tried it before when I re-ballasted some sections I did poorly the first time round, it worked but wasn't too effective (maybe my glue is too strong!) This area is right where two baseboards join, thus there is a slight gap and I didn't want to risk everything getting soaked. For larger areas this might be good idea. :)
Nice work.
Better to do it once and do it right. 👍
Happy Modelling
Thank you! Absolutely, I should've realised sooner how much of a pain it was going to be and installed the motors right from the start!
Just another thought, if youre using a lot of screw terminals in areas where you may meed to disconnect them eventually, id highly recommend use of Squires tools 'choc-bloc' connevtors, which are screw terminals, two sets, kust one of them (the sets of blocks) has a pin which locates into the other set, making it easy to clip the joints together. Hopefully you understand what i mean 😂
Just a thought about ballast - I use Pets at Home Calci Sand - about a tenner for a couple of Kilos. It's real stone too and looks incredibly fine and pretty realistic too. Much better value than other types, I highly recommend you take a look at some of that for the bit that needs reballasting 😁
All of the ballasting is done on the layout apart from that little section, and I'd quite like it to match, plus I can buy it in small quantities (as little as 50g) so it's ideal for just patching up small sections. I will definitely keep it in mind if I need some scenic aggregate for any of the sidings though, thank you!
Hmmm. I just did a video on my insulfrog points from Hornby not isolating the passing loop, I'm toying with ripping it out and probably should
Thankfully this didn't take me too long, maybe around 2hrs 30mins and that was with filming and setting up shots / re-recording explanations that I messed up! Odd that it's not isolating, not had that problem myself yet. Maybe a metal fragment in the mechanism?
Have you tried spraying the ballast with warm/hot water to soften the pva and then remove it?
I have tried it before when I re-ballasted some sections I did poorly the first time round, it worked but wasn't too effective (maybe my glue is too strong!) This area is right where two baseboards join, thus there is a slight gap and I didn't want to risk everything getting soaked. For larger areas this might be good idea. :)