... topic: 2011 Understanding the docs posted: 10 Jul 2012 20:09 from: Martin Wynne This message has just been posted on the 3rd PlanIt email group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3rdPlanIt/message/33748 There are obvious echoes there for the Templot help docs. I've heard the same thing several times over the years -- "I can't learn by reading, I have to see it". That was one of the reasons I changed to creating the videos instead of producing more static tutorials. But that message is excellently written and perfectly clear. Far better in fact than the many garbled posted messages I see on some forums. I'm really puzzled how someone who says he can't understand the written word can write so clearly. Has it perhaps been written by someone else on his behalf? It doesn't read that way. What can I learn from this about the way forward for the updated Templot docs? regards, Martin. posted: 10 Jul 2012 20:15 from: JFS If I had to lay a ...

... topic: 3694 How to define size of second road of tandem turnout? posted: 10 Jun 2020 08:31 from: William Williamson I've got a scissors formation I'm modelling- and opposing corners have a slip and a threeway. The slip is fine, but the threeway is causing me a bit of head-scratching. I require a 1:6 turnout angle on the scissor side, but the other side can be as wide as is needed. The 'create tandem' function however always seems to insert the second road 'inside' the first route, so in this case it has created a 1:4.93 tandem: HGQvrOV.png http://i.imgur.com/HGQvrOV.png I'd be happy for this to be a 1:8 or above, but not sure quite how to ensure that. I could build it in reverse, with the 'first' road going towards the top of the plan and then generate a tandem to create the turnout that's part of the scissors- but if I were to build it in reverse, I'm not sure how I ...

... (r *r- b*b /4) You could just double that for the needed extra and use 40ft for the bogie centers. Or calculate the extra overhang at the end using the coach length l as= sqrt((r -c )* (r -c)+ l*l /4)- r Mike Johnson Just checked the Guild manual and it says that a BR Mk1 should need 80mm centers at 1800mm radius, so something is wrong. Last edited on 19 Feb 2012 14:10 by mike47j posted: 19 Feb 2012 22:19 from: dessire_luvals Thanks everyone. I have used Dellboy's spreadsheet which whilst calculating out more than Martin's formula does seem acceptable. posted: 19 Feb 2012 22:45 from: Martin Wynne mike47j wrote: Just checked the Guild manual and it says that a BR Mk1 should need 80mm centres at 1800mm radius, so something is wrong. Hi Mike, My copy of the Guild Manual says 84.2mm centres at 1800mm radius. edit: updated link for Templot2: http:/ ...

... :05 from: Raymond Windows 7 Professional and Bitdefender. Bitdefender invoked ransomeware warning but once Templot was identifed as an OK program, it worked fine and loaded as expected. posted: 25 Feb 2017 18:01 from: Bob Juleff Just to let you know, I too have had difficulty with the automatic update, experiencing the same problems with my anti virus as affected David and Raymond. I have now successfully updated using Martin's link above although I didn't need to run as administrator or anything thereafter. I am running Windows 10 with Bullguard antivirus. Bob posted: 25 Feb 2017 19:34 from: Martin Wynne Hello Bob, Raymond, Thanks for the reports. Did you have any problems with the previous 214a update a month ago? There is no difference in the system or installation, only the program file itself has minor changes. I was hoping to adopt a little and often approach to the updates, to avoid getting a lot of half-forgotten loose ends needing to be finished before an update is ready. Which is what happened ...

... (in one or both rails), but I don't have any details of the radii. They could of course be calculated from the specified gap, but it's time for me to cook a meal -- over to you. V-crossing knuckle gaps are given in the table on this page: http://templot.com/martweb/templot_forum.htm although some of them appear to have been muddled up in a misprint. Yes it is called a wing rail. regards, Martin. posted: 9 Mar 2016 21:10 from: DerekStuart Thanks Martin. I have filed down a little more on the point rail and it is better. I will see what it is like when finished (the real thing isn't exactly smooth). From the diagrams it does seem that the back of the point rail is just a standard flangeway gap from the wing rail. How it doesn't get hit by the back of the flange I don't know but I will just accept that if it's good enough for LNER it's good enough for 4mm. Enjoy dinner. ...

... . Hi Ian, No, it's a GWR 30ft straight switch: 2_170910_250000000.png The GWR had only 3 flexible switches, B, C and D, introduced for new work from 1930. For the other sizes, shorter and longer, they continued to use their older designs. There is no "normal" crossing angle, everything depends on the site, the traffic, and the line speed. If there is any curving it always means a longer crossing to avoid a severe speed restriction over the diverging turnout road. 1:10 is fine for a station throat or branch terminus area, but maybe a bit short for a running loop or crossover out in the country. On the other hand 1:16 seems generous, unless the turnouts are on a curve. Often in complex station throats 1:8 is used so that they match 1:8 diamond-crossings and slips (which is the longest angle allowed for fixed K-crossings, and then only if they are all-straight), but it does mean speeds must be kept ...

... 49 from: Martin Wynne See: http://quickpicbooks.homestead.com/Layout_design_contest.html posted: 12 May 2010 09:39 from: Brian Lewis Quite scandalous. Not only are the prizes miserable and cannot equate to the time and effort involved in creating the plan, but then they want your intellectual property as well! Seems to be a very cheap way of obtaining material for another layout book. Disgraceful. Regards Brian Lewis. Martin Wynne wrote: See: http://quickpicbooks.homestead.com/Layout_design_contest.html posted: posted: 12 May 2010 10:10 from: Martin Wynne Brian Lewis wrote: Quite scandalous. Not only are the prizes miserable and cannot equate to the time and effort involved in creating the plan, but then they want your intellectual property as well! Seems to be a very cheap way of obtaining material for another layout book. Well yes, if you design layouts for reward or financial gain you won't be going anywhere near this. But most folks just enjoy layout designing as a pastime, and this is a bit of incentive to do that ...

... : 25 Sep 2007 01:34 from: donald peters A stunning piece of work by Rod Cameron. Wonderfully informative, full of scale detail, contrasty and exposing prototype textures and litter. If the RMJ or even the GWR Journal had this sort quality observation in them once more, I wouldn't hesitate to place a regular order again. Congratulations Donald Peters posted: 9 Jan 2008 21:30 from: Roderic Cameron Thanks for the kind comments- some more photos at Sheffield Park and Oakworth have been added subsequently. posted: 10 Jan 2008 06:53 from: Brian Lewis Beware: Advertising plug: Just a brief note to advise that almost all those items photographed- and many that were not, are available as 7mm lost wax castings in the C+ L Finescale range. They will be on display at St. Albans this coming weekend, both for sale and in some quantity on 'Llaniog'. Regards Brian Lewis posted: 10 Jan 2008 14:41 from: Roderic Cameron But not in 4mm Brian? posted: 10 Jan 2008 16 ...

... chairs match those on the point chair sprue sold as TPP1. I have some of the older chairs, bought a long time ago, and frankly that tool had obviously long worn out! A picture of the plain chair sprue would be very useful! Cheers, Paul Hi Paul Very good question! Didn't even know these sprues existed! On the odd occasion I've needed to use individual chairs on plain track rather than use the plain track bases (e.g. when gauge widening) I've used the point chair sprues, which contain 10 plain chairs per sprue (as well as a slide chair and a check rail chair). Here's a point chair sprue: 528_201500_140000000.jpg and here's a point being built with them: 528_201501_330000000.jpg I'd suggest a question to the Society egroup. Edit: or I could ask if you're not a member. cheers Nigel Last edited on 20 Sep 2020 20:04 by Nigel Brown posted: 20 Sep 2020 20:11 from: Paul Boyd Hi Nigel Thanks for the info. There's an egroup? I had a good look around ...

... note to Martin I can't seem to find my notes on the scale drawings maths to get the scales to match. Dave posted: 18 Oct 2009 20:58 from: Martin Wynne davelong wrote: note to Martin I can't seem to find my notes on the scale drawings maths to get the scales to match. Hi Dave, It's in your own Stechford topic at: topic 763- message 4427 With the image showing at 100% in PaintShopPro or your favourite photo editor program, measure the number of pixels occupied by the 10 metre scale bar on the map, and also note the full width of the image in pixels (showing in the program status bar, usually). To measure pixels, you can draw a selection rectangle and look in the status bar of your photo editor program, or you can use a screen pixel ruler such as the free one available from: http://www.spadixbd.com/freetools/ Then divide the number of pixels on the scale bar into the width of the image in pixels. In your case you measured ...