... are planned but please don't ask for a date, I've got a layout to finish first. Although I will need the chairs for the layout so... Regards Dave R Off The Rails http://www.shapeways.com/shops/otr Last edited on 23 Aug 2014 15:33 by David R posted: 31 Oct 2011 15:52 from: Raymond I am very please to see this, congratulations on what must be a difficult and time consuming job. I imagine you will be getting a great many orders soon including one one from me. Unless I am mistaken, the 1.50 version should be fine for 31.5mm? Regards Raymond posted: 31 Oct 2011 22:42 from: David R Raymond wrote: Unless I am mistaken, the 1.50 version should be fine for 31.5mm? Their primary role was to be for sharp gauge-widened curves in S7 but also be suitable for the 31.Xmm gauges as well. If you use what seems to be the Slaters' back-to-back dimension of 29.2mm then the 1.25mm check-rail ...

... They seemed to be a distraction. 2) Probably within Xplain as long as it doesn't interfere with the clarity. Less moving of the eye to read is always good. The issue there is that if there is text in the Xplain it needs to be manually stop-start, so that the there is time to stop and read it. Without text it can run on autoplay. A difficult choice. The Xplains are quick to edit and update, but text on the page is even quicker, and can more easily include clickable links, tables, etc. A constant thought is "if I make a typo in this, how quickly can I get back to fix it?". For the videos that's about 15 minutes. For Xplains maybe 5 minutes. For page text 5 seconds, and it can wait for the next Companion upload. cheers, Martin. posted: 21 Jul 2019 15:17 from: Phil O HI Martin, I have had a quick look on my tablet and looks useful, especially as it seems to ...

... Wynne Hi Bill, A further change I think you need to make is to change the V-crossing on the first LH turnout (49) to curviform pattern. Otherwise you have an unsightly reverse curve in the vee splice rail. Put the peg on CTRL-0 first. You can use make branch track to link it back in to existing tracks. Very often when the curving is negative like this a change to curviform is needed. To complete the tandem may I suggest you join the development group? The TDV includes the option of using a partial gaunt turnout for the middle V-crossing, which is much easier to adjust. Some notes about doing that are here: message 9841 regards, Martin. posted: 18 Oct 2011 23:27 from: Bill_Lobb Tony W wrote: Hi Bill. Interesting project. I don't think there would be too many problems building it although the radius of the second turnout road seems rather sharp to me. Good luck with your project. Tony. Thank you for this reply. I hope into ...

... topic: 208 Interlaced turnouts, including NER at Hessle posted: 26 Oct 2007 18:40 from: Martin Wynne For timber-shoving enthusiasts, Mick Nicholson has very kindly supplied this superb picture of NER interlaced-sleeper turnouts at Hessle. Looking at these old pictures (this is thought to be the 1890s) it is easy to imagine it actually looked like that. Remember that even in those days the sky was blue, the trees were green and the bricks were red. On the other hand, the colour of the track is probably correct. This below is a smaller image for this web page. A high-resolution image (3094 x 2079 pixels, 3MB) can be downloaded from large image. (Right click on the link and Save Target/Link As...). hessle_interlaced_ner.jpg Martin. posted: 27 Oct 2007 22:19 from: Jim Guthrie Just to show that interlacing was not necessarily old.... blackford.jpg This is at Blackford Station on the ex Caledonian line to the north east. The ...

... topic: 480 Print to image posted: 9 Jul 2008 01:06 from: richard_t Can anyone suggest a good/free (or both!!) print to image printer driver? TIA Richard. posted: 9 Jul 2008 01:33 from: Martin Wynne richard_t wrote: Can anyone suggest a good/free (or both!!) print to image printer driver? Hi Richard, Some Epson printers include a print to bitmap option. You may be able to download and install a driver without the printer. I use Snagit. Not free, although there is a free trial. It's primarily for screen captures, but includes a good virtual printer which can save large bitmap images. Like this: fremington_print_b1.png fremington_print_b2.png fremington_print_b3.png regards, Martin. posted: 9 Jul 2008 02:05 from: richard_t Martin Wynne wrote: richard_t wrote: Can anyone suggest a good/free (or both!!) print to image printer driver? Hi Richard, I use Snagit. Not free, although there is a free trial. It's primarily ...

... wish. Create a collection of the templates you require and arrange them as a row or column somewhere on the trackpad. Save them as a group. Add the file to any track plan you are working on. You can then use make as a copy, or press K, to pick and place them into your track plan. Here's a bit of video showing how to do that: http://flashbackconnect.com/Default.aspx?id=kHUQeE0BqcgDv96O5BeIxw2 If you place them in the negative quadrant as shown, they won't be included when you print the track plan (unless you move the page origin to include them). You can give them suitable size names, which show when they are clicked, even if you have turned the name labels off: 2_151511_100000000.png cheers, Martin. posted: 16 Aug 2020 09:33 from: Igor Kurgan Dear Martin, sorry that i explained it wrong. Other programs can not do what i want or like, they are far away from what i would like to achieve! The aluminium strip that i buy ...

... /templot.com/companion/ directly within the Templot program. As you know there is very little actual content on there yet -- I am still experimenting with formats. I would welcome some feedback on how you find two of the formats, EXE and the simple viewer. Unlike the web site, these are able to launch files directly -- specifically in this case the FBR video tutorials, and also other useful utilities that I may write such as the dpi-awareness swapper. Which means the FBR videos can be directly included in the A-Z Index without needing to be downloaded and run from your browser. At present they are temporarily linked in the program from the watch a video> menu item in no particular order. Which is ok pro-tem, but is not a long-term solution as the number of them grows. I prefer the EXE version for ease of use, but unfortunately it won't run under Wine/ CrossOver. So I have also created the simple viewer version which will run anywhere. I have included the ...

... . It appears twice on each page, inside and outside the trim margins. The font-size for the small text is adjustable in the output menu, but if you make it too large you risk obscuring the template details. I think it would be convenient to have an option to edit the project title from within the print and PDF output functions, making it easier to remember to do so. I will look at adding that. Separately from all that, every template has a name, which could be edited to include a revision number. And a serial number. The serial number is already shown in the timber numbers. It is possible to have the template name label showing on the printed template, by converting it to a label shape in the background shapes, like this: 2_131025_250000000.png and it then appears on the printed output, as shown above. The snag there is that the label won't reflect any subsequent edits to the name, it would need to be deleted and recreated. All of which can only be done manually, so ...

... strong 70 years later, as all around it print magazines are dropping like flies (Bauer recently closed about a dozen titles). cheers, Martin. Hi Martin, It is a good job the battle between Peco and the Scalefour Society blew over back in the mid-seventies or we may not have RM anymore and we would all be modelling 18.83 I had a purge through RM a few years ago and tore out the 'useful' articles but who knows what I missed. I seem to remember that Peco wouldn't let advertisers include web links in their adverts in the early days of the internet- support your local model shop and all that- where would we be now without on-line sales? Rob posted: 8 Sep 2020 21:51 from: Martin Wynne Rob Manchester wrote: I seem to remember that Peco wouldn't let advertisers include web links in their adverts in the early days of the internet- support your local model shop and all that Hi Rob, The real reason was that they didn't (still don't?) allow advertising for ...

... around my image shape of the New Street Signal Box No. 5? Please see image below, I've also attached the shape file. Do you need the sk81 file? All the best, Brian Nicholls. 1853_021226_010000000.png Attachment: attach_1411_1895_signal_box_5_at_n ew_street_12_04_02_1656_29.bgs 349 posted: 2 Apr 2012 18:41 from: Martin Wynne Brian Nicholls wrote: No doubt before I even ask, it's going to be finger trouble on my part or something I am not setting correctly. Hi Brian, No, it's a fair cop. I have forgotten to include an option to turn off the picture shape borders for sketchboard and image file exports. There is an option tickbox for the borders for print and PDF output, but not for sketchboard and image files -- borders are always on there. I will add the option to turn them off in the next TDV update. Many thanks for finding and reporting it. However, I'm not too clear why you are using a background picture shape for this signal box? The background picture shapes are mainly intended for scanned track plans, ...