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... because you gain the space taken by two margins. It does look a little odd when stacked in the printer- make sure it's supported. In P4, even quite large formations can now fit on a single sheet of paper, and a B8 turnout in S7 just fits onto one sheet of paper. I say paper, but I actually use 250gsm card- look for "250gsm Silky Smooth Thick White Card" on eBay (no connection to the seller, "activepaper"). This stuff is much cheaper than A2 Bristol Board (if you can actually find it in stock anywhere in that size) but has a shiny surface. This means that the ink smudges quite easily even when printed in draft mode and left for 24hrs, but to solve that I varnished it with a polyurethane varnish which both protects the ink and the paper when liquids start being sloshed all over it in the frenzy of track building! Anyway, this might give someone food for thought posted: 29 May 2012 11:26 from: Glen Suckling Paul Boyd wrote: ...
... new home with my new wife, my thoughts have gone back to creating something railway related of, I hope, beauty. For many years I have been scratching my head as to a suitable candidate, I did many years ago want to model Weston super Mare in "N ", based around the early 1960's. It soon became clear that this was going to be a massive and expensive undertaking, without giving me the results I wished for. I now work in a village called Yatton. This is on the main Bristol to Exeter main line and was the western end for the Chedder valley (Strawberry) line. It also served Clevedon. Whilst not massive, it has all the makings of what I want to achieve, main line through trains (with a bit of compromise) and branch line working. I can even have an engine shed and some goods yards! This project can just fit in my roof space if modelled in EM, and will allow me to have the trackwork finish and locomotive detail that was badly missing in " ...
... b) possibility of affecting plastic timbering according to some (especially of the thin variety) c) despite claims to the contrary- the bond to plywood is not as good as to plastic. I must admit that it hadn't previously occurred to me that anyone was using anything other than solvent for fixing plastic chairs to ply timbers! I accept that the plastic-plastic solvent bond must be stronger than plastic-ply, but for my needs, plastic-ply is strong enough as the P&C work stays on the Bristol board templates. I'm also not shipping pointwork around the world! I've also been known to sneak in a few rivets... I will give the Plastizap method a go though because another problem with solvent d) it evaporates like nobody's business if the lid is left off, like when you're using it Thanks for the tip about using a specialist superglue- my default is Loctite 435 which, I've discovered, sticks plastic slide chairs to rail sides strongly enough to break the chair if you need to remove it (ahem ...
... station had those right from the entrance/exit tunnels at either side of the station. These restrictions varied between 10 MPH, down to 5 MPH at tighter sections of the track, so I do not think this will give rise to a problem of putting in some shorter wing and/or check rails, as and where absolutely necessary. The 10 MPH restrictions are to be found at the entrance/exit sections of the track-work where the track is straight to go through the tunnels, with the exception of the Bristol/Gloucester tunnel on the Midland side of the station which is very curved and carries a 5 MPH limit. 5 MPH restrictions are just about everywhere else throughout the station, so should not be a problem. I had considered wheel sizes (diameter that is) might give problems with short wing rails, I mean, if one is modelling modern small wheeled rolling stock (diesels& electric locos), and some one else wants to model using large diameter single drive wheeled Stirlings (2 -2 -2) for ...
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... the time to go through each page of this topic and there are lots of good pictures. There is a learning curve with Templot but it is the best software for custom designed track and turnouts. Regards Bill Campbell. posted: 20 Jan 2011 18:07 from: Paul Boyd Hi Nicholas It would be nice if it remembered that the printer was calibrated. How can Templot know which printer you want to use, or which paper? I mainly use a Canon i850 inkjet, but sometimes use cheap copy paper, sometimes Bristol Board, sometimes telex roll, and that's just for Templot. I have a separate calibration file for each paper type for just that one printer. For really rough and ready prints I use an HP Laserjet, so more calibration files. I don't think I've ever used my Alps printer for Templot! The point being that if Templot "remembered" a particular calibration, there's a danger of using the wrong one for the paper/printer you want to use because you forget to change it. Having to load a calibration ...
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... as standard, and I would assume that Internet Explorer has the same feature, as MS seems to be copying anything that Mozilla do Take care, and hope you'll soon be on the mend. posted: 22 Jul 2010 22:52 from: Brian Lewis Hi pail. I know well that Firefox has a spell checker. What I was saying was that this forum messaging system does not have a spellchceker. And thank you, and Martin, for your kind thoughts. In fact I am just back, via a good Bristol restaurant which as a fromer resident of this area you may know, from the Orthopaedic Surgeon. He is going to reconstruct my shoulder on 6th August. No big deal really- he did the other one in 2004. Regards Brian Lewis Paul Boyd wrote: Hi Brian You said: And, come to think of it, why does this message writer not have a spelling checker? At the risk of getting my head chewed off, your browser should have a spell checker built in- surely they all do these days ...
... their paper to achieve this capacity in their product. So in view of the above I decided to try an experiment with my PX700W. Put a few sheets of non-Epson 160gm card in and it fed through perfectly with excellant print quality. Thanks for raising the subject Dave, as a result I've learnt something today! Regards Derek posted: 12 Feb 2010 17:47 from: Paul Boyd Just to add to this, if anyone has an older Canon printer such as an i850, that'll happily handle 224g/mē Bristol board. This is obviously not quite what Canon intended, but it works and is probably a heck of a lot cheaper than printer manufacturer's specialist papers. posted: 13 Feb 2010 22:45 from: David Hiya guys Thanks for all your replies, been a while gettting back due to trials and tribulations. Tried the 160gsm on the PX710W Printer and amazingly, it worked fine. I can see the advantage of using the thicker paper and tried martins method of butting sheets together, which with the thicker paper, seemed ...
... it will be available for further runs when the cost per chair will be considerably less. If you see Trevor Nunn with his "East Lynn" layout at an exhibition near you, have a chat with him. He masterminded the S scale project and Len Newman of Exactoscale did the actual tool making. Jim. Last edited on 13 Jan 2010 08:01 by Jim Guthrie posted: 22 Jan 2010 18:58 from: Paul Boyd Hi Stephen Just come into this a bit late- I have a friend based in Bristol who laser cuts hardwoods for a living. I was chatting to him the other night and your question came to mind, so I asked what he could cut. I don't know what sort of size you're looking for overall, but the machine he uses can cut up to about 1300mm by 2000mm without faffing about, bigger with some faffing (don't ask me technical details) and up to about 30mm thick. His working arrangement seems a little loose, but he's said that if he can help, he will. If ...
... is only down to 10 chains radius and the standard spacing would be sufficient (that's over 8ft radius in P4). Your method of creating the initial outline produces a non-symmetrical scissors. Again it's not wrong, but I think the majority of scissors crossovers would be symmetrical unless there is an obvious need otherwise. To be symmetrical the CTRL-5 TXP position on all 4 turnouts needs to be coincident at the centre of the diamond. I've written before about creating a scissors crossover, most recently in this topic: Bristol Temple Meads. That's not a very obvious heading for this subject, so here are those notes again:____ The basic procedure to create an outline scissors crossover is: 1. start with a turnout of the required V-crossing angle, and TS track spacing centres. 2. do> turnout road> crossover 3. put the peg on TXP (CTRL-5) 4. do> snap to peg 5. tools> make mirror on peg 6. tools> make simple crossover 7. ...
... successor to T2. However, before I comment on the rest of your post, I need to think about it a bit more (and do a bit of investigation too). Cheers, graeme posted: 15 Nov 2019 10:20 from: Paul Boyd Hi Graeme You've got the bug! Yes, I do many layouts in Templot that will never be built, nor were ever intended to be built. This one is one I did a few years ago of Yatton on the GW main line south-west of Bristol at a friend's suggestion, just for the hell of it! I'd need to win the lottery just to be able to buy the space for that one! I may finish the timbering one day... 105_150516_150000000.png posted: 15 Nov 2019 10:55 from: Martin Wynne Thanks Paul. I think you could at least make a start in one corner on building it. If anyone wants to see it larger, your original upload image file is at: gallery/105/original/105_150516_150000000.png I notice you have ...
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