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... . Time to let it "sink"and see how it looks in a bit. Andrew posted: 24 Feb 2019 17:31 from: Nigel Brown For sleeper colour it may be about right; I use a sort of graphite on mine. When ballasted you'll only see the sleeper tops. It also depends on what sort of lighting you intend to use, if any. For rail I tend to use something distinctly lighter, a lightish greyish brown. A lot of layouts these days seem to use a sort of pink, which looks horrible. Rail sides and chairs quickly weather to a greyish hue, rather than bright rust. Nigel posted: 28 Feb 2019 00:16 from: Andrew Duncan Nigel Brown wrote: For sleeper colour it may be about right; I use a sort of graphite on mine. When ballasted you'll only see the sleeper tops. It also depends on what sort of lighting you intend to use, if any. For rail I tend to use something distinctly lighter, a lightish greyish brown. A lot of ...
... topic: 3364 Shapes colour posted: 7 Dec 2018 12:25 from: Raymond I have drawn shapes to represent baseboard sizes on my plan but when I print it out on paper or as a PDF, some of the lines come out blue, which is not very well defined and the rest pink, which are fine. I looked on the menues associated with shapes but can find nothing to say what I might do to avoid this. Does anyone have any ideas please? posted: 7 Dec 2018 13:03 from: Martin Wynne Raymond wrote: I have drawn shapes to represent baseboard sizes on my plan but when I print it out on paper or as a PDF, some of the lines come out blue, which is not very well defined and the rest pink, which are fine. I looked on the menus associated with shapes but can find nothing to say what I might do to avoid this. Hi Raymond, The blue lines are shapes which are being overdrawn by coincident grid lines. To prevent that, untick this ...
... 45 from: Stumpytrain Martin Wynne wrote: Hi Alex, A conundrum. Looking at this photo of no.2 siding: siding2.jpg it is clear that the rail marked yellow is straight (and parallel to the walls), and that this switch is probably left-hand rather than the right-hand one in your draft design. I'm not aware of any track renewals between these photographs. Could it be an optical illusion caused by platform 15 curving away from the wall? Like so... siding2as.jpg Personally I think the two pink lines are parallel and the two yellow lines are parallel. What do you reckon? In the mean time I'll try to collect together every photograph I have of the scissors! Alex posted: 22 Sep 2008 15:41 from: Martin Wynne Stumpytrain wrote: I'm not aware of any track renewals between these photographs. Could it be an optical illusion caused by platform 15 curving away from the wall? Hi Alex, Hmm. I think you are right. I've now done what I should have done in the first place ...
... temporary page, to be split into shorter sections at some stage. But I can't really remember. Perhaps a coffee would help... Martin. posted: 18 Sep 2018 00:51 from: Rob Manchester Martin, Yes, I remember the dialogues on here back in Jan/Feb of this year. It seems like ages ago now. I find brightly coloured Post-it notes invaluable. I stick them everywhere to remind me of things I have done or need to do. I also have a piece of pink card with LUNCH written on it. When I am having a day out and prepare my food the evening before I put the pink card in one of the shoes I am going to wear and bingo- foolproof system...until one day last week when I was late getting up and rushed out for a day trip. I was 30 miles down the road before I realised...not only had I forgotten the food....I was driving along in my slippers Rob posted: 18 Sep 2018 14 ...
... topic: 1804 Help with a space issue on my plan. posted: 23 Jan 2012 02:23 from: Katier Hi Folks, I've been adjusting my track plan for Emmyton and after a bit of a lightbulb moment adjusted the crossovers but for some reason I didn't seem to gain the space I expected. The old arrangement is below, I figured id I swapped the crossovers I might gain space.. but I didn't.. (we are talking about the blue section NOT the pink) post-11540-0 -47354900-1313016155_thumb.jpg I know why now, the facing crossover has shunted across one points worth so while platform 1 (the top) has gained, the bottom sidings haven't changed at all... But I'm sure we can adjust the pointwork to gain a few inches which I'd like to do for a couple of reasons. 1) Currently the two carriage/parcels sidings can't quite store 4 coaches but another couple of inches they can. 2) I have the space :P The platform capacities are as follows ...
... of the main lines. This gives you a nice long piece of scenic section on the left. The downside is reduced fiddle yard capacity of course. A simple trade-off to ponder. The darker blue track is a complete ring at the high level. This gives you a continuous-run test track clear of the visible layout. There are crossovers connecting in to the outer fiddle yard road. With some "extreme carpentry" you could even fit in another orange road under the hi-level blue track. The pink track on the left is the docks branch rising to connect in to the high level ring. You would need some additional crossovers between dark blue and green at 5 o'clock to gain better access to the fiddle yard for docks traffic. Without knowing the layout better I can't answer about construction methods. I would think the main part of the new fiddle yard would be identical to the existing boards. The high-level pointwork could be on removable panels resting on blocks on the boards below. The ramps could be detachable constructed ...
... . Dave posted: 13 Jul 2019 20:32 from: Andrew Barrowman Jim Guthrie wrote: Martin, Our own version of fake news. I've had a quick look at Brechin on Google maps to have a look at the churches() and the local stone seems to be predominantly red sandstone, so they have picked the correct general colour for the buildings- certainly the large ones. Jim. Hi Jim, I spent quite a lot of time in Brechin. As I recall the local sandstone was more light brown/pink and quite mixed. A bit different from the red/orange sandstone that was not uncommon in the Glasgow area. Mind you that was a long time ago. There was still some steam action near Edzell. Cheers, Andy posted: 15 Jul 2019 08:56 from: richard_t Thanks to everyone for the information. Given the name, I could also find there's thread on here already. So all very useful On Manchester Central, each set of platforms had a release road (A through to D), and ...
... Martin Wynne Jim Guthrie wrote: You might find it easier to go to page 467 in their virtual catalogue to see what's there- I can't seem to give URLs into the catalogue. Hi Jim, Thanks. Here's the link to page 483, which has some very thin grooving inserts down to .019" wide, see middle of page: http://edition.pagesuite.com/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&pubid=9c3eabd2-e3ba-4a9f-8bd3-aa6475bd6e37&pnum=483 (click the pink links to order) UK heavy-rail widths (2.75") in thou: 4mm/ft: .036" 7mm/ft: .063" cheers, Martin. posted: 25 Nov 2018 19:42 from: Stephen Freeman Hi, I use a couple of parting off tools, suitably altered for 7mm and 4mm scale, so can do width for 7mm scale Bullhead and 4mm scale bullhead (approx 1mm). I can probably do smaller if needed. Rob Manchester wrote: Stephen Freeman wrote: Depends on the ...
... the trackpad was to zoom and pan without getting in a terrible mess of overlapping boxes. The result is that every template having a reminder is shown with a coloured blob, but only the first 5 such templates in the storage box get shown with callout boxes and coloured link lines. If it is important that a template's reminder is shown, the template should be moved to the top of the storage box list. For example, note here that the 6th reminder on the template at the top of the screen simply has a pink blob, and no callout box: 2_162149_180000001.png Here is a bit of video showing what happens when that is zoomed and panned: http://flashbackconnect.com/Movie.aspx?id=6wlgCbsjNs-VGI-CHsjwYg2 A reminder message can contain a maximum of 200 characters, but only about the first 60 characters will fit in the callout boxes. To see the full message you can hover over the box. Clicking the box zooms to the template, right-clicking gives further options. To hide the reminders, click the trackpad ...
... from your latest version it looks like it could work. Natalie likes the fillets as well, and as it makes the space on the right much bigger, she's suggested that we add a private siding (ferro-concrete works was in the rough position marked in orange on the image below. Her drawing is so small though I'm not sure if I've gotten it right. Ideally it might be better if it were a tandem, but not worked out how to do those yet. In the image below the colours represent: Pink/Puple: points crossing baseboard joins. Orange: added private siding for ferro-concrete plant. 2356_151316_290000000.png Attachment: attach_2502_3046_kelly_shepperton _mod_2017_09_15_1816_38.box 171 posted: 15 Sep 2017 18:45 from: d827kelly Slight adjustments as the uppermost crossover had ended up off the end of the board. 2356_151345_320000000.png Attachment: attach_2503_3046_kelly_shepperton _mod_2017_09_15_1845_40.box 170 posted: 15 Sep 2017 20:06 from: d827kelly Discussed the right hand side with Natalie and figured it out mostly. Simplified to a single private siding, with a small spur to a small shed/stable ...
... to PNG files for image output, which is fine, so no chance of my opting for JPG. I've now got exactly what I was trying to achieve. As ever, many thanks for your prompt and very helpful response. Kind regards, Stuart posted: 6 Mar 2016 13:29 from: Martin Wynne stuart1600 wrote: I'm puzzled as to why the shape colour was set to white; I can't imagine that's a default setting, Hi Stuart, It's not the default setting for background shapes output, which is fuchsia pink. I noticed in your PNG file that you had the track background switched on, but also set to white. I've been looking in the code for any possible bug linking these two colours, or setting them to white, but I can't find anything (the track background colour does default to white for black& white output only). Which is not to say that there isn't a bug, but there have been no other similar reports. Bear in mind that both of these colours are included in the program preferences ...
... in the preferences file? Hi Jim, They are saved. How are you saving your preferences? Click this link to start saving program preferences, and be sure to click the GO using my preferences button when starting Templot next time: 2_181636_170000000.png Possibly using clickable text links in this dialog instead of buttons is causing confusion. It was simply a lot easier and quicker to program it that way. I will look at changing it to a conventional properties sheet with buttons. More work. I changed the default shapes colour from dark pink to lemon yellow, so that the red colour for the currently selected shape can be more easily seen. The lemon yellow shows quite clearly against the sky blue background on my screen, I'm puzzled why folks are having problems with this. regards, Martin. posted: 21 Mar 2016 13:48 from: Jim Guthrie Martin, I did get it to work. W hen I next quit Templot, it came up with a dialog box asking if I wanted to save my current settings and I said yes. On ...
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... Charnwood). Robert posted: 12 Mar 2013 20:20 from: Glen Suckling Don't think it's granite, the grain size is too small. The red colouration looks superficial and could come from rust. The fracture, grain size and greenish tinge makes me wonder if it isn't markfieldite (a microdiorite from Charnwood). It seems that we all agree on an igneous rock (ie. definitely not limestone). The comment on grain size is a valid point as is the possibility of rust discoloration. Feldspars tend to be pink rather than the orange that I am seeing here which nornally indicates the presence of iron. I would opt for granodiorite in view of some of the darker pieces. Of course identifying rock from a photograph is always tricky and to really confuse things we may actually be looking at a blend. Glen posted: 12 Mar 2013 21:11 from: alan@york It could be limestone: this does not look very different to what I have seen in quarries (eg Carboniferous limestone in the Avon Gorge). There is ...
... standard gauge as the project is for a club 'shunting plank' layout and the majority of the membership is most likely be wanting to run RTR stock or at best if they make their own (minority) will be presumably using Slaters Fine standard wheels. There is only one member who wants an 0-16.5 input (he seems to think all layouts should have a narrow gauge component...) and the amount of mixed gauge track is accordingly limited with only a few mixed gauge turnouts. 1739_091215_270000000.png The track highlighted in pink is where the mixed dual gauge is planned. We shall have to be careful with the flangeway gaps, however since the track area in question is to be set in cobbles I suspect that we will be having a surfeit of extended check rails (to stop the cobbles from moving) but these may assist in keeping the O-16.5 stock on the rails so to speak. As to the example file you pointed me towards, I am having some difficulty with creating the partial template for the NG element when resizing the ...
... to imagine threading C&L chairs onto rail with 'Ride of the Valkyries' going full chat...) posted: 4 Dec 2007 03:22 from: Adrian Paul Boyd wrote:...and I think it would have to be Emerson, Lake and Palmer for this sort of work, or Tangerine Dream. I guess Wagner's Ring Cycle could cause some interesting effects on the job (just trying to imagine threading C&L chairs onto rail with 'Ride of the Valkyries' going full chat...) or Pink Floyd- Welcome to the Machine. or Jethro Tull- Part of the machine. or Genesis- Driving the last spike. Sorry wandered off topic there, to be honest unless you need some unusual V angle that C&L don't supply then in my opinion I'd just buy the V's from Brian. With the time saved pick something more interesting for practicing milling. Regards Adrian posted: 4 Dec 2007 04:17 from: Jim Guthrie Charles Orr wrote: I shall of course still continue to purchase whatever else I ...
... 48 from: Tony W Katier wrote: I've attached the troublesome box file. If someone can help would be appreciated. Hi Katier. With those crossing angles you will not get a tandem turnout to work. There are a number of restrictions about combining turnouts in this way. I have altered the turnouts in the station approach tandem to arrive at something more feasable but am still pushing it with the middle crossing. This will give you a bit more length than the original design you posted. The goods yard point (the pink one) I have left as a three throw for the moment. Although appropriate in a goods yard, they can be difficult to construct and operate and if you do not fancy the challenge there may be an alternative of making the turnout before the three throw a tandem instead. I have only done them in rough for the moment, it is not worth sorting out the timbering etc until the design is finalised, I have learned that the hard way. Anyway, see what you think. Tony. Attachment: attach_1343_1785_emmyton_12_01_29 ...
... ). So to be consistent the crossover is 1:10+ 1:4.95 in RAM units. This is shown in the upper part of the diagram. The Y-turnout has a 9ft switch and a 1:4.95 V-crossing. The linking roads are straight, so in order to complete the design in Templot you need to do some additional work to terminate the turnout curves at the V-crossing. You could use partial templates as shown split at the fine point (CTRL-4). The pink template is a 1:4.95 straight half-diamond, again split at the fine point. Or you could instead do it all in one template by putting a zero-length transition-to-straight at the fine point. Either way however, using a regular crossover like this is not the best design and is very wasteful of space: 2_031930_100000000.png You can save about 100mm (4 ") in 4mm scale and have an easier radius in the Y-turnout by making a curviform crossover instead, as shown in ...
... Nov 2010 14:07 from: Martin Wynne philchudley wrote: in the video the sizing appears to "swing" and resize just the crossing angle (as expected), but when I try, the switch length still resizes slowly affecting the crossing angle, as if the right-click setting Lock Switch is being ignored. Hi Phil, Sorry I missed this message. If you restart F5 you need to re-lock the switch each time. If the switch is locked the bar in the info panel should change to pink. Does it? Did you remember to set action> F5 V-crossing angle options> any angle menu option? Can you describe in a bit more detail how what you see differs from the video? regards, Martin. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Templot talk> Struggling with a tandem about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z Index Templot Explained for beginners Please click: important information ...
... leads* is on the Clag web site at: http://www.clag.org.uk/protodata-bullhead.html You can see that there are a lot more possible crossing angles than switch sizes, so the effect is a step jump in lead length when a small change in the crossing angle causes the switch size to change. You can prevent the switch changing by right-clicking while using F5 mouse action, and then selecting lock switch on the pop-up menu. The colour of the descriptor bar in the information panel changes to pink to indicate that the switch size is locked. In this way you can try the less-common or unprototypical switch/crossing combinations and see the result quickly. You can also of course set up any switch/crossing combination you wish by using the template menu options. *to get an exact match to the prototype lead length shown in the list you need to be using an exact-scale track gauge, and in Templot you should set a generic type of V-crossing and do> convert RAM to CLM ...
... topic: 854 Fine Point and blunt nose of vee posted: 7 Jun 2009 13:33 from: Martin Wynne An erroneous remark on RMweb today (" the '+' on the Templot template marks where the true point of the V should be.") caused me to post a correction. I think it's worth repeating here. The pink+ mark on the Templot template doesn't show the tip of the vee, it shows the position of the "Fine Point" (FP), i.e. the intersection of the track gauge lines, at peg position CTRL-4. The actual vee nose should be blunted back in the prototypical fashion so that it is strong enough to withstand wheel impacts and is properly supported in the "A" chair on the "A" timber. Here's a close-up of a Templot template showing that: blunt_nose.png It's worth printing a duplicate copy of the template so that the position of details obscured by the timbers can be checked during construction. For bullhead track the blunt nose width is 3/4 ...
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