... posted: 3 Oct 2010 18:16 from: phileakins Thanks for looking- I'm attaching a screenshot of the track plan to make things a little clearer. Phil Attachment: attach_903_1260_Dock_Road_03-10-2010_18-08-40.png 581 posted: 7 Oct 2010 12:08 from: phileakins I wonder what it is- I can't seem to stop tinkering with ... perfectly workable design. Thank goodness I keep saving it as I can then back-track! However, I have found that If I replace the regular V crossing with a generic one of the same value in the two yard turnouts I can gain several valuable extra inches in the turnout's nominal radius without changing anything else. I've no idea whether it's prototypical ... but it is pragmatic in view of the cramped design. Phil posted: 6 Dec 2010 20:52 from: phileakins If anyone is interested, I'm building the pointwork for Dock Road here. Phil posted: 7 Dec 2010 11:16 from: JFS Excellent stuff Phil- thanks for the link. The S7 looks excellent. A couple of us ...

... 14 from: Martin Wynne Hi Andrew, Good to see your progress. As you can see, I have moved your message to start a new topic. Your previous topic on track planning Yeovil Pen Mill is at: topic 2326 regards, Martin. posted: 10 Oct 2014 22:28 from: Richard_Jones Hi Andrew Very impressed.... Keep up the good work best wishes Richard posted: 25 Oct 2014 22:45 from: Andrew Duncan Hello Richard and Martin Thanks for the encouraging and kind comments. Much ... might be suitable?). Or maybe the other way round, adding a bit of stone ballast here and there? I'll try an experiment or two with some oddments of track before I commit to a particular approach. Kind regards Andrew posted: 6 Aug 2018 08:10 from: Andrew Duncan I'm back from a great week at Missenden. Below is a photo of my progress there. In the photo you can see that I've almost finished ballasting and the rather disjointed look is because I'm trying to have the main lines ...

... whole layout going on one panel? Or several panels? With 7mm dia LEDs, the closest track spacing to keep things looking clear is probably at 5mm centres. If your layout track spacing is 50mm, that means the scale of the mimic diagram is 1:10. So that would mean a diagram 450mm square. Which 800x400 isn't? Templot has a function to draw the track centre-lines only, at any width, irrespective of the gauge of the rails (and in the marker colours), which may help ... as the last 10% of tweaking could take days on it's own. It's just one of those things that has to be absolutely right. Visual appearance Is so subjective and we all have our own idea of what looks right. Last edited on 15 May 2020 08:05 by Gordon S posted: 15 May 2020 09:08 from: Martin Wynne Gordon S wrote: I'm interested how you created a solid line and then compressed the plan. You know me well enough, that once I get the track correct, ...

... do actually support better track as ultimately it gets people looking and (in my experience) they choose p4 of thier own bat. Truth is if I'd have used 00sf I wouldn't have saved any time at all on the track building front and to be fair the 10 mins or so it takes to swap wheels from OO to p4 is insignificant compared to the time it takes to detail and weather the stock. Cheers Jim posted: 17 Feb 2014 18:53 from: polybear Jim S-W wrote: Truth is if ... almost 4 years Hello Godfrey, I guess you don't like or bother with computer games either Yes 00-SF is the path I am following. Best wishes. Trevor. Last edited on 15 Feb 2014 21:28 by Trevor Walling posted: 16 Feb 2014 08:26 from: Godfrey Earnshaw Hi Martin,Contain yourself, religious outbursts, what next you're not dealing with Jim S-W. I can assure you I am a supporter of yours, I love the work you do and your logic. However, ...

... and I shall have to write something myself. I have already been editing the g-code manually to get anything to work at all. The software would be fine if I needed a Toby Jug. cheers, Martin. posted: 9 Dec 2018 23:10 from: Rob Manchester Hi Martin, Yes using the new technology with Exactoscale or other available products could be a good plan too. I am a fan of thin timbering as they generally suit the kinds of layout I am likely to model where well tended ballast ... checking a breeze. I am looking at the 'old fashioned' route of using injection moulded chairs and actually glueing them on.... Rob posted: 16 Jul 2018 23:59 from: d827kelly A great addition to templot! posted: 17 Jul 2018 08:12 from: richard_t I've been doing similar, in 2D, using my cad program- I think I'd go slightly crazy doing a full plan, even though the chairs are blocks so they just need putting in the correct place. Attached is a simple ...

... would publish my notes. While I'm targetting 2mm finescale the general principles will apply to all scales. The instructions in this article refer to version 0.82d of Templot. Background An interlaced sleeper turnout is one where all (or almost all) the timbering is simply standard 10" wide sleepers rather than the heavier and longer 12" wide timbers. These were popular in the 19th Century mainly, it is thought, due to their comparatively low cost compared to timbered turnouts. Aim This article will start from a standard Templot turnout and ... topic: 401 Interlaced Sleeper Turnouts posted: 5 Apr 2008 22:08 from: Stewart McSporran I've written up some notes on how I create interlaced sleeper turnouts with Templot and posted them on my website. So, if you're interested you'll find them at http://grotsoft.net/Railways/Templot/InterlacedSleeperTurnouts.aspx cheers Stewart posted: 7 Apr 2008 18:32 from: Martin Wynne Stewart McSporran wrote: I've written up some notes on how I create interlaced sleeper turnouts with Templot and posted them on my website. Hi ...

... topic: 1385 Soldering Steel Rail posted: 23 Feb 2011 10:33 from: Stephen Freeman Hi, Every time I have to build with steel rail, I know that I am going to have to deal with the rust problem after soldering. This is because of the flux needed. Does anybody have an easy solution to this? posted: 23 Feb 2011 11:03 from: BeamEnds I don't know if it will work, but one of the 'non acid' fluxes might help. Or perhaps a quick paint ... in a syringe which does not need cleaning afterwards, resin based flux. One syringe (though expensive) goes a long long way and allows you to put the precise amount of solder exactly where you want it.... Steve posted: 24 Feb 2011 08:10 from: Jim Guthrie I've been using a paste flux for the past few years for soldering and, to date, residue has never left any oxidisation. I did a particular test on a brass coach underframe about ten years ago, leaving a lot ...

... you don't see a change after a few minutes. Be warned though, editing OSM can be very addictive. This new function will be in the next program update. Comments welcome. Would you ever use this? regards, Martin. posted: 23 Jul 2017 10:57 from: Nigel Brown Would I use it? Possibly. It's certainly nice to have it there. For anyone interested in modelling real locations it could well be very useful. posted: 25 Jul 2017 14:15 from: Martin Wynne Updating, ... tracks over them. I will add a test image which can be displayed to check the zoom setting. None of the above applies to the tiled maps, which are not screenshots and do not use any browser. regards, Martin. posted: 11 Sep 2017 08:30 from: richard_t Thanks for the update, although I'm in no great hurry, Winter is coming, so I'll have more time in front of the computer, rather than struggling on in the garden... (Bamboo all up the recycling center ...

... standard template. I have tried to shunt such users into a separate way of doing things from the track planners. I'm not convinced it works very well, but I don't know how else it might be done. cheers, Martin. posted: 30 Jan 2018 10:31 from: Trevor Walling Hello Martin, I think too much worry is expended about people not being able to do this or do that. We keep hearing how Windows users do something this way or that. I don't believe this is true as Windows ... Martin, Maybe not the best descriptive text of mine, I didn't actually mean a regular shaped layout made of setrack type bits...I knew what I was thinking about Keep your chin up and plod on. Rob posted: 29 Jan 2018 22:08 from: Martin Wynne madscientist wrote: martin if you ever want a long treatise on why this "I never would have released Templot in the first place had I known how much hard work would be involved just trying to explain it." is such a ...

... topic: 330 Pug version 091c posted: 7 Feb 2008 10:13 from: Martin Wynne Update: Version 091c remains available( Click to Download) if you have a valid Templot lock-release code. However if you have an internet connection on your computer you should upgrade to Templot2 which does not require a lock-release code. Templot2 has many new features since version 091c which is now over 5 years old. Download and more information about Templot2 here: message 10771 February 2008:( Just a reminder that ... other is available. It seems to be a failing in Windows that there is no fall-back default driver for the Print functions to use. The obvious solution would be to "print" to the screen. regards, Martin. posted: 2 Sep 2009 08:30 from: richard_t OT: But I remember old versions of Word behaving very oddly if no printer was installed- back in Windows 3.1 days. I think you only got one font, even though Windows had loads installed, and not until you installed ...