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... that the rail foot is the same width as the head. If not there will be a gauge_tweak setting to make final adjustments to the chair position. *vertical rail. I'm not getting into the madness of inclined rail, which in my view is unbuildable in small scale models. Behind the stand there will be an "web insert" component in the rail web, which will be dimensioned to match the rail section, in the same way as the key on the other side. The two parts of the jaw will blend together in the final render. The central rib on the REA drawing is more difficult to replicate simply than the ribs on the outer jaw. I think I have got somewhere near without getting too involved in 3D blends which would require dozens of additional facets. An important consideration for models is to keep it below the wheel flanges. I'm still undecided about how to blend the side of the jaw into the chair base and rail seat. I have removed the silly angled socket in the rail seat which I had previously. ...
... Martin Wynne This email has been sent to me twice by someone identified only as "Richard". As far as I can tell he isn't a member of this Templot Club forum. Email me at martin@templot.com if you want Richard's contact email. "Does anyone know anyone who draws Templot track plans for others on a semi-commercial basis? I'm a bit of a one man band and what with building locos etc I am not sure I've time to learn the intricacies of Templot. I'm looking for someone who can blend Buxton Midland and Chester Northgate in 7mm Fine Scale. Richard" Martin. posted: 31 Jan 2015 22:48 from: Richard Napier Hello. Thanks Martin. It's me Richard Napier looking for a bit of help. If anyone is interested please do let me know. posted: 31 Jan 2015 22:55 from: Ian Allen Richard, I may be able to help you out. What do you mean by "blend"? Do you have track plans to work from? Ian posted: 31 Jan 2015 ...
... -- notice the word "make" there too. In Quick Mode that is the only available option, the others are greyed out. regards, Martin. posted: posted: 4 Aug 2012 14:41 from: Martin Wynne Paul Boyd wrote: A fade will be a lot more familiar, especially to anyone using Windows 7 or Vista. Hi Paul, I'm afraid a fade would be a massive task in vector graphics because it means redrawing the template many times over with a gradually changing colour set. Fades and blends are normally used with raster graphics rather than vector graphics. A slow slide is much easier, effectively just a variation of the F7 code. Another option would be to reduce the control template length to say 1mm to reveal the background template, and then slowly extend it back to the original length over the background template, i.e. a variation of the F4 code. But isn't it all a bit gimmicky? regards, Martin. 4 Aug 2012 14:41 from: Paul Boyd Tony and Howard I wonder if this ...
... for anyone who wants to experiment/evaluate the concept. There is a single-slip design in the works. Currently it's 4-SF, but I'm thinking of converting it to P4. My thinking is that if this system (is it a system?) works for P4, it has some legs. Andy. posted: 6 Feb 2018 07:33 from: Andrew Barrowman Yet another sample, except that this one was printed on my 3D printer. The rail is SMP. 2983_060144_360000000.jpg The printed material is a blend of PLA and something called PHA. It's a lot tougher than pure PLA which makes it ideal for the chairs. I had to apply a lot of force to break them. Frosted Ultra Detail resin (from Shapeways) has a bit more definition, but not all that much more definition. (Bear in mind that the above image is equivalent to holding the sample about three inches from the end of your nose.) I'm printing plain track here to evaluate the chairs. There are two versions of the chair " ...
... time to post a reply. I like your suggestion. The pics on the RM forum look good. I am making some test panels of track to try several methods. Thanks to everybody else for the replies too. Rob posted: 24 Mar 2015 00:55 from: Nigel Brown Here's a snap I took some time ago, after most of the track was laid and ballasted but very little else done. 3mm/ft 14.2mm gauge finescale. Plastruct sleepers, plastic chairs from Ian Osborne, code 60 BH rail, blended Woodland Scenics ballast, sleepers and rail painted with acrylic blends. Nigel Attachment: attach_2094_2655_m348b.jpg 208 Last edited on 24 Mar 2015 00:57 by Nigel Brown posted: 24 Mar 2015 01:07 from: Rob Manchester Hi Nigel, Thanks for posting the picture. Very nice the track looks too. It is good to see some work in a scale/gauge not seen too often. Rob posted: 26 Mar 2015 14:28 from: madscientist Nice track work. Personally, I find pre-colouring sleepers somewhat ...
... 1:8) I curved this to MS of 5280. (Template 2) c) Then formed a crossover. (Templot 3) d) I then formed a double track to TS of Templot 2. (Templot 4) e) I then formed a double track on inside of Template 1 (Templot 5) This has already raised a few problems i) The panel lengths are: just under 1 length i.e. 17 sleepers for Templot 1 and Templot 2 was 1 length and 13 sleepers. How can I blend these two templates together so that the "rail Joint" marks from of the combined length of track, made of template 4 and 5, are marked out on the plan as as a multiple of the panel length with any residual sleepers? In this case 2 lengths and 12 sleepers. Rather than 17 sleepers and 1 length and 13 sleepers ii) Can a template be formed that has different radii a various parts of the e.g. say half of the template is say 2500mm at one end that changes to 1500mm at ...
... topic: 1823 Torr Giffard LSWR 1959-71 posted: 9 Feb 2012 14:57 from: Dave M Aft'noon' all, Torr Giffard, my new P4 layout, trackplan at http://backofafagpacket.blogspot.com/ is a blend of my favourite aspects of the LSWR....curving girder bridges, wooded river valley a.k.a. Weare Giffard, wide gentle river a.k.a. the River Torridge and a traffic pattern based on Coleford jnc where the Exeter to Plymouth route diverges from the Exeter to Barnstaple line. The layout has a 16ft x 12ft central scenic area with a 'Y' shaped trackplan and a 12ft x 2ft fiddle yard board on each of the 3 ends of the 'Y'. A low baseframe height of two and a half feet is envisaged surrounded by two feet high 'barn door' style opening sides to allow the sloping sides of the valley to be fashioned. I aim to run a transitional sequence of trains 1959- 71 showing the changing years during the operating sequence. The intention is for this to become an exhibition layout. The trackwork ...
... sunny spell may have the sleepers looking bleached and the rail and chairs a sort of iron oxide colour. Take the same bit of track when wet westerlies are in command, under the soft light of a grey sky and a rain shower not too far away, and the sleepers will look pretty dark and the rail an almost oily brown. I tend towards the latter, playing around with mixtures of red leather, medium grey and earth. A touch of earth is very useful to tone down colours and get different ones to blend together. I'd suggest getting a selection of colours you think might be useful and doing a bit of playing around until you get something which looks right to you; remember, the sleepers, rail/chairs and ballast do need to blend. I'd strongly recommend not painting rail before assembly, but clean/degrease the rail before use; I use meths. To paint the rail afterwards, make sure you're in a comfortable position and do just as much as you can easily stand in one go. With the right brush ...
... This comes from a recent newsletter: Kill White is a plugin (for Windows) that makes white colour in an image transparent. http://mikes3d.com/extra/2010/07/kill-white/ I haven't had a chance to use it yet. I assume it supports Photoshop, PaintShop Pro and probably other programs that can use PS-compatible plugins. Hi Mike, Thanks for that. I looked at the site, but unfortunately it all rather went over my head. It seems to be concerned with blending bitmap overlays, rather than providing a transparent alpha channel in the final output file. What file format is it intended for? Sketchboard can use only JPG, GIF, PNG formats, and only the latter two can be displayed with a transparent background. regards, Martin. posted: 20 Sep 2010 02:51 from: Martin Wynne Brian Nicholls wrote: I must say that does look really good on the 'workpad', I'm glad it turned out that way. Hi Brian, It can look equally good on the ...
10. Joggles
... (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 also an admixture of other stuff: paper, and gunk, which doesn't help. Ballast is reused, and there may be admixtures from other wagons. It is likely to be "local" crushed stone, so if you know the location, a better guess could be made. ...
11. First try
... is exactly what you wanted, but I must say, the slip switch and road, are very tight for space on the right-hand side of the diamond. However, as I say, I came up with this. Now the switch on the right of the diamond is similar to what you have used, i.e. a GWR 'B' type switch. However, to get the slip road to flow nicely, I changed the switch on the left to a GWR 'C', which allowed the slip road to blend in without a 'kink' at the end of the planning. I have adjusted the length of the two diamond check rails to in clued the 2nd Vee in each case. I also shortened the wing rail tips of the second Vee's on one side only to give more clearance to the running rail of the diamond. I have colour marked and highlighted in RED, the switches and slip road and Vee's I have added. As you will see, the slip road rails just clear all the wing and check rails of the ...
12. Layout progress
... wrote: Nice trackwork it looks like P4 track co components certainly nice perm way Cheers Simon. posted: 15 May 2008 02:33 from: Nigel Brown Hi Simon Thanks for the compliment. It's actually 3mm finescale. The sleepers/timbers are cut from Evergreen strip (which is why the ones on the far board are white), the plastic chairs are from Ian Osborne, the rail is Code 60 bullhead from the 3mm Society, and the gauges used are from Finney& Smith. I used Humbrol acrylic paints to blend my own shades for the track, which happened to be very close to what the P4 Track Co. components are produced in, which may help to give it the P4 look! By the way, I believe that the P4 Track Co. are working on some components for the 3mm Society, which will of course make possible even more of a P4 look. cheers Nigel Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Templot ...
... ..until you end up using only the buffers and the smokebox door from the original kit, and wonder why you didn't just scratch-build it in the first place. I have now made so many changes to the sketchboard that I doubt if Nils would still recognise it. It may have been better to have attempted the whole thing myself, it would certainly have made it much easier to integrate with the existing Templot functions as our styles of programming are significantly different. But I doubt that I could have matched Nils's clever bitmap blending and rotation functions, or the fast data caching, so it's all swings and roundabouts. Today I have made some further changes to the scaling and resolution settings, in the light of the excellent library of ready-made graphics which Brian Nicholls is creating -- see: message 7645 These are much more detailed than I ever imagined when I started the sketchboard project, and I want them to be displayed to best effect. Martin. posted: 21 Sep 2010 17:05 from: JFS Hi Martin, You are ...
... are using knots (an internal set of pegs) for edge conditions to drive our cornu easement generator already. So what I have in mind in in our tool is a compound of the trackwork graphic from Templot with the running characteristics of XTrackCAD that can be correctly joined at its edges. That becomes an bespoke element in XTrackCAD. If desirable, we could refer to the Templot definition file in our definition so that round-tripping might become possible once the initial design is complete. My hope is that we can get a blend of the best of both worlds with a limited amount of effort both for the user and for us! Regards, Adam PS- You may have overlooked my observation about the real track work page link being invalid on the site, perhaps? I want to refresh my memory of what all the parts are so that can start on the right foot. posted: 27 Feb 2018 19:03 from: Martin Wynne Hi Adam, I'm not entirely clear what you are asking of me? Do you want to a) ...
15. Winter 1963
... and track footage quickly shot just before a heavy winter's snowfall was melting, the award-winning classic that emerged from the cutting-room compresses British Rail's dedication to blizzard-battling into a thrilling eight-minute montage cut to music. Tough-as-boots workers struggling to keep the line clear are counterpointed with passengers' buffet-car comforts. In a mere half-dozen films released between 1959 and 1975, director Geoffrey Jones revealed himself as an outstanding talent, embracing industrial filmmaking as consistent with a personal style, blending movement and sound into a joyous, rhythmic whole. Brilliantly aided by Wolfgang Suschitzky's shimmering camerawork, the Oscar-nominated 'Snow' is Jones' masterpiece. It's crisply invigorating enough to induce brief amnesia about our trains' notorious inability to cope with the white stuff- then and now. (Patrick Russell) For more information about 'Snow' see Screenonline. 'Snow' is available to buy as part of the BFI DVD: 'Geoffrey Jones: The Rhythm of Film'. regards, Martin. posted: 8 Jan 2010 12 ...
... . To do this they used what was termed a 'Housed' switch where, along with a joggle in the stock rails, the unused inner switch blade on the diverting line was under a manganese cover that also acted as a check rail. (Never seen one of those modelled either). The NSWGR started with Barlow rail. Went to Double Headed rail and then to flat bottomed rail. A small excursion into 90 lb. bullhead in the early 1890's but stayed with the flat bottom rail. So early British methodology was blended with American. By the 1920's the NSWGR were writing their own manuals as they realised there was nothing to cover the methods used. Matt M. posted: 18 Feb 2019 13:35 from: Nigel Brown Andrew Duncan wrote: The other important consideration here for me, and you I presume, is that this where I make the electrical break for the crossing polarity, so I need there to be a decent physical distance between that joint and the adjoining stockrail to ensure the backs of the wheels can't touch the closure ...
... from: RedgateModels Looking at all that sprue make me think that the moulding company should offer some sort of recycling scheme ;) posted: 30 Sep 2019 12:07 from: Paul Boyd RedgateModels wrote: Looking at all that sprue make me think that the moulding company should offer some sort of recycling scheme ;) This issue crops up in the plastic modelling world now and then- much of the plastic in kits gets thrown away even though it's technically recyclable because councils won't accept it for recycling. Different manufacturers also use different blends of plastic. It's all a bit of a mess, really! posted: 30 Sep 2019 12:29 from: Hayfield Whilst the sprue is a bit thicker than the Exactoscale sprue is is very much thinner, I guess a certain size sprue is required to enable the chair voids to fill up properly. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Templot talk> C&L new 00 gauge 3 bolt chairs+ extras ...
... . It's difficult to know why Windows won't accept its handle without knowing what was going on at the time. Do you happen to remember what you were doing when it came up? As I've mentioned, Nils's code for the sketchboard engine is far more complex than we need for Templot. There are some chunks of it which just baffle me. One day I'm going to have to rewrite it, if ever I'm going to continue to support it as time goes on. In particular, I'm not convinced we need the alpha blending and transparency functions in the Graphics32 package. I would prefer to stick with the Windows GDI so that we can have hatched and bitmap infills instead. That would also allow much faster rendering on the trackpad for sketchboard items. We might even be able to merge it with the background shapes, which was my original intention. cheers, Martin. posted: 31 Jul 2020 21:58 from: Gordon S Can't recall exactly as it wasn't critical. Possibly trying to select the station platforms to change the colour. I'd previously ...
... www.youtube.com/watch?v =vvSmwMqtylA Let's see Martin getting Templot to do a double slip in that. I actually saw the railplane at Milngavie. I remember being taken there by my father, probably in the late 40s, to see what was left standing. Jim. posted: 4 Sep 2020 09:13 from: Paul Boyd Andrew Barrowman wrote: or perhaps the Bennie Railplane? (George, not Jack.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =vvSmwMqtylA I love the way it seamlessly and unobtrusively blends in with the landscape! posted: 8 Sep 2020 11:59 from: Richard Spratt Ok here we go. Please don't shoot me. Attachment: attach_3141_3755_peco_all_2020_09 _08_1157_19.box 34 posted: 8 Sep 2020 12:00 from: Richard Spratt And the shapes file Attachment: attach_3142_3755_peco.bgs3 51 Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Tips and tutorials> Guide for creating custom templates about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z ...
... /Small Layouts or http://hometown.aol.com/Gn15modeler/ but what you'll find most of the time is ppl creating whimsical models of things like sugar cane plantations or mining operations as in the mine itself not simply the exterior tipple or crusher. What Gn15 affords the modeler is the ability to be very exact with details due to the large scale being 1:24 or 1:22.5 being the typical two scales tossed around the Gn15 community. and the small size of using the HO guage track, so it becomes a blend really of "G" and "HO" in some ways and that can get confusing. My main issue is if i attempt to be true to prototype Templot returns with errors saying hay there twit that just can't be... but the truth is in this model format we are using very short wheel bases things like mining cars and such so it is very possible to have a almost 90 deg corner lol think of it as modeling an amusment park mine car ride and you get the idea only differance being is ...
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