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101. Autumnal gloom
... topic: 201 Autumnal gloom posted: 17 Oct 2007 19:35 from: Martin Wynne topic started 2007 On P4_talk today Tim Shackleton (editor of Model Railway Journal) is being very gloomy: Personally I don't feel we can attract new blood in sufficient numbers to sustain the long-term survival of this hobby, and I think it would be a waste of time and energy to do so. I think (and this has been my platform all along) those already active within the hobby need to come together in a positive spirit to manage the last few meaningful years of finescale modelling in such as way that we can enjoy it in reasonable comfort and obtain the fulfilment we seek. In ten or fifteen years, max, the lights will go out on railway modelling whatever we do. I started developing Templot 28 years ago in 1979. It was first released 8 years ago in 1999. There is still a long way to go until it is finished (or at least within sight of the finishing post). Progress is now much ...
... topic: 3708 Track construction for P-32 live steam posted: 25 Jun 2020 18:16 from: Igor Kurgan Hi all, I am currently making some things that must resemble some pieces for the garden railway. I think i figured out a way how to make frogs on a production type of way and good by using pvc sheet The pvc used in the pictures is not the best material: foam pvc.(for cheap experimenting) I ordered better plastic: uv resistant, hammer proof, extruded pvc sheet of 1 cm thick. So those are a "training round". The reason for fabricating frogs is that i can not bend the aluminium strips for the track good enough(to my satisfaction and true to the printed template). So i was building a jig so i can make them in "production" in all sizes needed, and i need a lot. For the "parking lot" in the shed alone, i would like to have 12! 3 way's. I am very interested in your opinion, ...
... topic: 3560 Problems with Windows 10 posted: 26 Nov 2019 12:00 from: Gordon S Hi Martin Never had a problem with Windows 7, but as you know I've upgraded to Windows 10 and seem to have an issue. I've used Group Selection Fence then Print Group and keep getting an error message which won't allow me to do anything. It says "Out of system resources". Tried shutting Templot down several times, but get the same message. Any ideas? posted: 26 Nov 2019 12:49 from: Gordon S Not sure if this helps, but I clicked on one of my desktop shortcuts to a sketch board plan and it suddenly started playing a continual pulsing noise and opened all these pop ups. It kept going for 15-20 seconds and I couldn't do anything. It stopped eventually.... Here is the screenshot. 479_260755_370000000.jpg Last edited on 26 Nov 2019 12:56 by Gordon S posted: 26 Nov 2019 13:20 from: Martin Wynne Gordon S wrote: Hi Martin Never had ...
... topic: 3140 Templot update version 216b now available. posted: 28 Nov 2017 01:21 from: Martin Wynne Dear all, The latest Templot update is now available. Version 216b. Your copy of Templot should update automatically if you restart it and follow the instructions. If you have any problems with that, follow the download links on the web site. This is a minor maintenance update. The main changes from 216a are: 1. New help> video player> menu items. These are for users having trouble accessing the videos from the web site. For normal use, please click the help> watch a video >>> menu item to see the full list of videos on the web site. 2. rotate group 180 degrees -- the SHIFT+ F6 shortcut has been restored. 3. make branch track -- the shortcut is now SHIFT+ F7. 4. cycle notch -- the shortcut is now CTRL+ C. 5. metric calculator -- there is no longer a keyboard shortcut. N.B. ...
... topic: 1046 Help wanted- Corfe Castle posted: 13 Feb 2010 17:34 from: Templot User -- --- from Neil Berrington -- --- I am struggling with Templot a tad. (I'm a biomechanical kind of fellow, so CAD design escapes my limited intellect) The time investment in learning the program is significant. Is there anyone who is able to produce a Templot file for me? (Lazy bugger that I am.) The tricky area is really the flow of the goods yard- almost tandem turnouts. I attach the station in question- Corfe Castle, Dorset. 46_131232_230000000.png (Click the link in the Image Gallery to see it full-size.) Neil Berrington Canada posted: 13 Feb 2010 18:06 from: Paul Boyd Hi Neil Before anyone can offer help, there's two vital bits of info needed. Firstly, the easy one, which scale/gauge are you modelling in? The second- there's no scale on the map you posted. Do you have any known dimension to ...
... topic: 1211 Templot beginners tutorial posted: 22 Aug 2010 12:52 from: donald peters Hi Martin, I have looked through the current majesty of Templot to try and précis my concern about the complexity it has developed, a bye-product of it's expanding breadth of capability and it's creators work limits. To answer you fully would require a total recapitulating of the material provided.. If you will take as read that my only interest in verbalising my thoughts is, and always has been, my belief that Templot deserves wider acceptance by beginners in near scale modelling, then read on. Because of the breadth of its capability and its dedication to cater for the smallest nuance of full scale practice, it has grown such as to appear a monster to the first time user. Almost everything can be achieved and in consequence the amount of instruction confronting the FTU has become prodigious, scattered and unsettling. Having collaborated over the years on several user manuals the ones that had sections, (broadly) 'what do you want to do', 'how ...
107. Single slips
... topic: 2496 Single slips posted: 30 Jul 2014 11:44 from: Trevor Walling Hello, I have moved this topic here as I think I had put it in the wrong place previously. I have reached the stage where I need to produce a template or templates for the single slip roads to form a trailing crossover for up and down lines. I have started on the up road slip but I seem to be hitting the buffers so to speak.I followed the tutorial for a single slip but instead of swapping the turnout hand I have inverted it.It sort of works but I seem to end up with extra lines at the switches and confusion. Any help would be most appreciated please as I seem to be at an impasse.I think once I have mastered this first slip I should be able to complete the other.I also enclose the box file.2110_291142_090000000.png Thanks. Trevor. Attachment: attach_1893_2496_upslip_crossover .box 254 posted: 30 Jul 2014 12:10 from: Martin Wynne Hi Trevor, You moved it while I was preparing a reply! Hi Trevor, You have used ...
... topic: 109 OT- Any suggestions for a new computer? posted: 6 Jul 2007 17:37 from: Brian Lewis Hi, I hope Martin doesn't throw me off this list for introducing an off topic item, but you all seem so knowledgeable about all things computer. I think it is time I purchased a new machine and monitor. My needs are simple- I don't play games or require sound, but just need a fast machine that will roar its way through the usual MS programmes- mainly Access, and of course, Templot. For absolute security, it will be a stand alone machine, not connect to the Internet. What I need to know is: What operating system? This new Vista or shall I stick with XP Professional? What processor? What type of hard drive and how big? How much memory and what type? I have ViewSonic flat screens. I assume these are still good? My computers have what I believe is called an ATA Raid system, whereby there is a 'ghost' hard drive, ...
... topic: 667 An important announcement by C+ L Finescale posted: 21 Dec 2008 00:06 from: Brian Lewis An important announcement by C+ L Finescale Whilst watching Norman Solomon building turnouts on the latest Activity Media DVD- constructing templates, sticking down timbers, etc.- I was struck by the thought that I was doing this 40 years ago. Locomotives and rolling stock are so much more accurate that they were even ten years ago? So why haven't available track components reflected this improvement? Folk still create trackwork by building individual turnouts and 'stitch' them together with plain track using 'one size fits all' generic track templates. Surely we can do better than this? Well we have and as from the new year, a new era in track construction begins. Boat and aircraft kit manufacturers use lasers to cut components with amazing accuracy- as do model railway kit manufacturers in the US. It doesn't seem to happen here. But we are going to change all that. So for the past month I have been taking prototype track ...
110. Gauges for 0-MF
... topic: 3354 Gauges for 0-MF posted: 14 Nov 2018 18:09 from: madscientist Is" Debs" still supplying O-MF gauges and if not has anyone any idea where to get some. Is there a current contact for Debs Thanks dave posted: 14 Nov 2018 18:35 from: Andrew Barrowman I doubt if Debs will be able to help. The poor lady has been having a really rotten time with medical issues and I believe she is still in hospital. If you can't find another source I can turn one for you on the lathe. Yours for the postage cost. I'll just need a sketch with dimensions. Cheers, Andy Last edited on 14 Nov 2018 18:36 by Andrew Barrowman posted: 14 Nov 2018 18:37 from: madscientist Andrew Barrowman wrote: I doubt if Debs will be able to help. The poor lady has been having a really rotten time with medical issues and I believe she is still in hospital. If you can't find another source I can turn one for you on ...
... topic: 1988 Hiding the control template when storing posted: 18 Jun 2012 02:44 from: Martin Wynne I've felt for some time that it's confusing for beginners that the control template is hidden on doing a store& background (INSERT key). The effect is that the template has simply changed colour, rather than been stored. We can't not hide the control template on store, otherwise it's not apparent to beginners that anything has happened at all. I've now made a change which I've been intending to try for some time. The control template will remain hidden only briefly, and will then reappear over the background template. You can of course hide it again if you wish (HOME key). For more experienced users there is a new option not to have the control template hidden. It's on the options menu on the storage box. Untick this menu option: 2_172050_560000000.png This setting is included in the program preferences. Note that even with this option unticked, on a large track plan the control template will disappear momentarily while Templot re ...
... topic: 3534 File viewer function in OT/MEC posted: 22 Oct 2019 05:49 from: Martin Wynne Hi Graeme, I forgot to mention that the file-viewer form includes an HtmlView component. In order to edit the form you will need to install the HtmlViewer package in Lazarus. How to do that here: topic 3283- message 24933 Also of course Jim's .box files will open in Templot2 but not in OT/MEC at present for testing the file viewer. I'm hoping to have a fix for that in the next day or two. cheers, Martin. posted: 22 Oct 2019 09:13 from: Jim Guthrie Graeme, Heres the .ZIP file of my BOX file folder- 470 files with two sub folders. Martin has locked the other thread so I'm posting it here. It just gets inside the file size restriction. Jim. Attachment: attach_2929_3534_BOX-FILES.zip 15 Last edited on 22 Oct 2019 09:14 by Jim Guthrie posted: 26 Oct 2019 07:10 from: Graeme Thanks, Jim, I ...
113. A3+ printer
... topic: 3826 A3+ printer posted: 1 Dec 2020 19:16 from: Paul Boyd Good evening all! For ages I've wanted an A3 or A3+ printer but they've always seemed too big or too expensive. I got fed up with sticking bits of A4 paper together for even quite small templates. I've now bought myself an HP Officejet 7110 from ebuyer for not much over £100, it's relatively small for an A3 printer and has a wireless connection which for me is important so I can tuck it under a chair when not in use, with no cabling to unplug. Reviews suggest it's not that good for photo printing, but frankly if you want an A3 photo printed, it's cheaper to go to a print shop! The next problem was paper. A3 copy paper is abundant, A3+ photo paper is abundant, but A3+ decent quality plain paper isn't! Eventually I found a company called FirstForPaper who list Swift paper, and the 120gsm is available as a special size of 13" x 19" (A3+ ...
... topic: 2870 Bullhead rail on stone blocks posted: 15 Apr 2016 09:15 from: LSWRArt On a Railway History course, Dr. David Amos of Nottingham University showed the enclosed photograph of bullhead rail on stone sleepers at Over& Wharton (Winsford, Cheshire) on the LNWR. 2201_150413_300000000.jpg David thought that the bullhead rail had been laid in place of old tramway track, on stone blocks which originally supported fishbelly rail. But when I started to research this it appeared there was no tramway at this location. A local historian (Tony Bostock) has no knowledge of a tramway near the station; and there seems to be no obvious reason why a trammay should be so close to the town. There were extensive salt workings, but these sent the salt down to barges on the navigation by chutes. When the railways came there were works sidings which came directly off the branch lines, not via the station. I found an article in which Paul Hurley says that the LNWR used stone blocks experimentally instead of sleepers, so can anyone else ...
... topic: 3388 Mixing DIY pointwork and e.g. Peco or Lenz 0 Gauge tracks posted: 15 Feb 2019 00:15 from: Stefan Sczekalla Hi, first- I need to apologize,- I'm not a native speaker and a lot of technical terms are not common to me in english. I' trying do design a track-plan/ layout using rtr turnouts made by Lenz(Peco) Code 143. Due to some constraints I will have to mix them with some- i have to build by my own. In Germany we have a kind of different way how timber is alligned also some rules/policies state that there have to be two timbers together. 1, are there by any chance predefined Lenz/Peco turnout templates? 2. (how) can I add "double-timber"? 3. can I tell templot to layout the timber within a turnout how its usualy done in germany? Many thanks in advance, Stefan posted: 15 Feb 2019 03:04 from: Martin Wynne Hi Stefan, Welcome to ...
116. Newcastle Diamonds
... topic: 3111 Newcastle Diamonds posted: 19 Oct 2017 20:32 from: Richie Kynaston Evening all,I'm looking for some help from those more knowledgable. I'm looking to see if I can recreate the diamonds at Newcastle for my layout- still swapping about with ideas- but Newcastle ticks quite a few boxes. After looking at EM, I think i've settled on 00-SF, to reduce the amount of work needed (ie rewheeling stock etc) but getting better track. Now I have the track plan from the Quail 1987 Book, by which time BR had done away with bay Platforms 1-3, but the rest of the layout was substantially complete. I'm working from that and this image Flickr image from New Castle Keep to try and replicate the trackwork, but I've a couple of queries. Can anyone hazard a guess what what track centers I should be using, I don't think it's common 6ft throughout, but not sure that it's 6ft/10ft spacing? Can anyone take a guess at what kind of Point work this ...
... topic: 3185 Issues with single sided tandem posted: 16 Jan 2018 01:19 from: Rob Manchester Hi Martin, Upgraded to the latest version today and have been having fun(testing ?) with the single sided tandem function before bedtime. Attached to this post is the box file and the next two posts contain the two screenshots at the time the issue occurred. I do hope I haven't done anything wrong this time The starting template was a 1:12 curviform turnout in a length of straight track and I just let Templot proceed through the process without any changes when asking for the tandem. I did have an issue earlier when a stock rail in the 2nd v-crossing was not lined up but the issue above occured when I was trying to re-produce it. I will let you know. Rob Attachment: attach_2620_3185_Tandem_crash.box 242 posted: 16 Jan 2018 01:21 from: Rob Manchester 1st screenshot. Rob Attachment: attach_2622_3185_Tandem_crash_1.jp g 275 posted: 16 Jan 2018 01:22 from: Rob Manchester 2nd screenshot. Rob Attachment ...
118. This Is It
... topic: 1059 This Is It posted: 5 Mar 2010 17:13 from: Dellboy Hello folks Well I've now drawn a line under my Templot EM gauge layout and expect to start track building soon! All the baseboards were finished last year based on the 'finalised' layout but the detailed finishing-off by refining alignments, adjusting check rails& timbering etc, plus of course some tinkering about with it have only just managed to be completed. Congratulations to Martin for such a brilliant program. The layout is completely freelance. It consists of a main station, a single line branch and an 8 train turntable for the storage sidings element. Maximum train length of six carriages plus loco. I have two fully interlocked signal frames for controlling the points& signals, one for the station the other for the branch, on order from Modratec. Huge credit to Harold of Modratec for the design of these using their SigScribe program. The working potential of the station has been a major consideration for me and has resulted in a rather complex S&C ...
119. First try
... topic: 2393 First try posted: 28 Jan 2014 12:42 from: Graham Idle Hi, This is my first try at a layout to fit in the small space that I have. It is a copy of 'Elan', a trackplan from Ian Rice's book 'Layout Design, Finescale in Small Spaces'. I have used, for me, the easiest method of lay the trackwork. I had some problems with the single slip, but using Brian Nicholls excellent instructions, I have cobbled together something that fits in the space. I would appreciate any comments as to whether it is buildable and run able. I will be using 0-6 -0 tank and tender locos. Regards, Graham Attachment: attach_1728_2393_elan_2014_01_25_1 449_03.box 428 posted: 28 Jan 2014 12:44 from: Graham Idle Here is the background. Attachment: attach_1729_2393_elan_14_01_25_143 7_41.bgs 382 posted: 28 Jan 2014 14:04 from: Martin Wynne Hi Graham, Thanks for uploading your files. You also need to upload the .sk81 image file from the \SHAPE-FILES\ folder ...
... topic: 951 Stupid is as stupid does! posted: 10 Oct 2009 18:37 from: marsa69 Hi all, My name is Mark and I'm new to Templot having just acquired it in the last 24hrs. All day I've been grappling with watching the tutorials and experimenting for myself. As you can imagine there have been many curses flying around the house and much gnashing of teeth Now as the title suggests I'm feeling a bit of a Forrest Gump. My first failure was in trying to draw the outline of my baseboards. I've searched the forum and folowed the guides but I still can't get an accurate drawing. All I need is two 4' x 2' boards end to end, then on the R/H end of these a 3' x 2' turned right through 90 degrees to form an 'L' shape. On the bottom edge of the 3' x 2' another 4' x 2' is added to extend the 'L'. I was hoping to be able to have an accurate baseboard drawing so that ...
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