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I started with a mock up cut out of a variety of scrap material I had that could duck tape together

Thought it was time for a new building project. I've thought about a Church for the MJR and it seemed fitting to try and model the recently demolished Stanley St Peter's Church. It was quite a unique building and so as well as a challenge it should be quite an interesting addition to the railway (if...

One other thing I do is leave the filler plug slightly loose when I've finished running otherwise the rubber O ring tends to get stuck and it's difficult to shift if it hasn't been used for a while. There's another solution to that problem - steam it more often! You soon learn to do both these afte...

Though presume something like this would work?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00JI2Q ... ref=plSrch

The charge socket looks like a Futaba connection. Bit poor the dealer did not go through the loco with you. To be fair to them it was at Peterborough at the 16mm show where I bought it, very difficult to give 1-2-1 run through when as busy as it was. They answered most questions I had. Might email ...

Managed to get myself a nearly new RC Ragleth yesterday from Anything Narrow Gauge at Peterborough. Spent an afternoon in the sun today running it around the garden  :D Got a few questions as a bit of a newbie. 1) After running it, should I drain the boiler of water? I left the blow down drain open ...

Hmmm, the piko track looks a good possibility and a bit cheaper. Could someone give me a help on roughly the radius of the curves that are referred to as R1, R2 etc.

From the GRS website it looks like R2 is about 2ft 6, presume an R1 curve is tighter (2ft?)

AFGadd:115831 wrote:GRS make points that would suit you, I've used their 32mm gauge 2'6" radius points with Peco track in my Garden.

http://www.grsuk.com/GRS_45mm-C301500

Thanks Andrew, I'll drop them a line to see if their points can help. Bit hard to see on the website the lengths of the points etc

I've been struggling to fit a 45mm right hand points into my layout where I need it, ideally a curved point would be best. I'm using Peco G45mm track, looks like they don't do a curved or short point, are there any manufacturers that do? And if so would they fit with the peco track? Or am I out of l...

Looks good. I had a similar problem with wooden based buildings, no matter how hard you try to seal it water gets in.

What is foamboard and where can you get it?

I tried perspex which is fine for smaller buildings but looking for alternatives for something bigger.

Very impressive!

Plastic and good strong glue seems the way to go, you can see that the top half of the building that was plasticard has survived really well with very little maintenance.

A few years back I built myself a station building based on the old Stanley Station in West Yorkshire. Details of the build here: http://www.jasonplant.com/Pages/RailwayStanleyStation.aspx The method I'd used for the walls were to coat wood with glass resin and car filler to waterproof it. Well afte...

Here's a link to my attempts at a station building. http://www.jasonplant.com/Pages/RailwayStanleyStation.aspx If I was doing it again I would use a more water resistant form of wood (think you can get mdf designed for bathrooms), although its withstood 3 winters the moisture has caused some warping...

How did you secure/seal the coal to the removable base?

Anyone know of either A) whether any shops sell resin or similar coal loads for wagons? Saw in some old posts modeltown and andel used to but nothing on their sites now B) what scratch built options people have used for modelling coal loads (i haven't access to real coal without having to buy a bag,...

Alternatively if anyone has any x-6-x loco running a 2' radius curve that would be good too.

I got some help getting my MMS loco up and running after some cylinder changes (thanks mainly to DLRDan on here!), but after a summer of running it still has a problem. The symptoms are this. It steams up fine (gas burner) and upon releasing the regulator it runs great for about 20-30 seconds and th...

Has anyone any photos of a Mountaineer or WD Alco navigating a 2' radius curve (eg 6 sections of Peco ST-905 G-45 curve track). Its a tight radius and so would like to see what these locos look like on a curve this small. I'd love an Alco but if it looks too out of place I may opt for a Charles, rat...

Thanks for the suggestions.

I've gone for the hand painted option. Found a letters stencil in my daughters pencil case and so pencilled the words on first as a guide and then painted over using humbrol paints.

Looks ok so far, will post up some pics when its finished.