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victorian t gauge
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| isnt it fun laying down the first greenery! transforms a layout in meer miniutes! the scale of the mountian looks great, & i like the rock faces to. how do you intend to model the waterfront? |
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zomer
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| Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 6:57 am Post subject: |
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WOOOOOOOOOW!!!! That looks fantastic!!! Its amazing how adding scenery changes the look dramatically!!
Can I clain the title for having the first road trestle in T gauge in the world???
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victorian t gauge
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| Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 8:40 am Post subject: |
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mmm, nice  it certanly has a seaside feel. you could even make a peer? i recon that would be fun to build. |
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trainspotter-usa
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No Pier.
I don't know if they actually have such a thing in Japan anyway...
Anyway I spent some odd time since the last picture working at the right hand side bit more.
I was waiting to see how the first cliff faces worked out before I tackled the second one they came out OK so I worked on the big one...
The white strip will be the road which will probably have to wait for Eishindo to release the level crossings before that get fixed in place and the first coat of paint is down for the water as well.
Ian
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victorian t gauge
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| Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 1:36 am Post subject: |
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| the cliff face looks great, with the greenery complimenting it on top. i guess thats one thing i would have liked to put on nowa nowa, a bit of rockface. o'well, perhaps on next one. are you goung to try painting pva over the blue wtar like the reference you had? it sounds like an interesting way to create water depth. i would be interested to see. |
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zomer
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| trainspotter-usa wrote: |
The white strip will be the road which will probably have to wait for Eishindo to release the level crossings before that get fixed in place and the first coat of paint is down for the water as well.
Ian |
Make your own if you have time. You certainly have the talent Very easy to do.
Small styrene rod. Make the X out of flat length of styrene. The circle lens thingy and "Stop on Red Signal" sign was carved out of small card. The lens cover was made out folded flat sheet of styrene. Takes about 45 minutes the first time and 30 for the next time (not including painting).
Great feeling of achievement once theyre done. Im going to tackle a small diarama of a level crossing with boom gates.
If you do it yourself you dont have to wait for Eishindo and you can save you pennys!! 
Adrian
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| Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 12:07 pm Post subject: |
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| zomer wrote: | | trainspotter-usa wrote: |
The white strip will be the road which will probably have to wait for Eishindo to release the level crossings before that get fixed in place and the first coat of paint is down for the water as well.
Ian |
Make your own if you have time. You certainly have the talent Very easy to do.
Small styrene rod. Make the X out of flat length of styrene. The circle lens thingy and "Stop on Red Signal" sign was carved out of small card. The lens cover was made out folded flat sheet of styrene. Takes about 45 minutes the first time and 30 for the next time (not including painting).
Great feeling of achievement once theyre done. Im going to tackle a small diarama of a level crossing with boom gates.
If you do it yourself you dont have to wait for Eishindo and you can save you pennys!!
Adrian |
Or if it is the road crossing itself, that's not all that difficult either.
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 3:26 am Post subject: Just for fun |
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Some more fun shots of the layout. To see how things are coming together
Ian
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victorian t gauge
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 5:07 am Post subject: |
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looks great Ian!  by jeez those bridge handrails are FINE!  it really shows there size, with the train sitting there. & the iconic lighthouse with the boats set the mood. |
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B 67
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 7:07 am Post subject: |
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Looks like the lighthouse is on an iceberg in the photo. But I'm sure that won't last long.
Great to see the progress - looking really nice. I'm being left behind in the layout progress 'race' - although I did sort of build my second T-gauge layout today - a display for the mountain train demo.
I can see I'm going to have to get some of those handrail sets. Will have all sorts of uses. Actually, I shall be beside Model Etch at the Sandown exhibition. I'll see if I can interest them in producing some 1:450 scale etches. Ah! working semaphore signals might happen after all. 
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zomer
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 8:53 am Post subject: |
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| B67 wrote: | | Ah! working semaphore signals might happen after all |
And many other things!!
The layout progress is amazing!! That rail bridge is soooooo nice!!!
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 9:55 am Post subject: |
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| zomer wrote: | | B67 wrote: | | Ah! working semaphore signals might happen after all |
And many other things!!
The layout progress is amazing!! That rail bridge is soooooo nice!!! |
Agree - it does look good. Funny thing though - if it was any other scale we'd probably be thinking of it as a nondescript modern bridge.
But even the otherwise unremarkable is remarkable in T.
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zomer
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 10:02 am Post subject: |
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Perhaps its because everything in T gauge is usually scratch built? We are seeing all of these amazing layouts where a lot of the scenery is result of creativity rather that placing purchased items on a premade template.
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