Peco200 mania, etc.
The Peco200 bug hasn’t affected everyone, but both Luke and LBH have decided to have a go. Both are being built to a scale of 7mm/ft and the available footprint is footprint is 750mm x 305mm.
Luke plan makes great use of the very limited space available combining both narrow gauge (16.5mm) and standard gauge (33mm) sections.
The design has its basis in the transfer facility at Tywyn on the Talyllyn Railway and rejoices in the name of Queen’s Wharf.
LBH’s use of the baseboard is much more modest as he is using his board as a test bed for 3d-printed COT (Chairs On Timber) track work. So far no more has been done than obtain the printed base.
The plan is to add some of the ScaleSeven Ready-to-Lay track when it becomes available.
Elsewhere, Mr Chairman was working on the turnouts for Cwm-Carno and Andrew J on scenery for Lyne Road.
Wagonman has made good progress on his GWR GBV side we saw it last month. The roof is loose and yet to be attached to the body.
Little construction work remains beyond adding the whitemetal fittings.
Mike E continues with the Depot for his Hogwash and Balony short line.
Discussions covered the colouring for the walls and the most likely prototype roofing material.
A delayed update on the Hogwash and Balony follows;
At the start of June Mike E confessed to a tracklaying error that led to the destruction seen in the 1st pic. The sweeping curves of the replacements show a great improvement.
Elsewhere on the line the tracks span the hog-wash on a typical wooden trestle structure seen in the later photos.
This is all built from basswood sections.
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