New T Gauge Forum is up!

http://www.talkingtgauge.net

Go create an account there! NOW!

Water + printed roads = bad times

I've learnt to keep water away from my railway the hard way. I don't know when it happened but at some point I must have dripped water onto the road. Probably by moving a drink or the pot of water to clean brushes. I didn't find out until long afterwards and the ink had run horribly.

Lesson learnt: if its made of paper and/or printed then never let water get near it because it will go horribly wrong.

Unfortunate loss of the T-Gauge.net forum and the new Facebook replacement

I found out recently that the forum on t-gauge.net had closed due to problems with some disagreeable behaviour. I was quite sad when I found this out. I had visited the forum regularly and it was probably the best source of news and best place of discussion for the various people's projects and hard to find products. I rarely posted but I read what I could, it helped me find the stuff on Shapeways, which helped a lot as there aren't many British style buildings available.

Now, the good people from TGauge.com (the best supplier of T Gauge related products), have created a Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/TalkingTGauge/. The group started literally in the last few hours so there aren't many posts yet, but I'm hoping this turns into the new home of the T Gauge Community.

Long Live T Gauge!

1:450 scale fencing is REALLY SMALL!

I've managed to source some 1:450 scale fence, in the form of 1:450 scale japanese ship railing. Its not easy to get hold of though. The manufacturers website says that its on order. I managed to find this sheet of fence on eBay in Australia... took about 2 weeks to get here. It was made in Czech and sold in Australia to be sent to me in the UK..... all for a little sheet of etched metal.

That's 3.4km of fence!

I've got some of it painted and attached to the layout to see how it looks.

Buildings, signal box and crossing gates.

More progress

It's amazing how fast you can get things moving when you get motivated.

The 0-4-0 is part of another project to come. A 009 model of the Darjeeling Himalayan railway!

Random pic of random progress