UPDATE No15 THE END TO END LAYOUT

Ciao dear Robert your layout end to end is beautiful my friend you are doing a great job i am sure you'll have,when finished,long hours of pleasure big like have a nice week end and i hope for you the weather will change in sun and not rain cheers alberto 🛤🛤🛤🛤🛤🛤🛤🛤👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😊😊

Excellent work, dear Robert. Love your approach and you do a great job. I also enjoy the picks of the beach and sea... beautiful area!

Looking very good indeed Robert.

Hi Robert, Im commenting whilst watching, so I may add more shortly. The sidings seem to be taking shape nicely. You asked about the ballast and stones. The beige ballast looks great, just right. Bit of weathering when you get that far. However, the stones between the tracks look far too big, personally I would move it elsewhere. Id use it on rocky sections where you may have rockfall, or areas where you may see larger rocks. It is ultimately your choice though. Railmatch has done great job. We have all had alignment issues, but you did good by adjusting track around the new point. Not sure you had enough books holding track though, maybe 3x more lol. Little chuckle there.

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Coming along just fine with lots of good ideas and tips. The weather has been just awful as of late stopping me getting on with those out door jobs and walks. However, May is almost upon us so let's hope for much nicer weather for some of those forthcoming transport shows! Cheers Malcolm

I was about to start gluing my track down, when my LandLord informed me, that he would like to sell these two units that I rent from him. He wants to sell them by November of this year. As they would like to move further south in Thailand. There is nothing glued down and I will not do any gluing. I think then If the baseboard is turned on its side, it will go through the doorway. It does not have any legs fitted yet. It sits on some tables. I am not happy about this situation, but they are their apartments. Good luck with the rest of the building the End to End layout. Martin. (Thailand)

Hi Robert the one thing about not knowing something is, learning how to do it your way, it may not be to everyone's satisfaction but it's your way you came up with. You may find you like and come a expert at doing scenery. You may do up stairsas well. I must say it is another avenue to do and be interesting for you. One thing i like is doing buildings, scenery and laying track while i can hear trains run and occasionally see the pass by. I hope your well may friend. And i still wait in anticipation to meet you one day. Colin

What can i say Robert . At least your having a dam good go at it. A few trial and errors but that`s how we learn . You have come a long way to get to this point in the build. On wards and upwards Robert.

I'm no expert. I guess there are times when we wish we could wave a magic wand. Then again, I can give this advice: if at first you don't succeed, try again. Rails of Sheffield made me a mouth-watering offer I couldn't refuse. I've bought a new Dapol Bourneville Chocolate Closed Van for just over £11. I'm a sucker for chocolate, I can't resist it. I hope you'll get somewhere eventually. I was surprised to see Cookham Manor on one of the sidings. Bet you put her there so I could gaze at her, unless I'm mistaken. Show me a GWR Manor hard at work, and I'll show you how much I truly love her. I do love seeing her in the opening and closing credits, credit where credit is due.

Nice one Robert, just goes to show that you can plan as much as you like but often plans don't go to err well plan. Found much the same on my layout but that is all the fun of it.

Coming along nicely, I can see you want to do this right. As Piccadilly mentioned, I thought the white ballast looked too big as well. Annoying about the point dimensions but you got there in the end.

Great Video Robert - right or wrong I paint my boards all over brown before i start u can still see pencil marks on it for lining up

Coming along nicely :-) I didn't paint my board because I ballasted the tracks

Blue tac on rail-joiners? Interesting I’ve never seen it before 👍🏻

The old story... apples to apples, pears to pears and never the twain shall meet. I try never to mix manufacturers when it comes to track... just a thought...

Hello Robert I hope you're well Your doing a fine job sir. The rail grime spray do you recommend it? Deano