It is so pleasing watching this layout starting to really take shape and appearance through your detailing. Keep at it, and looking forward to this continuing to progress!
I love this layout! I was just having a search the other day trying to find your channel, i guess ive got to subscribe now that i keep struggling to find your videos!
Another great video, very often watch them with my grandson (11). In fact, it's watching videos like yours that encourage him to have a go at modelling. He's recently started filming his model railway for his channel Dylington Model Railway and is planning to build a 009 layout. I look forward to the next video. Cheers, James 🙂👍
Nice video Richard. Adding track detail is always good fun. Look forward to seeing the track detail painted and ballast around it and track ballasted. - Nicholas.
Richard. Several times, I have used a different method of ballasting. I have used Cascamite powdered Wood glue. This comes in different size tubs. Basically, you just mix with the dry Ballast, about 50-50 glue powder and Ballast, then spray with water/splash of Washing up liquid and leave to dry. It might be beneficial to dry any water off the rails as it can dry green verdigris. You can use a dropper if you want. Several years ago, myself and a friend ballasted the whole of the scenic area on Wirral Transport Museums 'MOSTYN JUNCTION' layout from the 1980s. We ballasted the whole layout in about 6 hours! Sadly, the museum gas now been taken over and closed. The layout has been taken down and is due to go into storage, until a new home can be found for it. Keep up the good work? John Harrison. (Ex Tramdriver/Museum Technician) Wallasey. PS. I will keep you informed about Mostyn Junction. It was layout of the month in Railway Modeller magazine in the late 1980s!
Someone should make an Australian layout. The North West mining , Indian Pacific, or the Ghan. You only need a massive table covered with sand and a track. Could throw in an Aboriginal standing on one leg holding a spear for ambience. 😊 All the best from Lake Joondalup Western Australia.
Thank for the update, always ejoyable, this is fastly becoming my favorite subscription channel. Always good seeing how others do things. Like i said in your poll, i use a wheel device to paint rail sides, takes far too long with a brush!! I use N gauge ballast on my 00 layout, somehow looks better. Cant wait to see the whole scene ballasted up and these details added in. Waiting eagerly for those bushes now, and will def drop by the stand. Keep going ans sharing, its appreciated
Great video it’s all coming on quickly now. Enjoying seeing it develop. Love the idea of using a dropper to add weathering to the ballast. I used an airbrush to add sleeper grime and it’s a little heavy in places. But I can live with it. The dropper is a great idea though 👍
Great video once again and as a Newby to the hobby there's been allot of step by step constructive advice making the scenery process easy to follow. Keep up the great work. 👍 😎
Hi Richard. Good video, showing both yet more progress on your layout and how you went about doing things. When I did the ballasting on my layout, I mixed two parts fine ballast and one part medium ballast together in a small tub, before I spread it on the track. However, as you say in your video, there are several ways of doing it and as you pointed out, it depends on what sort of look that you are going for as well. All the best. Mark.
Great video as always Richard, really great to see the lineside detailing starting to take shape. I look forward to seeing your next video regarding bushing. I won't be at Warley now but I'll catch you at Glasgow in February if you're going? Keep up the good work as always and take care James
A good video here Richard, first off it’s nice seeing your Cross Country 170 running round the layout, I recently got one of those myself quite recently which when you consider how expensive they are these days is quite good, some good work on the scenery that you have done so far, keep up the great work.
As always Richard, it is looking great. Looking forward to seeing the lineside details in place and the ballast around the drainage pits. I'm sure it is going to look fantastic. Have a great time at Warley, I'm giving it a miss this year. David.
Looking good Richard! Lil tip for removing 3D printed parts from their supports is to run them under hot tap water, (not boiling). Usually the support points just melt away and the parts pop free with minimal clean up.
Hi Richard Good video although a comment re the green fencing is correct it's a little bright and unrealistic needs a wash try nuln oil it will dirty it ip a bit, also laying ballast you should promote spraying first with water with a little drop of fairy it does help and if you're a beginner and haven't mixed the pva and water great it helps it soak in. Great to see you back making videos and I look forward to the next episode. David
Great tutorial on your methods, only suggestion would be to use a Turkey baster for dropping your watered down PVA on to the ballast, doing it with COVID dropper will take ages on a layout that size!
Great Watch When you said nothing perfect I crochet and Im told when you make something you must put mistakes in as only God makes perfect if helps your layout I havent a layout but would one or help on Great Video
For info the Brunswick green spray is available in UN1950 Acrylic in 400ml aerosols from a number of suppliers, also blue weathers due the pigment in real life, whereas green is much harder wearing, it is always worth washing the plastic lineside parts in water with a few drops of washing up liquid to remove any wax or grease and it also helps key the surface as the liquid contains salt. Looks good.
Here in the US, the local pharmacies (chemist) will give out eyedroppers for free - useful for dropping the PVA mix on the ballast. I generally go with indian ink for colour mixes on ballast, it soaks very well, without needing watered down.
Excellent stuff Richard. Are you now trying to create a new Blue Peter-type railway series? 🤔 Perhaps you should mate, that was an excellent wee tutorial, and I agree wholeheartedly about using test pieces, especially if you are using a new type of paint or ballast you haven’t used before. I would also say that it is a good opportunity to practice things like creating patches of newly laid ballast as I see on the real thing all the time, especially where Network Rail have relaid a series of points over a weekend possession and suddenly you realise you are driving on (pardon the pun) a new junction where suddenly the familiar clunks and bumps aren’t there anymore, which can be a bit disconcerting if you aren’t expecting it!🤣😂😅 I always try to accumulate dust if using real materials for ballast or coal as I find sprinkling it on after ages structures and permanent way brilliantly, especially if you want to have patchy ballast, as the newer stuff always looks more clearly defined than the grubby old stuff! 😉 I look forward to your shrubbery lesson next time! Clair wants to know if Lulu will be doing a shift for it 😍🍻🍀👍
Love watching how this layout is coming on, although you might want to remove the Ivy from the top corner of the garage before it does too much damage.
Fantastic video as always, I'm interested as to how your going to install the fencing given that fence posts and panel verticals are always installed vertically and your scenery is undulating?
hiya mate does arian know you nicked her hair dryer lol great update mate looking really nice on the layout. hope you and the family are all well. peter
all coming together, was wondering when you where going to get the true acid test of clearances out through the station for a spin. Track colour is subjective stuff, the main thing is to avoid 40ft of layout all being the same colour, with the Potters Bar - Hadley Wood esque scene, the ECML at that point sees next to nothing with freight/ diesel hauled trains, so with a speed restriction through the tunnels , its brake dust thats the main one ,the newer locos etc just dont drop the oil etc that BR's museum pieces did, let alone its the fast lines theyre always digging up / crossovers that have the fresher ballast. For the drainage covers , NSE blue is a good colour, the guys at Tower Models recommended Howes BR DMU green as a Network Rail colour for the fencing / bridges ( why does nobody make a Network Rail bridge? ) & i think theyre pretty much on the money. Again miles of it all the same colour is a mistake, on the Blackpool Sth line which is near me, its been up a few years & the sunlight has matted / faded its look, then with the newly electrified route to North from Preston its all shiny & new / has quite the sheen. Ive gone down the new NR electrification look & gone for the sheen / new look fits in with the fresh steel of the cantilevers / concrete & black of the tube pile foundations. The ECML is going through a lot of changes as NR get to grips with the ills of BR's cheap as chips gear, 30 of the headspans near Huntingdon have been converted to have metal frame cross spans to see how they fare up /to start the replacement of the headspans on anything thats above 100mph to make it more reliable, if you see the MML stuff north of Bedford the use of 2 cantilevers on the four track sections to make it more reliable/ cut cost on steelwork. From a exhibition layout perspective , how many layouts do you see that have the latest NR gear up? Only Watermans Milton Keynes section do you see the modernisation with the reworking of the fast lines / additional through platforms over the years & the signal gantries that have no access ladders / huge foundations / A frames, some new ones outside Preston theyve just bunged up to replace the 50 yr of previous structures, some very impressive looking stuff, or the gargantuan structures that are at Castlefield ( Deansgate ) Ordsall Chord in Manchester. At that location its like BR never existed
Awesome video explaining your process. Have you tried adding a drop of green to the gray you paint the sleepers with? In my experience concrete takes a slight very faint greenish hue in a short time.
Great work again Richard. Loved it......I was mildly concerned by the invasion of the `greenies' at top right of your garage roof. Day of the Triffids ? or was it a bit of domestic planticles .Lol
I want to add catenary to my layout them dapol posts look good , Richard any idea how to tension the cable on a curve and how much clearance should i allow for the over head line for station roofs and tunnels
Hi, I really like your channel its so cool. I do have a technical problem I'm hoping you or someone can help me with. I have an N scale Fleischman starter set x21 digital set with additional tracks to make up like a door size track. It worked beautifully for about three months, and then just stopped working. The lights would come on on the engine, but it just wouldnt move forward or back. I tried rebooting the circut box and patching a new engine coach into the digital system but still got the same results. I tried cleaning the tracks. I just don't know where to go next. Put it all back in its box, but so unfortunate because its cost me quite a lot, I'd love to get it working longer. Any ideas would help thankyou.
Richard, just to the right of the double tunnel mouths there is what appears to be some white rock exposed. To my eye it seems distracting as my eyes are always drawn to that area, do you think it needs to be toned down a little....just a suggestion. Love what you have done so far. Cheers Greg
As always a great video, my only comment is the fence looks a bit bright green and doesn’t look very realistic. It looks what it is, plastic and I am sure if it were darker green it would much better. But having said that it might look better in reality. Thanks.
It is so pleasing watching this layout starting to really take shape and appearance through your detailing. Keep at it, and looking forward to this continuing to progress!
Thank you! Will do!
I love this layout! I was just having a search the other day trying to find your channel, i guess ive got to subscribe now that i keep struggling to find your videos!
Another great video! Nice to see the 170 out and about
Another great video, very often watch them with my grandson (11). In fact, it's watching videos like yours that encourage him to have a go at modelling. He's recently started filming his model railway for his channel Dylington Model Railway and is planning to build a 009 layout. I look forward to the next video. Cheers, James 🙂👍
Starting to look really good.
Nice explanatory techniques showing how to do in a simple way, to encourage others to have a go ..
X The Bigfella x
Looks pretty good. 👍Cheers Andy 🤠
Thanks 👍
Enjoyed watching this on my travels! It’s really coming together 😊
Another Master Class, professor. Brilliant work walk and talk-through!
Thank you kindly!
I'll be watching with great interest how you blend the pointwork sleepers in with the rest of the track - I have that problem looming!
Another good and informative video mate always worth watching cheers
Thanks 👍
Nice video Richard. Adding track detail is always good fun. Look forward to seeing the track detail painted and ballast around it and track ballasted. - Nicholas.
You and me both!
This is going to be an amazing layout when finished great content as usual.
Great progress lad, I'm miles behind you 😅
Hey Rich. Great video! Love it!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Really enjoying these videos, a very easy watch and full of great advice. Keep it coming 😀
You're layout is coming along very nice Richard. I use woodland scenics ground cover to
Richard. Several times, I have used a different method of ballasting.
I have used Cascamite powdered Wood glue. This comes in different size tubs.
Basically, you just mix with the dry Ballast, about 50-50 glue powder and Ballast, then spray with water/splash of Washing up liquid and leave to dry.
It might be beneficial to dry any water off the rails as it can dry green verdigris. You can use a dropper if you want.
Several years ago, myself and a friend ballasted the whole of the scenic area on Wirral Transport Museums 'MOSTYN JUNCTION' layout from the 1980s. We ballasted the whole layout in about 6 hours!
Sadly, the museum gas now been taken over and closed. The layout has been taken down and is due to go into storage, until a new home can be found for it.
Keep up the good work?
John Harrison. (Ex Tramdriver/Museum Technician) Wallasey.
PS. I will keep you informed about Mostyn Junction. It was layout of the month in Railway Modeller magazine in the late 1980s!
Someone should make an Australian layout.
The North West mining , Indian Pacific, or the Ghan.
You only need a massive table covered with sand and a track.
Could throw in an Aboriginal standing on one leg holding a spear for ambience. 😊
All the best from Lake Joondalup Western Australia.
Thank for the update, always ejoyable, this is fastly becoming my favorite subscription channel. Always good seeing how others do things. Like i said in your poll, i use a wheel device to paint rail sides, takes far too long with a brush!! I use N gauge ballast on my 00 layout, somehow looks better. Cant wait to see the whole scene ballasted up and these details added in. Waiting eagerly for those bushes now, and will def drop by the stand. Keep going ans sharing, its appreciated
Great video it’s all coming on quickly now. Enjoying seeing it develop. Love the idea of using a dropper to add weathering to the ballast. I used an airbrush to add sleeper grime and it’s a little heavy in places. But I can live with it. The dropper is a great idea though 👍
Great video once again and as a Newby to the hobby there's been allot of step by step constructive advice making the scenery process easy to follow. Keep up the great work. 👍 😎
I’m also new to all this and find this video really helpful for getting started
Hi Richard. Good video, showing both yet more progress on your layout and how you went about doing things. When I did the ballasting on my layout, I mixed two parts fine ballast and one part medium ballast together in a small tub, before I spread it on the track. However, as you say in your video, there are several ways of doing it and as you pointed out, it depends on what sort of look that you are going for as well. All the best. Mark.
Great video as always Richard, really great to see the lineside detailing starting to take shape. I look forward to seeing your next video regarding bushing. I won't be at Warley now but I'll catch you at Glasgow in February if you're going?
Keep up the good work as always and take care
James
Cheers James, that's a shame but yes I'll be at Glasgow. 😊
A good video here Richard, first off it’s nice seeing your Cross Country 170 running round the layout, I recently got one of those myself quite recently which when you consider how expensive they are these days is quite good, some good work on the scenery that you have done so far, keep up the great work.
Very cool!
As always Richard, it is looking great. Looking forward to seeing the lineside details in place and the ballast around the drainage pits. I'm sure it is going to look fantastic. Have a great time at Warley, I'm giving it a miss this year. David.
Thanks 👍that's a shame but there's always the new show in April at the NEC, Model World Live.
@@NewJunction Thanks for the information, that one is a possibility.
Looking good Richard! Lil tip for removing 3D printed parts from their supports is to run them under hot tap water, (not boiling). Usually the support points just melt away and the parts pop free with minimal clean up.
Hi Richard
Good video although a comment re the green fencing is correct it's a little bright and unrealistic needs a wash try nuln oil it will dirty it ip a bit, also laying ballast you should promote spraying first with water with a little drop of fairy it does help and if you're a beginner and haven't mixed the pva and water great it helps it soak in. Great to see you back making videos and I look forward to the next episode.
David
Thanks David, great tips
Kudos.. love your channel here in Ireland
Congrats on more progress
Thanks
Love it, looking good
Taking shape👍
Great tutorial on your methods, only suggestion would be to use a Turkey baster for dropping your watered down PVA on to the ballast, doing it with COVID dropper will take ages on a layout that size!
Yes haha
Awesome work!
Thank you! Cheers!
Great video as usual
good vid on channe looks good keep up the good work on the layout
Interesting method, very effective. Thank you for sharing.
Great Watch When you said nothing perfect I crochet and Im told when you make something you must put mistakes in as only God makes perfect if helps your layout I havent a layout but would one or help on Great Video
looks great
Looking good young Richard 👍
It’s amazing to see the progress you have made. Keep it up. Maybe add some railway workers. Working along besides the tracks
Great idea!
That CrossCountry Turbostar in your intro is triggering PTSD in me 😂
a hair dryer is not cheating, it is making better use of your time ! my way of looking at it anyway .. lol
😅 I agree haha
Another great video Richard, coincidentally enough, ballasting is my next main job at Amberlea......Chris
For info the Brunswick green spray is available in UN1950 Acrylic in 400ml aerosols from a number of suppliers, also blue weathers due the pigment in real life, whereas green is much harder wearing, it is always worth washing the plastic lineside parts in water with a few drops of washing up liquid to remove any wax or grease and it also helps key the surface as the liquid contains salt. Looks good.
Magnets to hold up catenary sounds interesting ? Looking forward to seeing this.
Here in the US, the local pharmacies (chemist) will give out eyedroppers for free - useful for dropping the PVA mix on the ballast. I generally go with indian ink for colour mixes on ballast, it soaks very well, without needing watered down.
Just need to put this out there. "what did we do before West Hill Wagon Works?".
Excellent stuff Richard. Are you now trying to create a new Blue Peter-type railway series? 🤔 Perhaps you should mate, that was an excellent wee tutorial, and I agree wholeheartedly about using test pieces, especially if you are using a new type of paint or ballast you haven’t used before. I would also say that it is a good opportunity to practice things like creating patches of newly laid ballast as I see on the real thing all the time, especially where Network Rail have relaid a series of points over a weekend possession and suddenly you realise you are driving on (pardon the pun) a new junction where suddenly the familiar clunks and bumps aren’t there anymore, which can be a bit disconcerting if you aren’t expecting it!🤣😂😅
I always try to accumulate dust if using real materials for ballast or coal as I find sprinkling it on after ages structures and permanent way brilliantly, especially if you want to have patchy ballast, as the newer stuff always looks more clearly defined than the grubby old stuff! 😉
I look forward to your shrubbery lesson next time! Clair wants to know if Lulu will be doing a shift for it 😍🍻🍀👍
Tops tips there Tim, Lulu is due to be in film again aha
great mate
Thanks ❤
looking sweet buddy
Love watching how this layout is coming on, although you might want to remove the Ivy from the top corner of the garage before it does too much damage.
Your 170 driver needs a Form 1 discipline....driving with reds at both ends!😅
i used Revell No 48 for my pallaside fencing as it is a matt finish.
Top tip
Fantastic video as always, I'm interested as to how your going to install the fencing given that fence posts and panel verticals are always installed vertically and your scenery is undulating?
hiya mate
does arian know you nicked her hair dryer lol
great update mate looking really nice on the layout.
hope you and the family are all well.
peter
all coming together, was wondering when you where going to get the true acid test of clearances out through the station for a spin. Track colour is subjective stuff, the main thing is to avoid 40ft of layout all being the same colour, with the Potters Bar - Hadley Wood esque scene, the ECML at that point sees next to nothing with freight/ diesel hauled trains, so with a speed restriction through the tunnels , its brake dust thats the main one ,the newer locos etc just dont drop the oil etc that BR's museum pieces did, let alone its the fast lines theyre always digging up / crossovers that have the fresher ballast. For the drainage covers , NSE blue is a good colour, the guys at Tower Models recommended Howes BR DMU green as a Network Rail colour for the fencing / bridges ( why does nobody make a Network Rail bridge? ) & i think theyre pretty much on the money. Again miles of it all the same colour is a mistake, on the Blackpool Sth line which is near me, its been up a few years & the sunlight has matted / faded its look, then with the newly electrified route to North from Preston its all shiny & new / has quite the sheen. Ive gone down the new NR electrification look & gone for the sheen / new look fits in with the fresh steel of the cantilevers / concrete & black of the tube pile foundations.
The ECML is going through a lot of changes as NR get to grips with the ills of BR's cheap as chips gear, 30 of the headspans near Huntingdon have been converted to have metal frame cross spans to see how they fare up /to start the replacement of the headspans on anything thats above 100mph to make it more reliable, if you see the MML stuff north of Bedford the use of 2 cantilevers on the four track sections to make it more reliable/ cut cost on steelwork. From a exhibition layout perspective , how many layouts do you see that have the latest NR gear up? Only Watermans Milton Keynes section do you see the modernisation with the reworking of the fast lines / additional through platforms over the years & the signal gantries that have no access ladders / huge foundations / A frames, some new ones outside Preston theyve just bunged up to replace the 50 yr of previous structures, some very impressive looking stuff, or the gargantuan structures that are at Castlefield ( Deansgate ) Ordsall Chord in Manchester. At that location its like BR never existed
Awesome video explaining your process.
Have you tried adding a drop of green to the gray you paint the sleepers with?
In my experience concrete takes a slight very faint greenish hue in a short time.
Good seeing you in that Pete Waterman show!
I've not seen it yet lol
Great work again Richard. Loved it......I was mildly concerned by the invasion of the `greenies' at top right of your garage roof. Day of the Triffids ? or was it a bit of domestic planticles .Lol
I want to add catenary to my layout them dapol posts look good , Richard any idea how to tension the cable on a curve and how much clearance should i allow for the over head line for station roofs and tunnels
No idea on the tensioning, the wires raise to 19ft in a station mind.
Love this layout, why didn't you used a push along ballaster? Or what's your view on them?
Chinchilla dust makes great ballast. Especially at £5.50 for a 7lb bag
Just one comment. With the blue cover tops, after brush painting I would have gently blown them afterwards to clear the holes.
Is there, what looks like electrical tape, over the cab ends of the multiple unit going round the track?
Hi, I really like your channel its so cool. I do have a technical problem I'm hoping you or someone can help me with.
I have an N scale Fleischman starter set x21 digital set with additional tracks to make up like a door size track. It worked beautifully for about three months, and then just stopped working. The lights would come on on the engine, but it just wouldnt move forward or back. I tried rebooting the circut box and patching a new engine coach into the digital system but still got the same results. I tried cleaning the tracks. I just don't know where to go next. Put it all back in its box, but so unfortunate because its cost me quite a lot, I'd love to get it working longer. Any ideas would help thankyou.
😂 at blue peter moment
Richard, just to the right of the double tunnel mouths there is what appears to be some white rock exposed. To my eye it seems distracting as my eyes are always drawn to that area, do you think it needs to be toned down a little....just a suggestion. Love what you have done so far. Cheers Greg
You should’ve been a Blue Peter presenter lol
Nice Ballasting technique fence is too green though.
Comments always count... doesn't matter what they say, the algorithm just likes them :)
As always a great video, my only comment is the fence looks a bit bright green and doesn’t look very realistic. It looks what it is, plastic and I am sure if it were darker green it would much better. But having said that it might look better in reality. Thanks.
Ah watch this space 😉
Why is everything "backwards" from 05:37 for quite a while?
Reverse camera + editing at night = idiot 😆
19:05 car