Working towards a new project

Hi all,

In English only....

The diorama has had its debut and had good respons:

I went with three layouts; mine (Cornfield Yard) in the front, second the Civil War diorama and last the small layout of my wife, "Halte Padjarakan" with a Indonesian theme:

At the show I found also some cheap loco's... 6 of them! 1 Rivarossi, 2 Bachmann's, 2 Airfix and a Rivarossi Bowker:

And at home they al wheretested and all ran very good. 

I now want to do the layout itself. There lies a invitation for a exhibition in 2013 in the railway museum in Utrecht Netherlands (www.spoorwegmuseum.nl) where this layout will be a focal point of the show.
Long have I thought of what to do.... Alexandria, Aquia Landing, City Point. I didn't know it, all the subjects are interesting enough to build. In further searching I found some very interesting photos of Nashville Tennesee:

I reworked a map of it:

Oke, how to proceed? At first I made some hardcopy photos of the subject I also downloaded some templaates of normal switches at "Fast Tracks" (www.handlaidtrack.com), printed them and cut them out :

Then I made my plan with the templates and some stripes of white paper. For the idea; this will be the second (right) one of 2 modules. The left one will be the station as on the photos, the right one will show the Chatanooga depot with some spurs and a road that crosses the srailway:

From a previous project made long ago I still had the modules of 135 by 60 centimeters. Because it had softwood framing I demolished that and saved the masonite decking:

Tonight after dinner I started with construction. Left over woodwork from also another project (yes, I started some stuff!!) was used as stratingpoint. My current exhibition layout is build as modules that have its lighting already in it. I buid it as a sort of "U-form". This time I will do a "L-form" without the lighting because that way I can transport these two modules somewhat easier and with my current car.

I start with this:

The back is a strip of 60 centimeters long. The bottom is 50 by 10 centimeters:

That is screwed and glued together with a extra 10 by 10 centimeter piece:

And all 3 ready; one on each end and one in the middle:

Tomorrow more construction work!

Almost ready! / Bijna klaar!

I let speak the photo's for itself / Ik laat de foto's voor zichzelf spreken:

From this / Van dit:

To this / Naar dit:

Only some painting of the module and some stuff on it / Alleen nog wat schilderwerk aan de module en wat spul wat er op staat.

This module is to see on Euromodelbouw2011 in Genk Belgium, Europe coming weekend (8/9 Oct 2011) in the "Limburghallen" there..

Deze module is te zien komend weekeinde (8/9 Okt 2011) in Genk Belgie op Euromodelbouw 2011 in de Limburghallen aldaar.

Landscaping / landschap

Some pictures of what I did today / Wat foto's van de werkzaamheden vandaag:

Raised the building / gebouwen verhoogd:

Landscaping / Landschap:

What we are aiming for / Wat we uiteindelijk willen:

PS; in the photo's all is still wet / op de foto's is alles nog nat.

Meer / More

Did more today / Heb vandaag meer gedaan:

Painted the stub / wissel geschilderd:

And the rest / En de rest:

Layed some track / Nog een stuk spoor gelegd:

And made a switchrod / En een wisselstang gemaakt:

Later!

Grtz, Ronald.

More work on the diorama / Verder met het diorama

At this moment I did a lot of work on the module. Here is how it looks now / Intussen is er veel werk aan de module gedaan, zo ziet het er nu uit:

The station I will use / Het stationsgebouw wat ik wil gaan gebruiken:

Some first layer of scenery / een stukje eerste laag scenery:

More / meer:

Still more / nog meer:

Last piece of track / laatste stuk spoor:

Turnout control / wisselaandrijving:

Overaal view / Overzicht nu:

More to come! / Word vervolgd!

Mantua 4-4-0

I'm also building a Mantua loco, here are some progress phots / Ik ben ook bezig met een Mantua loc, hier enige voortgangs foto's:

Cab / Machinistenhuis:

Cleaned parts / schone delen:

Primer:

And paint / en de eerste verflaag:

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And a testfit / en een pasproef:

We bouwen een paar loc's / Building some loco's

Ook in model moet ik een aantal 4-4-0 loc's hebben. Daarvoor heb ik exemplaren van Rivarossi maar ook van Mantua ter beschikking. Nadat ik decals heb laten komen van Microscale heb ik besloten 2 locs te maken; 1 voor de noordelijken, een USMRR loc dus (de Rivarossi) en 1 voor het zuiden; de "General", fameus van film en boek (en dat wordt de Mantua).

I also need models of 4-4-0 locos. For that I have models of Rivarossi as well from Mantua. After ordering decalsheets at Microscale I decided to build me 2 loco's: 1 for the North, a USMRR loc (the Rivarossi) and 1 for the South and that will be the "General" well known from movie and books. This one will be build from the Mantua model.

Cleared from text / vrijgemaakt van tekst:

Disassembled / Uit elkaar gehaald:

In 96% Alcohol:

Working the details away / de opgegoten details weghalen:

En painted and decalled / En geverfd en voorzien van decals:

More to come / Wordt vervolgd!

Grtz, Ronald.