Good tip : Mix the polyfilla or whatever you are using with black acrylic paint, so that it looks a dark grey colour, similar to tarmac. If for any reason the surface gets chipped, which it will over time, it wont show white as it would if you laid it white and painted it afterwards. You can also scribe cobblestones on the surface with a sharp scriber, to represent a cobbled street, once it has dried hard and it won't show any white as it would if you use plain polyfilla. Something I have done many many moons ago when I used to model tramways using live overhead.
Great video. I've just made a small tram layout & I used a small pizza cutting wheel ( from the £- shop) to make the grooves for the trams' wheels & it works very well. Oliver- Dean.
Don't use plaster: it affects the pick ups; never works. Resin is good. Also, tram wheels are not like railway wheels: they have a much finer flange for running in grooved rails. In Glasgow the rail wagons in the docks ran on their flanges in the grooved rail-hence the gauge was 3/4 inch less than standard.
Interesting the trams run without the overhead wires, as in really life those trams would be electric and would get their juice off of the wires, still looks nice though but incomplete without the wires, and unless you are of cause converting the system to steam power ?
Thomas Mills at that point the tram way wasn’t near finished as you could see by the video this was just a video to show people how we laid our tram lines into a road
Good tip : Mix the polyfilla or whatever you are using with black acrylic paint, so that it looks a dark grey colour, similar to tarmac. If for any reason the surface gets chipped, which it will over time, it wont show white as it would if you laid it white and painted it afterwards. You can also scribe cobblestones on the surface with a sharp scriber, to represent a cobbled street, once it has dried hard and it won't show any white as it would if you use plain polyfilla. Something I have done many many moons ago when I used to model tramways using live overhead.
Great video. I've just made a small tram layout & I used a small pizza cutting wheel ( from the £- shop) to make the grooves for the trams' wheels & it works very well. Oliver- Dean.
pizza cutter sounds a great idea. I will have to try that myself , thanks for wtching
Great tutorial guys. I'd have liked to see how the smoothing/sanding went, and then painting, but its good to see.
Minok1217 lol I actually forgot we did this vid
Thanks guys that was a great vid, nice work on inlaying the track too, it looks great. Cheers, Dan
thanks for watching the vid dan. glad you enjoyed it.
thanks dan,
What about points?
I would like to see how you filled the points of you have any
Thank-you!
Do a youtube search for model streetcar track.
Don't use plaster: it affects the pick ups; never works. Resin is good. Also, tram wheels are not like railway wheels: they have a much finer flange for running in grooved rails. In Glasgow the rail wagons in the docks ran on their flanges in the grooved rail-hence the gauge was 3/4 inch less than standard.
john jephcote ours have now been running on this for a few years now with no problems
I have trams on my layout corgi trams
Interesting the trams run without the overhead wires, as in really life those trams would be electric and would get their juice off of the wires, still looks nice though but incomplete without the wires, and unless you are of cause converting the system to steam power ?
Thomas Mills at that point the tram way wasn’t near finished as you could see by the video this was just a video to show people how we laid our tram lines into a road