Afternoon Charlie hope you’re well I have just watched videos 141 and 146 about installing inclines on Chadwick and I am pleased to say after watching your videos and plenty of working out the percentages I finished up with a 3% incline around a 3rd radius curves and straight Thatcham station West Berkshire is now a branch line station on the upper level at the end of a viaduct that I scratch built with a bay platform 1 and a platform 2 and station building with lighting and a GWR footbridge just needs signals so we now have DMU’s running thanks Charlie for inspirational videos which have helped me with this project Kind regards Kev Beighton Parkway Sheffield
I love how real these layout videos are... You're really showing how you can do great modelling without having each and every detail 100% planned out. Sometimes you gotta rip out something because it didn't pan out like you wanted it to! No problem, just do it all over again and move on to the next bit of the layout!!
Hi Charlie, your approach and attention to detail is to be admired, thoroughly enjoyed this video. I never fail to learn something each time you post a video. Keep up the good work. Cheers Greg
Charlie - best way to draw a curve on a piece of paper: mark the both ends, mark approximately your midpoint, then use a plastic shatterproof ruler on its edge and bend it to the three points, then trace your line with the pen
Hi Charlie, only just come across your Channel, what a revelation! I have been building my layout since the start of lockdown and aptly, though without much originality it’s named Lock Down. I am fed up with the tension lock couplings and was looking for some help/guidance on where to go to improve on them. I came across your videos. Now I’m hooked. Thanks for all the time and effort you put in. Your style is very easy to listen to and watch. Great work. I have many hours of catch-up viewing to do. Thanks once again.
Another great video Charlie. I actually watch this one all the way through. Normally they are just on in the background whilst I am doing something else. A link is going in my weekly newsletter again this weekend as I think its worth a watch as it shows something that I get asked about quite often, and that's to do with the angle of a rise. These seem to make the task in raising the track level quite easy, even though I have not tried them myself. No real need to when you do it for us. Keep up the good work from us all at Railwayscenics, you do make our lives easy with your videos.
I really like the way you explain your thinking Charlie. Never leave out your Chadwickisms! - “That’ll be the phone then!” and my favourite - “The great unwashed!” You and a few other vloggers have inspired me to share my build. Keep safe - thank you.
Hi Charlie, as a newby to model railways its great to find a channel that is full of good advise based on the experiences and fun you have had over the years.
Hi Charlie, I am new to model railways but have learnt loads from watching all your videos. Thanks very much for sharing your layout and how to videos. Unfortunately the only lesson I haven’t learnt is not to wear my new jumper whilst gluing scenics so now in the doghouse with the wife 🤦🏻♂️
Hi Charlie. Been watching your shows for well over a year now, whilst researching etc. making a return after a 40 year hiatus and a new life in Canada. Work, owning a business and now planning a final home move all while making plans on which system (DCC) to go with. Your tutelage has been a very easy and clear aid for me. Thank you sir/lovvviiieeeee and please keep up the tremendous work.
A tip when the level in the copydex bottle goes down below the brush - lay the bottle down at an angle (and then on its side once you're down to the bottom 1/3rd) - and I find you can easily dip the brush in and recharge it, even rest it in there briefly. Coming along nicely!
I really appreciate all your hard work and suggestions. And all the problems you have run into. Moving and starting over can be a challenge. The mirrors in the canal tunnels can be quite good, provided the canal is straight.
Thanks for sharing your progress and the rationale behind what you are planning. It’s very rewarding to see that you are not wary of changing your mind half way through a build. You are giving me so much information and encouragement, Charlie. Roy.
Good tip vis a vis using the mirror for checking angles. And "flowing uphill" was classic Charlie :) Thank you for sharing your adventure and offering inspiration.
Hi Charlie. Your layout is progressing really well. I'm really enjoying following your adventures in the layouts construction . Keep up the good work. Cheers Chris.
Watching that class 47 as it leaves the helix demonstrates the drama of a hilly terrain extremely well. A feeling of high depth great sense of 3D going on. It's great to see a deep valley instead of a tunnel is working well. Nice video!
Another great vid 👍🏻. A tip for the tracing paper, is to put a series of holes along the line you've drawn on the paper, then go over it again with your pen on the plasticard. 😁
I would have used pin holes, but if you cut through them they show, like postage stamp perforations. So mark the graph paper with pen, fold an inch off its width, lay it on your plasticard and pin hole along that line, join the dots and put a inch spacer against that line, and draw your cutting line on the plasticard, then check against the tracing paper pattern, and if happy cut. The holes will now sit invisibly under your cork track bed. Roger
Changing one's mind is not the sole prerogative of the ladies, its a necessary part of any scenic modelling! Real life too is full of track changes and infrastructure changes, but you handle yours with great aplomb! Nice to see the incline evolving, keep it up.
Hello Charlie, When covering the Woodland inclines, you can use WS plaster cloth. Only it need to dry , so you can’t use it directly i think. And then you can put the cork and ballast on it. Thanks for the Video’s. Greetings Dominique ( Netherlands)
Hi Charlie. A tip for making your template - fold some A4 printer paper over the edge of your incline - then you can cut the paper along the fold and use this as your template for marking your plastic sheet.
What a great video, you don't edit the mistakes and that's great, I haven't seen a old style Stanley knife for years, I do have a few in a draw somewhere, your approach is very enlightening and I take inspiration from that, many thanks from down under in Wairoa New Zealand
Excellent idea with the mirror and cutting the cork, I used to put lots of cuts down one side (killed my hands) but your idea of one (or 2 cuts down the middle is much quicker and easier on my hands, thank you.
Excellent video Charlie, as usual I learned a lot of tips and tricks on your track laying and labeling. That scene is gonna look awesome when you get it done. Thanks for sharing and stay safe. Ken
Charlie, Thankyou. It may be a different to what you had planned but so informative and great to watch and listen. Two weeks can’t come quick enough. Always look forward to your video uploads. Learning and have learnt so much from your videos as well as being so inspirational. Thankyou again, all best Marc - missed “ now that would be the phone then” lol
Excellent tutorial again Charlie. I got a similar soldering station for about £40 and it has really served me well. Makes a big difference being able to vary the temperature for other tasks, plus I am forgetful so the snooze facility stops me from burning myself or racki up a huge bill! This in conjunction with my silicone mat have made soldering wires a relative doddle 😉 Good idea to have a bay too mate. I like the idea of adding a spot of point-to point. Gives the branch station greater significance 😎 Cheers mate, look forward to the next one 👍🍻🍀
Regarding the excavation Charlie, you could say that the line was originally broad gauge. I once read a book by a guy who held that once you had planned your track, on no account should you even think of changing it. Well nuts to that - it takes half the fun out of modelling. I'm starting layout 24 after a house move and with only 3 feet of track laid a major revision has been handed to the civil engineer.
Beautiful Charlie, I long for and look forward to your every episode. It fuels my motivation to get working on my own. Your use of cork has given me ideas for my track laying when I get to laying down foamboard (base)... straight with nails for the track, the cork will better grab the nails instead of the track floating directly on the foamboard. Good input! John BC, Canada
Hi Charlie, excellent video as normal. I do like the detail that you provide when you do these videos. I did miss “That’ll be the phone” you didn’t say that though.
Another great video Charlie, thank you. As a plastic modeller I use a Tamiya scriber to cut plasticard, they’re not expensive and less risk of losing a finger. I look forward to you threading cling film into that gap..... Best TonyS
Great work Charlie... quick tip I use for curve patterns... Once you've got the pattern on tracing paper (or grease proof paper), turn it over an follow the line using a soft graphite pencil (I use either a 3B or 4B)... then turn it back, place it on the plasticard and simply scratch over the line with your fingernail. You'll end up with a perfect replica of the curve, which you can follow over with a Sharpie if needed.
Charlie, Thank you for yet anotehr great video. There were some great little tips there on cutting cork, spacing from the track to the retaining wall, and getting flex track straight - with a mirror, not sure how that will go for someone who is cross-eyed. Keep up the great work. Cheers, and stay safe, Michael
Another good one mate. A great mixture to keep everyone interested (even us N gaugers). I have a 3 degree Wood Scenics curved incline which was MUCH easier, although more expensive, to build than my upper 3mm plywood section, which flexes from sloping to horizontal under its natural bendy property. The RS wire stripper is very good, but a little intermittent, slipping on the insulation of my 7/02 droppers which are fine for N gauge current draws. Keep up the good work Charlie. Nil carborundum. Keith. :-)
Another excellent and timely video, Charlie, as I have just started laying track on my layout using 3mm cork and PVA glue. One idea to make things interesting would be to have the bay track as a truncated loop. The retaining wall could be pushed back and the disused area of track bed could be used for dumps of old track materials, a point heater gas bottle compound, portacabins and plenty of weeds and bushes. Keep up the good work.
Another wonderful video Charlie, Have been taking great fascination of how much your subscriber numbers are growing week by week! Excited to see if you hit 50k By Christmas!
Hi Charlie, when using card I like to seal it with something like mod podge, acrylic craft paint or even latex wall paint. Saves about an arm and a leg 😬
@@ChadwickModelRailway Charlie you produce great model rail road if videos. I am envious of your layout. (Even though it is British and HO). Merry Just kidding!
Hi Charlie, As your layout is GWR/WR the extra gap could be explained as: The line was originally built at 7ft 1/4" broad gauge. When it was converted back to standard gauge, it takes up less width so leaving you with extra space.
Another well thought out session with some good tips. Not sure the flexi curve is a french curve as i thought they were the set of decreasing elliptical curves is our satchels! Could be a case of what school we went to… i do wish my camera skills were as good as yours Charlie 😀
I think you need to consider buying Shares in Copydex, Charlie! A nice bit of progress there. I always found it difficult to plan scenery around the railway - which is what we are usually obliged to do. I like the idea of the bay platform, and moving the retaining wall forward is a good move.
Another excellent episode Charlie. I have done my inclines in a similar fashion though probably not as neat and well thought out as yours. I have use bog standard craft PVA glue and even managed to lift it and adjust it including the same track bed without ripping it, maybe I just got lucky.
Another great video Charlie. I've tried using Copydex on some foam underlay in my storage lanes (the thin stuff you put under laminate flooring) for the purposes of noise reduction and have found that when I subsequently drill holes through it for droppers the rubberised nature of Copydex causes it to catch the drill and wrap itself round pulling it away from the bond and getting a snotty blob (for want of a better description!) stuck on the drill which you can only get off with a craft knife blade. I'm now not putting any glue in the immediate area where holes are going - solves the issue.
Have you considered that the bend at the end of the station under the incline may of once had a passing loop that was removed by the permanent way gang as it was no longer operationally needed any more and so the line was terminated at that end of the platform and so you could model the area there as a space no longer used but still containing remnants of the track and associated equipment, eg, the odd sleeper still in situation and sleeper imprints left in a weed riddled ballast.
@@ChadwickModelRailway just rewatched some Of Your videos from last year, (enjoyable for it's own sake!) But with a purpose, have you still got the ability to change over from one side of your fiddle yard to the other, it was in your original designs but couldn't see on my phone- in working away from home at the moment- if you kept that in the final build. Only because both bay platform trains and your freightliner trains, in my opinion and it's your layout of course, would benefit from being able to run down the right hand helix and crossover before returning at some point to either the bay or depot as appropriate. The bay of course can run to your branch station instead of down the helix on a shuttle. The 47 would have to run back around it's train as it's going to do on the scenic part otherwise it can never return! Hopefully I'm worried about nothing.
Hi Philip, both at the upper level and the lower level of the left-hand Helix there will be a return loop. Also, at the freightliner depot there will be a runaround loop to enable the loco to come off the front of the train and reattach at the rear. Regards Charlie
@@ChadwickModelRailway thanks Charlie glad your already there, I'd read other comments about the freightliner run around. Just didn't like the thought of you having to come back to ripping up something you might not have built yet. Best regards Phil.
@@ChadwickModelRailway Orginally Michigan, grew up in Kentucky, went to school in the mid West. Moved South to Louisiana and then Texas for work. Worked in refining for over 40 years as a Chemist and an Engineer. I told you all this because my accent is a mix of all that. America has the accents of the people of the countries that settled it. I really do enjoy your videos. I learn a lot about rail road in the UK (I especially like the episode you did on signals). Those in the states differ from rail road to rail road not including semaphores. Keep it up.
Quite a range of work going into this episode. Always learning. On the excess gap at the "west" end of the incline, I wondered if you would make the retaining wall lean back. But I do like what you are doing with it. Probably need some thinking about the transition between the retaining wall, the platform and at what point does the retaining wall end and hand over to the embankment.
I have some ideas Lee but there isn’t that much about online. I doubt if it will lean back as I want it to be narrow with buttresses. I’m probably going to remove the double slip at the right hand side at the front too.
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Thanks again Charlie
Limited skills . You got me.
Clever practical compromises.
Regards
Howard
Thanks Howard I’m so pleased that you approved of my minor alterations mate. Regards Charlie
Afternoon Charlie hope you’re well I have just watched videos 141 and 146 about installing inclines on Chadwick and I am pleased to say after watching your videos
and plenty of working out the percentages I finished up with a 3% incline around a 3rd radius curves and straight Thatcham station West Berkshire is now a branch line station on the upper level at the end of a viaduct that I scratch built with a bay platform 1 and a platform 2 and station building with lighting and a GWR footbridge just needs signals so we now have DMU’s running thanks Charlie for inspirational videos which have helped me with this project
Kind regards
Kev Beighton Parkway Sheffield
Thanks Kev, that’s very kind of you to say so. It’s comments such as yours, that make the whole thing worthwhile. Regards, Charlie.
Hi Charlie another enjoyable video to. Plenty of information for those who are starting to build a layout. All the best. Mick
Thanks Mick I’m so pleased that you found it interesting mate. Regards Charlie
Hi Charlie another great vid. I'm watching this Sat on my sunbed in Mexico. That's all I wanted to say really.
Oh, thanks for that!
From an overcast and dank Somerset!
Nice one Charlie, every little tip is useful mate - Many thanks 🙏🏻
You’re too kind Donni
I love how real these layout videos are... You're really showing how you can do great modelling without having each and every detail 100% planned out. Sometimes you gotta rip out something because it didn't pan out like you wanted it to! No problem, just do it all over again and move on to the next bit of the layout!!
Thanks G60, I’m so pleased that you enjoyed it.
Hi Charlie, your approach and attention to detail is to be admired, thoroughly enjoyed this video. I never fail to learn something each time you post a video. Keep up the good work. Cheers Greg
Thanks Greg, as usual your comments are most kind. Regards Charlie
Charlie - best way to draw a curve on a piece of paper: mark the both ends, mark approximately your midpoint, then use a plastic shatterproof ruler on its edge and bend it to the three points, then trace your line with the pen
Excellent advice, thank you. Regards, Charlie
Good pre planning Charlie, and like that you used your most prized possession, your bottle of Copydex
I seem to recall that someone helped me reach this conclusion! 😜
Another super video Charlie. I always look forward to your next esisode.
Thanks David, I’m so pleased to have you onboard. Regards Charlie
Hi Charlie, only just come across your Channel, what a revelation! I have been building my layout since the start of lockdown and aptly, though without much originality it’s named Lock Down. I am fed up with the tension lock couplings and was looking for some help/guidance on where to go to improve on them. I came across your videos. Now I’m hooked. Thanks for all the time and effort you put in. Your style is very easy to listen to and watch. Great work. I have many hours of catch-up viewing to do. Thanks once again.
What a heartwarming comment Gerald. Regards Charlie.
Another great video Charlie. I actually watch this one all the way through. Normally they are just on in the background whilst I am doing something else. A link is going in my weekly newsletter again this weekend as I think its worth a watch as it shows something that I get asked about quite often, and that's to do with the angle of a rise. These seem to make the task in raising the track level quite easy, even though I have not tried them myself. No real need to when you do it for us. Keep up the good work from us all at Railwayscenics, you do make our lives easy with your videos.
Thanks Stephen, I’m so pleased that you enjoyed it and hopefully your followers will too. Regards Charlie.
I really like the way you explain your thinking Charlie. Never leave out your Chadwickisms! - “That’ll be the phone then!” and my favourite - “The great unwashed!” You and a few other vloggers have inspired me to share my build. Keep safe - thank you.
Fircombe Hall, I'm so pleased that you found the video useful.
Regards Charlie
Wow well done. Great vid, wish you all the best with your channel. Barry.
Thanks Barry, it’s great to have you onboard.
I've had a quadruple bypass and 3 strokes but I am a survivor... It's sure good to see you. Thanks 😊
Blimey Robert, I am in awe .
Stay safe, regards Charlie.
@@ChadwickModelRailway Thank you Charlie 😊
Educational and entertaining as usual. Thanks for this
I’m so pleased that you enjoyed it buddy.
I always look forward to starting my Saturday mornings here in the states with Chadwick and Charlie. Thanks for another brilliant video.
Thanks Jo, it’s great to have you on-board mate.
Charlie and the train factory
Love your videos
Thanks Ron, it’s great to have you onboard.
Hi Charlie. New to your channel. It's great to see how others run and produce their layouts. Looks good!¡
Welcome aboard Gus. Regards Charlie.
Thanks Charlie. I always love watching your progress.
Thanks WW99, you’re too kind mate
10:30-10:50 Lee S. called to tell you left instead right-hand turnout? - Good that your track plan guru knows your number and 👍 to him!
Nice one Lass. But I don't have a live link to Charlie as he is recording. Charlie worked that one out without my direct assistance.
Gentlemen I even surprised myself that time.
Hi Charlie, as a newby to model railways its great to find a channel that is full of good advise based on the experiences and fun you have had over the years.
Welcome aboard Brian, all you need to do now is "Subscribe". Regards Charlie
Hi Charlie, I am new to model railways but have learnt loads from watching all your videos. Thanks very much for sharing your layout and how to videos. Unfortunately the only lesson I haven’t learnt is not to wear my new jumper whilst gluing scenics so now in the doghouse with the wife 🤦🏻♂️
At least she will know what to buy you for Christmas! Regards Charlie
Hi Charlie. Been watching your shows for well over a year now, whilst researching etc. making a return after a 40 year hiatus and a new life in Canada. Work, owning a business and now planning a final home move all while making plans on which system (DCC) to go with. Your tutelage has been a very easy and clear aid for me. Thank you sir/lovvviiieeeee and please keep up the tremendous work.
What a heartwarming comment Maurice. Regards Charlie.
Excellent video Charlie - one of your best for us novices.
That’s very kind of you to say so John. Regards Charlie
A tip when the level in the copydex bottle goes down below the brush - lay the bottle down at an angle (and then on its side once you're down to the bottom 1/3rd) - and I find you can easily dip the brush in and recharge it, even rest it in there briefly. Coming along nicely!
A good tip Mike, regards Charlie.
I really appreciate all your hard work and suggestions. And all the problems you have run into. Moving and starting over can be a challenge. The mirrors in the canal tunnels can be quite good, provided the canal is straight.
Good luck with your new project Bruce.
Regards Charlie.
Thanks for sharing your progress and the rationale behind what you are planning. It’s very rewarding to see that you are not wary of changing your mind half way through a build. You are giving me so much information and encouragement, Charlie. Roy.
What a heartwarming comment Roy.
nice one charlie, always nice to see the master at work !
Thanks Paul, you’re too kind mate. Regards Charlie.
Good tip vis a vis using the mirror for checking angles. And "flowing uphill" was classic Charlie :) Thank you for sharing your adventure and offering inspiration.
It’s great to have you onboard H7
Hi Charlie. Your layout is progressing really well. I'm really enjoying following your adventures in the layouts construction . Keep up the good work. Cheers Chris.
Thanks Chris, I’m so pleased that you’re enjoying the ride. Regards Charlie
Watching that class 47 as it leaves the helix demonstrates the drama of a hilly terrain extremely well. A feeling of high depth great sense of 3D going on. It's great to see a deep valley instead of a tunnel is working well. Nice video!
Thanks Ian, what a heartwarming comment mate.
It's all done by mirrors..... great tip that I'll use on some parts of my track not yet stuck down! Thank you.
Well done Charlie another fascinating video.
Thanks very much Les.
Another great vid 👍🏻. A tip for the tracing paper, is to put a series of holes along the line you've drawn on the paper, then go over it again with your pen on the plasticard. 😁
You guys are far too knowledgeable for my liking! Happy modelling, regards Charlie
I would have used pin holes, but if you cut through them they show, like postage stamp perforations. So mark the graph paper with pen, fold an inch off its width, lay it on your plasticard and pin hole along that line, join the dots and put a inch spacer against that line, and draw your cutting line
on the plasticard, then check against the tracing paper pattern, and if happy cut. The holes will now sit invisibly under your cork track bed. Roger
Yet again a professional informative video! Been a bit busy recently in the real world of trains and infrastructure!
I know the feeling David, I’ve been away from home for the last six days with photography, really nice to be home at last. Regards Charlie
Well done Chas another gem
Thanks John, I’m so pleased that you enjoyed it.
great Charlie. Thoroughly enjoyed that. it was good to see the viaduct and all the stuff with it. I remember it well. thanks. kevin.
Thanks Kevin. Regards Charlie.
Changing one's mind is not the sole prerogative of the ladies, its a necessary part of any scenic modelling! Real life too is full of track changes and infrastructure changes, but you handle yours with great aplomb! Nice to see the incline evolving, keep it up.
Thanks Mike, you’re too kind mate.
Another enjoyable and interesting video Charlie. I really like the idea of the bay platform, a rural shuttle will be a great addition. Thank you.
Thanks Tom, regards Charlie
hi charlie. yes very useful.thank's for the howto. cheers tom.
Thanks Tom, I’m so pleased you enjoyed it mate.
This is so much fun to watch and you do excellant work. What can I say, " I'm hooked ''!
Don’t become an addict Joseph, it can be costly. Regards Charlie
Hello Charlie,
When covering the Woodland inclines, you can use WS plaster cloth.
Only it need to dry , so you can’t use it directly i think.
And then you can put the cork and ballast on it.
Thanks for the Video’s.
Greetings Dominique ( Netherlands)
Thanks Dominique, an interesting point.
Hi Charlie. A tip for making your template - fold some A4 printer paper over the edge of your incline - then you can cut the paper along the fold and use this as your template for marking your plastic sheet.
Thanks Ray much appreciated.
What a great video, you don't edit the mistakes and that's great, I haven't seen a old style Stanley knife for years, I do have a few in a draw somewhere, your approach is very enlightening and I take inspiration from that, many thanks from down under in Wairoa New Zealand
What a heartwarming comment Jed.
I still have two Stanley Knives, I wouldn’t be without them.
Thoroughly enjoyed this. Your progress is coming along v.well..
Thankyou charlie.
I’m so pleased that you enjoyed it Shane.
As we said in the 80's well cool loved it Charlie well done mate ! John from Chichester.
Thanks John me old mate, I’m so pleased you found it interesting buddy. Regards Charlie
Great video Charlie really love the detail and thought that you put into this layout, starting to really take shape, 🙂👍🏻
Thanks Mark, regards Charlie.
Great update Charlie!!! Thanks for sharing! Cheers Onno.
Thanks Onno, regards Charlie.
Excellent idea with the mirror and cutting the cork, I used to put lots of cuts down one side (killed my hands) but your idea of one (or 2 cuts down the middle is much quicker and easier on my hands, thank you.
I’m so pleased that you found it useful Mike.
Lots of fun this week Charlie, only took all day to watch. lol
See you again in a couple of weeks. Stay Safe.
Thanks Bill, please sort out your time management 😜
Excellent video Charlie, as usual I learned a lot of tips and tricks on your track laying and labeling. That scene is gonna look awesome when you get it done. Thanks for sharing and stay safe. Ken
What a heartwarming comment Ken, regards Charlie
Looking good Charlie.
Thanks Matthew, regards Charlie.
Charlie, Thankyou. It may be a different to what you had planned but so informative and great to watch and listen. Two weeks can’t come quick enough. Always look forward to your video uploads. Learning and have learnt so much from your videos as well as being so inspirational. Thankyou again, all best Marc - missed “ now that would be the phone then” lol
I’m so pleased that you enjoy the channel Marc. Regards Charlie.
Yet another great video Charlie love watching the progression of your layout 👌
Thanks Jeff, you’re too kind mate.
Excellent tutorial again Charlie. I got a similar soldering station for about £40 and it has really served me well. Makes a big difference being able to vary the temperature for other tasks, plus I am forgetful so the snooze facility stops me from burning myself or racki up a huge bill! This in conjunction with my silicone mat have made soldering wires a relative doddle 😉
Good idea to have a bay too mate. I like the idea of adding a spot of point-to point. Gives the branch station greater significance 😎
Cheers mate, look forward to the next one 👍🍻🍀
I'm so pleased that you enjoyed it Tim. Stay safe. Regards Charlie
Most enjoyable Charlie. That's exactly how i do my wiring, large gaps in sleepers and huge wires at the side of N gauge track is hard to hide.
Every day is a school day mate. Regards
Another great video Charlie, I love these ones as I will soon need to pich some of your ideas for my layout
Pinch away Alan, every day’s a School day.
Good job Charlie 😀👍
Thanks Michael, regards Charlie
Great video Charlie. Love the glue advert.
If only it were free!
Great update Charlie
Nick Australia
Thanks Nick, I’m so pleased that you found it interesting mate. Regards Charlie
Regarding the excavation Charlie, you could say that the line was originally broad gauge. I once read a book by a guy who held that once you had planned your track, on no account should you even think of changing it. Well nuts to that - it takes half the fun out of modelling. I'm starting layout 24 after a house move and with only 3 feet of track laid a major revision has been handed to the civil engineer.
Great comment Martin, we should always reconsider our track plans.
Beautiful Charlie, I long for and look forward to your every episode. It fuels my motivation to get working on my own. Your use of cork has given me ideas for my track laying when I get to laying down foamboard (base)... straight with nails for the track, the cork will better grab the nails instead of the track floating directly on the foamboard. Good input!
John BC, Canada
I’m so pleased that you find the videos useful John. Good luck with your project. Regards Charlie.
Hi Charlie, excellent video as normal. I do like the detail that you provide when you do these videos. I did miss “That’ll be the phone” you didn’t say that though.
I know but I do like to keep you on your toes Barry
Another great video Charlie 👍and thank you for defeating physics by flowing uphill 🤣🤣👍👍👍 Keep them coming👍
I couldn’t believe that I said it either John.
@@ChadwickModelRailway Air can flow uphill (ever seen smoke over a car windscreen in a wind tunnel?) - not everything is bound by gravity!
Excellent Charlie
Thanks Redbank, it was fun to shoot too.
Very enjoyable as always Mr Bishop !
You’re too kind mate. Regards Charlie
Another great video Charlie, thank you. As a plastic modeller I use a Tamiya scriber to cut plasticard, they’re not expensive and less risk of losing a finger. I look forward to you threading cling film into that gap.....
Best
TonyS
Thanks mate, I have a Tamika scribed so I’ll give it a go.
Thank you Charlie for another very informative vidio i always watch with great interest the progress you are making well done Regards Alan
Thanks Alan, what a heartwarming comment.
Nice video Charlie track laying is progressing well. Look forward to seeing you make the platforms.- Nicholas.
The planning of the platforms is always something on my mind Nicholas.
My fingers are crossed when it comes to building them. Regards Charlie
I was worried (for a little while) that you were going to cut the Barbie pencil short. Thank goodness there was a blue one to hand!
What a brilliant memory you have LT.
Hi Charlie another great and informative video, but would love to see how you cut the point into an established track bed.
Then hopefully I shall do it next time Eddie. Regards Charlie
Great work Charlie... quick tip I use for curve patterns... Once you've got the pattern on tracing paper (or grease proof paper), turn it over an follow the line using a soft graphite pencil (I use either a 3B or 4B)... then turn it back, place it on the plasticard and simply scratch over the line with your fingernail. You'll end up with a perfect replica of the curve, which you can follow over with a Sharpie if needed.
Great tip Al, much appreciated.
Excellent as ever
Thanks OF.
Charlie, Thank you for yet anotehr great video.
There were some great little tips there on cutting cork, spacing from the track to the retaining wall, and getting flex track straight - with a mirror, not sure how that will go for someone who is cross-eyed.
Keep up the great work.
Cheers, and stay safe, Michael
I’m so pleased that you found some useful tips within the video Michael, regards Charlie
Your amazing Charlie I look forward to your videos and wish it was weekly again
Filming weekly means the standard drops I’m afraid Callum.
Really progressing now Charlie loving your build
Thanks Adam, you’re too kind mate.
Another good one mate. A great mixture to keep everyone interested (even us N gaugers). I have a 3 degree Wood Scenics curved incline which was MUCH easier, although more expensive, to build than my upper 3mm plywood section, which flexes from sloping to horizontal under its natural bendy property. The RS wire stripper is very good, but a little intermittent, slipping on the insulation of my 7/02 droppers which are fine for N gauge current draws. Keep up the good work Charlie. Nil carborundum. Keith. :-)
I'm so pleased that you enjoyed it Kite. Stay safe. Regards Charlie
Great stuff as always....I like your connecting the dots lol...you're also a bit of a live wire...lol
Thanks David I do my best to entertain as well as amuse! Regards Charlie
Nicely done Charlie. 👍👍
Thanks MB, I’m so pleased that you enjoyed it.
Another excellent and timely video, Charlie, as I have just started laying track on my layout using 3mm cork and PVA glue. One idea to make things interesting would be to have the bay track as a truncated loop. The retaining wall could be pushed back and the disused area of track bed could be used for dumps of old track materials, a point heater gas bottle compound, portacabins and plenty of weeds and bushes. Keep up the good work.
Oh, I see someone else has had the same idea!
Thanks for the comment David, it’s certainly something worth considering. Regards Charlie
Maybe your line was built by Brunel and was therefore broad gauge? That would explain the gap at the cutting.
You’re not the first to suggest that option and much appreciated mate.
Thanks Charlie, another great video! If I can implement even 10% of the knowledge you share Ill be a better modeller for it!
Thank you.
I’m sure that we all have a great deal still to learn NMR.
Great watch Charlie, all the best..Chris
I’m so pleased that you enjoyed it Chris. Regards Charlie
Great update Charlie and layout looking cool. Take care - Kevin
Thanks Kevin, it’s great to have you on board mate. Regards Charlie
Where else would watching glue dry be interesting… 😉
You’re too kind Tim.
Another wonderful video Charlie, Have been taking great fascination of how much your subscriber numbers are growing week by week! Excited to see if you hit 50k By Christmas!
Sadly Kodi it will be a New Year celebration 🎉 forecasting 6th Jan.
Hi Charlie, when using card I like to seal it with something like mod podge, acrylic craft paint or even latex wall paint. Saves about an arm and a leg 😬
Great tip Rob, regards Charlie.
Happy New Year Charlie. Best wishes to you and yours
Same to you Ken.
It's great to have you onboard.
@@ChadwickModelRailway Charlie you produce great model rail road if videos. I am envious of your layout. (Even though it is British and HO). Merry Just kidding!
Hi Charlie,
As your layout is GWR/WR the extra gap could be explained as: The line was originally built at 7ft 1/4" broad gauge. When it was converted back to standard gauge, it takes up less width so leaving you with extra space.
A great BF, but I do want to narrow the approach.
Awesome video
Thanks Mels, regards Charlie
Another well thought out session with some good tips. Not sure the flexi curve is a french curve as i thought they were the set of decreasing elliptical curves is our satchels! Could be a case of what school we went to… i do wish my camera skills were as good as yours Charlie 😀
Sadly Paul you are dead right. I remember them, now pink see-through plastic shapes. Regards Charlie
I think you need to consider buying Shares in Copydex, Charlie! A nice bit of progress there. I always found it difficult to plan scenery around the railway - which is what we are usually obliged to do. I like the idea of the bay platform, and moving the retaining wall forward is a good move.
Thanks Perry, I’m so pleased that you’re on my team.
Another excellent episode Charlie. I have done my inclines in a similar fashion though probably not as neat and well thought out as yours. I have use bog standard craft PVA glue and even managed to lift it and adjust it including the same track bed without ripping it, maybe I just got lucky.
Lucky, never. Fortunate probably.
Another great video Charlie. I've tried using Copydex on some foam underlay in my storage lanes (the thin stuff you put under laminate flooring) for the purposes of noise reduction and have found that when I subsequently drill holes through it for droppers the rubberised nature of Copydex causes it to catch the drill and wrap itself round pulling it away from the bond and getting a snotty blob (for want of a better description!) stuck on the drill which you can only get off with a craft knife blade. I'm now not putting any glue in the immediate area where holes are going - solves the issue.
Yes I’ve had similar experiences David.
Have you considered that the bend at the end of the station under the incline may of once had a passing loop that was removed by the permanent way gang as it was no longer operationally needed any more and so the line was terminated at that end of the platform and so you could model the area there as a space no longer used but still containing remnants of the track and associated equipment, eg, the odd sleeper still in situation and sleeper imprints left in a weed riddled ballast.
I have spent hours on this one and loads of options too. I’m trying for a narrow feel to the approach without the farm over bridge being too long.
Like the bay platform idea
Thanks Phil, I’m pleased that we are on the same track.
@@ChadwickModelRailway just rewatched some Of Your videos from last year, (enjoyable for it's own sake!) But with a purpose, have you still got the ability to change over from one side of your fiddle yard to the other, it was in your original designs but couldn't see on my phone- in working away from home at the moment- if you kept that in the final build. Only because both bay platform trains and your freightliner trains, in my opinion and it's your layout of course, would benefit from being able to run down the right hand helix and crossover before returning at some point to either the bay or depot as appropriate.
The bay of course can run to your branch station instead of down the helix on a shuttle.
The 47 would have to run back around it's train as it's going to do on the scenic part otherwise it can never return!
Hopefully I'm worried about nothing.
Hi Philip, both at the upper level and the lower level of the left-hand Helix there will be a return loop. Also, at the freightliner depot there will be a runaround loop to enable the loco to come off the front of the train and reattach at the rear. Regards Charlie
@@ChadwickModelRailway thanks Charlie glad your already there, I'd read other comments about the freightliner run around.
Just didn't like the thought of you having to come back to ripping up something you might not have built yet.
Best regards Phil.
Always interesting Charlie. If nothing just your accent is interesting. Well done. Till the next episode.
Thanks Ken, but regarding my accent where are you from?
@@ChadwickModelRailway Orginally Michigan, grew up in Kentucky, went to school in the mid West. Moved South to Louisiana and then Texas for work. Worked in refining for over 40 years as a Chemist and an Engineer. I told you all this because my accent is a mix of all that. America has the accents of the people of the countries that settled it.
I really do enjoy your videos. I learn a lot about rail road in the UK (I especially like the episode you did on signals). Those in the states differ from rail road to rail road not including semaphores.
Keep it up.
Forgot to say we live on the Texas gulf coast near Houston.
Quite a range of work going into this episode. Always learning. On the excess gap at the "west" end of the incline, I wondered if you would make the retaining wall lean back. But I do like what you are doing with it. Probably need some thinking about the transition between the retaining wall, the platform and at what point does the retaining wall end and hand over to the embankment.
I have some ideas Lee but there isn’t that much about online. I doubt if it will lean back as I want it to be narrow with buttresses. I’m probably going to remove the double slip at the right hand side at the front too.
Chad - time to update that OLD Class 47 !!!!
Wash your mouth out with soap Michael.
She’s an elegant old girl.