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So its now official, all my O GAUGE locomotives run on "LSD" !!!!!


The O-Gauge 1st Project is now named http://www.click

 

Hi Pete,This is the sixth sign I've made, two for me the rest for friends and the club layout. More than happy to make you one, but posting it is going to be a real problem !!

 

Yes please Paul, that would be great, thanks.

 

Hi Matt,

They are not that difficult to make, the letters are the biggest cheat. If you check out the online auctions you can buy laser cut letters and numbers in all sorts of fonts, sizes and thickness. These on this sign are 80mm high x 3mm thick font is "Georgia"
( I have used thicker but these look much nicer) they cost $14.30 with free shipping (£7 approx).

MDF 6mm cut 1200mm x 300mm , mark a centre line across the width. I then use a 180mm radius paint tin to mark the end curved parts. Measure in from the ends 200mm along the radius lines and 265mm along top and bottom,then use a large 10L paint tin to mark the four smaller curves.
I then use a jig saw to make the cuts, sand the edges then using water based paints I seal both sides.
The local home store often has small miss mixed paint for sale at a couple of dollars, so I buy these and use them for the main background colour, two coats normally applied with a small sponge roller. Leave this to dry in the Australian sun for a few hours ( best to keep it inside in the uk !!!)

Next seal the laser cut letters and then paint with your chosen colour. Off white or cream looks the best.

Using Tamiya masking tape I mask the edges and the two lines down the centre. Then with a pencil and long straight edge,I draw the lines onto the tape. I then use a Swann Morton no. 11 blade to cut into the MDF along the pencil lines, this I have found will stop any bleeding of the paint along the line. Remove the cut tape and using a small brush paint the lines, allow to dry and then remove the tape. As long as the line was cut deep there should be no bleeding of paint.

I then clamp a strip of straight edged wood along the sign positioned so that the letters will be on the centre line. You can then mark on the straight edge the centre position of the first letter or gap, then space out towards the edges the rest of the letters. Stand back and check your happy, then using a small amount of Evostick I glue each letter down.

 

Still waiting for materials to arrive from the UK, nearly three weeks now So for a change I attacked the wagon build list. Three more Peco 10ft chassis kits, to be made into flat wagons for yard shunting with the locomotives that I can not fit the auto couplings to, and two of the Peco 10 ton ventilated box vans. One has been made up as a Banana Van and the other as GWR ventilated van, there is also a third option of building one as a Fish van in the kits. Nice kits to build with opening load doors (the reason I went for them to stage another loading scene) and one set of wheels built with a "rocking" suspension for better running. Wheels and decals all included so not a bad kit to start building your fleet with.... Paul !!!!http://www.click

Banana Van on the left. (different end detailing)


Centre ventilator




Paint and Decals next. I've started the first coat of paint on the flat wagons, just to get an idea of the finished items.







http://www.click Kim

 

Thanks Toto, Paul.

Plastic card has finally arrived so the warehouse can now be started.

Kim