OK, so whilst some members would rather gripe about how and where this competition was first announced this is
my thread created so that those of us who would like to
encourage members to take part and take part ourselves can do so without the griping. If you feel you must gripe or get 'political' then do so in the other thread please!
To recap the rules from Editor Chris are:
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1. Must use the Norfolk Heath Works baseboards (norfolkheathworks@hotmail.com) including one sector plate board and either one flat, or one dropped edge board in any combination (two boards including one sector plate). Total footprint for this as shown in normal arrangement is 760 x 280mm.
2. Any of the 009 family may be used: 4mm, 3.5mm scales. 6.5, 9, 12, 14mm gauges and it MUST OPERATE.
3. Any scenic style or height level may be used, but the working sector plate MUST be incorporated. As with the railcars do push the imagination as far as you dare.
4. The competition is only open to 009 Society members. Submissions should be photographic and emailed to the editorial address with your number by 1st March 2020. [/i]
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So, to get the ball rolling I've got an idea that has been fermenting for some time of using 6 mm gauge track, hand built using some 2 mm Scale Association gauges (for Irish NG) I acquired a few years ago. It will be something different and may break the slight 'modeller's block' that I've been plagued with of late.
I'll post more when I've got the boards! ;)
Anyone else planning on having a go?
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Tom, I have a feeling that the link at the end of my 1st post will lead you to a drawing of the boards in question that should give you an idea of the size of the cutout / drop front. As to if you could enlarge this any I really don't know, as that would be a question for Chris Ford, but an e-mail to him at 'contents@009society.com should get you an answer.
Well- the boards have been ordered and paid for so just have to wait for the postperson to knock on the door.
Have a few ideas but I find it much easier when I have the boards in front of me
Steve
https://dorsetrailwaymodelling.blogspot.com/ (https://dorsetrailwaymodelling.blogspot.com/)
Have now received the boardsfrom Norfolk Heath Works and am very impressed.
Once I get my 3mm layout ready for the Salisbury (Wilton) show then let assembly commence!
Steve
]https://dorsetrailwaymodelling.blogspot.com/[url] (https://dorsetrailwaymodelling.blogspot.com/%5Burl)[/url]
Seriously tempted to take part, I don't usually "do" competitions as I would rather think outside my own box rather than inside someone else's, the body from my aborted rail car still moulder's away in its plastic project box (aka ex marg' tub!) to remind me of my failure in that competition. The beauty of the finished item in this case being the size it is would fit nicely in the Smart, food for thought.....mmm.
John Bruce
I've joined the challenge! - boards on the way, waiting to get started ;D
Boards have arrived - gosh, they're small!
I've got my boards and a vague idea of what I'd like to do with them; off work this week so hopefully I'll have at least time to put the boards together....
Going to give this a try. My two boards are made up and I have wired up the sector plate for 3 tracks - just trying to work out how best to hide the sector plate using a building/ loading bay. Got some ideas but no doubt a month or so of trying these out. :-\
These boards are really good. My plan is to eventually add either another 2 or 3 boards once I firm up what I am doing with the two for the competition - hopefully I will have something to enter. If not, at least I will have a new layout to replace my first simple 'Nixnie' inspired layout. :)
Well here is a very first draft of my attempt to get a simple 12mm gauge plan. I have put two tracks on the sector plate but think that this might be a mistake - one would be easier to manage and I believe more prototypical.
The idea is that it will be the end of a preserved line with all sorts of metre gauge and 3ft gauge stock running on it. The station would start to the left of the boards. I have attempted to paste a link to a onedrive file, but if this does not work I will have to rethink.
(https://1drv.ms/u/s!AomXBTmcshH5jRWNnBUD9sZrXIqy)
I await your comments with interest,
Tim
PS I was too excited by the boards to paint them first - that will be the next task!
Quote from: Tim Williams on July 11, 2019, 12:25
Well here is a very first draft of my attempt to get a simple 12mm gauge plan. I have put two tracks on the sector plate but think that this might be a mistake - one would be easier to manage and I believe more prototypical.
The idea is that it will be the end of a preserved line with all sorts of metre gauge and 3ft gauge stock running on it. The station would start to the left of the boards. I have attempted to paste a link to a onedrive file, but if this does not work I will have to rethink.
(https://1drv.ms/u/s!AomXBTmcshH5jRWNnBUD9sZrXIqy)
I await your comments with interest,
Tim
PS I was too excited by the boards to paint them first - that will be the next task!
try just putting it as a hyper link rather then an img link
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AomXBTmcshH5jRWNnBUD9sZrXIqy (https://1drv.ms/u/s!AomXBTmcshH5jRWNnBUD9sZrXIqy)
Hmm yes that seems to work - in a new tab
Nearly there...... ;D
A cautionary note...
I bought and made my pair of boards a few months ago, then other things got in the way which meant they got put away for a while.
Unfortunately I left them bolted together and just popped them in the store cupboard on top of some other stuff.
When I eventually got round to fishing them out, I found that while they were still attached, the fixing lugs had distorted where the joint was unsupported, leaving the boards joined in a sort of shallow V shape!
I've since removed the fixing lugs and have glued the pair of boards together permanently (I will probably add some reinforcement to stop any movement).
While this isn't a problem for me, and will actually make tracklaying simpler (no need to have tracks split across the baseboard joint!) it does somewhat get away from the modular idea of the baseboards.
Once the glue attaching the boards together has dried, I suppose I'd better get on with it.....
Simon.
Simon - I did the same as you. I wasn't too enamoured with the sticky-out ears so I cut them off. My boards are bolted and glued together.