What is the tightest radius I can physically get from Peco flexitrack please? Anyrail won't let me get anywhere near what I would need!
Long story short. My wife has nicked my test track to make a Christmas Pizza Layout, so to make it up she has bought me a box file because I made a comment about one in the magazine in the newsletter (I was reading back numbers)...
Isn't the better question the classic "what is the minimum radius for my stock?"
I've just made AnyRail draw a 10 MILIMETRE radius curve. Have you played with the measurement units and the minimum radius setting?
Have you tried -
SETTINGS / Minimum radius 1 <enter value in box>
I'm not what Minimum radius 2 does. Anyone?
Remember also Anyrail does not allow curves of more than 90 degrees.
Quote from: GraemeD on February 20, 2020, 19:15
Have you tried -
SETTINGS / Minimum radius 1 <enter value in box>
No, That's next then :-)
Quote from: Tom Haythornthwaite on February 20, 2020, 18:50
Isn't the better question the classic "what is the minimum radius for my stock?"
Or which of my stock, is going to work, and which is going to have to sit this one out.
Most is still without couplings so its going to be very much hit or miss. :-)
QuoteI'm not what Minimum radius 2 does. Anyone?
I found the answer on the AnyRail Model Railroad Forum:
The first is the minimum radius overall, and anything tighter wil be colored red.
The second (if entered) is the second minimum radius, and should be greater than the first. It will be colored orange.
The third (if entered) is the third minimum radius, it should be greater than the second, and the track will color yellow.
You can use this if you need to keep the main line radius greater than the shunting area radius, for instance.
Stephen,
Can an old b----- of 40 plus years modelling and exhibiting experience give you a little advice ?
If you carry on flitting from one idea to the next you will end up building nothing and tire of 009 modelling, then move to something else.
Seen it before, with hundreds going before you.
Stan.
Quote from: Stan Williams on February 21, 2020, 15:47
Can an old b----- of 40 plus years modelling and exhibiting experience give you a little advice ?
If you carry on flitting from one idea to the next you will end up building nothing and tire of 009 modelling, then move to something else.
Thanks for thinking about me , but it's the way I have always worked, I am very much an engineer and not an artist in any way, more interested in processes than finished items :)
This week the baseboard for my micro layouts and common fiddle yard at the same at the same time, It is cold and horrible in the garage so I got all that over and done with in one day, including varnished sides for the pizza
Last weekend I was I was experimenting with putting brass bearings on Dundas trucks, but some of the wheels got moved so I need to get a correct gauge back to back. Mine is N Gauge so 0.2mm too thick to fit.
Tomorrow I plan to mark out 3mm ply substrates for track on both Micro Layouts while I am waiting for the gauge, and the bits I have order to repair and old Farrish chassis.
Once something is working I lose interest so it makes no difference to me if I service one loco or 3, mak one base board or 2, its just a process to be enjoyed for its own sake I appreciate that I will never have anything that I could take to an exhibition as I am not very interested in buildings and hate detailed painting with a passion so most of my stock is going to be grey primer.
But thanks for the advice :)
Stephen (Old B**** 40 years as an engineer) :)
Quote from: Tom Haythornthwaite on February 21, 2020, 02:37
QuoteI'm not what Minimum radius 2 does. Anyone?
I found the answer on the AnyRail Model Railroad Forum:
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You can use this if you need to keep the main line radius greater than the shunting area radius, for instance.[/i]
Thanks Tom. That's one worth remembering (or trying to at least).
There is a lot in AnyRail. It is just a matter of finding it! For instance, it took me a while and good bit of digging to insert an image as a background and then tweaking the transparency. I have found it very useful for doodling track layouts over scans of layouts.
Quote from: GraemeD on February 22, 2020, 17:14
For instance, it took me a while and good bit of digging to insert an image as a background and then tweaking the transparency. I have found it very useful for doodling track layouts over scans of layouts.
I didn't know that you could do that! Thanks ;D
So after this afternoons track laying session my wife wants the boxfile layout for her Christmas Diorama so I get the Pizza back.
The only downside is that she wants it removable from the box so it can stand on the side table, so its not actually a boxfile layout is it!
Just as well I only used double side tape at this point ::)
Quote from: Stephen Rainsbury on February 22, 2020, 18:19
So after this afternoons track laying session my wife wants the boxfile layout for her Christmas Diorama so I get the Pizza back.
The only downside is that she wants it removable from the box so it can stand on the side table, so its not actually a boxfile layout is it!
Just as well I only used double side tape at this point ::)
Where I've built layouts in boxes I tend to make them removable anyway...from the purely practical point of view it makes maintenance and alterations a lot simpler and I prefer the scene not to be constrained.
One exception to this is my current Inglenook project where I built the layout into an IKEA APA box. I found that whatever arrangement of backscene etc. that I mocked up I was unhappy with the way it looked, until one day I dismantled the box so the layout is now just a flat board...at least until I start putting buildings on it!
All the best with it,
SImon.