Glen Ogle

[gtmspyder]

Mr moderator sir, can you please rescue me, some thing has gone wrong, and I have lost a large chunk of my post some where, I lost a piece earlier so typed another version in, but when I came to post the much larger newer version, I got the message that I had posted this earlier, and have lost the last attempt at posting what is a very long epistle.  HELP ;D

Regards,

BrianT.

[gtmspyder]

Well my plea for help has got me no where, so I look like having to type it all in again, and it will not be as good as the first version because I added some Yorkshire humour first time round, well I thought it was funny at the time of typing, but now I can't be bothered to do it again. :(

As some of our more erudite members will have worked out, you did work it out didn't you?? the wires shown were the feeds to the point motor needed to operate the junction point, adjacent to the girder bridge, that was laid ready for the line down to the village of Killin.  This will probably now never be built, but nevertheless, it will be motorised just in case.  This shows a modified Hammant and Morgan point motor which must be at least forty years old, originally fitted to my old EM gauge loft layout. The H&M inbuilt crossing feed switch was a little unreliable, so I mounted two actuator arm operated micro switches.  I don't remember why I fitted two, but there would have been a good reason at the time.



I have lost the original operating crank that works the point tie bar, so I have had to make a new one from a 50mm nail for the shaft, with a saw cut across its head and a piece of suitable wire soldered into the cut as the crank.



Here it is shown fitted into place awaiting its made up box to protect it from the next addition of ground structure, that will make it accessible in the future without too much damage to the scene.



You will also see from the next picture that I have started to cover the builders foam forming the banks of the sea water loch with coloured polyfiller ready for further groundwork in the future.



That's about it for this episode.

Kind regards,

BrianT.

[Graeme Dunbar]

The new track and ballasting is looking good!

Sorry - unable to offer any help, but you have my commiserations as a similar thing has happened to me on more than one occasion.

I cannot be certain, but think the problem has arisen when I'm pressing backspace to delete text and somehow the cursor moves out of the editor window and pressing backspace does something like go back to a previous message or page.

I keep meaning to use something like Notepad to type into and then copy what I've typed into the forum editor but never do!

[Scottish Modeller]

Hi all,

Loss of what you have already thoought through and written is the bain of forum world.

Until you at least get to the point where it is saved as a draft there is no road to recovery.

Once it's gone - It's gone - well maybe.....

If you, like me, have been typing away and suddenly that what you were typing isn't there anymore.

You have a slight hope that what you had typed is still going to be recoverable.

Click on the browser 'Back' button.

Once - should take you to whatever you just found yourself doing/looking at.

Twice - will hopefully take you back to what you had been typing - if not...

Thrice - will take you back another stage

Fourth - you get the idea?

Whatever number of clicks you use - keep trying!

If you do get back the what you had typed, but lost, select it all and copy it.

Do not try to continue from where it shows you you text - It's a falst start and finish that will not save properly.

Start your posting again frmo a new reply.

Paste in what y6ou have saved and then continue!

No gtee that this will works as it dependeds exactly what you did since your original reply was lost.

7 out of 10 times this works!

Thanks

[Hugh Norwood]

A suggestion for long entries:
Type them up offline in a text editor or the wordprocessor of your choice - you can save it as you go along.
When you are ready to publish it on the forum, simply copy and paste it into the "reply" box in the thread of your choice.

:)

[gtmspyder]

Thank you Hugh, I keep meaning to do this, but I start typing in the answer box and forget, until I lose it,DOH.

Happy new year to you and your family, and all the residents of "Angst".

Regards,

BrianT.

[Hugh Norwood]

Thanks, Brian, hope to see you at a S Yorks group meeting sometime.

[gtmspyder]

Some more work done on Glen ogle.

I've been working on the castle Island, but I didn't seem to be making much progress, so I thought I'd leave it a while and work on the Castle itself as a change.

Now no self respecting derelict castle would be complete without it's covering of Ivy, so I decided to have a go at planting some around my castle, and thought some of you might be interested in how I do it.

The Castle has still not been planted on the Island, which makes working on it easier.

My wife has been knitting some pretend chain male for my son-In-law, who is currently rehearsing for the stage show Spamalot, a take off of Camelot.  He is rather a large lad, and it would have been expensive knitted in wool, so she has knitted it in  common or garden string, and it does look very convincing. She bought several balls of string, and as there is some left, I decided to use the string as the vine of the for the ivy.

I cut several suitable lengths and glued the ends of the string to the base of the walls at the position I was going to grow the Ivy up from, and waited for the UHU glue to set, this would allow me to pull and move the string about during the next stage of the procedure.



I then teased out the string into it's separate strands, a most frustrating job as the string keeps trying reform it's lay, but by gluing the ends of the string first, it does allow you to pull and tug as required, I found that by pushing the ends of my tweezers through the bunched strands, and then working my way to the unsecured end, I was able to eventually separate the strands, and lay them out in the order of being glued into position up the walls.  I spread some UHU glue at the top of the wall position, and with the tweezers, picked up a strand and looped it over the top of the wall where the glue held it, while I picked up and positioned all the subsequent strands.  While at this stage, I painted the string/vine stalk with dilute PVA glue coloured with Acrylic paint, this helps set the string, and gives a grounding for the subsequent first coat of greenery to be applied.



This picture shows the still unfinished growth so far

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That's about it for tonight, I've got some tidying up to do ready for my Two year old Grandson's visit tomorrow, I love him to bits, but he does like to get among my tools and modelling materials, given half a chance, so I do like to keep the proportions of his halves as small as possible, after all, half of nowt isn't much' ;D

Regards,

BrianT.

[Hugh Norwood]

That's looking good

[Graeme Dunbar]

Love the ivy!

[Jeff Schumaker]

What color of acrylic paint did you use to color the PVA?

Jeff S.

[gtmspyder]

Hello Jeff, the paint colour is Burnt Sienna, there was nothing scientific about the choice, I just needed something Brownish and added it to some watered down PVA I was using at the time.

I'm still entertaining my Grandson at the moment, but I hope to get back to more Ivy planting later when he's gone. ;)

Regards,

BrianT.

[Jeff Schumaker]

Thanks for the info, Brian. Have you kept your grandson away from your tools? :)

Jeff S.

[gtmspyder]

Jeff, my workshop working arrangements are chaotic, so there are lots of bits and pieces all over the place including the floor, he loves to join me in there, and spends his time picking various bits and bobs up from the floor, or off the bench top if I don't watch him, and then hands them to me with a "There you are Grandpa".   At two years old, it's most endearing, but can be quite wearing, because if I ignore him, he persists in calling my attention to his ministrations until I relieve him of the item, whereupon he gives me a beaming smile with a thank you Grandpa, like I've said, I love him to bits. :-* :-*

Regards,

BrianT.

[clayliner]

Yes, looking good, Brian!

I'd endorse what Hugh says about writing posts - especially lengthy or complicated ones - elsewhere and then just pasting them into this site. It does help avoid those heartsink moments when hours of work disappears to - who knows where (if it does, you have it elsewhere and can just re-paste it). It's especially useful if you have photos, too, as you also can pre-paste the links from your photo-hosting site into the basic text, too, and paste the entire post in one simple operation.

David.