At the request of someone on Etsy I have created a new country station to add to my card plans to download. The request was to see if the station from Ffarquhar could be recreated. My new country station is therefore based on the style of the one seen in the TV version of Ffarquhar, the fictional village of Thomas and friends.
The following pictures show the stages of construction of the card model. You can download the full coloured plans for all my card models on Etsy here.
Here is the playground I showed in the previous video, now installed on my layout behind a completely refurbished station. The new station has been renamed Richardsville in memory of my son Richard who passed away last year. I hope he's up there chuckling away, that I placed him as owner of one of his favourite restaurants, the Wimpy Bar, shown at the beginning of the video. He's in the middle inside the Wimpy, chatting to Trigger and Boycie outside from Only Fools and Horses. Also if you look very carefully at the Richardsville sign to the left of the Wimpy, it says 'Change For Walmington-On-Sea', a reference of course, to one of Richard's favourite TV comedy series, Dad's Army!
Before anyone mentions it, yes I know the level crossing barriers rise and fall too fast and the red stop lights don't flash quite in sequence but at this small scale it's not easy getting things exactly right. In any event the complete crossing I made from scratch for next to nothing. The lights are tiny 1mm flashing red LEDs, covered with printed paper of my own design, attached to 1mm copper pipe. The barriers are 1mm copper pipe set in pieces of plastic Q Tips on a spring loaded base made from throwaway cigarette lighter parts. A tiny thread runs down below the baseboard, where an old broken DVD player mechanism operates the rise and fall of the barriers. Everything looks much larger in the video than when viewed with the naked eye, as the camera is quite close. N scale is approximately 2mm equals 1 foot. To give you an idea, the adult figures seen here are only between 10 and 12mm tall and the children between 6 and 8mm tall!
My latest set piece for my N gauge (N Scale) model railway layout. It's a playground that I have built and mechanised using a small motor and tiny magnets. The slide, climbing bars and roundabout are the playground set produced by 3D-Pluss.net. The swing and see-saw I created from scratch as explained in the video.
