Trackmaking XXV and a bit of a milestone

Well, this is the 900th post on the blog. I'd like to thank my fellow contributors, though they seem to have been rather quiet of late. 900 posts is a hell of a lot of information and I must admit that its getting to be a bit of a paint to navigate through. I'm thinking of taking some of the project threads and putting them up at Nz120.org, similar to what I did with the Trackgang railcar build. however this is not going to be a quick process (ie its so far behind anything else its not funny!).

Another thing that has ventured across my tiny brain is that its a year (or less) away to the next big NZR convention. That's only 11 months to get those projects started and finished. its something you out there in reader-land should aim to do. if we can get a sizable amount of NZ120 models in one place (and possibly even a layout to run them on) it would be a good leg up for the scale. Its going to be 23 years since John Rappard displayed his ground breaking Dunedin and Port Chalmers layout. It would be nice to see something equally exciting happening.
get to your workbenches chaps...

Things I have learned today. Code 40 rail is sharp enough to cut fingers reasonably deeply if you run it across them while holding too tightly. Superglue stings when you are using it to glue bleeding cuts closed so that you can carry on building point work. And blood doesn't seem to act as a particularly effective flux for soldering....


So, here is what the finished article looks like (sans tie bar). The large rail at the back is code 55, which shows you just how small it really is. The radius is 600mm which is the minimum radius I'm using.