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Re: TCLTC Style Track Details
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Mon, 6 Jun 2005 23:38:25 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Mathew Clayson wrote:
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I’ve been playing with as well, but I use a slightly differnt meathode for
the curves. I’ll have to check out what you’ve done when I get home, thanks
for posting. I agree about the speckling, although I’m using gray and very
light grey combined with the dark gray, no black or white. But using only
dark gray only was very tempting.
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I agree that black and white have no place in speckling. If one is to only
speckle regular LEGO track, then using gray and light gray is a good solution
IMO. I wanted to alter the tie frequency of the LEGO track, and so that is
why I chose to go with dark gray only. Sounds too monochromatic, but in
reality, slight shadowing of the plates adds just enough variation to my eye
(see below)
I love that section between the tracks:-d
JOHN
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Have you tried adding tan in places where you use more light grey than dark
grey? See next to the red & yellow loco here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1206253
Tan has a similar brightness to light grey, so it can break up the monotony of
the colour. My research into real British track beds suggests that they have
tan in the ballast mix. I am thinking of using up to 25% tan in places.
I intend to go from full light grey (new track bed) to dark grey with black
between the rails (for yards where oil or ash are dropped by locos), using tan
in places to break up the colour. I don’t expect to have any pure dark grey,
since that would make the sleepers disappear, though I might if I use your black
tile sleeper method.
Using lots of 1x1 plates from tiger mosaics I will speckle the light grey and
dark grey in varying amounts to change the overall brightness, putting more dark
grey near signals and in stations, where locos have to stand. Typically the
darker colours spread out from the middle, so from full light grey, put two 1x1s
of dark grey in the middle, followed by a 2x2 of dark grey, and so on. Once
it’s predominantly dark grey, introduce black in the same way till it’s all
black between the rails.
In reality the track bed colour changes quite often, since track repairs and
mods are quite often done on very short stretches of line, such as installing a
switch for a new siding. In that case just the switch and a rail either side of
it on the main line would have newer ballast, with the colour continuing along
the siding, becoming increasingly dark where vehicles stand in the siding.
I’ll look into the increased sleeper frequency, though I think there is a little
more space between sleepers than the width of the sleepers themselves - if a
sleeper is 1ft wide then the gaps between them vary between 1 and 2ft. This
will also allow for some spacing variations on curves and switches, as is usual
on O-gauge layouts. Perhaps it is logical that there should be more sleepers on
curves than straights, since that is where the dynamic load is greatest. I
might use some jumpers between existing 2-wide sleepers on the straights to
space the black tile sleepers out a bit, though I expect an uneven result so it
will depend whether I can make it look real enough.
I’m also doing the ballast 12-wide, using packs of light grey and dark rey
plates. A straight uses the two 6x8s and two 4x12s and a curve uses two of each
2x4, 2x8, 4x6, 2x3 and either 4x4 or 4x9 wing plates. Other smaller plates are
put on top of these. Time for me to take some pics!
Mark
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