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Reflections on Ingatestone’s first show
In the months since our last update much has been done to the layout and the common fiddleyard shared with Putnam (H0) with the main goal of taking Ingatestone (00) to the London Festival of Railway Modelling in March 2018 at Ally Pally. We intended to show the full layout, under construction but with roundie-roundie …read more.
Apr 26, 2018
Ingatestone Autumn Update: There is some good modelling happening
After a long summer with all the boards of Ingatestone up in the MRC workshop, a lot of progress has been made on both track and scenic elements. The scenic crew has been hard at work on the platforms, and after their recent trip through the paint shop when they are added to the layout …read more.
Oct 23, 2017
Ingatestone Update: Field Trip!
One of the advantages of building a modern image layout like Ingatestone is you get the opportunity to visit the prototype to get up to speed on exactly what you are building. So with master craftsman Eric Sainte visiting from Belgium we arranged a field trip which had almost a full turnout from the Ingatestone …read more.
Jul 30, 2017Ingatestone: June Update
A slightly delayed update this month as we handed over blogging responsibilities to a new member of the OO group – me! A lot of progress has been made on Ingatestone in the last few weeks. This is greatly helped by the fact that all 6 scenic boards are now up full time in …read more.
Jul 9, 2017Prefab platforms
We have started the building of our platforms on Ingatestone 00 which are of two types – traditional brick and the later extensions using a pre-fabricated concrete system (see header picture). This has meant we have been busy making prefabricated plastic components too! And they have to be laid out accurately so that the …read more.
May 27, 2017Ingatestone’s May Update
New member Phil joined us on Monday for the working day on Ingatestone 00. We put him to work to help paint the platform supports that Mo had made at home. Liz also popped in to see progress and is admiring Mo’s model of the cricket club house. The 00 group is in most mondays between 11:00 …read more.
May 20, 2017Ingatestone’s April update
Ingatestone 00 is our demonstration layout on Thursday 20 April in the lower hall, and we hope to put up the four front scenic boards to help check for shorts and running. The Monday session was most productive, Mo and Tom put higher ends on the boards to protect all that “knitting” aka OHLE as …read more.
Apr 12, 2017
The real world moves on
I took a trip down to Ingatestone station this Sunday arfternoon to update myself and the team on the referbishment work carried out – although we have to draw a line on when we close our time period for the layout. We had said 2014 to 2016 but its a hard call. The first …read more.
Mar 14, 2017
Ingatestone’s September running day
Last Thursday Ingatestone had a demo / running night so we all brought some stock in to run on the two big end boards. Chris had his class 90 – a work in progress upgrade from the Hornby original whilst James had the old “One Anglia” livery version ‘out of the box’ so we could …read more.
Sep 24, 2016
Ballasting on Ingatestone
I still get a bit of a buzz when the postman has a parcel for me and yesterday I took delivery of two laser cut kits from Lazor Works. With some adaption these should make a fair model of the signal box at Ingatestone. Mo has been busy at home working more traditionally on the …read more.
Sep 18, 2016
Ingatestone’s back from its holidays
The summer is often a down time for modellers, as family holidays, the gardening and BBQ’s take over. But we have been continuing with work on Ingatestone mostly on Board 6 (the big corner board that goes into the fiddle yard) with what in the photo looks like a complicated amount of wire and points is …read more.
Sep 7, 2016
Ingatestone headlines at The MRC Open House !
Ingatestone had it’s first official display yesterday at Keen House. Receiving many positive comments and considerable interest, we ran our first official train round the layout, powered by Dapol’s forthcoming Class 68 locomotive. Below are pictures of the banner being broken by the first train,together with some other shots taken by the Ingatestone crew! We …read more.
May 9, 2016