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Red Roof Farm






I'll have to find a new name for the Farm, of course.

Thanks for your comments TT and BB. I'll take your advice and place it towards the rear of the layout - there isn't much room for housing right at the back. At the same time I bought that already-made second-hand model house, I also bought two others. Here's one. Red Roof Farm https://i.postimg.cc/5...

The House that Ian Unbotched In my last post I uploaded a photo of the second-hand model house that was made with one wall upside down. Well, I can only say that the original model-maker's modelling skills were inversely proportional to the strength of the glue they used! When I tried taking the wal...

Hi Everyone, Long time, no post! Unfortunately, the SGR has been out of action all this time - I won't bore you with the whys and hows, nor will I speculate about when it will return - I don't have a good track record about this. However, I have been investing time, money and effort in model buildin...

The Sharge tanker does look very good in your photo BB. Thanks for posting everybody.

Thank you again Brian, Steve M and WTD. I'll keep it pure IPA and try to wipe off any spills. You are right that I'll only be using it for cleaning, not for standard train running. I dare say that tanker wagons tend to be a tad 'weathered' in real life anyway.

Thank you for your replies Brian, Steve M, WTD and MG. I respect your opinions, so perhaps the Sharge cleaner is the way to go. When I was reading up about it, the Sharge website said that it doesn't use pure IPA because this could damage the exterior parts of the wagon, but uses diluted IPA instead...

I looked at the Sharge track cleaning locomotive, and it looks good - very robust. However, I then read in a review that there is a tendency for fibres from the cleaning pad to get caught on and wrap around the wheel axles. I wonder if any MRF readers have experienced this with any track cleaning lo...

Thank you WTD. I'll give some consideration to the Sharge cleaner. I've only got the Triang track on about one quarter of the layout, and I find that all of the track gets dirty. I think that your suggestion regarding cleaning the wheels more often is a good one and may be the way forward. I changed...

Hi Everyone, I've been cleaning my track with IPA using a soft cotton cloth and this works fine, but I am rather sick to death of this tiresome job. I also tend to knock over a lot of my scenic features as I'm doing it - like a hurricane has blown through the layout Does anybody have any advice or r...