S2 E18 Trackwork Detailing & Painting 

Thank you once again James, your assembly Jigs look excellent, exquisite models. Your Trackwork is outstanding.

Hi James. Good to see you back, you've been missed. Great video. One thing I would mention, seeing you solder on the fishplates reminded me of a mistake that I made in soldering lengths of track together. You need gaps to allow for expansion in hot weather. Best soldered to just one side of the gap to allow rail to move within the fishplate, then you won't have a problem with the rails buckling. Great work, looking forward to the next installment. Pete.

Great to see you are making a lot of progress with all of your rolling stock!! I look forward to the next instalment! Thanks James!👏👏👏

Brilliant update James. I for one would very much enjoy videos of your loco and stock builds and how you build them and overcome any challenges etc so please don't let your "not being an expert" stop you sharing.

You are one of the very few fine-scale modellers who has made the wing and check rails the right shape. Beautiful track work.

Great to see you back again. What fun you are having. It's so good to watch something so upbeat in these times. Malcolm

Superb videos. Great work.

It's good to hear from you again. I'm glad to see that you've been having fun. Cheers, and take care.

SImply Beautiful!

Great to see you back again, James! Your attention to detail is quite wonderful. I am quietly in awe of your patience and dedication in painting by hand your superb trackwork! And as for those brass fishplates..! Just amazing. I look forward to seeing your loco and stock building progress, but its great to see anything you do, really! Best wishes from Wirral.

Evening James. Hope you’re ok 👍🏻 Not looked in for a while sorry 😞 But what fantastic progress so far 👍🏻

Hi James, Nice to see another video from you. I remmeber trying some metal fishplates and yes I can agree, very fiddly to use. I ended up using C&L plastic ones and the peco bullhead joiners in the end for ease. It also helps when the track wants to expand and contract in summer/winter too (although using scale lengths really does seem to solve the whole track buckling issue) The merg system looks interesting. Seems to work very similair to megapoints which I am using atm but with maybe a little more control over the speed which is nice. Impressive looking kits there too, I have often thought about making one but then I get sidetracked and it never happens! Typical lol. Cheers, Michael

Great stuff. 👍

Excellent another video from you James

Hi James, I’ve recently discovered and binge watched your channel. Absolutely superb work, your attention to detail is beyond belief! Keep it up. I’m interested to know which laser cutting machine you use? This is something I’m interested in getting into and recommendations go a long way. Look forward to your next video, Dave.

Hello James, and thanks for the update. That trackwork looks fab. But I wondered why you don't paint the sleepers before fitting the chairs and rails: it'd speed you up past the bit you don't seem to like. 😉 Incidentally, thought of you recently when I saw on an American youtube channel (ru-vid.comvideos) Bluetooth DCC chips, so locomotives can be controlled wirelessly, and could even have a self-contained power supply (so not reliant on pickups from the rails). I know you were thinking of radio-control for your locomotives.

Hi James, sometimes it is better for a non expert to do videos, experts often seem to assume the viewer already knows at least something about the subject, non experts often approach things in such a way that a beginner can more easily understand things, they might talk about the problems they found whilst often the expert might simply say, I fetled these bits without saying why the bits needed to be feteled, so go right ahead and add more "not an expert" videos

I am looking for where I can buy the parts and pieces or the files for the ballast vacuum. Any links to purchase the stl files or the parts directly? Thanks