Are you going to do tiny lumps of stained toilet paper on the tracks too?
That sounds brilliant. As a retired driver that's how you see most rails in the UK, the damp air, drizzle etc all create an orange coat in a few hours, with a shiny strip from use. Use black for leaf-fall season, but the trains won't stop then! Look forward to seeing more pictures.You spray/paint the rails, then run over the bit that touches the wheels with a track cleaner. You’re then left with a rusty side rail, but gleaming top rail. I haven’t got round to cleaning the top rails yet.
I’m sure you could find a local metal shop to crop it on a guillotine for beer moneyYes - that kind of thing. I have facility to drill the 12mm hole, but I don’t have the tools to make a nice job of the edging, so it looks like a light switch plate, for example.
That's a job for 10 mins in Tinkercad and a 3d printer. Honestly, get one and you'll be making anything and everything on it before long.I need a very small flat plate, say 6cm x 6cm, to mount a 12/2mm diameter on-off-on switch. It can be metal or plastic. It will enable me to feed a piece of track next to the diesel depot that can be either part of the main track buss, or using the switch can become the programming track. Any ideas on where I get such a thing?
I think if it were on the telly I’d be digging through stuff.