Uncle Mick's Model Railway World: Part 2 'Tobsam' Boat Lake Town #modelmaking #modelrailway #modellers

So you're in here now aren't you Mick because it's freezing cold outside and you just can't and you're in here and then like a jigsaw puzzle. Okay right so but this is no ordinary track with just painted roads on it put a little bit of tape on the side catching going up a slope like that yeah and then that joins on to that yeah which is a bridge train goes underneath then that joins on to that so that's that's at another level now isn't it that's going back down again okay until it goes to there and then it reaches that square bit that I cut out with it with the level crossing on and it joins on there and goes back into that away you go again so that's where it goes uphill there that's a continuous loop yeah you can just put it on and just leave it and go and have your dinner it's just that little it's got a tiny little magnet on it yeah it just follows the as it follows the wire it turns the wheel so that just picks up on the metal it's magic really basic it is but it's so it's just amazing is that how they used to make scalextrics no scalextrics used to run in like a slot they'd slot it in okay great it'll only go one speed that's the that's the drawback of it it's probably fast enough you'd have to you'd have to put a 30 mile an hour road zone down it's too fast at times but it's running a bit battery's going at the moment so it's quite slow that's the road like see that's the road oh god which it actually goes over there where that dual carriageway is but it goes under there and it's screwed underneath right underneath the road yeah that slides backwards and forwards underneath the road and all you do to make it work it's just a couple of uh point motors from a electric train set you take them take the motor bit out cut it in half so you put one half over there the other half over there then you have a metal rod going through the middle and when you pass a current through it it fires it that way and then that lines it up with the bus yeah that's a magnet on the top yeah that's a magnet and stops the bus with the little switch in the bus then when you want it to go you just click the switch and it fires it back that way and away the bus goes and it frees the bus that's all it is that's ingenious and that way instead of using the electromagnets to work i think they're a bit faulty and i'm not going to pay 30 quid for another so is this a better idea not really it's cheaper it didn't cost me anything because i already had the magnets and the motors so i might as well use them and that's just a bit of old rod you just glue them into a bit of plastic yeah fill a hole through and then when you connect there when you pass the current through hopefully well it does i've tried it it fires it across there then you flick the switch the other way and it finds it across there and that's the road is like that and the bus go oh magnets there stop flicking magnets gone so you've got your shopping center your library and these this time you're building modules aren't you yeah just that'll go there and it's finished oh yeah because that'll be just touching onto the these actually go yeah like that and they've got little backyards oh that's all the ones i've got in at the moment there's other buildings that go across here yeah and up there and i haven't figured out what to do with that bit yet and that's the bit that's going to lift up the station a road can go underneath this bit here well the lair pack butter box is going on as a giant box oh the statue is that you make yep the tyrant yeah make the time i say or you'll pay with your life good are you having any uh scenery like are you having any water features a duck pond i'm thinking of doing a park in that bit there with a boat in like with a little rainbow that goes around it yes i'm still working on that okay the brewery goes in there yeah and at this end here the railway that's coming across the front there comes up and goes across the back here on the viaduct so you're using you're using things you've already got and you you you're using repurposing your buildings for different scenery your scenery always looks completely different as i've started all these these are caving stones from various places different styles different colors that goes underneath the i've got the bench and it's trimmed up goes underneath that yeah oh i see wow you've done loads that goes underneath there okay so that oh yeah pavement this will go underneath here when it's trimmed up yeah library paving around the library and that will go underneath that yeah yeah so it's more of a townscape this one yeah oh it's different town just a town just a town next one i do will be a country one just using all the stuff up but on a smaller scale smaller area and then you can just change your modules and you're going to have loads of different loads of different modules it's easy to get rid of when i snuff it didn't sell it as a unit oh it's that long since i did it so what we got then it's uh that's not it what's it it's a level crossing and hopefully it will open when i do this and i press put these guys together and then again it might not oh my gosh oh wow and then it will open again if you go like this there's some wow that's amazing with especially with the angles that you have to do it again do it again do it again lots of wires does it take a lot of pratting about uncle mick to get you oops this plastic here encases three cog wheels that drive from that that drives the center cog wheel which then drives the outer cog wheel which then turns the gates that way and that way and when they come to the end of the travel the little switch there that they come up against and it cuts off the power so that when you then you reverse it override the switch and it goes back the other way so it'll just stop where you want it to stop if that makes sense it doesn't to me but it probably does to you and other clever people watching this i just said it doesn't make sense to me but you have to mess about for ages to get the angles right on yeah uh because i didn't want it to go straight across like that so it was a bit now i just put it at an angle so but then i ain't got enough it's supposed to be two one way it's only a single track it's supposed to be two but i didn't have enough room to get it all in so i oh yeah yeah there well when it's down on the board in the garage this joins into a bit that goes across the back and comes right round and into it there'll be a station there okay so that's basically it so that bit that i can see with the three wires coming out the back of you're going to disguise that as part of a building oh yeah i'm going to make a building to go over that because it can be all the wiring shoved up into there eventually hopefully if i squeeze it all in it's like spaghetti so i started writing labels on them all so i know which one's which which i should have done in the first place well that's how you learn you tested it on this one because this is the uh it's a similar sort of thing and that just flips it across that way or that way i can't remember which way is to stop and that stops and what does that stop that stops the bus coming up to the level crossing okay so it's like puts the brakes on the bus yeah same principle as the other one that's it so in that little box there you exactly the same as they're only a bit smaller oh wonderful i had all these old motors and i couldn't think of what to do with them so i did that so make it making the bus stop you move it across and stops the bus is it crucial that's what operates the switch inside the bus to stop it when it goes over the magnet stops oh very good push that where it goes oh very good very good mate