Everard had the same problem with Magnorail....it's a pathetic product and noisy as hell

PLEASE hurry up and finish it Graham because I’m busting to see the finished result!!! Loving the little bikes of you and the misses popping out for your morning exercise 😎 It’s all coming together wonderfully! JohnE

The back scenery is looking fantastic the way you have blended old n new together, and knowing how the old village looked and with your skill Graham, it will be pure artistic eye candy, cheers ken

Hi Graham. That was a great demonstration of how you are going to have the magnorail operating. I can just imagine how difficult it is to get it all working the way you want it, but I know you will succeed in the end, like you have done with all your different projects. A lot of work still to do but it's going to look fabulous when it's all up and running. I like the idea of showing lakeside inside youe barn in ultra miniature scale. Cheers for now mate........................Geoff

Looking superb Graham' great work in progress update.Some great ideas and the extra relief gives more depth as the camera truck footage shows. Love the bikes and the trip off the road and back to the garage - Genius' ...thanks for sharing, take care.

Great job Graham as always, the backscene looks fantastic

Hi Graham. Thank you for your video nice Sunday evening viewing. Take care both of you.

Hi Graham. The magnorail is amazing and well done in getting it set up. The village is coming on well as you said a lot more work to do but it will be worth it when finished. Bye for now and stay safe basil.

Great stuff Graham, the whole layout is looking so good. Nice idea going through the garage too. Cheers, Dan

Great job. Looking forward to seeing it progress Graham. The back scene is fabulous by the way.

Looking good Graham you and Hazel will have to get scanned by Modelu for the bike figures !!

Underway now Graham and it is nice to see problems that you are encountering as you go .The bikes look great and with the alteration during in the ride will add realism to the layout.I like so many others await next update.........keep well keep safe .................Paul

Great update graham, the magnorail fun now begins. From first hand knowledge i know it's not for the faint hearted but perseverance is key. You'll get it sorted, I'm sure.

Hi Graham, how you’ve blended the scenery into the back drop is unbelievable, I thought you had done the fields too until I replayed the video and paused it. I can’t wait to see the finished village and manga rail. Take care and keep safe, Paul

Graham, ONCE again wonderful workmanship ( your background scene is LOVELY especially the big rock side in the middle !!! ) on what you have done so far... Now, as for your idea for a mini layout on the top of your model garage is BLOODY wonderful and I think I have an idea to even make it better for you. Change the cardstock roof to clear plexeglas then with a black fine pen trace the shingles from the cardstock on the plexeglas so you can see the layout through the " false " roof... Yes, I know I am nuts telling the " Master " how to do things!!!! Once again, you are doing a WONDERFUL job, sure wish I could get back into doing my layout !!!

Good progress again Graham, the bumbs are realistic you should see the roads around here, Haha. I'm sure you'll figure it out you won't rest until you do. Love the videos with the camera on the front of your locomotives. Keep up the good work stay safe Eddy xx

Ooh Graham it's looking great, love the little bikes. Wow hasn't modelling come on leaps and bounds over th passed few years ? Caryi on with the supeb realistic work, thank you Clive.

Layout coming along great. Adding the bikes will make it really nice.

Morning Graham It's looking good to me, like a lot of things it must be trial and error, I have faith it'll turn out great like Kingsway High street 👍

Hi Graham I have a Magnorail cyclist on my exhibition layout and after some experiment I settled on using Metcalf asphalt sheets, they are just thin enough to work well and yet strong enough to stay straight. Like all paper products though they are affected by moisture so if we’re at an exhibition where it’s raining outside and there are a lot of wet people about, the cyclists can start falling off at the joints! As far as noise goes, we can’t hear the Magnorail above the exhibition background chatter!

Hi Graham. just watched your vid about Magnorail. I want to use it on my n gauge layout so I knocked up a spare piece of board to set it up on just to try it out. I had the same problem as you when I painted the photographic paper. So what I did was to download, from Scalescenes, their tarmac sheet and then printed it onto the paper. This worked much better and saved on the painting. It might be worth a try. Regards Richard Martin

Coming on a treat Graham, I love those bikes, just amazing. You’ve created so many little features all over, so many things to look at. A truly magnificent achievement!

Hello Graham. Well that didn’t take too much imagination. That’s going to be great. It reminds me of my parents riding their bikes together, after their retirement. Before immigrating to America my dad and his best friend used to ride their bikes along cobblestone roads. He said that was always an adventure. Great update. I look forward to your next episode. Bye.

The village is going to be brilliant Graham and knowing you I’m sure you will work out how to overcome the problems or you could put a ramp for the bikes to jump over😄 how about putting velux windows in your garage roof to see your layout ? Keep up the great work Cheers Darrell

Looking good. Wonder if thin sheets I’d polystyrene in stead of paper or some other synthetic sheets , that will take paint without warping would work just a thought. Love the routing through the garage. Maybe have it stop there for a few seconds and then kick off again. A reed switch that reacts to the magnets passing by to drive the auto off timer circuits would be easy enough. I do get a chuckle from the model railroaded disease symptoms; no matter what we just cannot help ourselves and end up filling the entire room as much as possible , with layout. Greetings from Sammamish.

Excellent Graham love the plans but what would be great is if you got Modelu figures of you & Wendy in a bike riding pose and put them on the bikes then it really would be you 2 riding around the village…...……….Cheers Kev

Another great update Graham. Love the idea of your model of your model! Good stuff.

Fantastic work graham

magnificent...your attention to detail is fantastic...love these updates every week ..keep it going ...well done mate!!

Yet again excellent work Graham. Love your idea to have layout in garage wow. Thank you. Keep up the fantastic work. Best wishes and stay safe.

Yet again another great video, The bicycles look fantastic and I know you will solve the teething problems of your roadway. Looking forward to seeing the village grow. Thank you again.

Hi Graham thanks for the update its always nice to see you and your latest news. Best wishes to you and family.

Hi Graham try using your airbrush to paint the road, can apply the paint with very thin coats and it should avoid soaking the paper with paint Andy

Great progress Graham. You'll definetley get it working to your satisfaction and iron out the snags as you always manage to do. Thanks for sharing. Stay safe.

Loved the video. I like the way you plan as you go, try things and then when they are not to your satisfaction revise. Graham

Hello Graham mate. Not been able to comment for a while, been catching up with online uni work etc, hope all is well with you! The high street and bus station is looking great, as is the magnorail and village scene. Take care mate and looking forward to seeing future updates as always. Regards, Alex

Looking brilliant

Instead of painting paper I used P160 it comes in road colour and has a smooth texture. This avoids a lot of hard work trying to get the paper right. Great update the layout is looking awesome 👌 👏

Great stuff Graham

Good one Graham...its coming along great. Take care..all the best.

Hi Graham Nice one Graham I can see how this is going to look you explained it well seeing the bikes going round they look really good I did notice that when travelling on the grey painted section they didn't run as smooth so how about getting some gray card from an art shop you can get that in big sheets. If you have THE Range near you it sells art stuff and every thing else you can think of must go now looking forward to to the next video keep safe and well mate.

Once again mate another great video that looks amazing the hill side is awesome

Town centre is my favourite part of layout as it looks very professional 👍🏻😀 Peddle Bikes is good idea.

Hi Graham, I didn't know you and Hazel were into doing bmx stunts on your bikes ;) It's a shame that paper curled up but I guess like you say, you learn from mistakes and im sure you will have it good in no time at all. I did enjoy watching those bikes go around, It makes me tempted to add a small loop to mine in the future, More ideas to mull over. Cheers, Michael

Hi Graham, loving what you are doing and no doubt it will come out exactly as you planned. Susannah

Great video graham you have done some great work there

Loving the work Graham you should call it the Tour De Lakeside Many thanks Harry

Looks really good , I had the same issue with my magnarail in one of my layouts . Same exactly what you have , still haven’t sorted mine . Job on the list still , for the gaps I put tape on the underside of the gap and then painted it , that filled the gaps well and still allows you to gain access underneath . I’m trying to think, if there is a very thin plastic you can use . I’ve seen clear plastic used before , it’s just needs to be very thin. With painting I airbrushed mine

Great job with the backscene Graham; seamless, which the roadway isn't - yet.😁 A couple of thoughts for the road surface: if you were to stick with A4 sheets, what about computer-printing the road on before laying it? Personally, I think trying to use a single sheet might be the answer and, as others have mentioned, maybe spray the road surface, rather than brush-painting. Brilliant idea running through the garage, seems to work perfectly. I agree with those who've suggested putting some glazing in the roof so we can see the layout. 😁 With the changes to the road access to the container terminal, is your green road sign going to be "wrong" now? The "driver's eye" view from the cutting is going to be pretty impressive, the bank will be quite high. One thing I thought of for the bridge face under the bus with the puncture; you know the "pipe bridges" you sometimes see, carrying a water main, or a culverted stream, that might look quite neat and make an unusual feature. I don't think I've ever seen one modelled and it wouldn't be that hard to do. Just a thought.😁 I'll try to make this link work but it might be a bit long: it shows a great example of what I mean: - scottishregion.jalbum.net/1%20-%20Scottish%20Region%20-%20Line%20by%20Line/Central%20Belt/Newbridge%20-%20Glasgow%28E%2BG%29/Falkirk%20Area/Redding%20%2B%20Laurieston/slides/Redding66194.html Cheers for now, Dougie.

Awesome video Graham! I like Hazels trick with the bike very much :-). Cheers Onno.

Hiya Graham, great start and I am sure if anyone can do, you can..all the best mate, Chris

Well Done Graham Have you thought of using a roll of grease proof paper (The stuff your wife and mine using in the oven) that would give you a continues road and it would be slippy underneath but you would have to spray paint the road on or just cut out the profile of the road it would limit your joints to four. Just an Idea Graham top show as normal. Bill from W/Australia

Hi Graham, the village and Magnorail are looking good. Have you considered using grey acrylic spray primer for the road? You could use card and paper for masking the road edge, and it should allow you to add several light coats, hopefully without distorting the paper, just an idea. Stay safe, and cheers for now. ...Les.

Utterly surreal ! Especially when they are on the white. There was children's programme when I was little called 'Michael Bentine's Potty Time' which used magnets - I think - to control odd little characters. Reminds me of that. Although I think your production standards are higher :)

Oh wow ! I can't believe you still have one of those Hornby controllers ... I'm 59 next week and I'm pretty certain I had one exactly the same 50 years ago ! Things were definitely made to last back then Graham 😄

I've seen quite a few people having problems with Magnorail and A4 sheets of paper to cover the chain tracks. I haven't seen anyone use what I used with no issues. Lining paper for wallpapering. It comes in a myriad of thicknesses and is designed to be painted. there are very few joins (Unless you have one heck of a huge road system!) and as with the paint it glues down easily. just go over the top of your road colour with a couple of coats of dullcoat (Gives a nice surface for the vehicles and stops the paint scuffing off)

Hi Graham, you are going "gang busters" mate, so I am really looking forward to further progress. While there is still much work to do on the layout it will be a bitter sweet day when the layout is complete, though it is often said a layout is never ever really finished as there is always some little things to do. Love your future plans for the layout. Cheers Greg

If this is finished to the same quality as everything else you have done (which of course it will be) it;s going to look fantastic Graham.

When you have finished the village scene and It is in the right position you or we are not going to see the trains running behind it. Yes, you can film it from above the village at an angle, we will have to wait to see what it looks like at that angle. And the hinged board on the right once moved will have. It will feed by trains running through the single bridge.? The bicycles look great. Martin. (Thailand)

Lovely back scene, nice to see you working on some greenery again! 14:03 I thought you were a 'gonna' there Graham. Nasty accident. Ouch - but I'm sure you'll work it out. 19:00 You answered my question - brilliant. If you put the velux in, you wouldn't need to lift the roof off? All the best.

As ever, lots of time and effort gone into a great layout! You will get it all working fine! You could make a fake tunnel mouth in the rear corner of the side of the board for the lorries to supposedly go down under the village. Looking forwards already to the next video.

hi graham keep going with the magnor rail iv,e got three scenes on my layout it took me a couple of weeks trying differant types of covering the photo card couldnt get that to work at all to many joints i tried wall paper boarder that was better in the end i settled with dry wall boarders tape one strip over the track glued either side then a strip over lapping each side, to paint the tape i sprayed with a can of matt didnt get much bubbles on the paper hope this helps but it did take me a good time to get it running well hope you get it running soon cheers phil

Yes Graham!! Great. Not sure if you noticed but the running of the bikes was much noisier on the painted section. Cheers, Bob

Graham, I would be inclined to use plastic for the road, it won't wrinkle/warp with paint or use enamel paint on paper?. Another option for a single large sheet, is plotter paper, as there is a vast range including coated, plastic laminates and pure plastic rolls, may wind up to be too much for a 30m roll though! lol. Just food for thought. The in and out of your own garage is insprationl!

(Joe).....I have a good imagination Graham but with your layout I don’t need much mate 👍👌

Jeff Loyd,Please tell us how to get to your model railway as I would love to see it.? Great video Graham and so interesting to see how the cyclists and road covering goes together and how you can improve it.Kind Regard's,Jim.

Brilliant Graham - Knowing you, it will be perfection after the small problems have been thought through and "ironed out"! Just a thought - what about wallpaper lining paper which is quite thin and comes in rolls - ie no joins which seem to be the main problem. That said I am confident that all will be resolved at the end of the day. The way the layout is progressing it looks as if there will just be a small 3' x 3, hole in the middle for you to sit!! lol !!! Keep up the good work and look forward,as always, to your next update. Stay safe. Cheers Murray

Have just purchased a magnarail set to try with myself? I've seen other fok have had success with thin sheets of plastic. I've managed to get hold of plastic sheet 0.4mm thick and will have a go with that. I suspect the biggest challenge will be getting a realistic paint finish that doesn't degrade too quickly. You've probably got the better idea using paper to be fair. Not too concerned about noise - I'm sure we'll both do what we can to minimise it with cork and foam etc but ultimately the loudest thing on a layout will be rolling stock rumbling by. I only have 2 locos - both pump diesly type sounds out of little speakers and I have two little sony wireless speakers playing the sound of a river and the other plays livestock noise. Plenty enough there to drown out a chain ticking away!

Thats going to look cool

Great layout , amazing progress on your layout, I just subbed your channel, I want to add a magnarail to my layout,getting lots of ideas fro your layout

When I was at school we used a technique in our art classes where you would wet the paper and then masking tape it to a wooden board while it dried. That’s stopped it then curling when you painted it as the paper fibers had already stretched and dried in a stretched position.

A great start, the bikes stayed upright, you did a wheelie and spin turn plus a few jumps, wow are you emulating your earlier cycling years? Seriously though you have created a really interesting twisty cycling route, not bad for a chain driven system. Increasing the grammage of the paper or going to card might be another thought. Love the way the low relief back scenes blend in, yours or commercial scenes? Stephen

hi graham its looking really great i wonder if you sprayed the paper with a grey car primer on both sides with very light coats the primer would dry very fast and hopefully would not make the paper bumpy when you pain the road surface onto it also another thing you maybe could try is matt inkjet vinyl and again this could be primed and painted without the worry of it getting bumpy if you thought that one layer was not enough then you could us a few layers and this should build up the strength over the chain area just a couple of thoughts hopefully you will get the issue sorted hope this helps a little regards james

Hi, regarding the road. Have you considered using photo paper from a 24inch roll and printing the road surface directly onto the roll. That could alleviate the wet painted surface and obviously no joints. Kind regards.

Hi Graham, nice work as always ... I can see how the trucks will go into the container yard, but how will they exit ? Best wishes, Nige

I have tried and others have used Polycarbonate sheet. Smooth side down against the chain and Painted on top. One will have nothing but trouble using paper products. Every time water gets close to the paper it will deform. Just a suggestion....

It looks great!

Graham I have every confidence in you making it work to your normal standards buddy, look forward to seeing the village cameo develop.

Hi Graham The scenic work along the back really is top notch.I very much like how you have blended the photo backdrop to the scenery ( other way around ) and I for one wished you had filmed it. It probably is old hat to you but Interesting for us. Cheers great work.My wife drives a white VW EOS convertible is it mid wife/ life crisis?

Hallo Graham. Maybe a strange idea, but why don't you design some roads on the computer that you can paint and then print. You can of course also add various paving stone effects such as square edges and the like to the design, and the road can also add aging effects in your design ... Keep in mind that a printer always comes out differently than you think. ... Good luck

Well I gather your the front bike Graham, too much whiskey before riding I see lol. Ahh all new things have teething issues but great concept and I can imagine the outcome :). Now other test when you do the scenery are you going t have to just paint the paper where the bikes trail along (aka the width of the tyres and turning area only) then scenic scatter the rest on the path, OR will the magnets be strong enough to allow you to place scenic scatter down for the bike trail, just a thought and maybe worth an experiment. Otherwise I really didn't hear the manorial running much, I suppose you may if it is flat out, but at low speed is what is need really :). Overall looking fantastic even in design mode. Cheers (with a beer in hand myself) to an upcoming scenic success from yourself my friend :)

So glad the canopy has gone. How about hiding a couple of bike bells somewhere?

Nice version of your house and garage. Is the pond going in too plus the shed and overhanging trees? Google Earth has a lot to answer for - you left your mower out on the front lawn too!

That's a really good start to the village Graham and not difficult - even at this early stage to see what you intend to do. It's going to good to watch it develop and improve. Is the Magnorail one-way or can it be reversed? Love the back scene work by the way. Thanks for the update mate, cheers, Ian

What's to stop you having an inclined roadway going into the container yard which runs behind the back of the houses and joining the village road, Kat 👍🚄

I am sure you will sort it out quickly and it will look great in the end.

lots done there, have you thought about pre-shrinking the paper like what watercolor artists do? stops the curling up when you paint and it don't shrink when wet

Hi Graham great video as always, a quick question about the bus station building, is it a kit or scratch built? Many thanks and keep up the fantastic work. Michelle

Wow, about 1/2 a second after the notification! Viva platform 4

Wat next a working airport.brilliant work

Hi Graham, thanks for another great video. When you have finished installing the magnorail system, it would be really good if you could give us all an honest comparison between it and the Faller system. Obviously, only the magnorail can enable bicycles to be used but for those of us who are considering a system for motor vehicles, your unbiased opinion on both systems would be invaluable as you are working with both. There are are numerous reviews of both systems available but generally, most are biased towards the system that the reviewer has chosen to invest in. You of course have both so the question will be, if you were starting again and you were buying a system for road vehicles, excluding bicycles, which would you choose?

Morning Graham for the road why not try using some wet and dry sandpaper?

Great content and video, Graham. This automated systems take a while to work out the little kinks, but they are wonderful when done. I couldn't tell from just the bikes, but did you get the peddling figures (whose knees actually go up and done on the pedals) or the static ones? Thanks for another view into your world! Cheers!

Hi Graham. How do you think "Plasti-Card" would work out for the bike roadway? The card would take paint without wrinkling. Just a thought. Best Regards, Ken.

Hi Graham, Thanks for all your videos, really helping me in getting my first layout in place. Quick question regarding track spacing? I notice near the station its around 50mm between track centres,,, but the rest of the layout looks 67mm? Have I got right? Im not sure what to do myself so asking people I am watching. Thanks, Carl

that poor person sitting on that bench

I don't know whether you have thought of airbrushing the road Graham? How about very thin plastic card👍

super

what about using red sandpaper for the cycleway?

those bikes been ridden by fleas lol