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coombe junction - Dries


bcnPete

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Update - A little more progress on Board 3 last night. I have started to make the bases for the buildings in grey card and once I am happy with the profiles and the openings are cut, it will receive a cladding of evergreen corrugated sheet, lapped as required as per the prototype. Sorry about the cut down toilet roll holder...it's just that late last night I was looking for an 'off the shelf' cylindrical object that could represent the stone clad drum...it will be replaced by something more suitable soon...;)

 

What has become evident, is that more of the trains will be visible from the 'viewing side' as I was a tad worried that they would disappear and be swallowed up by the dries buildings - The cassettes can hold a class 37 and 8 clay hoods which is how I have based the run-a-round loop.

 

All track for this board will be EASITRAC and I have all the components, so once I crack completing my first turnouts for the Boxfile Kyle layout, I can start here and begin to bed in the buildings.

 

A few pics attached...

 

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  • RMweb Gold

Ooooh - that looks impressive Pete. It certainly shows the scale of the buildings - I wouldn't fancy building that in 4mm scale. I'm glad you're back at work with this - look forward to seeing progress.smile.gif

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  • RMweb Gold

Rich - Thank you,

 

It's early days for this board but I think the gritty industrial nature of it, will provide a nice counterbalance to the deserted leafy green station of Coombe Junction.

 

Many thanks again for that article that you previously sent me on Moorswater Dries - It is coming in very useful at present in terms of photographs and understanding of a clay dries.

 

Pete

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Watching with interest Pete,

 

What's the plan for constructing the final buildings? Plasticard?

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  • RMweb Gold

 

What's the plan for constructing the final buildings? Plasticard?

 

Bryn, Hi

 

I will make the bases in fairly stiff card but will apply various plasticards etc as most of the buildings are either stone and asbestos or crinkly tin cladding. Once painted and rusted they will receive a good dusting of white to represent the clay as portrayed by the excellent Wheal Elizabeth layout of this forum.

 

Pete

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  • RMweb Gold

James - Thanks - Little by little and who knows, maybe one day, a taste of the fame you are currently experiencing ;)...

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