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[Pete Harvey]

Due to Technical difficulties this topic will be off line while I try to copy each post from the old forum to the new one.

I'm very sorry about this but why change things?

Pete

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[Piemanlarger]

Very Nice, lots of nice details on there, though i do think the 4mm deckchair is mad lol!

[Digital]

Really like the last photo of the 20 in the shed.
John

[smyles1]

Amazing amount of detail really brings the layout to life. I like small layouts because it is possible to more or less finish them without getting fed up. I find your layout inspirational and gives me a few ideas for a new layout.
Thanks for the super photos.
Mike

[bmthtrains - David]

Lovely layouts both of them! I see Peter's Street is now famous as a book cover too!

David

[Brush47337]

Peter,

Thanks for reloading your layouts and somewhere I can find them too!.

I enjoyed a 20 minute cruise through your top class work. (again)

At that kinda speed - next time you are in Glasgow please visit me and you can knock me up a wee layout while I make a coffee.
Months of work - squished into 20 minutes - the reverse of what I achieve.

What are you going to do next - mass produce deck chairs?

Stuart

[Natalie]

Hi Pete
Nice to see both of your great layouts have made the move too. You've got some great photos here- I am convinced that natural light is the way to go when taking model photos. I am also impressed by the people- they look real enough that I could take their blood or put an IV cannula into them! Regarding the Blake Street waiting shelter is your offer of a copy of your drawing still open? This is certainly a common type within the West Midlands area- certainly Canley, Tile Hill, Aston, Tame Bridge Parkway, Bescot Stadium, Redditch at least.

[Pete Harvey]

Natalie

I have attached a .pdf of the Drawing for the Butlers Lane station building here if you would like to build it?

 station building.pdf   19.7K   178 downloads

Pete

[Natalie]

Thanks! I knew I would get the station name wrong! I have visited and photographed it though-out in the wilds of Staffordshire... Incidentally I photted the building at Northfields quite extensively- this too would make a nice contemporary station building- being quite spacious for a suburban station. Other stations on the CrossCity line have similar buildings. Now if I can suss out GIMP (or similar drawing program) then I would be able to produce a drawing of it.

[oggy1953]

Natalie, What a fantastic avatar

[Pete Harvey]

Here are some more pictures of Dudley Road.



















I will post some more during the evening.

[Pete Harvey]

Here are some of the Pictures of Dudley Road taken by Chris Nevard for the July 2008 Hornby Magazine.





















More Pictures to follow if you have any questions on how I have done things please ask away?

Pete

[borderwork]

Great Layout, superb detailing

[Pete Harvey]

Well here are the a few more pictures from when I was building Dudley Road.

[Pete Harvey]

Here are the pictures of the Armco I said I would post.









Here is one other picture a little bit of a Gala.



Pete

[Pete Harvey]

Here is 2008's project Peters Street

Its the same size as DR it is the other way round and its a station.




Two of the design stage screen shots from the CAD system.


So I started with some PLY and Pine.


And this is what I ended up with.


As you can see I have changed it in a few places from the cad model just to make it a bit better.






No coach bolts to worry about just these quick release clips a lot easier.

To build this layout I have had to scratch build several things, the modern type buffer stops being one, I have posted several pictures of these in my work bench section.

Some buildings have had to be built as well including a platform partially inspired by JSW's New Street platforms.








I made a simple gauge to allow me to position the platform sides the correct distance away from the track to give the correct gap from the platform edge to the carriage / unit.




The platform was made from 2.5mm thick plasticard after a base frame had been positioned and glued to the platform sides.





For this layout I wanted some controlling signals I wanted 2, two aspect colour light starter signals for the two main platforms and and one colour light ground signal.
I searched for the two starter signals but I could not find any thing that was quite right so I decided to build the Tony Sissons way and scratch build them from brass which after I had worked out the sizes got the Led's and made the brass bits I started to build the signals.








After building and wiring and testing the signals, to paint them I just used normal primer paint and painted the target board and base with black paint.











Well that's enough for tonight more to follow.

Pete

[Pete Harvey]

Here are a few more pictures of Peters Street













If you have any questions please ask?

Pete

[Richard_S]

Pete

Some really good touches. The weathering around the TMD in particular looks the part. Your photo on the backscene also shows good perspective; I thought it was a mirror at first glance. Food for thought for me.


Regards
Richard S
WFRM Team Member

[Pete Harvey]

Here are some close up pictures of the modified peco buffers I used on Peters Street







Pete

[Pete Harvey]

The Peters Street waiting room building.







Here is one of my reference pictures of the real building.



I hope you like?

Pete

[Pete Harvey]

I have been scratch building the first bench of the two I need to build for Peter's Street I have built it out of plasticard this is the mk2 the mk1 was built from brass rod and phosphor bronze strip soldered together but I could not get it to look right, so I built the mk2 from plastic and it worked out a lot better.

[shreives]

Hi pete your work is fantastic i followed your progress on the old rmweb and look forward to seeing more of your great work on here.
stuart.

[del00]

Love these layouts, can I just ask where you got the figures from?

thnx
del00

[Pete Harvey]

Del00

The figures on Dudley Road are HO and from Gaugemaster and on Peters Street they are all from Bachmann and all 00.

Pete

[Pete Harvey]

Adding lighting to the station buildings, there are a few more things I need to do before I fix them down but here are a couple of pictures of my progress.





Pete