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Cheddar- Five Ways Bridge


ullypug

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With the second board now wired and working, I've been building Five Ways bridge this week.
I'm now sold on the 'Green World Stuff' embossed ABS sheet for the correct stone type and I've been trying to faithfully recreate the prototype bridge, which still stands today. I've had to make a couple of guesstimates in respect of dimensions but otherwise it's a close enough representation to my eyes anyway. I dragged an assorted collection of stock to gauge clearances (and to have another play!).
With the bridge in I've started to think about terra forming in this area so have been consulting the OS Maps. Five Ways Farm sits just alongside the bridge to the right of the video and should make a nice scenic feature, along with its very large apple orchard behind the raised siding.
I know this will mean nothing if you don't know the area but I can see how I want it to look in my mind at least!

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I bought some "Liquid Green Stuff" a couple of weeks ago from Games Workshop in Derby, was told it was polystyrene filler. I'll have to get round to trying it!

Expensive at (IIRC) about £4.00 for 12ml. -  Packaging label says "Citadel" and made in UK for GW. Is this in the same range as the Spanish embossed sheet offering?

 

edit:- looked at the Spanish site and don't see a filer in the range. But the filler container looks exactly like the pots in the bottom right-hand corner of the video . 

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Excellent bridge, that stone really does look good.

 

Their "rolling pin" tools also look interesting:

 

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I bought some "Liquid Green Stuff" a couple of weeks ago from Games Workshop in Derby, was told it was polystyrene filler. I'll have to get round to trying it!

Expensive at (IIRC) about £4.00 for 12ml. -  Packaging label says "Citadel" and made in UK for GW. Is this in the same range as the Spanish embossed sheet offering?

 

edit:- looked at the Spanish site and don't see a filer in the range. But the filler container looks exactly like the pots in the bottom right-hand corner of the video . 

I haven't tried any of their filler/putty, but it looks interesting!

 

 

Excellent bridge, that stone really does look good.

 

Their "rolling pin" tools also look interesting:

 

Thanks!

Indeed they do. I've ordered a pavement pin as I think it looks close enough to fan light cobbles. You never know when you might come in handy!

Also ordered the texture water sheeting

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Looks like you've curled the wing walls, was that easy?

Yes it was. I just dipped the abs sheet into a pan of boiling water for 30 secs and bent by hand. As the sheet is 1mm thick it's quite resilient to man handling and gives a nice uniform bend.

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