Getting sidetracked........
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Hi.
Talk about being sidetracked……………..
In my last entry I mentioned getting corners finished, backscenes fitted, boards aligned against back walls etc. Well………………………………….
A couple of weeks ago I was invited to demo my techniques for making stone buildings at the EMGS North East Area Group ‘Workshopwise’ day event; a really good day and met lots of interesting people. As all the buildings (actually just the one) are fixed down on the layout I had no finished models to take, so I made a short video and sat beside it making a couple of fairly small straightforward bits for future use; a low relief factory end and the base for Spittal signal box which will sit at the south end of the bridge overlooking the junction with the dock branch. I managed to get both made, scribed and painted on the day, so I had quite a productive time and had a few interested visitors.
The idea was to put both on one side and come back to them in a few months when I needed to get them onto the layout. Unfortunately, however, in my enthusiasm I polyfilla’d over the locking room door on the signal box and scribed and painted it, and when I got home I could hear the signalman screaming to be let out, so I just had to ‘do a bit more’ as the saying goes…...something I’m tempted by too easily. So, the backscenes still aren’t fixed and the corner boards still aren’t in the corners, but I have a low relief factory:
The lower section is as finished as it needs to be, as there is a yard wall in front of it.
I also have a signal box, complete with stairs, gables and windowframes made of wood, just like the original, except that I used walnut strip. The railway structures on my layout are all based on Alnwick and Cornhill Railway prototypes, built in the 1880s by the NER; a choice made for 3 reasons:
1. They are contemporary to the building of the Spittal branch so the same architect would have designed them
2. Many are still standing and in good condition, and it’s only just down the road
3. They are my favourite railway buildings, which is reason enough on its own.
So this was Spittal box this morning, showing the use of walnut to good effect, along with the rooftiles made of self adhesive photo paper:
And this is it this evening, with all that beautiful woodgrain buried under thick layers of British Railways North Eastern region Sky Blue and Ivory:
It even has a nameplate in glorious regional tangerine, so I can remember where the layout is set.
Now, where are those backscenes……...or is there something else I can be getting on with instead?
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