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Ropley - Under a MDF sky

TomE

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Ropley's new Bendy MDF coloured sky. But not for long.....

 

Hi All!

 

Another one of those 'I'll do it next time' jobs has been completed in the shape of the Backscene. After reading a few threads on the Forum on the subject, I opted for bendy MDF, in the hope it would be fairly easy to form a nice curve at the end of the board, and it seems to have done the job nicely. The other end doesn't have the curve to allow the possible future extension to include the station area. The MDF is pretty sturdy as it is, but I have the option to double it up with a layer of ply if nessecary.

 

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The unseen end!

 

I'm quite pleased with how this has turned out. All it needs now is to be painted, which I think will just be a coat of white and then a light spray of blue along the top. I've never been a hugh fan of backscenes which dominate the rest of the layout, so subtlety is the name of the game here!

 

I've also made a start on the ballast around the Carriage and Boiler Shop. A the time the building was re-constructed, the newly laid track here was burried up to rail level, but unlike the area outside the main shed is fresh ballast, so the DAS Clay method wouldn't really work for this. I decided to test a small area using the same ballast as used for the main line (Treemendus Normandy Earth Powder) simply laid to rail height and then tamped into place after clearing a small grove to allow stock to run along it.

 

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The Ballast was fixed with Clear, which has darkend it slightly, giving a closer to prototype appearence.

 

There appears to have been a large concrete slab put in place along the front of the nearest rail fairly recently on which one of the S15's is being worked on, so I need to visit Ropley again soon to see how far towards the camera this extends. The concrete slab for the footbridge also needs to be installed in front of the far edge of the C&B shop before I can ballast up to to it.

 

Now the backscene is in place I can build up the land behind the embankment and push on with the rest of the ballasting!

 

Cheers,

 

Tom.

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Looking good Tom - the backscene looks a good height in proportion to the width....although I won't comment on dominating backscenes :D

 

PS - I finally found how to add comments to a blog from an iPad...but have had to edit my typos back on the PC....

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In your case though Pete, the dominating background is hard to ignore! :)

 

Very interested to know how you got around the ipad issue too!

 

Cheers,

 

Tom.

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In your case though Pete, the dominating background is hard to ignore! :)

 

:lol:

 

In your case though Pete, the dominating background is hard to ignore! :)Very interested to know how you got around the ipad issue too!

 

Tom - Just a thought I had whilst on my iPhone. I have the IP Board app installed but I usually go straight to view full content so the format appears the same as on PC/Mac. This time I accessed your blog via the default site (as when opened by Safari) and it allowed me to add the above comment....but not edit it...it worked as this on the iPad so I am assuming I can now comment on blogs from the iPhone now too...

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Tom - Just a thought I had whilst on my iPhone. I have the IP Board app installed but I usually go straight to view full content so the format appears the same as on PC/Mac. This time I accessed your blog via the default site (as when opened by Safari) and it allowed me to add the above comment....but not edit it...it worked as this on the iPad so I am assuming I can now comment on blogs from the iPhone now too...

 

Thanks Pete, I'll look into that, see if it sorts my problem!

 

Tom.

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