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Ropley - Expanding tree line


TomE

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New trees springing up everywhere!

 

Hi all,

 

The tree line along the top of the embankment has moved forward a little recently with the completion of a few more specimens! It's slow work, mainly because my fingers need some recovery time after all that wire twisting, however I think the end result is worth the effort (and pain!) Obvioulsy it's impossible to have a 100% accurate representation of each and every tree (or is it...) so this will be a rough approximation of sizes and shapes.

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Only another 20 or so to go..........!

 

In non forestry related news, with thanks to Pixie of this parish, the recently released RMB is now running with B4 bogies as per the preserved examples at the MHR. It's also received a red cantrail stripe and now just needs to be lightly weathered and have some enthusiasts installed.

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Anyone know a source of 2mm scale sandwiches?

 

After reading back through Missy's excellent blog, I decided to follow her example when it came to point rodding, and courtesy of MSE, some .4mm square brass wire arrived this morning. I was orginally going to use the 2mm Scale Association etched rodding, but having seen the sqaure rod in use, it gives some extra depth over the etch. It is slightly overscale, but not by much, and if anything I think that will help make it more noticable, especially once painted and weathered and blended in with the rest of the trackwork.

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MSE Brass rod on the left, 2mmSA etch on the right

 

Finally, and you may have noticed, I have been playing around with the presentation of the blog, trying to make it a little different and visually more interesting, hopefully it works but feel free to let me know if it doesn't!!

 

Cheers all,

 

Tom.

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Hi Tom,

Those trees look brilliant. Keep up the good work

Owen

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Tom,

A big thumbs up from me for the blog presentation! The trees look really effective and provide an excellent frame for the trackwork in the foreground.

 

Seeing your progress is really inspiring, hopefully over the summer I might be able to start building a layout in earnest (although it might have to wait until redundancy and retirement arrive in October!

 

Ian

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Excellent stuff, the red stripe on the carriage helps to make it show up against the lovely background of green! Is it a transfer stripe or some careful painting?

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Thanks all!

 

Will, The red strip was masked with Tamyia tape and painted.

 

Tom.

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Superb work on the tree line. This layout is one of the ones I file under "inspires me to do more!".

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Your finger situation is exactly why I don't make my own any more :D but fair play, they look very good Tom.

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Thanks Stephen!

 

Cheers Pete. Have to say though, I prefer the burns from wire twisting to the burn I gave myself this afternoon soldering point rodding! ;)

 

Tom

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Presentation of the blog is very nice. The trees are fantastic, very airy and i like the fact that you can see through them. Will need to take lessons when i get to that stage on my own layout.

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