Ideas (above / below / behind) ones station...
Update - Good evening and a quick outline of progress to date.
The layout is now running again and bar a few minor tweaks the rolling stock seems to behave itself...this evening, in between what I am about to describe below, I was running the Dapol RR 156 in and out of the station to relieve boredom from cutting plasticard...simple pleasures in life but then the layout is now doing what I originally wanted of it.
Firstly a big thank you to Andy (aka BackwaterScotland) for not only reproviding his drawing for Kyle station, but also letting me have another copy of all his Kyle photos which I previously had until I dropped my portable hard disk Many thanks again Andy, who is also making Kyle...in 4mm scale...in 4 feet...check out his blog
Whilst Andy's drawing is indeed helpful, I decided to set up a new one as my version of the station is an extract and probably 60% of the length of the real station as I try to capture the essence of Kyle in this model. I set it up in Microstation and once printed it looked something like this...
The scale drawing as printed in colour as black was losing some line quality...
A quick and dirty version was then pasted onto the mock up to see what I was about to take on. I know the roof profile of the drawing doesn't match but I was just seeing how the chimney stacks would look in half relief...
Station will be modelled in half relief...
From this template, I began to cut out the openings and to give the impression of the horizontal planking I have decided to use the evergreen sheeting which I have used on the CJ-M clay buildings. One thing I had forgotten is that the material is quite thick to cut...and I soon began to question its suitability for this...
Evergreen 1mm metal siding sheet...
As an aside, I picked up this rathy nifty mini tripod this weekend...for about €6...as my Velbon one has broke. Overall, it seems fine for the money, although I had forgotten my mini Canon Powershot has the tripod screw on the bottom left edge which means the camera balances slightly uneasy on it
That said, its a nifty bit of kit...
Whilst thinking of the construction of the station building I have been pondering how to create the bottom continuous horizontal sill/dado which runs around the perimeter and this led to a new idea for constructing the station walls. Rather than try and cut out small apertures from a 1mm thick piece of profiled styrene, I could use a thinner piece to form the apertures and then apply the horizontal planling sheet in vertcial strips above and below the sill/dado which will be a piece of 40 though strip applied separately...stay with me on this ...I did a small mock up to try it out before embarking on it...
Here we see the horizontal planking has been applied above and below the 40 though sill/dado...
It looks a bit flat in plan, but when in the verticall plane it looks something like this...
Which is just the effect I am hoping to try and achieve... a little horizontal relief to break up the facade...
So with this in mind, I set about cutting the openings from a thinner sheet of plasticard. Tomorrow evening, I hope to start applying the horizontal cladding which i hope will be a little clearer when I have completed a few bays.
The basic openings have been formed...
More to follow when it materialises...need to think how I am going to do the windows...probably won't be etches...might do the white scribed paint on perspex or the thin tape application...decisions decisions...
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