Booking Hall Posted August 16, 2017 Author Share Posted August 16, 2017 Pump house now built, from card and brickpaper, with a concrete paper overlay. Windows are cut down ones from the Scalescenes goods shed windows print on film. Vandalized door from balsa. All based on a picture I found on the net (photo © David Bullock). It will be weathered before being properly 'planted'. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booking Hall Posted August 22, 2017 Author Share Posted August 22, 2017 I've made a start on the deck of the roadway over the tunnel. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
viper_polo Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 That pumphouse looks great! Nice work with the brick showing beneath the upper layer. May I ask what card you're using to construct these buildings? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booking Hall Posted August 24, 2017 Author Share Posted August 24, 2017 (edited) Hi viper-polo, thank you! and thanks for asking. I use a mix of card. The factory was built, as per the instructions (Model Railway Scenery), using laminated cereal box card. Most of the other buildings have been built using offcuts of mounting board in various thickness, which I get free from a picture framer. He has so much that he burns it in his stove and is very happy for some of it to be put to a more creative use! Edited August 27, 2017 by Booking Hall 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booking Hall Posted August 25, 2017 Author Share Posted August 25, 2017 The roadway and parapet over the tunnel entrance is now finished, apart from weathering. Next up is the low relief backs of buildings to screen the view into the fiddle yard box. I had thought of some run-down tenement type houses, but now I'm thinking of a block of art-deco flats. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Corbs Posted August 25, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 25, 2017 This is one of those layouts which I find inspiring/get an overwhelming urge to mimic it in its entirety. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booking Hall Posted August 25, 2017 Author Share Posted August 25, 2017 This is one of those layouts which I find inspiring/get an overwhelming urge to mimic it in its entirety. Thanks Corbs, that's much appreciated! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booking Hall Posted August 25, 2017 Author Share Posted August 25, 2017 Well, here's a print of a possible three-storey block of 1930's flats. Material-wise, I think a mid-red brick with concrete projecting string courses and black window frames. However, I'm not sure about the scale and size, is it a bit overwhelming? Would some two-storey older style property with pitched roofs be better? Any thoughts please? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 40-something Posted August 25, 2017 Share Posted August 25, 2017 Just found this thread and Im completely blown away with the detail you are putting it. Very atmospheric! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booking Hall Posted August 27, 2017 Author Share Posted August 27, 2017 Just found this thread and Im completely blown away with the detail you are putting it. Very atmospheric! Thanks very much! I thought the 12AD MRG rang a bell - we (Pendle Forest Model Railway Society) were on the layout opposite to you when you showed 'Helenston' at the 2016 Kyle exhibition! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booking Hall Posted August 27, 2017 Author Share Posted August 27, 2017 (edited) The block of flats - having thought about it overnight, and, more importantly, after consulting my wife! I decided that it will look OK, so construction drawings were made and the flats are now in production! Construction of these low relief buildings (15mm depth) is from 1.3mm mounting card and will use Model Railway Scenery light brown brick paper. I'm going to produce the representative 'Crittall' steel windows by drawing them in AutoCAD and printing them on film, before cutting out and fitting. Edited August 27, 2017 by Booking Hall 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb67 Posted August 27, 2017 Share Posted August 27, 2017 Looking forward to seeing the flats built, I like the step by step photos, it might help me to build my bridge on my layout as I dont know where to start at the moment! Steve. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booking Hall Posted August 27, 2017 Author Share Posted August 27, 2017 Progress with the flats. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booking Hall Posted August 27, 2017 Author Share Posted August 27, 2017 Bit more progress. Something has gone wrong with the dimensions of the 'base' of these upper floors, so they will have to be redrawn, otherwise, it's steady progress, but rather tedious!! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Corbs Posted August 27, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 27, 2017 (edited) Whilst the flats are low-relief, the differing depths of the wall helps to break it up a bit. Looks great so far. May I make a suggestion? You could carry the 'sky' backboard straight across above the fiddle yard, rather than having it bend 90 degrees to follow the flats. The reason I say this is I find 'sky corners' so distracting when the foreground is so lovingly modelled, it's so strange that so many layouts have 'flat skies' so to speak, which somehow bend around corners. If the background carried on behind the flats, and you modelled part of the roofs, it would maintain the feeling of depth you have. Edited August 27, 2017 by Corbs Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rue_d_etropal Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 do you have a real building to base design on. just curious, you know I have a particular interest in brick buildings , especially locally. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booking Hall Posted August 28, 2017 Author Share Posted August 28, 2017 Whilst the flats are low-relief, the differing depths of the wall helps to break it up a bit. Looks great so far. May I make a suggestion? You could carry the 'sky' backboard straight across above the fiddle yard, rather than having it bend 90 degrees to follow the flats. The reason I say this is I find 'sky corners' so distracting when the foreground is so lovingly modelled, it's so strange that so many layouts have 'flat skies' so to speak, which somehow bend around corners. If the background carried on behind the flats, and you modelled part of the roofs, it would maintain the feeling of depth you have. Thanks for the kind comments Corbs, and for your suggestion. Having thought about it I don't think I can make it work unfortunately, as there is no 'back' to the fiddle yard box. This box will be reversed to the others, with its lid at the front of the layout as seen in post #128, to screen operations and lots of 'hand-crane' shunting!. But I'll have another look at it when the flats are in place and the boxes are all joined up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booking Hall Posted August 28, 2017 Author Share Posted August 28, 2017 do you have a real building to base design on. just curious, you know I have a particular interest in brick buildings , especially locally. Hi Simon, thanks for stopping by. No, I just researched a few suitable looking blocks of flats on the Internet and then drew one which fitted the space, including a few architectural elements which will (hopefully) give the block its 1930's look (angular lines, concrete projecting string courses, steel framed windows etc.). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booking Hall Posted August 31, 2017 Author Share Posted August 31, 2017 All wall components for the block of flats have been brickpapered and the windows have been drawn and printed out on acetate film, ready for cutting out and inserting. I don't need as many as I've printed, but it would be wasteful not to print out a whole sheet. Just hope that I need to make some more art-deco buildings at sometime in the future!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rue_d_etropal Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 just a pity you can't print the windows in white, which was probably most common colour, or even green. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booking Hall Posted August 31, 2017 Author Share Posted August 31, 2017 just a pity you can't print the windows in white, which was probably most common colour, or even green. Yes, it is, but your comment got me thinking, and I found that you can buy a printer that will print with white ink, at a price that makes even 0 gauge RTR locos look cheap! But looking here on RMweb suggested an alternative of laser laminating foil. Looks like it might be worth a try http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/16237-printing-white-window-frames/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG John Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 Yes, it is, but your comment got me thinking, and I found that you can buy a printer that will print with white ink, at a price that makes even 0 gauge RTR locos look cheap! But looking here on RMweb suggested an alternative of laser laminating foil. Looks like it might be worth a try http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/16237-printing-white-window-frames/ I used some of that foil for business many years ago, when monochrome lasers cost and arm and a leg, and my whole family didn't have enough body parts for a colour one! I hadn't thought of using it for windows. I've laser printed green windows on OHP film that came out quite well, and tried some brown ones too that were OK. This is a pretty cruel closeup! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booking Hall Posted September 1, 2017 Author Share Posted September 1, 2017 I used some of that foil for business many years ago, when monochrome lasers cost and arm and a leg, and my whole family didn't have enough body parts for a colour one! I hadn't thought of using it for windows. I've laser printed green windows on OHP film that came out quite well, and tried some brown ones too that were OK. This is a pretty cruel closeup! DSCF8366.JPG Wow! I want to see more of your work BG John! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booking Hall Posted September 1, 2017 Author Share Posted September 1, 2017 Ground floor sub-assembly coming together. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG John Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 Wow! I want to see more of your work BG John! Have a look at the links in my signature. There's quite a lot of unfinished stuff there. I'm working on a few layouts, and none have got anywhere near as far as you have! I lost the plot a bit last year, and haven't posted any updates for a long time, but I'm gradually finding it again. Once I've got the electronics stuff I'm playing with working, I'll get back to building actual models. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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