Good afternoon,
It's been a while since I wrote my last blog and since then I have got married, found out my wife is now pregnant with our first child, and I've also changed jobs. And all that in the last 6 weeks!!!
Since the wedding and honeymoon, I have been making some good progress with the layout and in particular the station building for Par.
Since my last entry I have completed the windows, attached the roof and layered strips of thick paper to represent the tiles, made the chimney stacks (as they were in the late 80's) from cut down Ratio chimney stacks.
The front and rear canopies have also been made using a sheet of 0.75mm plasticard cut to size to make the main structure and then ratio canopy edging (taken from kits) to finish off.
The wooden fence panels around the entrance to the toilets has also been made, again using parts from the ratio GWR station building kit, but this needs to be adjusted as it seems to have dried slight "skew wiff"!
A few jobs remain, painting and weathering of the roof tiles, canopy and loo entrance fence. Fitting of drainpipes and gutters.
I have also started to make the changes to my Dapol class 56 to represent it's condition as it was when it visited Cornwall for the day in 1990, using the superb references and photos in John Vaughan's excellent books "Cornish Mainline" and "An illustrated History of China Clay". To do this some depot plaques and etched arrows were ordered from Shawplan and some brass oval buffers were ordered from N-Brass as it appears that one end of the loco had oval buffers and the other end had large round buffers. Rather unusual I would say but the pictures clearly show this, especially Winterbourne's brilliant photo of 56013 at Burngullow, posted in the Cornish Railways pages of this website.
I still need to attach the oval buffers, buffer beam detailing and weather this loco before it is finished, and the next blog will be dedicated to this loco.
Anyway, here are some progress shots. As always, all comments and any tips are most welcome.
Roof tiles going on.
Rear canopy before it was attached in place.
Various shots from different angles of the more or less finished building.
Pictures of the station building in position on the layout.
Class 56013 straight out of the box......
......and with etched depot plaques and arrows added.
And heading through Par station with CDA china clay wagons in tow!!
Best regards,
Jeremy
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