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A roof for "The depot"

Mikkel

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I’ve been working on the alternative side of the goods depot recently. The sides and roof are now more or less done and I'm preparing to lay the ground and track in front of it. The roof has caused much muttering and swearing. Some time ago I dropped the whole thing on the floor, and had to rebuild much of it. Because of the accident, the roof is now slightly out of true in some places. That's not really visible, but it meant I had to give up on flush-glazing it. Certainly a compromise, but I was getting close to abandoning the whole thing, so decided that I had better just accept it and move on.P1056587k.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

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I like looking down through the glazing to the scene below. Not really what the layout was designed for, but a nice extra bonus.

 

 

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The roof structure gives a nice play of light and shadow inside the depot, which varies greatly with the lighting and time of day.

 

 

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I prefer it when the shadows appear naturally...

 

 

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...but they can of course be further enhanced by "staged" articifical lighting as above.

 

 

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My struggles with the roof have been a mental barrier, so it's nice to be past that point. I can now get down to things I enjoy more, such as weathering these walls further, and getting the details in place.

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Buckjumper

'Amazing', 'astonishing', 'wow', 'superb', and 'fantastic' just don't cut it on this blog. I don't think there are any suitable adjectives or interjections of approbation in the English language that really do justice to the undeniable fact that you've somehow infused a partially completed model with so much atmosphere it makes the rest of us gasp in astonishment. So instead I'll try something in Danish: Mit luftpudefart

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buffalo

I think that should be your haletudse1 or whatever the Danish for bloater is, Adrian.

 

Nick

 

1. at least, that's what google tells me

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Impressive. Can Google really do that or do you import the stuff? :-)

 

In Denmark, sild and

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Buckjumper

Thus ends a terrible day with a laugh! :-) Adrian got the translation spot on - in fact, suspiciously so! Danish connections?

 

Haletudse means tadpole. Bloater doesn't translate, I think :-)

 

http://www.omniglot..../hovercraft.htm

 

I'd hoped that would amuse :)

 

No known Viking ancestry, though one of my sisters-in-law has relatives there. Finding two words for hovercraft, each requiring a different first person possessive pronoun, was enough to take the shine off a Friday evening (and you probably find that very funny!).

 

Nice van too!

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For it's small size Denmark has historically had quite a nice variety of goods rolling stock, I think. But until maybe 10-15 years ago most railway modellers were just running whatever was available from the German RTR market.

 

That's changing now, and we

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Buckjumper

Erik Olsen's P45 models are amazing, and I'd have been putting many of his techniques into practice here if BF wasn't such a big project. I've been visiting his website on and off for about seven or eight years, but I'm not sure if he's been able to carry on after the stroke he suffered several years ago, and he's not updated for quite a while now.

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I've also been wondering whether he is still modelling. I've seen someone by that name posting on a Danish forum recently, but not sure it's him. I think I'll ask around.

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Thanks seagull, not too much progress on the depot lately - but the timbers for the last bit of track (in the yard area) are now in place.

 

@ Buckjumper: No news on Erik Olsen I'm afraid, noone seems to know.

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