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Honley Tank:- Bowton's Yard signal cabin


Dave at Honley Tank

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A careless picture; I seem to have left detritus below the foundations!
This gives an impression of how it's going to look.

 

The basis is the Scalescenes digital model with the finer detail of the Brassmasters kit that was designed to enhance the self- printed card

 

The locking room window (in the brickwork) is the card version and allows the picture to show the much finer detail using etched brass window frames as in the cabin itself. May go back and change that; there's some scruffy and careless sticking of brick-paper there too! (lazy boy!!)

 

Because the Brassmasters kit includes an etch of signal levers, I decided that the interior would be detailed in full, so my current activity is producing a couple of worn-out and discarded-from-home-use, easy chairs; a booking desk and chair, and modifying two or three plastic miniature people to become signalman. relief signalman; booking-in lad etc.

 


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The cabin windows still on the etch but painted. ready to be added (see first pic!) Without the cabin window frames, this view shows some internal detail. The lever frame can also be seen here.

 

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This has so far been the most fiddly bit of the modelling; building up a frame which fits the marked position on the card version was not as easy as I had expected; fixing the odd lever in the 'pulled' position also needed plenty of care, and ensuring correct but different coloured levers caused me much "www.xxxx.co. myword?" searching as too did finding a list of bell codes.

 

The latter was needed because I intend to have a sound unit for this cabin but at present that's for the future, although I have purchased the birthday card sound recorder/player in readiness.
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This gives a good impression of the way I have organised construction. The brick base which houses the locking room but includes the rear wall of the cabin with its built-in chimney stack. The lever frame's temporarily in position but not yet painted. The cabin itself, all wood and windows but only three sided, will sit in place, retained by plugs and sockets and allowing easy removal to give access to those levers and the furniture and staff referred to earlier. At present my plan is to make the roof as a separate, easily removed part too; but we'll have to wait and see!!

 

More in a week or two; hopefully!

 

Good luck with your modelling,
Dave

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