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Some more pictures of much the same.

Trevor H

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Hi all,

 

Had promised to post these before now, but here are some close up images of the layout taken the same day, hopefully showing a bit more detail.

 

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Not much of a picture, but I used it, as i felt it could easily be mistaken for a larger scale than the 2mm it is.

 

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A simple office building at the entrance to the goods yard made from plasticard, whilst the station building can be seen in the background again built from plasticard and Slaters stone sheet, the platform side which cannot be seen from the viewing side has a more ornate brick finish.

The Presflo cement wagon is a 2mm association product, being a one piece resin hopper with etched brass chassis and detail parts and was a joy to put together, something that can't always be said about this type of wagon in the larger scales, just requires transfers and weathering to finish it off.

 

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Concrete provender shed again scratchbuilt from plasticard, originaly I had looked at using the Scenecraft one available from Bachmann, but found it was well overscaled and out of proportion.

 

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GWR signalbox again scratchbuilt from plasticard and bits of brass rod & tube, Slaters brickwork, Ratio slate roofing, Plastruct stairs and Ratio etched windows.

The picture seems to of lost its colour, brickwork is red/brown and blue/black, whilst woodwork is a chocolate brown. Hopefully it'll receive a name one day when I decide what the layout will be called.

 

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A view of the coal depot with a couple of 16t mineral wagons, whilst a Parkside Grampus with 2mm Association chassis and the excellent Stephen Harris kit of a Covhop, can be seen sat in the goods yard.

 

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Another shot of the wagons in the good yard, the SH Covhop kit is made up from a one piece resin hopper with etched chassis and detailing parts and as with all of Stephens kits it was a real joy to put together.

The LNER/BR Highfit is just a Parkwood kit and is well over scale, this will eventually be replaced with some of the SH kits.

 

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6885 was one of the RSH built engo or ingo 3's, not much detail work has been done apart from handrails on the nose and a lamp bracket removed for this particular model, the gap between the bogie sideframes and body still need to be closed up.

I had hoped to get all my class 37s finished and weathered, but they are all in need of frost grilles, a vital part for these locos in the period I'm modeling. Bachmann for some reason decided to omit these in their 2mm version of the model, but hopefully an aftermarket grill will become available at sometime and then I'll be able to give this signature class the treatment they deserve for working around South Waleswink.gif

 

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Again 6885 aproaching the station with one of many coal trains that would work the line.

 

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A close up of a couple of the wagons, 21t mineral (Stephen Harris kit) and 21t hopper (Fence Houses, Bob Jones kit).

 

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And finally an ariel view shot looking down on 6885.

 

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Hi Trevor - Some more great photos...really captures the area you are portraying - thanks for sharing them - shame this won't be at the Expo...am always happy to see a bit of Br Blue...especially in 2FS - hope to get to meet you at the show - Pete

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I love the weathering on the wagons. The whole effect is great.

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grahame

Great pictures, excellent modelling, superb layout. And I echo the comment 'shame this won't be at the expo'.

 

G.

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-missy-

Hello Trevor smile.gif

 

I must echo the comments above. The overall tone of the layout is spot on. Its got a fantastic blandness about it all, lots of lovely grime too.

 

Thank you for posting the pictures.

 

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I hate to be a 'me too', but I am absolutely stunned by the progress you've made with this layout. It makes me wonder what the heck I've been messing around with in the last 26 years*.

 

David

 

*Certainly not as much as you have achieved in so short a time! :blink:

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2mm Andy

Absolutely stunning! I'm also amazed at the speed of progress on this layout.

 

The weathering on the hoppers and mineral wagons in particular is very realistic.

 

Andy

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johnteal

you commented at the beginning of the post that you used the 1st picture as it could be mistaken for a larger scale... I think they could all be mistaken for a larger scale !!

 

Very impressive stuff.

 

John

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Trevor H

Thank you for all your replies, to many to answer individualy so I'll try to reply as one.

 

I would of liked to of been able to make it to expo with the layout, but in the end the timelime I set my self was just not enough. Apart from plenty of work to still do on the scenic section, I still need to build fiddle yards and legs for the layout, I could of presented the scenic board on a table, as this is working and just do some shunting, but I have little stock fitted with coupling and I still need to fit the magnets. So it would of ended up been a case of trial and error over the two days.

 

Anyhow looking at the list of superb layouts attending, don't we think we'll be more than spoilt over the weekendwink.gif , I for one am really looking forward to expo and although a bit shy, will hopefully get the chance to talk to some of you over the weekend.

 

The time spent modelling on the layout has been a bit erratic at times, especially when I was making the buildings, I didn't quite realise how many little buildings it would take to fill 4ft of backscene and must admit, it was becoming rather tiresome making a building and it would only fill a couple of inches at a time. I usually get two or three evening each week where I try to get 2-3 hours modelling done, but on most Saturdays I'm lucky to be able to spend the whole day modelling and I find this is when I get my best work done, with the radio or sport news going on in the backgroundwink.gif .

 

Thankyou for the comments on the weathering, I try to get eveything a bit different, but for it all to blend as one, if that makes sense, ie. grime! As to the wagons this is probably my most enjoyable part in modelling and as anything I highly recommend working from a photo, it's suprising how quickly you get to understand the weathering effects this way.

 

Getting back to the layout it has possibly worked out well for myself, as I have always had this image in my head of what would of been at the other end of the station. So now I have no restrictions on size it could just possibly happen, I only say possiblybiggrin.gif.

 

Again thankyou all and hopefully see some of you at the weekend.

 

Cheers

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Trevor H
It's looking well! I must try out a frost grille on the next test etch.

 

Bernard,

 

I'd be very interested to hear on progress, if you go forward with this.

 

Trevor.

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RobboPetes

Superb work all round here! Lots of things to like and admire - the buildings, stock, weathering, etc.

 

The pictures could certainly be mistaken for any of the larger scales, hence the quality of the work involved. This is truly inspirational, quality I would like my layout to resemble once I get it started.

 

Certainly look forward to seeing further progress here.

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