Some more pictures of much the same.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Wales
Again 6885 aproaching the station with one of many coal trains that would work the line.
A close up of a couple of the wagons, 21t mineral (Stephen Harris kit) and 21t hopper (Fence Houses, Bob Jones kit).
And finally an ariel view shot looking down on 6885.
tafnf
Trevor
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