coombe junction - moorswater dries - episode 2...
Update - The last two nights have seen some more progress with the rotary dries, the rotary stores, loading bay and surrounding base scenics.
Again, profiles have been cut in grey artists card, to be clad in plastic sheet afterwards. I have laid on a couple of offcuts of some evergreen corrugated sheeting on the roof and I think the overlapping of the sheets will give some much needed relief to these buildings. Working from a mixture of Mark's (46444) detailed photos and my back catalogue of older photos I have been able to map out the changes to the dries area presumably when it became a cement terminal. A number of new ramps have been omitted from my model to represent it from the early 80's. I have also reinstated the cylindrical structure (?) which has a cut down bottle of shower gel as a placeholder at present.
For the surrounding base scenics, I have used my previous method of mapping out the contours using layers of brown corrugated cardboard. This is fairly fast work and allows a quick understanding of the levels prior to it getting a coating of sculptamold to form the land. It's all looking a bit crude at present but I hope once the buildings start to be clad and the land profile is formed it will start to come together.
I attach a few photos with my part finished lowered 37142 and a rake of CDA's to help set the context whilst I await to build my rakes of clay hoods...
Overall shot showing crude land contours...
Plan shot with test evergreen profile sheeting on the roof...
The raised platform to the foreground has some ancillary buildings surrounded with trees...
Am trying to recreate this classic shot of a 37 awaiting loading of the CDA's...
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