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Layout, Depot, display board stuff

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P4 - (Another) diesel servicing point diorama - Not completion... but it'll have to do for now

This will be a brief(ish) update as I’ve been trying to spend what little time I’ve had available in actually modelling rather than reading or writing about it... and with a deadline this week time was rather short. However, I’ve drawn a halt now... for the time being and this will have to do. There’s lots and lots to do, but this was never intended to be at a final exhibitable stage, it was actually intended as a work in progress for our local show this Saturday... and that’s what it
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P4 - (Another) diesel servicing point diorama - some progress and other stuff

Well, if you’re reading this, RMWeb is back. Thank goodness. Well done to Andy for persevering on behalf of us all. As a result, I suspect that this entry won’t stay on the front page for long; I imagine there will be a few of us doing catch up blog entries... and why not.   Since my last posting I’ve made some progress with my depot diorama/plank, some progress has been positive, but not all. I think in my last entry I’d mentioned using scalescenes card inspection kit which my se
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P4 - (Another) diesel servicing point diorama - a start!

Well, here we have a slightly different project to compete with the loco detailing projects and writing projects and drawing projects, (and and and) that are all seeming vying for my spare time at the moment... a small diorama layout to plant the P4 locos completed and under construction. The theme is rather tedious I’m afraid... just another small servicing/storage yard, making use of the Bachmann single-road shed, a scalescenes inspection pit and some knightwing bits (that are still in thei
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Scenic photo plank/board complete... for now ?

A while ago I described my first attempts at producing a display board/plinth to photograph locos on, an item similar to that described by James H as a photo plank in Paxton Yard blog. Well, it’s now at a semi-complete stage… in that I’m happy to use it to display and photograph locos on…. but I may still add some additional bits to it as time progresses, and I want to try out some new scenic techniques, most of which are still a mystery to me (or rather their mastery is a mystery).  
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Scenic Photo/Display Board: Fourth ballasting attempt - 2 steps forward

Just a quick update to my last blog. Today I placed a bit of finescale track on a board (offcut of laminate flooring) and applied ballast... using techniques contributed through comments to my last entry - so, quicker than before... and then gave it a really good wetting... with it sat on my boys art table in the conservatory where the lino floor is easy to wipe to remove the water/screen wash overspill from - and there was lots. I applied the cement with a pipette and it seemed to work. It seem
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Scenic Photo/Display Board: Third ballasting attempt - 1 step forward, three steps back

Well, last night I tried with my third attempt to ballast what seems to be commonly referred to as a scenic photo plank – or what I was going to call a display board. This board is the subject of my first attempt at ballasting and suffice to say, it did not go too well.   I am also using this as a practice for scenic stuff, as this is something that I’ve not attempted before… and I’m obviously still doing something wrong.     I started this project using a 15cm wide planed plank,
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My first diesel depot blog

Dear all, after a little persuasion, I've started a plan for a diesel depot to display, and run, my slowly growing fleet of circa 1978 diesels. The period is based on personal recollections of the area in, and just to the North of, Kings Cross. So far I have three detailed and weathered class 55s (see Bedelands view workbench in weathering painting and transfers), two further 55s (Deltics) awaiting work, a 47 (Brush 4) and split headcode 37 (37); all in BR blue. The locos are all Bachmann. The H
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