My small Cornish layout is based around a China Clay works, I'm planning on calling the layout Trevowgwyn. I made the name up using a book of Cornish etymology, so there is no real place, though I imagine it being on a branch north of the Cornish Mainline between St Austell and Par. Trevowgwyn is supposed to mean White Towns.
The first structure is the clay dries itself, I wanted something quite big as my layout represents a modern dries. As I wanted to keep the layout small I have modelled
Now with the clay dries almost done (bar a few details, pictures to follow) I'm moving on to building another structure, as you may have grasped from the title it's the pub!
So far I have the name, and the sign, it had to be something Cornish and Railway related...
After searching for a coupling which was reliable, unobtrusive and still allowed for easy shunting with a shunters pole I was at a bit of a loss. The rapido is plain ugly and poor for shunting, the DG I found fiddley to assemble and tricky getting them to couple and uncouple if not perfectly assembled and mounted. The Micro Trains couplings are ok, but expensive and still fairly unreliable if not quite lined up right.
So, I had a bit of a brainwave, a year or so ago I read an article by Jim
I know Pete was eager to see 175, so here she is;
Could be better, could be worse! Still plenty to do, all the detail parts, headlamp, windows back in, finishing up the weathering. The 3 part plow is a 3D Print, so it's a bit of an experiment!
I decided on 37175 as she was in Cornwall during the 1980s but also in Scotland, so at somepoint I expect a Dapol 26 will cross my bench to become a partner for 175 on my other (non-existant) layout set in Scotland. Better finish the Cornish o
After a member (I won't name names as they may wish to remain anonymous!) on here kindly offered to sell me some clay hood kits he no longer required I became the proud own of 12 Parkwood clay wagon kits.
I built the kits and mounted them to Peco chassis, I then finished them off with Parkside buffers and Scalescenes OO clay hoods rescaled down to 1:148 (This took a little trial and error and to get the width right I had to print them longer than scale and then cut them down). I still have t
What makes this Sentiel Cornish? It's a model of ECC's No.P403D "Denise". I built the model completely from photographs as I couldn't find a drawing anywhere. The things of note on the prototype are the huge exhaust pipe and the left hand walkway which is covered with some additional equipment (airbrake gear?)
I've applied an undercoat to the 3D Print of the Sentinel, some clean up is required but the print is excellent overall. The handrails, despite being 0.32mm in diameter, came out beaut
Bit of an update on the PRA; Gave it a clean up and a bit of paint, just need to add the decals on some "cleaner patches" I will paint on and it will more or less be finished. The other PRAs are currently in primer, as is the Polybulk.
Also in the photograph is 50149 which is currently undergoing weathering; Call it an act of Defiance (Get it?!) but I won't be attempting any cab rebuilding because I would probably struggle to make it any better. I also think the black window surrounds of the
My N Scale PRAs arrived today! I have given the one in the foreground a dusting of primer so I can better see the detail; I have also mounted it upon the Peco chassis I am using, which although isn't technically correct is getting used because I have lots knocking about. The one in the background is as they arrived from Shapeways.
The steps, handrails and ladders arrived warped (as normal) so I did my usual trick of dropping them in near boiling water out the kettle and they, as if by m
Time for an update on the Tiger!
I picked up some OLEO buffers at Leamington Show and filed the tops and bottoms flat to produce Tiger-like buffers.
I sprayed the Tiger white and painted the cover grey (After a debate as to whether it was grey, white or grey but covered in white ). This wasn't without it's issues as the masking for the grey pulled away some of the white which then had to be touched up.
Next I applied the decals I had printed, I missed out a couple as I was paying
I thought I would post an update on work I've done in the New Year.
I have been bending and soldering wire to make up the various details on the "Clay Tiger". The brake pipes and walk ways are an approximation and not exact as I tend to pertain to the Jack Ray philosophy of a recognisable model of the prototype running within a credible context, or something to that effect....
I have attached various bits of brass work; Wire and a mixture of scavenged TPM parts. Buffers are still on t
This post outlines some of the stock I am building, buying and weathering for my layout in progress "Penwithick". Penwithick is a modern china clay facility in Cornwall, the layout will be set in the late 80s/early 90s and built in N Scale.
Class 08 and STS TTA Slurry Tank
The 08 is Farish and the Slurry tank is built from a 3D Print I made along with TPM roofwalks and a Farish TTA chassis.
This is the Clay Tiger fresh out the printer, it will sit on TPM Y25s. I have had decals
