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A couple of blogs ago I mentioned that I would dedicate a blog to my Dapol class 56. There are very few photos of the loco in Cornwall but thankfully the legendary John Vaughan has several photos published in one or two of his books which were used as reference material. There is also a nice colour one taken by Craig in the Cornish Railways section of this site which will come in handy to get the weathering accurate at the time of the visit. I also have found some rare foot
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While the station canopy dries from being painted I have decided to move onto my second structural project, the footbridge.
This is definitely my biggest challenge to date and my first scratch built structure that is to be entirely in plastic. Last time I was in Par, I decided to take numerous shots of the footbridge in order to make as near to accurate model as possible.
Ok, so some L-shaped plastic strips in 2 different sizes, 0.5mm and 0.25mm thick plasticard and a
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It's been a while since I wrote my last blog and since then I have got married, found out my wife is now pregnant with our first child, and I've also changed jobs. And all that in the last 6 weeks!!!
Since the wedding and honeymoon, I have been making some good progress with the layout and in particular the station building for Par.
Since my last entry I have completed the windows, attached the roof and layered strips of thick paper to represent the tiles, made the ch
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This will be the second blog for me in a week!! Not bad going !!
Just thought I would update on the progress of the station building. I have now strengthened the structure with some extra card along the centre of the building which has now made it a little more sturdy.
I have also made the doors from artists paper. As these doors are panelled, I first cut out the panelled areas and then glued a second sheet of artists paper behind to represent this, and they have now
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Not much progress has taken place over the last few weeks but I have managed to get the stone papers cut out and attached to the cardboard base structure. Thank you Pete and Tom for your tips on how to produce the stonework in my last entry, I used a good photo of the station itself and then cut part of the stonework from the photo, and copied and pasted it several times to get a strip of stone work. Then this was printed onto good quality paper and I carefully measured a
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Having had the day off work today, I have managed to finish the basic construction of the station building for Par.
When I was down in Cornwall last week, I dragged my fiancee down to Par to measure the station building so as to make the most accurate model possible. I checked permission with the station staff first.
So permission granted, and a half hour later (with a very embarrassed wife to be!!) I had my measurements.
The main structure is made of 1mm thick card
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I have managed to progress board 3 of the layout (or the London end of Par station) over the last week or so. Ballasting has taken place and the track has been painted.
I first painted the rails in Phoenix "rusty rails" colour, then a week wash of track dirt to take the sheen off the sleepers and blend the rusty rails a little. The ballast is a 70/30 mix of Woodland scenics buff and brown. I used this successfully on my swiss layout and having studied the many photos
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It's been a while since i've been able to post a bit more progress on my layout. Work commitments still getting in the way of the project, but i've managed to make a little bit more progress over the last few days.
I've laid some of the very realistic ratio concrete trunking which i was initially going to build from thick pieces of card, but having sampled the ratio product, I decided to use it instead. I still need to paint it and add some weathering though.
Prog
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Just thought I would update on the progress of this model I have now primed and painted the etched brass buffers, snowploughs and added the buffer beam detailing. I have also added the number transfers and just need to add the Johnsons Klear which, hopefully, will hide the decal slide film. Having not used this product before, I am a bit green on this one. Is it best to leave the transfers 24 hours before applying the Klear with a paint brush? Any tips would be great
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I haven't updated my blog on this layout for a while due to my busy work commitments but I have made a little bit of progress in that time. I have dismantled the layout into the three boards and have decided to work solely on the eastern end (London end) of the layout.
I have painted the rails and intend to do my usual watered down sleeper grime wash over the top to take the sheen off of the sleepers. I will then ballast and dry brush over the rails.
The platform ed
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Just thought I would add an entry as I haven't updated for a few weeks. Progress on Par is slow but I hope to add an entry by Sunday evening with progress on the layout.
This entry is to talk about my latest loco, class 37 37206.
Having looked through John Vaughan's excellent book "Diesels in the Duchy", I noticed that this loco is photographed on more than one occasion in the Par/St.Blazey area so naturally I wanted to have this loco on my layout.
The donor was t
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I thought i would post a few pictures of my re-numbered Farish class 37, 37207 "William Cookworthy"
I have also lowered this loco closer to the bogies using the techniques in bcnpete's blog which gives a more prototypical appearance. The decals are from precision decals and the nameplates from Shawplan. I still have a bit of work to do as i need to add the numbers and spray on a coat of varnish to seal the decals.
This is my first time re-numbering a loco and I feel it
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Just thought I would add a short update as I have been testing some rolling stock on my layout of Par station over the last few nights and here are some pictures.
Class 37672 "Freight Transport Association" with 24 CDA wagons
HST
Dapol "Bubble" heads up onto the Newquay branch.
Class 37207 "William Cookworthy" with short freight train.
Best regards,
Jeremy
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I have been meaning to post something about my layout for quite sometime now.
Just a bit of background, I have been modelling the swiss scene for many years and have decided to model china clay operations in Cornwall for my latest project. Par was chosen as a prototype as I have never modelled a prototype location before. A visit to Par was tied in with a holiday in Cornwall during July 2010 and many pictures were taken. The great thing with this particular station is that
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I have decided to try and get one cab end finished before moving on to spraying the rest of the locomotive just to get an idea of what the end result will be. I have resprayed one cab end in warning panel yellow from the Phoenix paints range, and started touching up the multiple train jumper sockets.
I have also started to attach some of the pipework and although I still don't like the headlight, I feel it is looking more and more like a Hoover, and I can take the experi
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Just thought i would add an update for my ongoing project. Today i have been fitting the handrails to one end of my loco and it's starting to look much more like a 50! I'm still not happy with the headlight but that will be a lesson learnt for the next one!
I have also decided to change the farish plastic buffers for some nice etched brass ones and this has made a difference.
Any comments kindly appreciated.
On this picture you can see the lowered body on the chassis.
Good afternoon everyone, this is my first blog so hope that i am doing this correctly. I am currently building an N gauge layout based on Par in Cornwall and no layout based in the 80's would be complete without a class 50 or 2!!
I have decided to upgrade my Farish class 50 as i cannot afford one of the exquisite CJM ones and i have decided to post some of my progress pictures to get some feedback and any tips and hints on how to improve what i have done so far.
I have purchased etched p
