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Bridging the gaps.


Chrislock

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Nowt to do with Cadbury ( for those old enough to remember that rather iffy advert), more to do with building and fitting a couple of canal bridges and trying to achieve that Derbyshire stone look. Once the sculptamold is painted in and a earth coloured powder is brushed onto the stonework, I think it will look ok.

 

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Yesterday I had my grandsons round. I handed my eldest, Jake, 7, the Power Cab, showed him how the point changed and left him to run the 24 with a wagon back and forth over the turnout. It stood up well.

Sorry no photo.

 

Finally, rewindingto the weekend, I spent Saturday at tge Silk Mill in Derby, helping the MRS to catalogue some of the vast material which is sitting unopened on the shelves of the Study Centre. I was allocated accident reports between roughly 1880 and 1910, and found them fascinating, as an insight into how thr railways of the time were actually operated!

 

Anyway, while I was there, I snuck a few ( poorish) photos of the excellent 7mm layout which is being constructed upstairs, for anyone who is interested:

 

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Hi there,

 

Read your mail, as you were referring to canals etc,what are you doing on your on layout,I am back to modelling since I retired and want to incorporate canal scene etc. I picked up some info from other members re where to look for canal kits etc and I bought the one from scalescenes, I have also looked at many canal photographs to get an overall idea of where I want to go, There does not appear to be many layouts which have canal scenes about? I looked on the MRL TV at several of the layouts and I did find one with a lovely country canal scene but for the life of me I cannot find it again. I was just wondering if there were any grey cells I could tap into from your point of view?

 

 

All the best

 

Reemgee

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Hi Reemgee, nay I'm a bit of a beginner in this respect too, that in one way is why I decided to incorporate a canal as a foreground item.

The info about Scalescenes is useful, though in 2mm I'm used to scratching most items.

As for inspiration, I just downloaded a few photos from t'web of the Cromford canal - I am pretending mine is a section of that - beyond that I'm in Try-It mode!

I need to find a decent picture of a lock though.

Cheers,

Chris

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