Juniper Hill
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As some of you may be aware Juniper Hill lays of the A43 south of Brackley-unfortunately this entry has no relevance to this Oxfordshire village. I drive down the A43 to Oxford on a regular basis and pass the sign for Juniper Hill and am always enchanted by the name. Infact I've decided to call my latest project after the village although it's not set in Oxfordshire.
Infact it is set no where in particular and could almost be generic. Ideas have centred around ironstone quarrying in Northamptonshire with the Cranford area providing inspiration. This would not only allow me to run my Kettering sheded locos but also run an industrial line in the mould of Thomas E Gray of 'Isebrook' Sentinel fame based around Burton Latimer. Other ideas have included sand and gravel extraction around Cambridgshire so as to run an Class 03 and even a BR Sentinel too!
I happened to have a 3ft x 1ft board going spare from an unfinished project and decided to mock up some images to get a feel for Juniper Hill. Here are the photos taken on my mobile including an aerial shot illustrating the track plan.
This shot show's the simple track plan. The line will enter from the right on the top line from a fiddleyard.
Here's a panoramic shot giving a feel for what I want to achieve. The buildings are courtesy of Wills-and have been modified slighty. They have been finished with Tamiya/Vallejo acrylics. The Corgi Ruston Bucyrus RB19 was subject of a previous post. The recently released Oxford Bedford OWB will become a contractors bus and will be resprayed.
Figures are from Dapol finished with Valejo acrylics. Really lovely figures and good value too!
Here's the state of play this evening. I've encased the board with plywood/hardboard I had had previously cut. Lighting will be provided by a slot in gantry and a flourescent light. I also managed to paint the baseboard with brown emulsion and give the backscene a coat of wood primer this evening. Tomorrow I will refresh this prior to giving the backscenes a coat of greyish white. I've given the ply a coat of yacht varnish to see what it looks like. I polished the wood with fine grade sandpaper prior to applying the varnish. Not sure what people think? Opinions welcome.
Trackwork will be some ancient SMP Code 75 track with Peco Code 75 points.
Track laying and wiring up next. Update soon.
Cheers,
Mark
Bit of an update on the lighting that I've achieved today. I've made the lighting gantry and used a fish tank 'Daylight' flourescent tube I had to hand which looks ok.
The backscene has received another couple of coats of lightish grey and the fascia has received another coat of yacht varnish. Since the photo was taken I've filled in the gap between the two up rights to make the top pelmet flush with the sides.
Track laying and fiddle yard next.
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