Cement works and fish trains
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Over the christmas holidays I've been keeping myself busy building various kits to form my new cement works. It's not yet finished, but I'm yet to build up some perimeter walls as I'm too fed up with card kits for the moment! I also need to add some pipe work, as well as a cobbled road surface. All the kits are Metcalfe, with the main bulk being the brewery kit, with a water tower, sandhouse and a modified red brick station waiting shelter to act as a deliveries office. The hopper is from Hornby and will eventually have pipework coming off it, leading to the main works off scene.
As mentioned above, most of the buildings are built as intended, but the shelter/office has been modified somewhat. For a start, the inside rear wall has been bought forward so that there's a connection between the two end buildings, and a new door and window have been added. The window involved me trying to create a window frame out of paper to match the supplied windows. It came out abit thick but I don't think it looks to bad. The glazing is just clear plastic. The door was also one supplied and the space where it was meant to be on the kit is represented as bricked up, along with one of the windows which I lost the glazing for.
And some pics of the finished (for now) site:
My long waited for fish train also started to come together over christmas, as I recieved 4 of Hornbys new fish vans as presents. These, a pair of Bachmann insulated vans and some other miscallaneous vans, along with a K3 currently gorm the train. The non-insulated vans will be phased out as I purchase more Hornby (and Bachmann when they're released) fish vans. But for now, here are some pics of the current train:
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