UP THE JUNCTION
It's an age since I posted anything, but that don't mean that I haven't done anything. So here goes with the latest model. It's a four by three foot micro that has been connected up to three continuous loops so that I ran run trains to my heart's content - a real train set at long last. There's also a small shunting yard at the front for various departmental wagons and freight - depending what mood I'm in. The shunting yard is all operated by Spratt & Winkle - I just use a hand held magnet under the board to avoid the old 'hands in the sky' method. Whilst it is a Southern type scheme I can run any train depending on what I fancy - I've added some third rails (lengths of code 75 glued down beside the running rail) but you can't see these from the yard level etc.
I wanted to create real depth to the cameo hence the yard, the double viaduct behind and single viaduct to the very rear. The viaducts are glued together Scalescenes Bridge kits.
A Lima HST going over the front viaduct - a test shot and demonstrating that I can use just about any train from the corporate era.
Setting up the scheme and playing about with positions of the viaducts.
A test shot to ensure the holes in the backscene can't easily be seen from the front. Scenic breaks are the bug bear of all micro layouts.
I took this picture of Bordesley Viaduct way back in 1995 from the third floor of a warehouse in Digbeth (long expose using 35mm film - the bad old days of photography - modern cameras are brilliant aren't they?) and wanted to emulate a part of this sodium lit night scene.
My take with a block of flats (the right hand side scenic break) lit with a single light bulb inside.
The flats are a super detailed Kingsway model seen here in the set up picture.
Preparing the flats - each have windows with Scalescene's curtain textures etc.
The front of one of the sections - I used sand that was glued to the front with a watery mix of PVA.
The flats in daylight - Hornby 2 HAL with a Bachmann Class 416 on the front viaduct. Note the detailed Lima Class 73 on the rear viaduct travelling from behind the flats.
You can get a feel for the depth of the cameo in this shot.
I'm finishing off the departmental wagons, cranes etc for the yard at the moment and will post update pics at a later date.
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