Kelvinbank, a Caledonian Railway project.

Hi Dave, that certainly looks the business, I'm only starting to build buildings after years of loco building and if mine are only half that good I'll be doing well.

 

Dave Franks.

First class job Dave.

Lovely piece of model making Dave. 

I trust that's a legitimate combination of levers that's been pulled? Trouble is, you're stuck with that route now...

It would be a crime to not light that....

I think you have got the lighting spot on.

Thats awesome, love the wooden floorboards, how did you do that?

Thanks all. 

 

Well, I did consult the signalling book Compound since I didn't want to have them  just randomly set.  Hopefully it is set for through running, though I'm out of my depth a bit with signalling. At least I didn't paint any levers yellow.

 

I cheated for the floor down the sdjr. A search of the net yields hundreds of pictures of wooden floors, mainly from firms wishing to sell them. I chose one, put it into affinity and scaled it to give me 4" scale planks, adjusted the colour a bit then printed it out on matte photo paper. A spot of photo sealer then its just stuck down with glue and glaze which I find sticks paper well to plasticard if you give the latter a rub over with sandpaper first.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Splendid modelling!

That's superb Dave. The roof came out well I think. And apart from everything else, the fireplace caught my attention.

 

I shall now reveal my ignorance: Where does the rear door lead? Safety?

 

 

Safety of a sort Mikkel. These boxes had a small timber built toilet at the back. I don't have a good photo of the real one, but this is based on the drawing and some photos of other boxes. That determined the position of the internal door. 

 

The roof is paper slates cut by silhouette with flashings from the type of self adhesive lead foil that anglers use for weighting flies. 

 

 

Looks wonderful and real lead flashing, too!  I especially like the lighting, as I remember seeing that warm glow from oil lamps on dark winter's nights.

An exquisite piece of work.

Duncan

Thanks Dave.

 

 

- 'Hear that George? A proper toilet! Those CR types certainly have it good.' 

- "A spoilt lot I tell you. When I was a Lad Porter we had to hold it in for a week, and were only allowed to use the manure pit of the stable block six stations away."

Indeed, as the oppressed labourers of Farthing observe, en suite luxury. Midland signalboxes had no such conveniences but by the 20th century they'd generally acquired a little corrugated hut round the back - not to be confused with the rather similar "lamp hut" - unless that's a euphemism. Don't use the locking room either, however tempting it may be with the door left open...

 

 

Crop of an enlargement of a Derby official photograph, probably DY 9132 of 11 July 1910, on Mike Musson's Warwickshire Railways website.

11 hours ago, Mikkel said:

Thanks Dave.

 

 

- 'Hear that George? A proper toilet! Those CR types certainly have it good.' 

- "A spoilt lot I tell you. When I was a Lad Porter we had to hold it in for a week, and were only allowed to use the manure pit of the stable block six stations away."

For all that we know, that toilet had an opening with access to the ground below, and no plumbing.

30 minutes ago, Regularity said:

For all that we know, that toilet had an opening with access to the ground below, and no plumbing.

 

There's an article somewhere in Midland Record about the facilities provided in that corrugated iron hut. If I kept my pile of Midland Record in the loo, I would have a moment or two to go through and find it.

Very nice...

Sorry if it's an obvious question, but did you emboss all the brickwork? I presume that is the only way to get the arched brickwork over the windows?

(I'm thinking ahead of how to tackle my signal box when I get a round tuit!)

Best wishes

Richard

Edited November 4, 2019 by Richard Jones

Hi Richard,

 

The brick arches are cut on the silhouette from 20 thou to match the embossed plasticard walls.

 

Technically the walls should be scottish bond , 3+1 but nobody makes it. I have tried scribing it on the silhouette but it doesn't work well. more experiments needed.