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Bian Bos


RichardS

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img_20190314_152931Having spent some time happily carving away at the polystyrene I was eventually satisfied with the basic form I had achieved.

As the nature of this experiment has become more formal I’ve given the diorama a name – Bian Bos which is my East Anglian attempt at Cornish for Small Dwelling. No doubt a competent Cornish linguist will/might correct me if any grammatical elements are wrong.

I need to test a fake water medium so I’ve included a culvert and a small brook at one end of the board. The stone work is knocked up from a Wills sheet. Not sure about scale but how big are these things anyway – on Bosmellin itself the culvert is for a mill race I imagine it is medium size – I have seen no pictures of this feature from the site.

Then out came the plaster bandage and a couple of  layers applied with some screwed up and pushed in more angular places thus rounding things off a bit. Overall I have tried to produce a modest range of curves, steps, outcrops but with nothing too dominant or heavy. Once it is dry I will apply a coat of plaster.

There are a few – but only a few – outcrops of exposed rock in the slopes at Boscarne so I have cast some bits in Woodland Scenic

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s moulds. Whether these will be suitable or look right I cannot say as yet. Again I used Plaster of Paris from Hobbycraft for these – £3.75 for 1KG – far cheaper than similar branded products. To be fair it took a bit longer to set and is slightly heavier than say WS Hydrocal. I turned the casts out of the mould after  about 90 minutes and by and large they came out very clean and crisp. Only one or two air bubbles had been trapped.

My goal for this week is to get the culvert painted up, masked and fitted. The stone outcrops fixed on and a coat of plaster over the bandage. As things are taking a little while to dry out in my “railway parlour” (garage) I don’t want to rush onto other sections before the previous is complete.

I’ve settled (I think) on the base board layout for Bosmellin itself so will start drawing up and calculating quantities of materials.

And next weekend is the London Festival of Model railways at Alexandra Palace so I have to make time to visit that too.

My zeal is presently boundless.

All the best.

Richard

 

 


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