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Bridging the Avon 1

Kris

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Having a bridge on the extension to Avonwick has been a desire of mine given the amount of times that the line crossed the Avon between South Brent and Kingsbridge. Somehow in doing this I have managed to chose the river bridge that was furthest for Avonwick on the line. There were several reasons for choosing this bridge. The real bridge is easily accessible for me, being in walking distance from my home. I felt that there is something about this bridge that was quite graceful. The bridge is on a footpath so it can be accessed for photos.

 

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Down stream side of the bridge.

 

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Upstream side of the bridge.

 

From the start I never intended for this bridge to be an exact copy (as much as I was tempted to walk along with a tape measure, notepad and pair of wellies) but I wanted to give a good flavour of the original.

Cutting the sides of the bridge is the easy part, as is adding the parapet and buttress. The hard part has been adding the underside arch. The air has been blue at times from this. Being on a skew has made it particularly bothersome (all this not helped by building in situ).In the end rather than cutting the underside to the correct size and slotting it in I have shoved a much larger sheet of brick plasticard in glued it then cut it to shape. This has proven to be the easier route as the skew on the bridge is not symmetric. This glueing and cutting stage has been completed on the left hand arch. The right hand arch has the glue still drying on it. There needs to be some filling done to the edge to cover a couple of gaps.

 

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As can be seen when compared to the real bridge, I have increase the depth of the sides a little. Hopefully this will become less apparent when I add the brick decoration.

 

I have also been adding the foam substructure for the scenery shell. This should be coming along soon(ish).

 

As I have been saying on my kit building thread rolling stock has been increasing. Goods stock is very much going 3 link as this seems to work (other than being rather very fiddly). For coaching stock I'm still not to sure. I am trying a bodged home made system on my B Set and Giant at the moment. It seems to give satisfactory close coupling - the pictures of the train on the bridge show the train coupled up. When being pushed the buffers are used. I'm still not sure as to whether the solution is discrete enough.

 

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What do you think?

What you see in this entry is by no means a completed project, it's still very rough around the edges and Farmer Giles will be talking to trading standards about rouge builders if they leave things as they are.

 

Farmer Giles has been seen talking to Dasiy about why she should not cross the river by the new bridge. He might be slightly mad. blink.gif

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SteveBedding

Ah yes, I'd forgotten about Farmer Giles and Daisy, it all comes back to me from your original posts in the dim and distant past... ...on an RMweb far, far away...

 

The bridge is looking very nice, the additional depth to the sides does not detract and would not be 'noticable' if you hadn't posted the pictures of the original :P ; when you put the additional curved courses of bricks over the arch, it will blend in even more. The bogies on the B-Set look very nice (I'm guessing that you've done both of them now) and the coupling looks fine, but, is the colour of the Giant right?

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The Giant is the right colour for the early 50's - all crimson. It does look very bright in comparison to the maroon coaches though. It could do with a lot of weathering to filthy it up which would also make it less of a clash. At some point in the future the B Set will be backdated to the same era as the Giant as this is the era that I will mainly be building up stock for from now on.

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...and would not be 'noticable' if you hadn't posted the pictures of the original :P

 

Yep...I learnt my lesson from that last year on this forum...if you post a picture of what you are modelling and follow it with your own representation of it...then you are putting your head on a platter amongst all your fellow model making piers :D

 

That said, very nice work Kris. I think you have captured it well to date. Little details like the coping stones will really pull it together...oh and that nice stepped curved brick arching too...me thinks Devon is going to experience some more blue air soon :O

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I that if the air can survive the underside of the arches Pete it can survive anything!

 

Thanks DD118

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The Giant is the right colour for the early 50's - all crimson. It does look very bright in comparison...

 

Thanks for putting me straight - I know very little about early BR :O. I looks great in that 'striking' colour :D - I've got one (or was it a Monster?) to build but fortunately, that's going to be nice 'dull' brown....

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I wasn't trying to put you right Steve, more defend my own colour use, I think my comment might have come across a little sharply. Possibly I should have said the Giant is the right colour, providing the paint manufacture got it right. biggrin.gif Looking back at the photos I think that the flash I used on the bottom photo has made the colour look much brighter than it really is. The lower green stripe of the Hymek is certainly very bright. When I put this van next to a crimson and cream coach it does look at lot better. The top picture where the colours are more muted is closer to the colour that the van is painted.

 

p.s. when I built the Giant, I changed the bogies to 2mm ones rather than using the Ultima ones (I assume yours is Ultima). I found the Ultima bogies rather crude in comparison which is a shame as the van went together very well and looks the part to me. At some point when I have some money I will have to purchase a few more of the Ultima items to go on the layout.

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