Chris Nevard's Blog

i like the difference in levels between the main and the siding. Much more common in real railways than our models.

Don

Me like it a lot, the different levels give the layout more depth of realism

Terry

Loving the change of level. Really well thought out and executed.

Thanks - the catchpoint is rather pointless (sorrry for the pun) - but fun will be had with free wheeling wagons running down under gravity!

Try and spot the Pete Harvey Design etched chairs on the point, they are a great asset to help blend strengthening copper clad sleepers with the C&L plastic ones. They lift the rail as gnat's willy above the sleepers too to match the C&L chairs.

 

This photo is slightly telephoto so the siding looks a little steeper than it is.

 

I'm very pleased with the GWRbob fibreglass bridge now it's had a bit of drybrushing using a mix of greys and beige matt Humbrol. I'll tweek it further once the scenery is in place. Actually, it's not a 100 miles different to the real one at Polbrock (though that wasn't planned).

Lovely subtle trackwork - it has all the presence of the real thing.

 

I don't know if you're on final paint yet (I assume not) but the bridge parapet wall could maybe do with a tweak - at the moment it seems quite "stripey" with alternating tan and grey. The rest of it looks great.

Great stuff Chris

 

Dave

Will, lots more yet, I'll be adjusting everything later on in the contruction to get it to blend in. It could do with a little moss too from all the water down west! I have yet to add the colour washes to softenm the dry brushing. I find that weathng and colouring is best not all done in one go because it's very easy to over do things. It's the same with rolling stock.

Hi Chris,

 

Did you check the translation of your chosen place name?

 

As far as I can see it could be 'badger pool', which seems quite nice... although to be more sure would require consultation of one of the large tomes which trace the provenance of individual Cornish place names... which is probably going a bit far.

 

Any plans for a model of said badger?

 

Regards, Andy

Polbrock is a real place - one cannot do better than that. It's a cpuple of miled south of Wadebridge on the river Camel near 'Grogley Halt' (which has already been bagged by another layout builder). Badger set? No, I'd rather have a penguin pool!

"Try and spot the Pete Harvey Design etched chairs on the point, they are a great asset to help blend strengthening copper clad sleepers with the C&L plastic ones. They lift the rail as gnat's willy above the sleepers too to match the C&L chairs."

 

I noticed these and they look good. Any idea when they will be available and do they work with the thin C&L copper clad?

Contact Pete Harvey for more info http://www.phd-design.co.uk/ , these are just some beta ones he kindly gave me to try out. Normally one would mess about chopping the plastic chairs in half and messing about with them to fit around the soldered join. This is so much easier. I'm actually tempted to do a whole point with them, whist you can see a slight difference in the close up photos, in real life they look the same as the plastic ones to the eye.

 

The sleepers here are 'thin' copper clad.

If it helps Chris, I saw the photo first and thought Bodmin/Wadebridge so you're doing something right.