water...off a dock's back...
Good morning,
Kyle took a back seat for about a week as my brother visited us. He gifted me an original Hornby HST that he had bought on ebay as a non runner, stripped it down and he had got it running...not bad for a 35 year old model with a 3 pole motor...problem was, the layout I am making for my sons is an end to end on an IKEA (longer) lack shelf. So we went down the DIY store and knocked out a 7' x 4' roundy roundy for the kids in a day using all the setrack from their boxes...they also have all the BR Blue rolling stock I have been gradually building up for them...ahem...layout no.5 in the apartment and things are a little tense here...so lets get back to 'discrete, doesn't take up too much space, easy to sneak parcels through the front door' 2mmFS stuff...
One of the things I wanted to redo was the slither of water along the front. It was done using some kind of poured quickset resin and although you could tell it was water, it sort of looked odd, where there was a join in the middle (when the layout was in separate pieces) and also it had sagged a little when set. I decided to redo it using Mr Nevard's PVA layers method. First up, I cut a new piece of card to fit in the 'tray' and cut around the verticals on the quayside. This has been glued in place and brings the water flush with the edge...which I prefer. Last night I then gave it a base coat of Railmatch BR blue...strange you might think, but I had no other greeny blue colours to hand...and I kinda like it! I gave it another coat this morning and this weekend I will try the first of a number of coats of PVA layers on top. If it ends up looking pants, I can always repaint it and have another crack.
I have sourced a few items for the yard (some new ladders for the quay and a beautiful TPM etch of a temporary construction fence) and after trying to find some rubber tyres to hang on the quayside, I found a car in my sons toys, stripped it, left it up on bricks and have the tyres, which can be seen lying in one of the photos I think.
The station building has had a wash of white paint on the horizontal planking although, my paintbrush was too big and I started overlapping the grey, so have been less than careful in its application and I will go back and tidy up the joinery in grey paint afterwards...sort of how you would paint it in real life I guess.
Lastly, as inspiration, I received my copy of Michael Palin's rail journey to KoL and even though they only spend about 3 minutes of 50 at KoL, it is good reference material for colours (some nice shots of HST's throughout the dvd too)
I took a cheeky 'still' off the TV as his class 26 arrives at KoL and I will try to recreate that on the model as a close up shot...
A few pics...have a good weekend peeps...
Overall view...water has been redone and is now flush...and continuous!...
From the end...this was a photo last night with flash...it doesn't look as bright as that in daylight...
A cheeky 'Still' of MP's train arriving at KoL...
I will try and recreate it...kinda like the old Scottish Blue sign...which of course MP took home with him!...
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