A visit to Diddington Yard
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Billy Connelly once sang a song, called, I think, "3 Wee Women". It was about 3 ladies in Glasgow who were waiting for a bus. Eventually "along came seven buses, every one a 42". Diddington blog entries are a bit like this. Nothing happens for ages, then two come along at once.
I was playing with the camera last niight, so I took a couple of pictures of the goods yard. There's no trains in the pictures, but I thought the buildings and scenery might be of interest.
First up are the goods sheds. When I first built Diddington, it had a larger goods shed, built from the Prototype models kit of Little Bytham shed. I decided it was a bit overpowering, so I substituted some smaller sheds. The wooden shed is from the Wills kit, and the concrete one is the Ratio Provender store.
Next is the Cattle dock. This is from a Ratio kit. Its actually a GW prototype, but when painted and set into the layout, it reminds me of the pens at St Ives (Hunts) in the 1960's. I changed the stone walls in the kit for brick ones when I built it. Once built, the cattle dock was fixed to a card base, and the landform built up round it. The end loading ramp next to it was built on the same base, with brick walls from the Exactoscale sheets. The ground covering is fine ash sprinkled from a sieve onto an undercoat of Tamiya acrylic paint(a mixture of dark earth and grey) and more pva, applied when the paint was dry. Vegetation is puffed grass and hanging basket liner, applied as described in previous blog entries. The cobbled surface of the cattle dock itself was painted with a thin pva/water mix, which was dabbed off with a paper towel, and puffed grass applied, to give the look of a cattle dock that was no longer in use.
The building in the background is a chapel, based on one at Brigstock near Kettering. Its made from Wills brick sheets, with a roof from Wills corragated Iron sheet. The brick walls were painted with Tamiya acrylic, and the pointing was a thin wash of Artex applied over the brickwork and wiped off when nearly dry, leaving a residue in the courses between the bricks. A side benefit of this technique is that it cuts down the depth of the heavily scribed courses in the Wills sheets.
Thats all for now. More scenic work is in progress on another part of the layout, detail;s of which will follow in a few weeks.
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