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Clay Dries

Rods_of_Revolution

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My small Cornish layout is based around a China Clay works, I'm planning on calling the layout Trevowgwyn. I made the name up using a book of Cornish etymology, so there is no real place, though I imagine it being on a branch north of the Cornish Mainline between St Austell and Par. Trevowgwyn is supposed to mean White Towns.

 

The first structure is the clay dries itself, I wanted something quite big as my layout represents a modern dries. As I wanted to keep the layout small I have modelled a slice of the dries. The building has a wooden frame which is then clad in Evergreen sheet; The doors are 3D Printed and glued on in various states from closed to open, this helps give a feeling that it is alive, rather than having the doors uniformly closed or open.

 

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Main overview of the dries.

 

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Close up showing the 3D Printed doors.

 

I have some additional vents, steps, doors and walkways to add. Once they are added the model will be complete.

 

Kindest Regards,

 

Jack

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-missy-

Hello Jack.

 

WOW that looks impressive! It all looks nicely weathered too. I feel this is going to be a great advert for N Scale...

 

Missy :)

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jonas

That is some seriously impressive structure modelling - I'm looking forward to this layout's development!

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Rods_of_Revolution

Thanks guys,

 

N Scale defintely enables big looking structures even in a small space, modern clay works are huge so although I have a small space I'm trying to recreate that aspect.

 

Cheers,

 

Jack

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Excellent Jack - A very impressive structure and that fleet of rolling stock is shapely up nicely.

 

Just the trackwork now...have you been persuaded to join the dark side yet?... :D

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Rods_of_Revolution

Thanks Pete,

 

I don't have the skill or patience to do 2FS, besides, half the track is buried in concrete! Hopefully once weathered the deficiencies won't be as badly noticeable as plain Peco.

 

Kindest Regards,

 

Jack

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TomJ

Those dries look superb. Reminds me a little of Kernick. The weathering gives them a lovely toned down look.

But even better are the wagons. Are the Tiger and PRA the ones you made from 3d printing? They look the part, as does the weathered CDAs.

 

Nice to see some more N gauge china clay - looking forward to seeing it come on

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Rods_of_Revolution

Hi Tom,

 

Thanks for the complements, Kernick was certainly one of my inspirations when designing the building.

 

Yes, both the Tiger and PRA are both made from 3D prints, both are available in my Shapeways Shop's; Valve Design for the Tiger and Rail 3D Prints for the PRA.

 

Kindest Regards,

 

Jack

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Stoker

Nice work Jack. :) I'm curious to know what you plan on doing next? There's a lot of space there meaning a lot of scope for more structures and details.

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Iain C Robinson

That's very fine indeed and not easy to model. I'm making a model Clay Dries in 4mm which is pesky enough, but in 2mm ft it's really most impressive.

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