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Chrislock

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Well sculptamold - eventually! :blum:

 

Work since last blog:

 

- Levelling the area between the lowered level of the siding and the wharf area. There is still a slight gradient trackside, but not really obvious. I used polyfilla and have rough painted this with brown acrylic.

 

- Adding a foamboard backscene, using formas and reverse knife cuts to curve it and glue-gunned it in place.

 

- Infilling the siding with polyfilla to represent ash and clinker. Stippling lightly with a brush while still soft and again given a light grey/ brown wash for the time being. Nevard used DAS for this, but I tried it on a spare bit of track and found it difficult to and messy to work inbetween sleepers in this scale.

 

- I did use redDAS on the station platform, however, as I also wanted a surface of paving and clinker/ash.

It proved quite challenging as it had to be applied very thinly., Finishing involved washes, stippling greys and browns and dabbing with paper towel, and I am still not happy with the effect.

I used a stone layer plasticard for the front edging and behind where the loading dock is.

 

- Added some foamboard scraps to layout the shape of the banks. These will be infilled with newspaper screwed up, and then overlaid with sculptamold / polyfilla.

 

 

Nothing exciting, I know, but this little project is at least edging forward gradually. I suppose that is an advantage of a microlayout - each part is manageable in an evening or so.

 

Also had my 25 apart as when I ran it it was decidely rough, don't know why. Replaced two of the pickups and refastened the wires which attach by screw only to the chassis block halves, and hence to track. Haven't set up the DCC controller yet, so unsure of how much running is improved. Fingers crossed.

( I wonder if Bachmann have plans to retool the 25? )

 

Regards,

Chris

 

 

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If you're wondering about the cutaway on the left end by the canal - so am I at this moment. I haven't quite fathomed how to make the canal disappear from the scene - I don't like it when they end abruptly at a flat wall!

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Chrislock

Yes - a second bridge is an option. There is a situation a little like that at Whatstandwell, on the old MR mainline, as a matter of fact.

I could then continue the landscape beyond the bridge into the FY area. Yes, I like that.

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( I wonder if Bachmann have plans to retool the 25? )

 

Don't go there Chris...its too painful now.

 

If they don't hurry up soon, then Dapol might beat them to it :O

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Chrislock

That would be a shame Pete. I prefer the look of the 25 to the 24 and I believe the rat was more numerous around our isle?

I can't think but they'd sell a goodly number.

I'd settle for a Dapol one though, Not fussed!

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That would be a shame Pete. I prefer the look of the 25 to the 24 and I believe the rat was more numerous around our isle?

I can't think but they'd sell a goodly number.

I'd settle for a Dapol one though, Not fussed!

 

Likewise...mind you, Dapol Dave sometimes has a few cards up his sleeve...so we can only hope :D

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Yes - a second bridge is an option. There is a situation a little like that at Whatstandwell, on the old MR mainline, as a matter of fact.

 

It's not on over Midland metals but there are a pair of road bridges at Midgham, between Thatcham and Aldermaston, for a second example; first a lower one over the canal and then a step up over the railway and back down.

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That would be MIdgham on the Kennet and Avon?

 

Some cracking photos of the old Whatstandwell goods yard for anyone who hasn't seen them before:

 

http://www.crichparish.co.uk/webpages/whatstandwellstationhistory.html

 

Note the portable loading ramp in the foreground - the subject of discussion on my old Little Midland thread. The article omits to mention that the tracks heading off to the top served a stone wharf loop.

Quite a busy and unusual little station and worthy of a model sometime...

The first map shws the bridge combo alluded to.

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