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My latest weathering escapade, one of the brilliant Farish Seacows. The enlargement of the photo is a bit cruel - but after all, this model is only about 3 inches long! I need to touch up the wheels for a start. A very enjoyable evenings work though.

nevard_110821_BQ_IMG_0878, a photo by nevardmedia on Flickr. The Bull: It's brew up time at Brewhouse Quay for Sentinel 'Mendip', ex-L&YR 'Pug' 51202, Planet 4WD 'Fleur' and 'Radstock' an Austerity tank recently purchased from the National Coal Board. The Ford Popular wasn't parked that well from a photographic point of view, but now 55 years on it adds to the scene. The Model: The Sentinel is a Model Rail/Dapol Sentinel which has had a change of identity, having been detailed up and is now in private ownership. The Pug a detailed, renumbered and repainted Hornby model - it runs a dream too which is much to my surprise - widening out the back to backs to 14.7mm may have helped here. The Ford Popular in the forground is from Oxford Diecast and has been reglazed with Krystal Kleer liquid glazing, muckied up and finished off with Testor's Dullcote. The little green diesel is a Planet from a Roxey Mouldings kit, and finally the Austerity a fiddled with Hornby 'Harry'. The photo: Taken on a little canon G9 shooting RAW under the layout's built in flu-lighting, 7 exposures were stacked and processed with Helicon Focus to increase the depth of field to match what the eye sees. The only CGI is the faint puff of smoke from the engines - which I like so there! The backscene is nice and high so, no need to mess about there. Brewhouse Quay will be at Model Rail Live for its very first outing on 17 & 18 September 2011

Very nice work. The rust patches on the handrails are particularly good, how was it done?

I've knocked up a basic interior for the loco from odds and ends. I used some photos that I took of the cab of the Heritage Shunters Trust's 05 for reference. I'm not modelling a BR loco but I think that the basic cab layout was the same for industrial versions.It has been simplified, I feel that adding every detail would result in the control desk looking too cluttered. Most of the interior has been made from plasticard offcuts apart from the seats, which are plastic 'L' section suitably cut down and shaped sitting on pivot pins from an Airfix crane kit, and the brake standard which is 1mm brass tube, a handrail knob, a short length of brass rod and a scrap of plastic. The box which sits along the rear wall of the cab has two cushions on it, which are supposed to be different lengths. Here it is on the bench, the flat piece between the seats is a gearbox cover; And in the cab; I still need to add the various knobs and handles and gauges but that will be done after painting. The interior will be added after the loco is painted. Paul.

nevard_110817_BQ_IMG_0835_WEB, a photo by nevardmedia on Flickr. A spare hour yesterday afternoon produced this scratch-built art deco era electric street light based on ones seen in Weybridge Surrey. The underside of reflector on the real lamp would have a mosaic of mirror glass like on a glitter ball - obviously too small to model. Looking at old photographs in the Weybridge and Walton on Thames, area they appear all over the place in 1955 Francis Frith photographs, and I remember seeing the tungsten versions as modelled here within the last 10 years locally. Now they have modern SOX sodium units in place, but thankfully still have the swan neck and are painted mid-green. I'm guessing that before electric conversion (in the 1920/30's?) they could have been gas, and would have probably featured the familiar cross bar for the lighting up man to rest his ladder on. The problem now is that I want to make some more, a simple enough job, the base is carved plastic rod, the neck brass wire, the reflector aluminium from a beer can, and the bulb a little piece of clear styrene from the sprue of some window glazing.