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Hi Shaun , thanks for finding the link it will be useful. All the best Adrian.

Hi Shaun, good to see a craftsman at work and to provide us all with a clear explanation of how it should be done thanks. All the best Adrian.

A few pictures taken at Bridgnorth the other day. A Multiplex Cinema Refurbished mounting steps Some really nice building mounted direction signs All the best Adrian.

Many thanks for the pleasure that you have given us all by sharing yours and your parents archive of photos. All the best Adrian.

All the best Adrian.

Hi Chris, this is what happens if you don't read the instructions properly. All the best Adrian.

Well that's a very strange bit of spacing on that sign. All The Best Adrian.

Hi, thanks for posting, great set of pics and a useful and interesting reference. All the best Adrian.

Hi Tim, this link might be of interest to your followers as it shows some of the changes that have happened over the years . All the best Adrian. https://www.kentrail.org.uk/sevenoaks_tubs_hill_1975.htm

Lovely modelling and very well observed, I can remember it from the fifties and sixties and my has it changed. All the best Adrian.

This will soon be a distant memory, a nice bit of glass gilding facia. Street view 2011. Taken today on my phone May 23rd 2023 Open to the skies.

Hi Grahame, will it be a N gauge size shed covered in plastikard, or a full size timber one. Take it easy and plenty of rest breaks. All the best Adrian.

The platform at Weald was made from a old wardrobe door which had a mahogany varnished surface, this needed changing into something that looked more platform like. Old tarmac for the platform surface with repair joins etc was my choice, and as I had some pieces of 240 grit wet and dry these have been used for the surface. Joining them together I have torn them so that the edge is ragged and thinner, this means that it is not raised from the next piece and the join is more like a repair to the tarmac. After the pieces had been glued down and left to dry I knocked the surface back by going over it all with a block of wood, this has the effect of dulling the surface of the wet and dry, some brown pastel chalk has been used in places to add a bit of colour. I think that the pictures show the sequence I have used but if not just ask. All the best Adrian. God Save The King.

Now that's a fine bit of poets day roof slating, he started off nice and level, but I bet he didn't realise the roof was that far out of true till he got to the ridge. Now we have all got a good excuse for wonky roofs on our models. all the best Adrian.

Weald junction in the county of Kent.

Hi Fishplate, sorry I don't have a trackplan but I will try to draw one up in the next week. Next on the list are a pub, cattle dock, barn, very low relief shed/barn, station building and the list goes on 🙂. All the best Adrian.

Spring is sprung, the grass is riz. I wonder where the birdies is.

Weald .

Weald, passing the Oast House.

Hi Kevin, what a lovely piece of modelling and detailing that has produced a really authentic looking model, the last two pictures really capture the feel of bygone times. All the best Adrian.

Hi Ian, thank you for putting the link up to the pub site, it is a great resource and one that I have spent many a happy hour revisiting pubs that I remember, it also gives a lot of background detail as well on the history of each one. All the best Adrian.

Hop Pickers Wanted, but not until September, when the hops will be ready for picking. think the next building might be the pub as I owe the farmer a few pints for giving me the land to build the Oast House. Some pictures of the finished Oast House. All the best Adrian.

Hi Shaun, you have been busy, a great job on the paintwork looks jut right, will you be taking the Easter Sunday service if its finished in time and the roofs on. All the best Adrian.

Hi Jason, some great images, and good bits of detail to refer to. All the best Adrian.

What are those houses with the white pointy things on the roof, a question asked by countless adults and children as they travel through the Kent country side, well they are Cowls used for venting the hot air from the kilns used to dry the hops. I have posted a link to a company that I have no connection with whatsoever, but their site is very informative with some good illustrations and photos of the construction of oast cowl construction. https://dudeandarnette.co.uk/what-is-an-oast-cowl/ Construction of the cowls is from thin card, when I first looked at the construction of these, nothing was what it seemed, they are indeed conical, but the angle of the cone is not quite the same as the roof that they sit on, the cowl only cover about two thirds of the top of the kiln. the internet provided a program for inputting the height the base and the top dimensions of a cone it also allowed me to divide it into segments which would replicate the slats. Before I printed the image off I layed a 5% layer of black over the design to knock the starkness of the white back. About a third of the slats have been cut off, a slight angle had to be cut on each side of the base from the centre point of the cowl to give the required slope of the cowl. the card was rolled gently around a biro pen that had a taper on the barrel to give me the shape. this was then glued to the former to produce the distinctive cowl shape. Some strips of plasticard were cut for the directional finger and some card caps for the top. And here they are. All the best Adrian.