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July 26, 2023

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

July 25, 2023

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.

July 17, 2023

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.

July 15, 2023

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

July 12, 2023

All the best Adrian.

July 6, 2023

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

June 26, 2023

Well that's a very strange bit of spacing on that sign.

All The Best Adrian.

June 22, 2023

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

June 21, 2023

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

June 20, 2023

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

May 23, 2023

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.

May 11, 2023

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.

May 5, 2023

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.

May 3, 2023

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.

May 3, 2023

Weald junction in the county of Kent.

April 22, 2023

11 hours ago, Fishplate said:

Lovely pictures Adrian. I particularly like the 3rd and 6th ones.

I can't remember your track plan to place that scene relative to Westerham and Brasted. Do you have one you could share ?

What are you planning next ?

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.

April 20, 2023

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

April 18, 2023

Weald .

April 14, 2023

Weald, passing the Oast House.

April 12, 2023

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.

April 6, 2023

13 hours ago, Oldddudders said:

http://www.dover-kent.com/2014-project/Peacock-Iden-Green.html

Our local until we moved to France - taking the landlady and her hubby with us!

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.

April 5, 2023

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.

April 4, 2023

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.

April 1, 2023

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

March 30, 2023

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.