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  1. It’s the first time I’ve seen this layout, simply stunning.
  2. Further progress in the goods shed yard over the last two nights with the installation of yard lights. Back on to the goods shed itself. There were issues with the gable ends; some of the longitudinal roof trusses didn’t sit right and I was far from happy with them (the Project Manager always knows when there is a problem with something - I avoid it like the plague). Alterations have been made and it now sits taped up and gluing. Gable end barge boards should hide any minor discrepancies. Doors, guttering and lighting still to fit.
  3. Philou, this is looking like a stunning concept and I’m watching it’s progress with interest, and envy. The 3D views look excellent. Regarding your module breaks; whilst mine is continuous baseboard there is a lift out section so I have a couple of baseboard breaks. Admittedly, it is only lifted as an absolute necessity. I first tried the brass screw method but found it fiddly and seemingly more trouble than it was worth. As recommended by several other modellers I used copper clad PCB, packed to the correct level with cork and glued and screwed. With the sleepers removed rails were soldered to the PCB and then the PCB split with a rotary tool to avoid shorts. Only cut your track across the joint when it’s all soldered in place. I have even used the method where the tracks are curved across the baseboard joint without issues. I’ve attached an image to help. The two short lengths of rail soldered in the middle are to maintain alignment as I have found during the year due to temperature changes wood moves. The PCB’s were later disguised as a foot crossing. Re rail joints on curved track, as previously suggested, pin the sleepers as close to the joint as possible and there shouldn’t be an issue. I hope this helps.
  4. I’ve not previously posted too much (no idea why) but I have to echo the comments of Coronach. It is just quite simply a stunning railway which well mimics the scenery of the WHL. A layout I look forward to seeing the new posts. Would I be right in saying that all your green banks/landscaping is done without static grass? I’ve had a look at the walk around on page 35, that really helps put into context where everything is. I really wish I’d seen this before I’d started mine, just to see what you can achieve on multi levels. I’d really love to start all over again!
  5. I know progress has been slow, but I’m shocked it’s been 7 months since my last post. Work has continued on the goods shed although there’s still a bit to do, gable end barge boards, end doors, guttering and internal lighting. I’m not sure if I’m leaving the roof sections open or glazing them. This week I managed to get the yard groundwork down which is nothing more than sieved BBQ charcoal ashes set with the usual PVA/water mix. A light wash of artists acrylics has been applied but I’m not sure it’s where I want to be with it yet. I’ve taken a step away just so I don’t overwork it. Although I never saw it in person, from the images of Maindee East layout, that is where I’m looking to get to. Yard lights will probably be next. (apologies, I’ve just noticed that the image looks a bit washed out on the rhs)
  6. Further progress with the goods yard with the start of the goods shed. The front will be open sided with a girder running the length supported on columns, as seen with some NER goods sheds (and no doubt other companies). The roof is going to be open trusses and some corrugated iron panels, but in a semi derelict condition, more so you can see inside. So now to truss construction, tedium I suspect.
  7. I echo the above comment, this is going to look stunning.
  8. Graham, thanks for the pointers for trees, I’ve been looking at yours and even if they are a pain they look the business. Again something to aspire too. Richard, the walls are Wills Corse stone sheets just painted with acrylics. The ‘seaweed’, brown is dried tea leaves and the green ‘live’ seaweed just scatter material. Wooden staithes are just balsa wood. I could now do with some car tyres hanging over the wall.
  9. Another awesome layout I’m playing backwards catch up, with until the images disappear. Stunning scenery. I simply love Westerns, takes me back to the summer of 76 on Reading station. I could never decide between them or the Deltics, being an East Coast man, for the number one spot. But in time I will be using rule 1 and a Western will appear in Hull!
  10. Night time on the docks.
  11. Richard, yes there is a dock, although it’s so small compared to docks it might be better to call it a wharf. The sheds is a first attempt at scratch building and represents the fish loading sheds at Neptune Street itself. The corrugated roof is made from squares cut from foil baking trays and formed on the ribbed section of a carpet runner. 92 on each shed! The ‘Dead Bod’ is my homage to all trawler men, the original was painted as a drunken prank on the side of a shed at Alexandra Dock, Hull and came to be a familiar sign for trawler men sailing to and from Hull. It is now preserved in a Hull museum. As I keep saying, ‘scenery’ is a a basic level, and further detailing is to be added. This area needs lots and lots of quayside clutter and junk.
  12. Too many tracks, in a width 30 inches along the sides, 11 on the left and 10 on the right. Although I spent eighteen months planning before I’d even laid a track I wish I’d done more research and visited more exhibitions. But I have to admit the likes of Gresley Beat, Hornsey Broadway and South Pelaw junction, all heavy on track, have inspired. This is looking back along the left hand side (goods yard side). My intention will be to further separate the two running lines on the right with further heavy vegetation, sort of hiding behind a screen of trees (silver birch?) and obviously along the length of the back seen - some considerable work to do here, and I’ve never made a tree! ‘Greenery’ is just flock and bush ‘stuff’. I don’t have a static grass applicator, other priorities lie ahead of that purchase.
  13. I’m just catching up with this (working backwards until the images disappear), stunning, a great standard to aspire to. It’ll no doubt be in a post that I haven’t seen, but what is your track? I like it (one of my regrets on Neptune Street is not using a more finescale product).
  14. Kind comment thank you. I sometimes think I’ve crammed too much in. I have an original scale drawing on graph paper, which was done to try and make sure gradients worked and points fitted in. As you would expect, the points didn’t fit where I originally wanted, so changes were made. I’ll try and sort something that is more accurate of what’s here.
  15. I can’t see the point in posting in a few years of ‘how it’s progressed over time’, building up the scenery etc, as my methods will have no doubt been much the same as most other modellers, so I’ll just focus on how things are at present. An ‘aerial’ view of the main lower level running lines and the upper level shed yard. Scenery is at what I would call a basic first stage with further detail to come. More work to be done on the back scene when I get round to it. A second image of the lower running lines, the goods loop is on the left. Lots of line side junk and clutter will be added at some stage, it’s supposed to represent a run down docks/good branch, not the ECML!
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