AdeMoore

Hi Ian, No Tried that to be honest as they are painted with acrylic I’ve not tried anything other than water and a cotton bud. I suspect the dust has gone into the acrylic as I doubt it was bone dry when I did the ballast! Not thinking there was I. I guess I could try it though nothing to loose. It was a mix of fine woodland scenics and my own crushed lightweight building block. So I guess I’ll drop the real stuff in the mix next time. Always learning and learning by mistakes! Cheers.

Getting there on the tunnel mouth. Foam and Light filler used to shape it. Acrylic paint thrown on and a bit of basket liner and some commercial tufts added with Matt medium as the adhesive. Below the section I’m working on. Above a few straight cracks need more disguise! Should of ripped it all out when I decided to go higher rather than adding too. Below the ballast is troubling me I’ve gone level with the sleepers in a place or 5 and it looks wrong. So started diggin out the ballast. As those sleepers on the left below. Also the actual stone in the ballast has dusted the sleepers and will not come off. So I’m in for repainting all those too Little update coming together a bit now. Cheers for looking in and the likes. Have a healthy and prosperous 2024 all.

What Deano said x2

Great to see it in the flesh so to speak today Alex. Looks Bob on in person! Really enjoyed our chat and learning of the journey to get to layout 4 is it? I missed your early post about retirement in August and dusting off the East Anglian layouts so that was a point of interest we spoke about. Not sure my shots are worth putting here but I will anyway! Good to see you again since the last time I said it was there at Edington with Rob but thinking since it was actually SWAG on EWEs debut I think 2 years ago. Cheers Ade

Watching with interest. Geoff has brought together, two formidable modellers in Dan and Tom. The outcome will with no doubt be stunning.

Learning all the time! Thanks for insight above.

Ian I’m probably talking out of turn! and royally teaching many how to suck eggs! I know your well on with the buildings now, but the may be of use to others! But changing the perspective as in the above to square on I use Lunapic a great free photo manipulation website. e.g. Maybe of interest.

Ian thanks for taking what must of been a considerable time to reload the images, they are the currency’ of the forum. There are large number of topics now devoid of images since the crash. Such a shame. I did put off doing mine for a long time as I had duplicated my threads/topics over on WT. Couldn’t be bothered but I did eventually and mine took some while! So I can appreciate how long it took. I did it as @physicsman discussed doing so on his thread Gillhead. He’s disappeared off the web now shame another great topic. So thanks for taking the time to make your topic enjoyable and whole again. Page 19 now I believe. 9 more to go.

Great stuff Tony love the missing loco list. Been following this for a number of years your dedication is admirable to shrinking it to almost within shouting distance! Great when they land with you from your builders or your own fair hands.

Cheers Ian and welcome along! My half decent attempts are no comparison to your meticulous layout in the making! But anyway brilliant contribution to the thread thanks, much more greenery than I imagined, as this would only be what 1966 to 1979 13 years after steam. I guess being riverside it would be good growing conditions. Depends how much the railway owned and the PW gang tackled it in the steam days. Thanks very much.

Ian been slowly reading through your excellent topic. Now started page 15 so the above post marks the half way stage! Most enjoyable read, yout planning attention to detail is mighty fine. Onwards a few more pages before daylight on Christmas Day!

Excellent stuff, shame the Salisbury venue is not open to the public! Super modelling of a location close to my heart. Merry Christmas and a Healthy and Prosperous New Year.

Great work Pete, looking mighty fine that terrace. Remind me your chosen materials? Slaters plastikard or is it papers? Perhaps neither! Merry Christmas to you and Giles Thanks for a great thread Cheers Ade

I’ll look forward to seeing you and Bodmin moor then. Missed SWAG this year, gonna make sure I’m there in 24!

Amazing work George.

Been at it recently, new job in September has helped new levels of energy! Though didn’t expect to be taking that course at 59 years of age! Company being bought out led to that. So after trains ran where to start. I thought about raising the viaduct baseboard as the viaduct is too high! That will be done but not yet. Detailing the viaduct track bulks and viaduct itself, but not yet. Building the narrow gauge base along the back. No. Went with the embankment and tunnel and dew pond! Not sure dew ponds are a thing in Cornwall they are around here in Somerset! Sorry for the dark photos. Ballasted and foam painted ready for soil and static grass. Paint looked a bit dark! The grass base on the right went in favour of a more rock cutting look as per the photo on my backscene as inspiration. Which is Trelill tunnel the only tunnel on the NCR. Tunnel portal out the packet. Soil base paint altered wet still to more Cornwall. Rock form foam added ready to carve. Not so red without additional light. Sleepers still to be cleaned and ballast coloured as per Mike Buick‘s methods. First wash on the portal stonework. Hanging basket liner added on right as a base layer. Hanging basket liner as a static grass base. Not my idea but I saw the effect on Dan Everson’s layouts which always impresses so thought I’d give it a go. Cheers Until next time.

November 21st on WT version of this topic/thread! Forget which calls it what! So over on Jon,s thread All change! Traditional trainset. No.3 in the series. I kinda reignited some enthusiasm from Jon’s enthusiasm for his new project! so this evening up to the train room! And who ballasted a yard of track before he realised he hadn’t painted it! ah well did enjoy it hoovered it off and then set about painting it. Completed a yard and a half maybe. So then I can ballast it! Plenty to go but that is from the tunnel mouth to the under bridge. See if I can get a section into greenery would be ideal!

Realise there is no brake rigging and I ought to add it. Was a eBay win!

So dark nights are here sat in front the telly box keeping Mrs Ade company. Decided to weather my first ever loco! No little tank or 0-4-0 loco for me . Went straight in at the deep end. Work in progress but almost done. Starting with how Lynton started out and how she ended up definitely not just done a few turn look more end of steam short of cleaning and maintenance. Photo overload I couldn’t pick two! I thought would suffice! I primarily used @NHY 581 Robs method Post in thread 'The Sheep Chronicles. A Sheep dips his hooves in various bucolic backwaters.' The Sheep Chronicles. A Sheep dips his hooves in various bucolic backwaters. One of the Jedi masters of the art. I’ll never achieve that but it’s reasonable I’ll suggest! Comments and further advice appreciated.

Never have it too bright in my opinion at my age! on the curves funny enough 4th radius is generous on a lot of layouts mine included! But looks tight on your generous space! The flexy looks better and really I’d start the curve maybe 2 lengths of track before that with the space you have real nice gentle curve. No need to go straight bang up the middle of the board either as someone mentioned above. Not going parallel to the edges of the boards adds interest and looks better on the eye. Below looks a helpful aid no personal experience.

Hi APT, Nice space you have created there. With the insulation and windows a truly all year round space. I can’t comment on your chosen era or DCC I do neither! I’m presuming 4mm 00 gauge? But for me I’d buy some boxes of track and some joiners and have a play around with it. You’ve plenty of space to do the WCML justice. Some advice I read and followed was get some trains running first. I was going down the road of I’ll spilt the layout up into chunks and concentrate on bringing an area up to scenically done one area at a time. Good idea but you lose interest. As a lone modeller and not in a club or anything I use YouTube extensively. I can offer some inspiration for you there! Everad Junction https://youtube.com/@EverardJunction?si=3tUJ80H5Ogo6VHVk with Richard has a thread on here too. More your era. Dean Park https://youtube.com/@DeanPark?si=DfKYpqmt19PVrbMT you’ll have to scroll right back on the video tab to get some building content. Dave at McKinley for what’s ultimately achievable, and train automation though not autonomously https://youtube.com/@dattouk?si=sb8bLGTsBOFyu936https://youtube.com/@dattouk?si=sb8bLGTsBOFyu936 Richard at New Junction this garage version is not to far into the build so inspiration there. ECML though. https://youtube.com/@NewJunction?si=5AEyD2pcEYpnsOsA Finally the master in my opinion Canadian based and HO scale but amazing results that are transferrable to any scale Boomer! https://youtube.com/@boomerdioramas?si=X9TE298Cu84XkuLY . Those will keep you inspired. Best thing I can leave with is get your track sound deadening material right makes a huge difference to your enjoyment. I actually use 5mm foam board. I got trains running now I’m away! All the best with it I’ll be following along. Cheers

Excellent little review and virtual exhibition, thanks for sharing that Rob.

I can only echo the above sentiments. All the best George and have a speedy 100% recovery. Also the modelling skill on display here is stunning.

Pete that terrace and gardens are magnificent, not that the rest isn’t it just those gardens etc. grabbed my eye. looking forward to more and the delivery to Giles!

That looks Bob on Alex. Mighty fine.