Leith Centrl

This month my focus modelling wise has been on the ground work completion at the bulk terminal end of the layout. Jobs Completed This Month. 1, Fencing round the headshunt This is a wills product and really simple and effective. Small holes were drilled in the cork to take the posts and the sections of fence are then glued to each other and into the holes using PVA or equivalent. 2, All hard standing painted and put down My approach to hard standing remains as in previous videos. 3mm corrugated card base with a 1mm painted plastic card top. The area between the sidings was completely filled with a crossing point at either end of the sidings for access around the loader 3, Ballasted the bulk sidings For this Ballasting I used a mix of grades and colours to give a more weathered look. This mix is explained in the video. I followed my usual ballast, soap water, 50/50 glue, watered down paint approach to ballasting but the added a fine scattering of dark earth and coal dust over the top to represent overspill from loading and aid with weathering. 4, Earth areas started The small areas between the sidings and at the buffers were painted brown and then coated with dark earth and small amounts of other scatters as a base. Grass and other details will be added as part of the future weathering process of the area. 5, Back wall primed Not much to explain about spraying a piece of wood grey 6, Buffer stops painted and fitted to sidings 1-3 1 is an off the shelf Accurascale product the other 2 are Peco kits built up and painted yellow with some of the primer allowed to show through to give a weathered look. New Arrivals, New to Leith Central since the last update have been the great little Hattons Andrew Barcley in NCB Black and some Accurascale TOPs numbered HUO hoppers.

Been a while since I have done one of these but the new layout is coming along nicely now as I hope you have been following in the videos in the Leith Central Thread of the Forum. The change in layout has been spurred by the arrival in April of a new small passenger at Leith Central but the layout will still be updated as and when time allows, The latest update looks at the start of the scenic work but I won't bore you with another how to pour scatter onto a baseboard. Instead id like to talk this time about the service I got from olivias trains in providing me with 08720 in Provincial livery. I first enquired about this around a year ago and they slowly work through doing a prototype seeing if the livery could be applied and just before christmas i finalised the number sizes for the loco and took delivery just after christmas. The fit and finish is up to factory standards and the attention to detail and correspondence to get it exactly how i wanted it was really good. I really recommend their repainting service. Take a look at the results in the video. Hopefully ill find time for a bigger blog soon.

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Morning everyone. Looking for some TOPs data panels and numbering/lettering for 00 to do some MEO and ODA wagons ive got on my work bench. Finding plenty for MCOs and earlier but not TOPs panels. Last time i did some i got a sheet of letters and numbers of the right size and so blank square wagon data panels to make them up but can't remember who it was who did them Looking for Waterslide transfers in 1.76/00 Also the small RFD logos as fitted to VEA/ODAs and the like are on my shopping list if someone could nudge me towards who supplys them. Been a minute since i needed to order wagon transfers and not got the knowledge of who does what that i used to Thanks in advance Tom

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