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Glad to see the layout is still developing. The original articles are in my favourite layouts file.
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How realistic are your models? Photo challenge.
westerner replied to Pugsley's topic in Modelling musings & miscellany
Id like to add acouple
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It seems an age since I posted anything. In fact haven't done much. However I have got round to weathering my D6xx and western.
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I've thought of that all I need to know is the sizes of boxes etc and where the exhaust pipes go from the engine.
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Thanks for that, Harold. A little more progress on the 120. Underframe done thanks to my mate Dave.He used his Hold & Fold machine.
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Class 120 now with lining etc. It's slowly getting there!!!!
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Good to see this one moving forward. By the way what is the turquoise material you have laid your track on? and thanks for the comments about Wencombe.
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Thanks for the comments John. A new loco has pulled into Wencombe. An early NBL Warship D602 Bulldog. A Silver Fox kit just purchased thru' an advert in RM. Runs well but just needs weathering and buffer beam details.
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I have now painted the roofs with Humbrol Acrylic rail colours 412 (coach roof grey and 414 a dark version mixed at about 5-1 in favour of coach roof grey. Just the windows, transfers interior and underframe to do
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A little more progress on the 120 As you see it is now green. Next Job the roof. Can anybody recommend a colour. On my 117 I used Precision Roof Dirt which matched to photo I was working to but I feel that is a bit too dark for the 120. Any help gratefully accepted.
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It seems as if i've done it (upload pix). Personally I don't think it's quite as effective as the coal wagons, perhaps because of the thinness of the sponge and the shape of the hopper on the Dogfish.
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I have taken advantage of Offline time and built the loads for the ballast wagons. I used the same method as for the coal wagons, ie pan scourers. The scourer was cut to shape and then sprayed brown. When dry it was covered with PVA and then the ballast was sprinkled on. When that was dry the ballast was sprayed a light brown. At the moment I can't upload pixs but will do when possible.
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Thanks Steve. The whole idea was to give it a an air of spaciousness by not cramming in too much track. The station board is 2ft 9 ins wide actually wider than CJF's original plan. I think the other thing that makes it work like that is not having the station on a straight with sharp curves at each end, but rather making the whole thing more of an ellipse by using transition curves, I feel this helps with spacious look. As you say the off railway bits do make it look a little more complex than it actually is.
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Many Thanks rovex, I fear it tends to look better in the pix, and thereis still much detailing to do. And come to think of itPoint operation, at the moment it is 'digital' ie my finger.
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Work has also progressed on the classs120. Last night the bodywork got its first all over coat of primer. Discovered there is still a bit of filling to do on the cab - roof join where I was not too clever in cutting the roof (too short) Tonight I have got round to paintiting the bogies (no pix as yet and also doing the roof filling. Hopefully tomorrow will rub down for the last time
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Very little more has been done apart from adding lamp posts and totems courtesy of Station Signs whose service I can only thoroughly recommend. As you may notice they need a slight bit of straightening out.
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I can't agree more with Karhedron, about the planned layout but also DO take a look at Iain Rice's book. I only wish that my space had been 4ft bigger all round and I might have had a go at it, rather than the single track mini version that is Wencombe. I shall be following with great interest.
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How realistic are your models? Photo challenge.
westerner replied to Pugsley's topic in Modelling musings & miscellany
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A couple of items I'd nearly forgotten about since packing up the old layout a 22xx (needs weathering) and a Mink G the first wagon Kit I ever built.
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Now I've finished with the Chivers and Parkside kits I decided I'd better get on with the 120. I added the centre light which isn't on the cab moulding and put the handrails on.
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I've finally finished my Chivers and Parkside kits, the Pigeon van, 6 wheeled fish van and Fruit D. here are some pix
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Just a couple more shots that may or not been on the old RMweb The pix 1 and 3 are on the left hand side of the track plan (where the road from the Goods Yard meets the main road?!? and pic 2 is on the right hand side of the trackplan at the crossroads next to the pub and the station approach. The actual road signs are Hornby Scaledale.
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Preservation Modeller thank you for your kind comments, but I think the stock you are refering to is not scratchbuilt( far beyond my capabilities) but kit built, from Parkside Dundas and Chivers finelines and some (I don't think there are pix on this site) of Kirk kits and also the Dc kits DMU. As I have said before they are fairly easy to build I would imagine anybody on RMweb could build them, and it is far more satisfying than waiting for a RTR version to be done by Horn/mann/helpal.
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Thanks for that. The other wagons, vans actually I suppose, the Fruit D, 6 wheeled fish Van and Pigeon Van have all been painted and weathered are just waiting their final coat of satin varnish ( when I buy some). [admin edit]
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Just thought I'd post a pic of the yard crane I built from a Mikes Model kit I'd had for some years and thought it was time I actually built it. I've modelled it in a semi-derelict state.
