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The stone building has been clad and primed, the branch track has been ballasted and the road had its first treatment of paint.
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How realistic are your models? Photo challenge.
westerner replied to Pugsley's topic in Modelling musings & miscellany
I think I recognise that building, is it the flour mill. If it is ikit bashed for the Dairy on Wencombe many moons ago. -
The middle section lifts out when I'm playing trains.
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Some progress on the fiddleyard. Grass now stuck down , but plenty more work to do, ballasting, fences and a bridge to build as well as finishing off the two buildings and painting the platelayers hut.
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First lot of fencing done. The jig you see in the photo above is for 13 posts. The lines you see are where the wires go. at the end of the jig there is a notch where the wires are. Your chosen material is notched at one end and run to the other end and notched. When all the wires are in place the posts are threaded anderneath the wires and fixed with a spot of superglue here each wire crosses the post. unfortunately no photos of that process but a not very good one of the first fence in place.
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Ah Soudley. Posts for the lineside fencing cut and painted And part of the jig on which they will be strung
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Thanks Julian. An evocative shot, and it is sort of what I'm after.
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A bit more one, nothing has been stuck down, still playing with ideas, eg the open fields on the backscen my be given an other wash of green to slightly adrken it. The sides offf the sector plate have been cut down but not comletely removed, and a private road put in. But as I said it could change.
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backscene painted I'll looka at it again tomorrow layed some hanging basket liner to see how it might all work. I think when it's all done it'll be OK
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Sky now painted in my normal way some light blue patches painted and then the whole marerial sprayed with a combination of grey and white acrylic primer until I was happy. next job paint in the distant landscape.
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Surely that first one (Italian inside Caprotti)should be in the ugly locomotive thread.
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A lovely phot o.
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I was feeling pretty good when I had erected the end board --------------------------------until I realised that two of the spacers that need to be below baseboard height were sitting proud, thus stopping the sector plate from swinging. the very reason they were put in was to allow the sector plate to swing. I think I have worked out a way of solving the problem without having to to take the whole thing down. I'll report if I was successful tomorrow.
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Work progresses on the backboards for the backscene. The back panel in place. Note the spacers to allow sector plate to swing and a small amount of 3D scenery. Started on the end board sapacers being glued onto panel.
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Thank you very much to all those who enjoyed the article in the 0 Gauge Gazette. Taking a leaf out of our good shepard Rob's book, I spent the morning clearing and tiding The Room. I discovered I had enough material left from the original backscene that i have decided to go the whole hog and make the fiddleyard a sort of diorama. Luckily on taking some of the not needed stuff into the garage I had enough hardboard from the initial backcene that i could do something similar for the fiddleyard, and also enough bits of ply to construct the sub- bases for the removable scenery. Some photos Fiddleyard as is with sub-bases And I couln't resist
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Thank you Paul.
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How realistic are your models? Photo challenge.
westerner replied to Pugsley's topic in Modelling musings & miscellany
A newly discovered Frank Drake photo. 3775 leaving Blackney with loaded coal wagons bound for Bullo and then beyond. -
As Graig has said an article has been published in the 0 gauge Gazette in the form of a 1960s photo album ie all the photos in B&W with long (hopefully ) informative captions. I am pleased with the result.
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Been playing around with giving the fiddleyard a backscene for some more photo ops as well shots from the main layout through the tarmway bridge of arriving or departing trains. Cropped and under the tramway.
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