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  1. 9 hours ago, grahame said:

    visiting my local, the Pluff, for a few afternoon birthday sherbets. Then on the way home ordered a curry from the Runa and popped in to the Blue for another pint while it was cooked. Consequently no modelling done.

    If I may, just how do you think it would have gone if you had attempted some modelling after that? A shortage of plasters for fingers perhaps :-) Happy Birthday.

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  2. So the last dfew weeks have seen good progress and the main set of houses climbing up are now in the process of getting their roof slates added. Really happy with how this is coming together so far.

     

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    As well as railways the workspace in the shed has a few new kits in the coming months. As you can see the Zero is started and doing this is making me look to the future and how could I lay the shed out to have a proper work bench. I do have some ideas but nothing that is going to make me rip everything out just yet.

     

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  3. 4 hours ago, kirtleypete said:

    Steve, the window sills are simply pieces of square section Plastruct glued in place. Nothing highly technical!  

    Thanks. Turns out if I had turned round to the other side of my layout and looked at the station building I did last year I had come up with something similar. :-)

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  4. So every house is covered with brick paper, has lintels and window sills in place now, though going all those small pieces and cutting out the window templates definitly had me thinking about getting a cutting machine.

     

     

    The first set of windows and doors in place and so far so good. Probably take a good week to get the whole row sorted as I am taking it slow so glue can set and I don't knock anything out of place. Good thing I have a large data allowance so I can watch stuff on the tablet whilst I do this. 

     

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  5. I had the day off and was supposed to be playing golf but I have a sore knee and had walked off after 4 holes on Saturday. Didn't stop me driving to and wandering round Warley though which might not have been the brightest idea. 

     

    I could have worked but decided to keep the day off so post 2 of the day shows the progress. At the moment everything is pushed back to hold the house fronts up, but the building will be about 1.8 cm deep. I've pulled the terraced house front from a scalescenes kit as the template. This was printed on to thing card rather than paper before then being glued to mount board. 

     

    Instead of each house front then having to be aligned I've then simply worked my way down the slope ensuring that the doors are the same height above the road and left the card below the road surface to support it rather than having to cut pieces of card to get the height of each house as I previously had to.

     

    Once I have made it to the bottom of the slope, i'll start on windows and doors. Again, rather than print to paper I will print to the thin card which makes it easier to cut and handle.

     

    I reckon it will take me to the end of the year to get all the house fronts done and then I can worry about adding the supports than will make it all stand up.

     

    The good news from my point of view is I still thing the bridge, road down and housing is the right look.

     

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  6. I know i'm supposed to be adding things to a list assuming I have been reasonably good this year but I couldn't help getting this 2nd hand from DCC Supplies.

     

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    How ever over at Dinfield that row of houses has gone in recycling and starting again for 3 reasons

    - I think the houses are to wide

    - Rather than making individual houses I am going to cut groups of 4/5 houses from a piece of A4 card and work on them in groups. That way I can add the slope line to the card to get just the right height.

    - I wasn't happy with the window sills and spent most of Warley looking at houses, plus have emailed KirtleyPete as to how he does window sills for York.

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  7. Hi Pete, a question if I may. How do you do the window sills? I am making a row of terraced houses but I am going back to the start to fix an error and I think this is something I can improve on. My guess is its a thin piece of card inserted in to the base of the window opening so an allowance is made for this but cut to a depth that still allows the window to be fixed in place.

     

     

    On 17/11/2023 at 15:14, kirtleypete said:

    I realised I'd made a pigs ear of the back of the pub so I've altered it and incorporated the path.  The door to the cellar is a bit low but it will hardly be seen.

     

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  8. Good lord after a month I have found I am actually following the process I wrote in the previous post. Slowly trudging through this and adding the windows lintels and sills has taken a while. Only issue is as I finished them off today I think I made a mistake. I had been gluing in to the window and then folding down once the glue had dried. Problem is that has given a slight inconsistency so maybe I should have glued to the wall and then folded in to the window.

     

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    That led me to having a little play with this idea. Its a lot easier to cut straight in the styrene brickwork because of the pattern. So I sit here now debating whether to mock a complete building up. With that in mind I do have a question about windows - Do people cut the window openings in the supporting card structure to the same size as the styrene sheet? Asking because from a detail perspective the brick coarse will then be in the card. 

     

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  9. On 26/09/2023 at 18:24, glasmonkey said:

    a small slice

    Hi. The 3rd picture in your post of the 26th gives a good view of the layout but when you say slice, how large an area are we talking about?  I think I am over estimating if I said 12 ft by 2ft?

     

    I ask as this is one of those layouts giving ideas for the future and bad ideas for making me think could I start now.

  10. So over the last couple of weeks I have been working on the road down to the station and taking a slightly different approach to my normal building. As you can see at the top are 2 buildings with brick and normally I would have done the windows, doors, roof, before moving on but I though may be take a more strictured approach so have built all the carcusses for now. I'll then do the same job on each in turn so something along the lines of - Brickwork, window sills, dors, upper floors, curtains, brace for roof, tiling, etc

     

    Hopefully a slightly better approach but we shall see.

     

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    Nothing happening over the other side but I just thought I would take some shots. the one below makes me realise if I am going to use spare peco sleepers, I need to lay them out so the bottom cannot be seen. Might actually be best to get some scale model scenary sleepes though.

     

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    And this, well I just like the picture.

     

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  11. Nearly 6 months since I last logged in but that doesn't mean I haven't been doing any work on the layout. In fact Dinfield has been ripped up yet again and is now in its 5th incarnation. The problem with the previous version is it did not work operationally for passenger trains due to the way the storage sidings were laid out. I'm not trying to be a serial layout builder here and think its more about planning.

     

    So after a lot of browsing I saw the P4 Pwllheli layout and it just seems to tick the boxes. With the access to the station coming from the door end of the shed it means any passenger stock runs straight back to the storage sidings, plus having 2 sidings means freight stock can be held and then reversed.

     

    What the layout will not be is a replica of Pwllheli as I see the layout as with a Devon feel but I could work out a way to have plan for Barnstaple. 

     

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    Over at Norton Rd we have station signs now, some lights on the platform (non working) and junk by the sidings.

     

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    What this also means is a lot of tidying up in the shed to store old buildings. I do wonder how much I have spent on card and glue over the last 3 1/2 years given Dinfield is on its 5th idea

     

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  12. On 05/04/2023 at 05:05, Darius43 said:

    are we happier today with these high tech super detailed models that seemingly, despite their high fidelity, never meet our expectations or were we happier as modellers 30 to 40 years ago?

     I don't anyone has ever been happier than Geoff Mason who in Feb 72's modeller wrote - As I did not seem to have sufficent time for the railway I gave up my job with an insurance company and joing the local GPO enabling me to spend more time on teh railway as I finish work at 12:30 each day and this gives me every afternoon and evening free.

     

    Not sure I am quite at the point I can ditch what I do to try that sort of life just yet.

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  13. Still working on the road area and basic paint layer down. I will dry brush this to add some darker marks and will have a go at fitting a drain. I've also scored the paving slabs in to the pavement and thinking about next steps and whether that goes right up to the house.

     

    However in doing this I do need to cut off the chimneys for the houses on the left. As its only the 1st 6ft of the house that is modelled, the chimney stacks shouldn't be there as can be seen by the house on the right which is a full building.

     

    My other challenge is trying to find the right type of street lights for this. Been looking around all the suppliers but not 100% sure I can find one that isn't a slight comprimise. Back to googling 70s UK streets for now.

     

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  14. Been playing with card and thinking about the surfaces that need to be created. It was inspired by watching an Everard Junction video where Richard had been laying paving slabs for the shop area under the arches. In that he had used a Cricut machine to make the pavement slabs, but that got me wondering about scoring the card. Need to make the paint go in to the cracks better but think it might be OK

     

    Next piece is thinking about cobblestones. This is just a pen creating the pattern but it took longer to do that small piece that the paving stones, so I think this is a non starter

     

    That led to the idea of the station yard area having concrete slabs. Again, simply scored in to the card and concrete paint with a grey coat brushed on thinly but think this is to dark. I need to find some reference pictures for this and have another go but I think it will work.

     

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  15. 3 years and i haven't ripped it all up yet. Ok the Dinfield side is on its 4th design but its all part of the same evolution. 😄

     

    The entry to the layout continues to evolve. For now I am focusing on this area rather than jumping all over the layout and who knows, that may just be the way this side evolves properly. Not sure how long i have been doing my own buildings but it only recently occurred to me to use powerpoint to create a window sill template that means I have consistent width and height. Slowly working through adding these at the moment and you can also see the building in the corner has windows.

     

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    As well as that another side project has been a Hurricane kit picked up cheap a while back. The moulds leave a bit to be desired compared to the couple of Airfix kits I have made but a bit of gentle rubbing down got rid of all the extra flashing. Now for the fun of painting. I say fund as the Hawk and Spitfire both used Tamyia acrylics but there were a few issues. 1st job though will be to prime it. Hmm, thinking I need a bigger workshop these days.

     

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  16. Did somebody say brick paper? I think this was about 3 more episodes of Burn Notice and the pathway in front of the houses is now attached to the piece with the house on the street.

     

    Been spending quite some time looking at pictures of terraced houses as one of the things I have never quite got right is doorsteps, window sills and lintels. Still got a few other buildings that need wrapping though first.

     

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  17. Been a little while since I last did anything as I ran out of card. I got the order pretty soon after the last post but just not had much interest in doing anything till yesterday but a few hours in the shed (plus a few episodes of Burn Notice) have out paid to that.

     

    The shells of the houses as they step down the hill are put together and have cut out the frame pieces of the card on which the pathway will sit. There will be a 2mm card top on that which brings it up to the doorsteps.

     

    At the end of the row my current thinking is a grassy slope with a couple of big trees.

     

    This all comes apart at the moment which is good as the next job will be to put the brick paper on.

     

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  18. Good thing I made an error in a card order in Amazon a while back. I think this build will get through a fair bit.

     

    Another shell knocked up. I love rocket glue and why had I not tried it before. The land for this house is at the same level as the road but the tail that can be seen in the bottom right will slope down to the next building which will be set about 1.2cm lower, and by the time the path passes both houses it will drop between 2 & 2.4 cm. 

     

    For the 1st time this means creating buildings with sub-bases and a framework below ground level.

     

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    And this is the street view over the bridge. One thing I have notice is the low relief kits are really shallow so I think they will be redone with a depth of about 4cm, which brings the front of the houses nearly in line with the bridge. I was going to have small walled area's in front of the houses but happy to lose that to get the perspective right.

     

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  19. Progress with the houses. These are Scalescenes T008a low relief houses but I have reduced them in size by around 8%. Having lived in terraced houses in the past these are still coming out at 13ft wide each whereas the 1st terraced I lived in was around 12ft across the front. Doing that also meant I only trimmed a few mm off the left hand house as it hits the edge of the scene.

     

    To help mock up how the housing will the run down the main back scene I have cut up a cereal packet. The house on the street will be around 15cm including the yard, so once that is ready I will start trimming the cereal packet further to represent the slope. Not sure whether I will have low relief fronts accessed by a path or will it be a pair terraced houses side on representing another road. probably a while before I get to working that out.

     

    The other question though is does that brick retaining wall to the left of the bridge need supporting pillars as most retaining wall images I have seen do have a slope or extra support in the brick structure. The only place I can think of with vertical walls is on the approaches to Birmingham New Street.

     

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