Fastdax Posted September 1, 2018 Author Share Posted September 1, 2018 (edited) Office Windows Yes, i think this will work: Needs a bucketload of grime, as the windows are feet away from goods sidings operated by a mix of steam and diesel. Edited December 21, 2023 by Fastdax Reinstating photos. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fastdax Posted September 7, 2018 Author Share Posted September 7, 2018 (edited) Lucam I finished plating the warehouse lucam with coffee-stirrer planks and clad the roof with the same LCut Creative tile strips that I used for the office building. Then the question was - how to top the roof off? I made up a decorative finial out of a whitemetal Midland signal item, joined to some square styrene rod and attempted ridge tiles out of folded cornflake packet with added strips for the joints. This approach was a bit of a disaster and went in the bin! So I designed and 3D printed a set of ridge tiles. From starting the design to having tiles ready to paint took only about 2 hours, most of which was printing time. Here are the printed tiles, some being primed: When painted terracotta (Railmatch Early Freight bauxite) and glued to the lucam ridge, they look a lot better than the cardboard Mk. I. Edited December 21, 2023 by Fastdax Reinstating photos. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fastdax Posted September 7, 2018 Author Share Posted September 7, 2018 (edited) Office Building This building is about complete. I added a lead roof, flashing, gutters and downpipes and some rusty and mouldy weathering. I took advantage of some rare sunshine today to get a few snaps outside. Things always look better in sunlight! Now I'll consider whether it needs an interior or any other touch-ups. Edited December 21, 2023 by Fastdax Reinstating photos. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fastdax Posted September 11, 2018 Author Share Posted September 11, 2018 (edited) Warehouse Roof A tedious job but someone's got to do it. The roof substrate is cornflake packet over foamboard. The strange angle of the rear of the roof is because the building is semi-low-relief and meets the backscene at a slight angle. Tile strips from LCut, sprayed with Halfords black and white primer rattle cans. The patch of missing tiles in the middle is for the lucam. I 3D-printed another few batches of ridge tiles, which are being primed. Edited December 21, 2023 by Fastdax Reinstating photos. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fastdax Posted September 19, 2018 Author Share Posted September 19, 2018 (edited) Buildings and Concrete The office building has gained a hatch onto the flat roof, after thinking how difficult it would be to get a ladder up there! The ridge tiles on the warehouse are complete. Apologies for the cramped picture. When I get the warehouse out from under the wall cupboards I will be able to take a better photo. Concreting of the hard-standing area by the buildings has started. Here's an overview of the run of buildings at the left end of the layout. And finally, here's the latest addition to Offerston Quay - an Ixion Fowler in plain green. It's on the rollers being run in, as it's only DC as yet. Edited December 21, 2023 by Fastdax Reinstating photos. 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aldgate Box Boy Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 Office Building This building is about complete. I added a lead roof, flashing, gutters and downpipes and some rusty and mouldy weathering. I took advantage of some rare sunshine today to get a few snaps outside. Things always look better in sunlight! 2018-09-07 001.JPG 2018-09-07 002.JPG 2018-09-07 003.JPG 2018-09-07 004.JPG Now I'll consider whether it needs an interior or any other touch-ups. Hi Duncan, great work. how did you do the lead work on the roof of your building - it looks superb Cheers Tim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fastdax Posted September 21, 2018 Author Share Posted September 21, 2018 (edited) On 21/09/2018 at 14:08, Aldgate Box Boy said: Hi Duncan, great work. how did you do the lead work on the roof of your building - it looks superb Cheers Tim Tinfoil, Simple as that, Tim. The flashing above and below the windows and round the base of the chimney is thick tinfoil from a tomato puree tube. The leaded roof is ordinary kitchen aluminium foil. I stuck it down with wet contact glue over cocktail sticks cut to make the ribs. I primed it light grey, then primed it dark grey, then dry-brushed it again with the light grey. Edited December 21, 2023 by Fastdax Reinstating photos. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aldgate Box Boy Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 Tinfoil, Simple as that, Tim. The flashing above and below the windows and round the base of the chimney is thick tinfoil from a tomato puree tube. The leaded roof is ordinary kitchen aluminium foil. I stuck it down with wet contact glue over cocktail sticks cut to make the ribs. I primed it light grey, then primed it dark grey, then dry-brushed it again with the light grey. 2018-09-03 001.JPG Thanks Duncan, that is amazing - and kind of obvious now you explain it. I'll definitely being drawing on this idea for some of my Green Leaf buildings. What are you plans for the Fowler? Cheers Tim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fastdax Posted September 21, 2018 Author Share Posted September 21, 2018 (edited) Well, DCC sound for sure. I've got one of Paul Chetter's excellent sound files on a Zimo MX645 decoder, plus a stay-alive and a choice of 2 speakers to try. The plan is to finish it as a tatty, second-hand, private-owner shunter that can make an appearance through the factory gates from time to time. When the track through the gates actually goes anywhere ... Edited December 21, 2023 by Fastdax Reinstating photos. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fastdax Posted October 6, 2018 Author Share Posted October 6, 2018 Low-Relief Wall Behind the office building was a flat slab of foamboard, standing in for a low-relief wall (the side of another building?). I added a couple of different heights and depths, to suggest a series of walls receding into the background. Some Slaters brick plasticard and dirty paint finish resulted in this: It just hooks over the plywood wall on the rear of the baseboard and forms part of the upper level "tunnel mouth" into which a train disappears off-scene to the left. The plywood wall to its right is now covered in printed, textured brick paper with foamboard cap stones. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fastdax Posted October 7, 2018 Author Share Posted October 7, 2018 Signals Finally, the signals have been painted! You can see the textured brick paper on the rear wall quite well here. It was bought through Ebay and came from a chap in Greece! Here's a quick video of the automated running on the unfinished high-level track. The Deeley Dock Tank arrives with a couple of brand new Dapol 16T minerals and a box van, then the Ixion Fowler departs under computer control: The Fowler arrives back in the station: The Fowler has had some weathering of its chassis started, plus the rods are now red. No couplings in place, so no wagons on the hook yet. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fastdax Posted October 8, 2018 Author Share Posted October 8, 2018 Greenery Offerston Quay has its first grass! I got a WWS Precision static grass machine and applied some "2mm Summer Grass", followed by a little "4mm Patchy Grass", using some Gaugemaster basing and layering glue that i already had. I'm surprised by how strongly the grass is glued down. i thought that one good gust of wind would uproot it and blow it away, but it's actually very hard to pull the grass out, even using tweezers. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb67 Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 (edited) Looks stunning Duncan, very precise, great stuff! Steve. Edited October 8, 2018 by sb67 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fastdax Posted October 8, 2018 Author Share Posted October 8, 2018 Looks stunning Duncan, very precise, great stuff! Steve. Thanks Steve. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fastdax Posted October 11, 2018 Author Share Posted October 11, 2018 Arches, Crossings and Concrete The left-most two arches just had empty foamboard boxes in, clad internally in Slaters brick plasticard. I gave them more plasticard floors - from stone slabs. The arch fronts had a bit of rusting applied to the RSJs that hold up the infill brick wall. There was a vehicle crossing over the goods yard entry line, but only the bits in front of and between the rails. I made a rear piece out of spare C&L plastic turnout timbers. It drops down to the level of the concrete apron in front of the arches, basically because I didn't want to build this area up to rail level. ... and weathered it to match. The concrete apron has been extended up to the archway mouths and the vehicle crossing. The Fowler potters across the high-level track over the arches. The left-hand end of the concrete is now divided into slabs with a bit of highlighting of the joints. A spare bit of RSJ, once painted warning yellow but now mostly rust, protects the corner of the office building from marauding vehicles. Clearly, someone has clipped it and knocked it out of vertical at some point! 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold MarshLane Posted October 11, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 11, 2018 Absolutely superb Duncan, Full of admiration! Whats your plan for underneath the two arches you've created? Looks really good to me. Rich Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fastdax Posted October 11, 2018 Author Share Posted October 11, 2018 Absolutely superb Duncan, Full of admiration! Whats your plan for underneath the two arches you've created? Looks really good to me. Rich Many thanks Rich! I had planned to make the arches into durable-goods stores for the goods yard, with chain-link fence across the arch fronts. Though, I don't know why BR would want a separate goods lock-up as well as the main warehouse. Maybe it's private-owner? Other ideas gratefully received! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fastdax Posted October 12, 2018 Author Share Posted October 12, 2018 (edited) Dapol-Only Train I saw that my local model railway emporium, Rails Of Sheffield, at last had the Dapol BR brake vans in stock, so I nipped out and got one. I also gave in and bought a Dapol white insulated van. Together with the two 16T mineral wagons I got from Rails a few months ago, plus my 08 shunter, I could make up a very clean and unweathered Dapol-only train! Apologies for the dodgy camera-work. The guard is a ModelU scan of my brother, Jim! The insul van and the brake van are great models, both with compensation beams and instanter couplings. The interior of the brake van is bare, so would need a bit of set-dressing if I ever put a light in there. All of these vehicles now need Dingham couplings and some weathering. Edited October 24, 2018 by Fastdax 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold MarshLane Posted October 12, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 12, 2018 Dapol-Only Train I saw that my local model railway emporium, Rails Of Sheffield, at last had the Dapol BR brake vans in stock, so I nipped out and got one. I also gave in and bought a Dapol white insulated van. Together with the two 16T mineral wagons I got from Rails a few months ago, plus my 08 shunter, I could make up a very clean and unweathered Dapol-only train! http://youtu.be/3Rq2fZj7uWw Apologies for the dodgy camera-work. The guard is a ModelU scan of my brother, Jim! The insul van and the brake van are great models, both with compensation beams and instanter couplings. The interior of the brake van is bare, so would need a bit of set-dressing if I ever put a light in there. All of these vehicles now need Dingham couplings and some weathering. Duncan, all look good! Shall be interested to see what you make of the minerals and brake van in the coupling conversion. I was all but sold on Dingham's until I took a serious look at backdating things to the 1950s/1960s and with turning steam locomotives (for me) I don't thing the Dingham's are a proposition, so am looking more down Kadee's at the moment. Had a thought about your arches, could they be a private owner coal merchant, or alternatively if there were a couple of horse-drawn drays/motorised delivery vehicles, could they be used as a garage for those to keep them out of the way of road traffic in the yard? Rich 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fastdax Posted October 14, 2018 Author Share Posted October 14, 2018 Duncan, all look good! Shall be interested to see what you make of the minerals and brake van in the coupling conversion. I was all but sold on Dingham's until I took a serious look at backdating things to the 1950s/1960s and with turning steam locomotives (for me) I don't thing the Dingham's are a proposition, so am looking more down Kadee's at the moment. Had a thought about your arches, could they be a private owner coal merchant, or alternatively if there were a couple of horse-drawn drays/motorised delivery vehicles, could they be used as a garage for those to keep them out of the way of road traffic in the yard? Rich I have already converted the 08 (details here on my workbench thread). I don't expect the other wagons to be much different to the 08. Good ideas about the arches! there's a scale 12' deep and 24' wide area to play with for each under-arch space, so something like this should fit in. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fastdax Posted October 14, 2018 Author Share Posted October 14, 2018 I have already converted the 08 (details here on my workbench thread). I don't expect the other wagons to be much different to the 08. Good ideas about the arches! there's a scale 12' deep and 24' wide area to play with for each under-arch space, so something like this should fit in. Topically, the Beeb has an article today on businesses under railway arches :-) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/life_under_the_arches Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fastdax Posted October 24, 2018 Author Share Posted October 24, 2018 (edited) New loco for Offerston Quay: Actually, no it's not :-) I'm selling off my old EM Gauge stock and this unfinished project is going on ebay soon. It's complete apart from paint and transfers. Luckily I have still got a length of EM track and a rolling road. A couple of jumper wires from the nearest OQ track powers the EM loco. Edited October 24, 2018 by Fastdax Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 New loco for Offerston Quay: Actually, no it's not :-) I'm selling off my old EM Gauge stock and this unfinished project is going on ebay soon. It's complete apart from paint and transfers. Luckily I have still got a length of EM track and a rolling road. A couple of jumper wires from the nearest OQ track powers the EM loco. I Duncan, Great to meet up today at the Hazel Grove Show, keep up the good work on this project. All the best. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fastdax Posted November 5, 2018 Author Share Posted November 5, 2018 Station Area - Signal Box Another productive weekend with Jim and we turned our attention to the station area at the right-hand end of the layout. We started a laser-cut MDF signal box kit. The kit is "MR Holloway Signal Box Kit" from Rail Model, which is pretty well a doppelganger for the Butterley GF (ex Ais Gill) type 2A box, of which there are many pictures available. The fit of the main wall parts was very good. We assembled enough of the box to get a good idea of its footprint, which would set its position on the platform. The fit of the roof parts was not good, but I hope that cladding with tile strips and flashing with thin foil will hide the uneven joints. The finials supplied are flat 2D laser cuttings, so I intend to 3D-print some replacements. It will sit at the back of the rear platform, leaving the necessary 6 foot in front. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffayolle Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 Hi, Nice signal box Do you add a part of station building too? Fabrice 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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