sir douglas Posted July 21, 2018 Author Share Posted July 21, 2018 (edited) the house has been glazed and the chimney pots painted and mortared in with milliput. brass wire hooks will support the gutter, which 2 have been made and fitted. The gutters themselves are made from styrene tube cut in half, clipped to a brass angle to give a straight edge to cut against The water tower has been given a coat of matt black to go over the repairs and additions The final position of the house has been decided on being with the end in line with the barrow crossing, and the fence/wall line has been marked with cardboard being laid inbetween tat and the ballast Edited December 23, 2018 by sir douglas 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted July 27, 2018 Author Share Posted July 27, 2018 (edited) with all the hooks eventually bent up, both gutters were superglued on and painted, the fall pipes are made from 2mm steel rod. the rods are super glued onto 1.5x4mm of 1mm black styrene rectangles glued to the wall and a strip of thin styrene wrapped around the rod completes the look of the brackets, the nearside pipe is completed and painted, the other one is glued down but not ready to paint with the master's house nearly finished and not much to do on the water tower, thoughts went to the station building or at least a cardboard mock up to fill the space, my initial inspiration is Sandal & Agbrigg on the Grimsby & West Riding just south of Wakefield, were 3 building, 2 short with a longer one inbetween, the idea was to just use the middle one as it looks about the right size, scaling on an old OS gives about 10 x 30ft but the large opening and not doors gives me the impression that its just a large waiting shelter. By the time i realised this i had already drawn and cut out the cardboard, when i was going to draw on the doors and windows i dont know how many to do and where to place them because i didnt have an internal plan, even though there wont be any internal detail to the building at all i still want to know that the arrangement of the doors and windows are governed by what rooms are inside Sandal (now sandal & Agbrigg) https://goo.gl/images/nzmRWL station building mock up i initially couldnt find any suitable inspiration for the internal layout online until i remembered that we have the book "Lynton & Barnstaple Measured & Drawn" and found just the right one with Bratton Fleming but with a few changes to fit, and with an interior, the doors and windows could be drawn on, Edited December 23, 2018 by sir douglas 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted July 28, 2018 Author Share Posted July 28, 2018 (edited) with the position of the building decided, the ground was leveled off for it to sit on, the platform had a ridge in it at the board join to go over one of the switch housings will be the back half of a garage. the fascia was cut down to fit inside the cardboard mock up, a piece of ply will be glued into the garage to fill the gap on the trial fit above you can see large gaps inbetween the ground and the garage so something to hide that and to look like the garage foundation was needed. The blue foam was cut back a bit to give straight edges to work with and pieces of green foam board glued in and filled over, the wood block is just holding the foam in place while the glue dries a 50's prefab is just what i'm after or similar like these https://www.a4asbestos.co.uk/uploads/case_studies/asbestos-roof-removal-wiltshire-2.jpg http://www.reachbags.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Great-Asbestos-Garage-Removal-50-About-Remodel-Stylish-Interior-Decor-Home-with-Asbestos-Garage-Removal.jpg http://www.proactiveasbestos.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/P6050001.jpg Edited December 23, 2018 by sir douglas 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 That first garage, with the twin bowed roof, is crying out to be replicated, eh? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukpepsi Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 That first garage, with the twin bowed roof, is crying out to be replicated, eh? I think the garage with the Green door is the one to model. I liked the detail in it & that one new panel had been inserted. Just my tuppence worth. Pepsi Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted July 28, 2018 Author Share Posted July 28, 2018 since my layout is set around mid 50's, the garage will be new so unfortunately no bowing of rotten roof timber and no new roof panel Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Isambarduk Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 I think the garage with the Green door is the one to model. That green - so common in the 1950s for large doors to yards, garages, factories and so on - you must have that green. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted July 31, 2018 Author Share Posted July 31, 2018 Last summer, i talked about how the goods yard had gone purple from sunlight, its an old roll tarmac such as Javis which must have an ink based colouring, but now this especially strong sun in the last 2 months has turned that end of the yard pink, i will need to go over the yard with either a black wash, some black sand or both. this has also made me worry for the layout in general having that end in direct sunlight since it wasnt long back there was a thread about how modelling plastics can decay and fatigue in the sun. my first idea was to just keep half of the curtain closed but that then blocks light to the rest of my room, maybe instead replace the curtains with a translucent blind to weaken the light but that again restricts light into my room and also it doesnt give the total privacy of a curtain after dark, i only put the layout where it is because it was the best arrangement of my room but ive worked out a different arrangement which isnt as good but gets the layout out of the direct sun Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted August 8, 2018 Author Share Posted August 8, 2018 (edited) piece of ply cut and glued to fill the gap in the end of the garage along the right hand board where the landscaping had been cut down, the bare blue foam has been covered in filler, sanded down and painted over. the dark brown acrylic mix has been watered down a bit as the filler sucks up the moisture so the looser paint spreads further Edited December 23, 2018 by sir douglas 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted August 26, 2018 Author Share Posted August 26, 2018 (edited) The house at the front has been bothering me for a while as i now dont think that having the floor level raised up from the street level looks like in this situation and instead it should be at street level, at the back there would be a paved area level with the back door, a retaining wall up to back yard level and steps between the 2 levels. the footing of the house was cut level and the bottom of the house cut back to the bottom of the door steps. the shed was also cut down as it looks a bit too tall, the yard in front of it levelled off and the top of the wall cut down to match the height difference Edited December 23, 2018 by sir douglas 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted September 2, 2018 Author Share Posted September 2, 2018 (edited) One of the last jobs to do on the Master's house is painting the inside and the base black and while the paint was out,a second coat was put onto the end of the shed and the first coat on the garage The shed has been worked on with a door being made up out of styrene which was glued into a cut away in the cardboard then the embossed brick sheet cut to fit around it, the roof was taken from a card building kit and will eventually be replaced with York Model Making slates Some corrugated cardboard was stripped down to go on the garage for the asbestos roof Edited December 23, 2018 by sir douglas 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted October 8, 2018 Author Share Posted October 8, 2018 (edited) the colour fade problem in the yard has been sorted for now with a muddy grey wash giving the master's house a footing to sit on made out of ply and lay flagstones around the house on it filling in over the bare board with cardboard and making a paper template to make the cattle surface on painting over the cardboard with dark brown Edited December 23, 2018 by sir douglas 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted December 21, 2018 Author Share Posted December 21, 2018 the gaps betweent he posts sem to be getting bigger but there is a bit of progress a little bit at a time sporadically. there is now a problem with all the photos on the thread as mentioned on my other thread, i will eventually get through and re upload them after doing it over there the backscene has been sanded and white washed because im not happy with it, not just the quality of my painting nor the chosen colours, thse are both true but i changed my mind a little bit on the setting. it will still be Heath common but the previous vue will be set into a distance and to the left to include the other half of Black hill on the right and the end house at Oakenshaw on Doncaster road. streetview link below, the yellow hill is Black hill which was at the right hand end of the backscene, it will now include the other half and the end house which is barely seeable just to the right of the connifers https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.6693683,-1.4647805,3a,38.4y,113.63h,89.61t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sT1XWvXEiyMmAUyXlOkvZcg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 alse shown here is the cattle dock which the paper template has been glued down to card to start covering it with Wills cobbles but it is still not stuck down to the dock to do the work on the work bench, the patch work of cardboard underneath has been stripped down to the blue foam At the right hand of the station building, the garden wall has been moved and extended which looks more plausable the switch cover for the No 4 point (furthest right) needs to be covered over to blend into the slope but still be removable. it is being covered with filler but with plastic sheet to make it revomable 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted January 12, 2019 Author Share Posted January 12, 2019 Another push of progress came with the knowledge of the dates for this years middleton model show 13-14 july, dont bother looking at the website yet as it is still on last years show with this in mind, i thought i'd try to get through the card building mock ups, starting with the station building. the sides owere cut from thin styrene (about 0.25mm) , the door and window holes were out, the window frames were cut out of about 0.6mm and glued to the inside of the 0.25, the door was cut out with another layer of 0.25 on the inside to give it depth. 3mm strips of that were added for framing. the sides were then UHU'd to the card mock up, with the door and windows placements on the card cut out to accomodate the frames back of the building showing the position of the chimney, and small window for the ladies toilet 3 of the sides were then clad in slaters overlapped planking one of the ends being left blank to cover over with the open top gents. this being built with 2mm clad in slaters brick chimney being built up. the floor paving in the gents is the same as on the platform to match elsewhere, an existing box was modified by making the top higher to put the master's house in and there was just enough room to also have the water tower 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted January 16, 2019 Author Share Posted January 16, 2019 All the brickwork is done on the station building and the woodwork has 2 coats of cream (humbrol 71 gloss). Since the photos below, the brickwork has a coat of brick red (pheonix m902 light brown leather, i would have used the railmatch dark brick but that dried up and this was the best substitute) i'm now wondering wether to whitewash the walls in the gents Some more minor relandscaping around the layout. At one end, cutting back the mound by the yard gate. i was getting fed up with damaging and breaking the green foam walls, so they've been replaced with 2mm MDF. While i was there, a garden dividing wall was added in Part of the wall had to be realigned to go around the corner of the gents. the footing of the building had to be worked on to get it to sit without any gaps the back garden wall at the bridge end was also replaced and with a step in it as before it didnt look right having it at least 5 or 6 feet high from the paving. The bridge has also had work, the sveral layers of paint its had over time had completely filled up the joints so you couldnt see them anymore so that was completely carved out again and a bit deeper too. the pieces of ply on the left will be extensions to the parapets as it doesnt look right with them currently stopping short. the other bit of relandscaping is the banking behind the house which has been cut down a bit gap along the wall filled in and bare blue foam covered over the brick covering is a textured wall paer with brick printed on, a friend gave me a few sheets after not needing it anymore and have since seen them on a scenics trader stand at an exhibition which i assume is who he got them from. i havent done the divider wall as that will be done differently to be a later wall. the other side of the wall has been done as well. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted January 22, 2019 Author Share Posted January 22, 2019 overall view of the layout with all the additions and changes, the white sheet is temporary until i get a black sheet running the layout has shown that having just enough room in the fiddleyard for the train length doesnt leave any extra room for moving stock about and swapping around the loco and brakevan. so the fold out extension has been extended but still needs wiring 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted January 23, 2019 Author Share Posted January 23, 2019 fold out section wired and painted 2 bare patches have been left on the underside of it to rub with bees wax as it slides on the board up to those pencil lines 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb67 Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 Just caught up with your thread Sir Douglas, its all looking good, I like the overall view of the layout too, well done. Steve. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted February 3, 2019 Author Share Posted February 3, 2019 got a diecast ford A van fro £3 the other day and have dismantled it for repainting 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted February 12, 2019 Author Share Posted February 12, 2019 not much to report this time. I finished painting the ford van and assembled it and it will have some sign writting on the side, printed out on paper and stuck on. this morning i put together a Duncan models coal scale bought back in november 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted March 1, 2019 Author Share Posted March 1, 2019 after getting some inspiration and ideas from a few youtube videos, i made a proper start on the backscene again, though i have already done the buildings on the left half a few weeks ago. i'm still not sure about how the field turned out and Black hill (on the right) is a bit too big. the common land is just in the initial base coat 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted March 19, 2019 Author Share Posted March 19, 2019 a little more on the back scene. On the left, trees around the old hall and along the top of the field. a wash of grey in the quarry in the middle. On the right, some brown for the field down the side of Black Hill and below that cottage and shed loosely based on the cottage at the canal basin. some reference photos have finally been printed out which are acxross the wall above the layout 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted March 25, 2019 Author Share Posted March 25, 2019 fleshing out the backscene, blackhill has got some patches of gorse and most of the trees are in place but just in grey silhouettes to mark where i want them. the cottage and shed have been repainted in slightly stronger shading. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted March 31, 2019 Author Share Posted March 31, 2019 slight problem with the backscene, by painting from the perspective of my eye line the ground in the left corner is level but when i bent down and put my eye line level with it, the old hall is one a promanant hill which it shouldnt be looking at it from below, the ground level is way off, the ground level for the old hall should be the same as the top of the field roofing the station building with card. strip of 8mm wide with cuts at 5mm intervals leaving a 3mm margin. glueing on them on with the bottom of the tiles against the margin line of the row below 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted April 5, 2019 Author Share Posted April 5, 2019 Contueing with the roof, the ridging is 6mm wide folded down the middle with 1mm strips on top of that at 8mm apart. the 2 white metal finials were left over from doing Green Ayre's canopies 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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