RMweb Gold teaky Posted April 14, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 14, 2020 3 hours ago, St Enodoc said: Forsythia? Always good see. In fact it's nice to see them; to see them, nice. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted April 14, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 14, 2020 7 hours ago, St Enodoc said: Forsythia? 3 hours ago, teaky said: Always good see. In fact it's nice to see them; to see them, nice. Yes I modeled two of them but You don't get anything for a pair, not in this game! 3 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted April 14, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 14, 2020 Here's the difference sunlight makes. I might just have to model the living room interior too. I plan on making the fences to finish off that scene and starting Willow Hall Farm across the road today. Don't expect the usual farm model of tractors, live stock and shed full of die-cast farm equipment though. Shaun 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 13 hours ago, St Enodoc said: Forsythia? Bless you my Son. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted April 15, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 15, 2020 Just a post of Willow Hall Farm today. This picture was taken after closure. The stone pier just left of the name board is where the foot bridge once connected the station to the road. There's plenty of junk behind the farm. This google earth view is from 2002 and shows someone had a proclivity for broken vehicles. Last year looks a bit tidier and far less over grown. Taken from the bottom of Station Road. The model I built a couple of years ago now. I built it to HO scale hoping to create some depth to the layout which I now wish I hadn't. Lastly a side view with the type of West Riding atmosphere I aim to recreate. So much moss! Hopefully I'll get some more modeling in later but someone is pulling at my mojo. Shaun. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted April 22, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 22, 2020 Willow Hall Farm. This was a real fun project today. This week during my spare time I rummaged through several boxes of stuff and scrap to put together a half decent farmyard scene. It's a bit overgrown, full of the kind of junk people save and has just two dogs who are after something in the wood pile. Not having any pictures from the 40s or 50s to work from I have chosen to model the corner on Station Road a bit like it is today. There's a new wall behind with out buildings and brambles behind that. I adjusted the ground level raising it up about 20mm to make that wall work better. The last picture shows what I have incorporated at the other end and this still needs all the undergrowth and detailing added. Hope that you're keeping out of trouble. Regards Shaun. 11 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Sasquatch Posted April 22, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted April 22, 2020 A couple more pics. showing Station Road. 15 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Bogie Posted April 22, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 22, 2020 Great stuff - you are using your time very well! Me on the other hand . . . 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcredfer Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 I know you are in that rather spacious country Unlimited Space Available {most of which, between the POTUS ears}, but the rest of us have had to invent a virus pandemic for an excuse to get quite so involved in modelling. Quite how you have managed to convince Mrs Sas that you have to stay inside to avoid the nearest person, {how many MILES away} and must be sheltered in the layout barn, to avoid contagion. ... Bows down in respect... Like the progress, too - keeps the forehead to the floor, total respect! Julian {HOW!!..... } 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted April 24, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 24, 2020 On 21/04/2020 at 23:01, Bogie said: Great stuff - you are using your time very well! That's not strictly true. With all the layout jobs that need doing in order to get the trains running, I seem to have got side tracked into modeling junk! All I managed yesterday was a broken down lorry. 5 hours ago, jcredfer said: I know you are in that rather spacious country Unlimited Space Available {most of which, between the POTUS ears}, but the rest of us have had to invent a virus pandemic for an excuse to get quite so involved in modelling. Quite how you have managed to convince Mrs Sas that you have to stay inside to avoid the nearest person, {how many MILES away} and must be sheltered in the layout barn, to avoid contagion. ... Bows down in respect... Like the progress, too - keeps the forehead to the floor, total respect! Julian {HOW}... Please get up and stop groveling. We have been using the time to help clear the forest fire fuel, which is exhausting work (not to mention getting neck deep in poison oak itch itch. Moan moan. So we are happy to take a few days well earned break relaxing, doing what we love best! Yesterdays model from the depths of the scrap boxes is a decommissioned funfair generator truck. These generators were built to power searchlights during WWII. and most found use afterwards to power fair ground rides. When the lorries failed the generators carried on and found employment by land owners to power various equipment such as pumps. I think if I had one today I would be selling power back to the grid! All from the scrap box, I pulled the radiator off first, then fashioned together an engine from bits and made the fan from a punched disc of .010 placticard. The generator casing is actually an HO kit which I cut the doors off one side and hashed up a diesel engine from such bits as coupling mounts, sprure feed and laddering. A nice dull coat of barn red to finish off. it sits on some panzer wheel rims. All it needs is a bit of rust, some glazing and some weeds around it. I'm gonna have to face the ballasting work at some point soon. Shaun 9 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted April 25, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 25, 2020 (edited) Even more scrap from the scrap boxes this evening. A slurry spreader appropriately finished in a nice shade of red-brown. And a crane cab. This came from a Pola Urban renovation project kit. I dispensed with the ugly chassis, loaded it with many various scrap parts and made some doors from thin plastic. Mrs. Squatch is disappointed I painted it Wedgwood green but I think it shows up the rust better. It's the perfect colour for it. I wonder if the last owner fitted it with panzerkampfwagen IV duel mufflers? It's all gonna look great littering up the field behind Willow Hall Farm. Much better than cows. Every one does cows! Squatch Edited April 25, 2020 by Sasquatch Moooooo 12 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
380John Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 Morning Shaun! Great bit of modelling (as ever). The rust effects you have achieved on the crane cab look spot on. I have tried many different methods, from salt through powders and paints to even include watercolour pencils. May I ask your technique? Stay safe, John 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted April 25, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 25, 2020 5 hours ago, 380John said: Morning Shaun! Great bit of modelling (as ever). The rust effects you have achieved on the crane cab look spot on. I have tried many different methods, from salt through powders and paints to even include watercolour pencils. May I ask your technique? Stay safe, John Hi John. I discovered it quite by accident. I use weathering powders (three shades) and have a small pallet to mix the shades up with thinner. Just a small brush load mind. There is also a couple of dedicated brushes for the job Dab the mix on by building it up. Light shades are younger so start with a big patch of light, add the medium inside in a smaller patch and a dab of the dark one in the middle. The crane however had it's door left open to the elements which were never given a good coat of paint (if any) so I just used lots of dark rust. The cab has had a dusting of medium powders without the thinners. Regards Shaun. 2 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
380John Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 1 hour ago, Sasquatch said: Hi John. I discovered it quite by accident. I use weathering powders (three shades) and have a small pallet to mix the shades up with thinner. Just a small brush load mind. There is also a couple of dedicated brushes for the job Dab the mix on by building it up. Light shades are younger so start with a big patch of light, add the medium inside in a smaller patch and a dab of the dark one in the middle. The crane however had it's door left open to the elements which were never given a good coat of paint (if any) so I just used lots of dark rust. The cab has had a dusting of medium powders without the thinners. Regards Shaun. Champion Shaun, Thank you very much for the explanation. All the very best, John 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted May 1, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 1, 2020 What a week it's been here. 78F and everything is growing fast as a result. Since fixing the mower on Saturday we have cut the grass twice. Anyway between all the chores I did find time to work on the lift off scenic section which is now almost finished. These trees are plastic armatures bent to shape, sprayed with hairspray to hold the sparse bits of polyfiber. Dark brown camouflage paint from a rattle can, more hairspray, and dipped in a tub of Woodland Scenics medium green course scatter and a bit more hairspray. I still need to paint moss onto the trunks. A dead tree helps the scene by adding a bit of decay. Brambles and general undergrowth are done the same as the trees but the dark brown polyclumpus are pinned to the under-brush-decay-mix (which is a tub of all the vacuumed up spillage and Noch brown flockagedinguns). Yet more AquaNet odourless and on with two shades of course flockages. Edwin Chedahands opening the throttle on his LI series 2 up station road in the days before helmets. View from the bottom of the goods access road. Looking up the farm track in front of the station masters. ...and with the signal box. Farm junk is just visible on the right. Just a bit more work needed here too. Hope that you're all safe and well Regards Squatch 11 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted May 1, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 1, 2020 The fence went in this morning and I grabbed the camera because the light looked interesting. 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted May 2, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 2, 2020 (edited) Step by step time. One of the advantages of foam board scenery is that stuff can be poked into it and removed and is ideal for the Sasquatch patent fence method. When I built Dunster we made match stick line side fences and employed beading wires. Now I needed a fence for the station masters house on Queensbury, I set about making some from scratch. Firstly I ripped some maple to 1.5 x 1.5mm on my table saw using a zero tolerance insert and cut lengths of 45mm on my band saw also using a scrap of MDF for zero tolerance. 1.5mm² is about as small as can be ripped and drilled which comes out at a scale four and a half inches square. Next I drilled a 7/64” (2.8mm) hole into the end of a scrap of wood as straight as possible about 25mm deep. I then marked and drilled three 0.5mm holes thus. Inserting the thin maple posts into the large hole allows each post to be drilled with a mini drill. More than one attempt at getting the jig perfect was necessary. The drilled posts were dipped in a weathering solution and allowed to dry. This picture shows the tools needed to assemble the fence. A suitable length spacer was cut and holes made at equal intervals with a reamer. edit: The use of a reamer does two things. Stops the foam from collapsing and helps keep the post true to the vertical! The posts were trimmed to a point with a Stanley blade and set into the holes. A scrap of plastic tubing cut to 18mm was slipped over each post before setting to a scale 4’6”. Lastly the fun bit. Knots were tied in the ends of three lengths of 0.3mm beading wire and these threaded through the holes in the posts. The wire is pulled taught and held with the cross lock tweezers. Zap-A-Gap Cyano. is applied to every other post. This super glue has a capillary action which draws the glue into the holes. Just needs weathering. Edited May 2, 2020 by Sasquatch Missed a detail. 5 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 That looks bloomin excellent Shaun, very smart indeed. 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
saxokid Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 1 hour ago, Sasquatch said: Step by step time. One of the advantages of foam board scenery is that stuff can be poked into it and removed and is ideal for the Sasquatch patent fence method. When I built Dunster we made match stick line side fences and employed beading wires. Now I needed a fence for the station masters house on Queensbury, I set about making some from scratch. Firstly I ripped some maple to 1.5 x 1.5mm on my table saw using a zero tolerance insert and cut lengths of 45mm on my band saw also using a scrap of MDF for zero tolerance. 1.5mm² is about as small as can be ripped and drilled which comes out at a scale four and a half inches square. Next I drilled a 7/64” (2.8mm) hole into the end of a scrap of wood as straight as possible about 25mm deep. I then marked and drilled three 0.5mm holes thus. Inserting the thin maple posts into the large hole allows each post to be drilled with a mini drill. More than one attempt at getting the jig perfect was necessary. The drilled posts were dipped in a weathering solution and allowed to dry. This picture shows the tools needed to assemble the fence. A suitable length spacer was cut and holes made at equal intervals with a reamer. edit: The use of a reamer does two things. Stops the foam from collapsing and helps keep the post true to the vertical! The posts were trimmed to a point with a Stanley blade and set into the holes. A scrap of plastic tubing cut to 18mm was slipped over each post before setting to a scale 4’6”. Lastly the fun bit. Knots were tied in the ends of three lengths of 0.3mm beading wire and these threaded through the holes in the posts. The wire is pulled taught and held with the cross lock tweezers. Zap-A-Gap Cyano. is applied to every other post. This super glue has a capillary action which draws the glue into the holes. Just needs weathering. Lovely work throughout Shaun 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted May 3, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 3, 2020 Hi Shaun, what a cracking job and very well explained, that is a real work of patience and skill. All the best and stay safe Adrian. 2 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted May 6, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 6, 2020 Thank you guys, you're all so kind. Added a lot more moss and rust today. More weeds and overgrown sruberyage still need here. Funny how one car can change the whole scene and set the era. Regards Shaun 9 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
saxokid Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 2 hours ago, Sasquatch said: Thank you guys, you're all so kind. Added a lot more moss and rust today. More weeds and overgrown sruberyage still need here. Funny how one car can change the whole scene and set the era. Regards Shaun More top modelling here Shaun you have real eye for detail 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted May 8, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 8, 2020 After a thorough good clean up this morning I had the whole afternoon free for some scenic work so tackled the other lift of section. It's basically just a horse field, which I have tried to represent with a blend of grasses and weeds, with some areas more grazed than others. There are a few details on it such as a grounded coach, wall and tree. The other very detailed section has been placed back. This gave a chance for a train to appear in front of my camera. Just a J39 with a Toad E. Hope that you are all well Regards Shaun 10 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penrhos1920 Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 On 08/05/2020 at 05:50, Sasquatch said: There are a few details on it such as a grounded coach, wall and tree. Hope that you are all well Regards Shaun How did a Great Western coach body find its way to West Yorkshire? 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcredfer Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 12 hours ago, Penrhos1920 said: How did a Great Western coach body find its way to West Yorkshire? Now, now!! Rule number one... Julian 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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