westerner Posted August 10, 2018 Author Share Posted August 10, 2018 (edited) As promised some photos of concreted area. The first one with no shed or refuelling point same position with buildings back and locos and a more ground level one The concrete obviously need s some weathering, but as it would have only been there a couple of years or so I must be careful not to overdo it, which I feel might be all to easy. Unfortunately at the moment with it being so pale it looks better in real life than in the photos. Edited August 10, 2018 by westerner 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted August 12, 2018 Author Share Posted August 12, 2018 Today I have been mostly weathering the concrete, With weathering powders 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Signaller69 Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 Your hardstanding looks very good, the weathering has really lifted it. Must admit I always seem to find concrete a real pita to get looking "right". Martyn. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted August 13, 2018 Author Share Posted August 13, 2018 I do agree with you Martyn. I started inside the shed so if it wasn't working nobody could see it. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted August 23, 2018 Author Share Posted August 23, 2018 I've been away for more than a week so no work done. At the moment I'm girding my loins for a large push to get it finished. I heard today from Tim Horn that the back and side board extensions are ready foe me to pick up, which will be sometime next week. With them in place I can really start thinking about and planning the back scene. I'll be picking up another Warship this evening, a maroon one, which leaves me with a slight problem do I extend the period to late 1965 or repaint it. Again more thinking required. Ho-Hum the joys of railway modelling!!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted August 23, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 23, 2018 I've been away for more than a week so no work done. At the moment I'm girding my loins for a large push to get it finished. I heard today from Tim Horn that the back and side board extensions are ready foe me to pick up, which will be sometime next week. With them in place I can really start thinking about and planning the back scene. I'll be picking up another Warship this evening, a maroon one, which leaves me with a slight problem do I extend the period to late 1965 or repaint it. Again more thinking required. Ho-Hum the joys of railway modelling!!!! Extend the period. Maroon Warships always look good. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted August 23, 2018 Author Share Posted August 23, 2018 It would add a bit of colour to the refuelling area too and give some company to Western Queen. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brainh Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 (edited) I've been away for more than a week so no work done. At the moment I'm girding my loins for a large push to get it finished. I heard today from Tim Horn that the back and side board extensions are ready foe me to pick up, which will be sometime next week. With them in place I can really start thinking about and planning the back scene. I'll be picking up another Warship this evening, a maroon one, which leaves me with a slight problem do I extend the period to late 1965 or repaint it. Again more thinking required. Ho-Hum the joys of railway modelling!!!! I have been reading this and your previous layouts postings with long standing interest. All brilliant and inspiring work Looking back to Post 135. which shows your Hymek with a stencil shedcode by the drivers door and a TOPS panel on the cabside which puts it in post 1968 livery so your period is already extended. Observational only, no criticism at all. Rule 1 applies. For me the mention of more colour in Post 182 suggests having 2 periods to ring the changes. Bring on some blue syp Westerns. Please. Edited August 25, 2018 by brainh Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted August 26, 2018 Author Share Posted August 26, 2018 Thanks for that Brian, I hate to admit I'd not noticed that, not anyone else for that matter, I might have to do something about it. More research is needed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted August 26, 2018 Author Share Posted August 26, 2018 Thought I'd take a break from thinking of how to do the last bits of the layout and take a few photos, firstly of locos. and finally the stairs from the footbridge 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted August 30, 2018 Author Share Posted August 30, 2018 visited Tim Horn yesterday to pick up the extensions for the back scene and side pieces to make them square as to the original design. At the moment ply pieces haave been glued to act as cleats for the new pieces to be glued in place. this will happen tomorrow when there should be some photos. When that is done I can think very seriously about the back scene itself. I'm thinking of painting it on very heavy lining paper with emulsion paint or acrylics. the advantage of using the lining paper is that it is relatively cheap so if the first effoet is not to my liking I can do it again at little cost. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted August 31, 2018 Author Share Posted August 31, 2018 (edited) As promised a couple of photos of the new back scene addition. firstly the attachment cleats glued in place Finally the new addition itself in place This raises the back by just over 3 inches making the back scene some 15 inches high and the total height of the layout from track level 18inches Edited August 31, 2018 by westerner 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted September 2, 2018 Author Share Posted September 2, 2018 I have experimented with adding a paper building n the far corner as part of the rest of the station buildings A slightly scaled down photo of the parcels office. I'm assuming they would have been built at the same time so they would be as one so to speak. I am thinking about chopping a bit off the Grand Hotel so that there would be a road going to the Parcels office. A personal hate of mine is when there appears to be no way vehicles can get to a place they are meant to be. A couple of photos of the new addition to the loco fleet Warship (note Clive NOT class42, after all the layout is Pre TOPS, I'll have to do something about the Hymeck). She needs some light weathering and she may change her name and number. 1st alongside Western Queen. and a personal portrait. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted September 3, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 3, 2018 Rather than chop a bit off the hotel, can't you make a road access tunnel/ archway under the extension to the parcels office ? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted September 3, 2018 Author Share Posted September 3, 2018 Oddly enough Stu, I was thinking something similar myself this morning. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted September 4, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 4, 2018 I must say the truffle looks divine, Darling......... Sorry Alan. All went a bit Laurence Llewelyn Bowen there for a moment .... For a moment? Alan, this is all looking superb and I particularly like the overall urban feel to the place and the weathering on the locos is excellent. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted September 4, 2018 Author Share Posted September 4, 2018 Thank you Tim, I'm trying hard but my mojo comes and goes particularly when I spot mistakes of errors in things I was quite happy about it when an idea I've had doesn't pan out.. I suspect I'm not the only one who suffers from this affliction. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted September 4, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 4, 2018 For a moment? Alan, this is all looking superb and I particularly like the overall urban feel to the place and the weathering on the locos is excellent. I agree captain , the Westerner chap can do urban as well as pretty looking Devon countryside. I have experimented with adding a paper building n the far corner as part of the rest of the station buildings A slightly scaled down photo of the parcels office. I'm assuming they would have been built at the same time so they would be as one so to speak. backscene addition.jpg I am thinking about chopping a bit off the Grand Hotel so that there would be a road going to the Parcels office. A personal hate of mine is when there appears to be no way vehicles can get to a place they are meant to be. A couple of photos of the new addition to the loco fleet Warship (note Clive NOT class42, after all the layout is Pre TOPS, I'll have to do something about the Hymeck). She needs some light weathering and she may change her name and number. 1st alongside Western Queen. foxhound 1.jpg and a personal portrait. foxhound 2.jpg Alan Warships is Warships never class 42 or class 43 even after September 1968. Goodness gracious we have been calling our diesels and electrics by silly numbers for 50 years. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Signaller69 Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 The Warship looks right at home. An alternative to the paper office in the corner might be an archway leading into a courtyard, though admittedly it would still benefit from a backscene behind. I'm thinking something like at Chester where there is an ornate archway between the Station and the Queen Hotel (former horse & carriage landing etc): http://www.chestertourist.com/hotels_queen_parking.htm Just a thought... Martyn. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted September 4, 2018 Author Share Posted September 4, 2018 Something else for me to think about Martyn Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted September 8, 2018 Author Share Posted September 8, 2018 Another loco has been added to "the Lane" a Heljan Maroon D1010 Western Campaigner, well that 's what it will become. Second hand from Hattons as Western Queen, but with an unopened pack of etched number/name plates for D1010 and all the bits. The only "damage is a the glazing from one of the route indicator boxes. Easy to knock up. It does run beautifully and looks unused. I'll post photos when I've added the bits and nameplates etc. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted September 9, 2018 Author Share Posted September 9, 2018 As promised a photo of D1010 Western Campaigner Now obviously renamed and the bits fitted on the front. So that is now three locos that need weathering, Sprightly, Foxhound (to be renamed Royal Naval Reserve 1859-1959) and now Western Campaigner. Also had a quick play around with Stubby's idea of having the road to the Parcels area coming under the background buildings. I still might lop off a bit of the Hotel though. I did by using a photo and modifying it and creating the tunnel and outing a Scamell down it. If I do decide to use it will need much more work on the photo 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
devondynosoar118 Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 I think that tunnel looks great there, I had to look twice to check the scammel was only a photo! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted September 11, 2018 Author Share Posted September 11, 2018 I thought it was about time to see how and if the back scene could be accommodated. As mentioned before the idea is to use very heavy lining paper. So I cut a sheet 9ft 6 inches x 15 inches and started to play. The idea was that I had left a slot at the back of the layout for the back scene to slot down into. DOOOOOOOH I had put there were places that I had not. so these were marked and the paper was cut to get round my offending stupidity. Second time it all seemed to work. So there is hope when this becomes the template for the real back scene it will work. I am wondering how to stick it down whether with wallpaper paste or diluted PVA or even spray mount. At the moment it is held with clips. In the mean time I'll leave it up to allow me to sketch a few ideas. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted September 20, 2018 Author Share Posted September 20, 2018 After much cogitation and even more indolence I decided to play around with the short canopy linking the platform canopy to the parcels office. At the moment still needs a few more roof supports and nothing is stuck together at the moment. the block of wood is to give some idea of height before I make the uprights. As you have probably guessed it will made from a carved up Dapol station canopy kit. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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