Sudrian Docks (WIP)

[flyingtardis]

Hello there, welcome to my WIP CakeBox Challenge Thread.

 

This Diorama is based around one dockside area seen in the 4th Series episode of Thomas The Tank Engine & Firneds "Special Attraction" later appearing in the Music Video for "Gone Fishing".

 

The plan seems simple enough, even on paper, it's 2 areas of track, 1 higher than the other, at a dockside somewhere on the North Western Railway, Presumed to be Brendam Docks but unsure as of writing, no pointwork needed just some flexi-track cut to size, a couple of set track pieces and 6 Custom Buffer Sets, well it's not so simple as i'll explain later.

 

First Things First, Refference Material (courtesy of The TTTE Wikia)

 

The above area and conclusion is what i will be trying to achieve, now feast your eyes upon what i have so far:

 

 

the overview of this is to sort of show what i'm going for, the plus side with getting a box from the range is i can open up the side to be able to take pictures, makes life so much easier below are a few close-ups of the areas so show for clarities sake what the plan of attack is roughly:

 

 

now as you can see i do have a decent idea for the trackwork but ive not built any platforms yet, that's because ive not actually built them simple answers are lovely aren't there, but the reason they are nto built yet is because ive sort of hit a boo boo in the plan, as my plan was to do a 3 levelled area as that was what i thought there was, when looking at images and the episode i realised it was only 2 layers, cuts some work out but ive already prepped for tri-tier, oh well

 

The white buffers you can see are a proof of concept for sudrian buffers, here are a couple of close-ups of them:

 

 

no they are not made of plastic, they are made of card, a medium i have come to enjoy since joining the Woodthorpe Model Railway Club and learning about building locomotives with them, if you were there at the last show you will have seen my Thomas, Percy & James, the latter 2 being WIP, and it is a lovely medium to work in, but for concepts it's brilliant, and yes i will be building all my future stops out of card, as it's cheap simple and not as fiddly as it may seem, also suprising stuff card being bale to withstand a fair whack.

 

so yeah that's my CakeBox so far, a way to go yet but hopefully, given time i'll hopefully do it justice.

 

Thanks for checking out the thread, and any questions or critiques or suggestions welcome.

 

~Thomas

 

P.S. i sort of had a bit of fun with James and the buffer concept slightly re-creating a scene from Thomas And The Magic Railroad, i'll pop it in here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpLV7qJdW7w&feature=youtu.be

Edited November 16, 2017 by flyingtardis

[Corbs]

Sounds cool, but I can't see your images

[OnTheBranchline]

Anything coming from this?

[flyingtardis]

i'll fix the above post at some point, and i will hopefully carry on with this in the near future, but sort of halted production, still working out how to do a couple of bits

[LNWR18901910]

Still planning out the track layout?

[Guest ShildonShunter]

Will be looking forward to seeing your next update..