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Yes, it's amazing how us modellers seem to strive for neat ballast and smooth slowing trackwork......
... yet so often in real life - things can be rather different! How I recall seeing so many over-grown sidings, dust & dirt where ballast should be and rusty, wonky rails
And often where there was ballast in a yard or depot.... you couldn't see its' colour for all the oil & filth it was covered with....
Nice photo there - very inspirational view that

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Hello fellow micro modelers

 

Well there were a few tweaks to be done. A set of tracks end at a mound of sand, some oil on a track from stabled locos and the odd weed. I had a bit of a mishap with some watered down PVA...so more weeds appeared than I would have wanted, to cover up the deed. But happy with result.

 

A N gauge backscene arrived whilst I have been recovering and I stuck that down and that has worked well. I will also use it for my next micro layout which I have just started.

 

Some pictures to show how the N gauge backscene looks

As you can see it looks better in one direction than the other.

 

Cheers

Steve

 

 

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That backscene looks great steve, well done.

Steve.

 

Thanks mate. A good little test in a way for you guys. Proof that they work and they are only 22/23cm high and so are far more suitable for us space deprived modelers.

 

Also they can be taken up and down and stick behind any small layout.

I have slid these two small backscene boards under the sofa. My wife will never know! I have all sorts of railways stuff squirreled away in small spaces!

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Yes, that backscene looks great on this layout. It's just the right scale / perspective for this setting,
and I'm glad you haven't placed the horizon too high - that would make the layout appear smaller, and be wrong for this setting. Perhaps you'd have been tempted to place it higher,
if you'd used a backscene intended for OO? You've got it spot on though....
Amazing what a difference it makes too :)

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Hello fellow micro modelers

 

Well there were a few tweaks to be done. A set of tracks end at a mound of sand, some oil on a track from stabled locos and the odd weed. I had a bit of a mishap with some watered down PVA...so more weeds appeared than I would have wanted, to cover up the deed. But happy with result.

 

A N gauge backscene arrived whilst I have been recovering and I stuck that down and that has worked well. I will also use it for my next micro layout which I have just started.

 

Some pictures to show how the N gauge backscene looks

As you can see it looks better in one direction than the other.

 

Cheers

Steve

 

 

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 Alittle bit of made up history for this micro layout,

 

At Shilllston Road once stood a large Midland Railway roundhouse steam shed. As 18E it was sub-shed of Toton and lay on the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire border of the area's extensive coalfield. With a Type 4 loaned by Toton in July 1962 the depot's men were trained on the type and the depot's turns were gradually dieselised with Type 1 and Type 4s allocated to Toton. As the roundhouse was suffering from mining subsidence however its roof was removed and a new single track diesel servicing shed was built on the south side of the shed in June 1963. After Shilllston Road closed to steam on 14th September 1964 it continued to stable diesels with a Class 08 for yard shunting, four to six pairs of Class 20s for unfitted colliery traffic along with a couple of Class 47s for fitted power station coal being the most common. With the miner's strike however the signing on point was closed in 1985 but the sidings are still used as a crew relief point with the odd loco left in between turns on the former depot.  

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I like that, it sets the scene.

 

I like a good back story. It helps build a picture in the minds eye of what you are modeling.

 

I actually wrote one for my previous layout along similar lines.

 

So there you go folks the official history of Shillston Road :)

 

(Just need to get my hands on some 20s now. They would look good on it. I have a 40 I am weathering and I think that might look the part too. I think work worn 47324 looks right on it as well)

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Ahem: a prototypical explanation for all the grass at the end of the track: " .. the sidings are still used as a crew relief point ..." and it shows (and smells) about the crews relieving themselves!

 

But seriously: this is looking very nice - just right IMO.

 

Best Regards,

Christian

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I hope you are all well. I have not posted here for a while

The last of my camera phone shots

 

 

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I have a new camera....very excited perhaps now I can take some proper pictures.

I have 33053 and 33062 I have just finished weathering so - in a few days I will use them as my first subjects

Cheers

Steve

 

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Hi,

There are several well observed and executed scenic details on your diorama, the  work stained locos look fully in keeping with the surroundings, It would be good to see the same care you have taken on all layouts, but I guess some just want to run trains round, c'est la vie!

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Hadn't realised you'd been unwell good sir. Hope you're back up to 100% fitness, and if not.... hope that's soon
Nice pic of the weathered 37 - I can almost here it, ticking away, and smell the diesel fumes!
Looking forward to seeing the photos of those 33's

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I am better now thanks Marc. Although, many of my joints are not the best....anyway managed to take a few pics of newly completed 33s today. Quite pleased with 33062 as she has been cobbled together out of ebay odds and sods. The other, with the battered handrail (I must make that straight again) is 33053

 

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