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[Rowsley17D]

Just a brief update on the health front. I had a 1/2  hour test and chat with one of our GP nurse practitioners yesterday. They phoned back at 8.30 this morning to say stop taking the statins as they are affecting liver function. New blood tests in two weeks time, so we wait and see.

[chuffinghell]

Hope they manage to get you sorted very soon

[Rowsley17D]

I've been getting on with more roofing.

 

 

The York Mm ridge tiles make life easier.

 

 

The instructions say to use a metal ruler edge to curve the top bit of the ridge tile strip but I found using a 0.5mm rod was easier.

 

 

Finished slating. On to flashing, weathering and rainwater goods.

 

 

 

[Sweet pea]

The roof and flashing is looking great Jonathan.

[chuffinghell]

Very nicely done, most impressive

[Rowsley17D]

41 minutes ago, Kevin Johnson said:

The roof and flashing is looking great Jonathan.

 

Thanks, Kevin, but there no flashing just yet, Ooh, Matron!

[Rowsley17D]

The flashing has been added to the chimney bases. I used the edge waste material from the slates painted a lead colour.

 

 

Guttering has been glued to the roof edge and drainpipes added from the Ratio range. Given the area of the roof I thought it could stand the industrial size of the Ratio stuff. The under eves needs painting.

 

 

 

I've a sheet with drain covers somewhere.

 

Some very subtle weathering was done to one part of the rear slope. Strange material that York Mm uses.

 

 

The paving and tarmacking around the station building has been completed. It just needs blending in with the goods yard cobbles.

 

 

 

Due to being ill (feel as though I am on the right way now though) it's been a while since trains ran.

 

 

 

 

 

[Rowsley17D]

A bits and bobs afternoon. The rain off the roof now has somewhere to drain.

 

 

I've been doing more to weather the roof. Very dilute different shades of grey. Might try adding some blue.

 

 

 

 

[lezz01]

I would suggest dark green for moss and pale green for lichen as well Jonathan.

Regards Lez.

[Rowsley17D]

A masked and gloved visit to Halfords in Lancaster this afternoon to buy paint. Hammerite spray for garden furniture and Halfords' etch primer and a Ford red that looked brown on the lid for the trainshed framework. As you can see it was red but near enough the Derby red the Midland used for station doors.

 

 

I cut some timber blocks to just over column height to support the framework when I glue it in place.

 

 

I managed to find the bench seats.

 

 

But first I must finish ballasting to the platform wall edge before anything else.

 

 

[Alister_G]

You need to get a camera small enough to fit under there Jonathan, the shots you could take will be amazing.

 

Al.

[Rowsley17D]

13 hours ago, Alister_G said:

You need to get a camera small enough to fit under there Jonathan, the shots you could take will be amazing.

 

Al.

 

I do need to upgrade my camera, Al but I know little about them. The first digital one I had was a second-hand Pentax which was given to me. The screen started to pack up and when we were helping my daughter to clear her cellar, which had flooded in very heavy rain this time last year, she found and old Fuji 14 megapixel which I now use.

[Alister_G]

I use this, a Canon Powershot SX620:

 

 

Which stands just over 5cm or 2 inches high, and the centre of the lens is 2.8cm or just over an inch from the ground. It has a good macro capability, and will focus on an object an inch from the front of the lens.

 

Al.

[Rowsley17D]

8 minutes ago, Alister_G said:

I use this, a Canon Powershot SX620:

 

 

Which stands just over 5cm or 2 inches high, and the centre of the lens is 2.8cm or just over an inch from the ground. It has a good macro capability, and will focus on an object an inch from the front of the lens. .

 

Al.

 

A bit beyond my price range new, Al, being the cheapskate that I am. I don't think I would get the most out of it. However, a birthday is not too far away, so perhaps SWMBO may be able to help out. That photo of Lathkill Dale brings back memories.

[lezz01]

Hi Jonathan. I have a Sony alpha 200 DSLR which I don't really use any more. I use my smartphone for most photography these days. My DSLR has 10MP and my phone has 32MP and allows me to process the images on the phone without importing them to my PC first. So my phone has made my DSLR largely redundant. I now only really use it for Astrophotography, which is why I brought it in the first place, where it beats the smartphone hands down. For everything else it's the other way around. 

Regards Lez.   

[Rowsley17D]

Hi Lez, I still work in old money, I don't have a smart phone.

[Regularity]

20 minutes ago, Rowsley17D said:

I still work in old money

...which explains the moths in the wallet?

[Worsdell forever]

5 hours ago, Alister_G said:

I use this, a Canon Powershot SX620:

 

 

 

 

Photo bombed by a cow! brilliant.

[Rowsley17D]

Following finishing off the ballasting under what will be the trainshed roof, with great trepidation I went about gluing the roof framework to the supporting wall of the station building. I used Evo-stik wood glue as it dries clear. I first stuck it to the plain wall section as I could do this away from the layout, then once dry, it was glued to the main station building. Look, no support on the building side!

 

 

 

Then the columns were added. I doubt I have them perpendicular but it can be corrected later as I will need to remove them for painting anyway.

 

 

 

Later I had an experiment with the backscene. Ian @clecklewyke and I have been exchanging posts as Ian is looking to add more backscene to his layout. I had found a website which has some exquisite commissioned model buildings.

 

https://www.kirtleymodels.co.uk/

 

It also has photo scenes of terraces and other buildings to create your own cut and paste backscene. However, I didn't see the "7mm scale" in the detail. So I emailed the gentleman and he said he would email me the photos free of charge and I could resize them!! He sent me 6 emails with photos, what great service!! I hope he gets lots of commissions as there's other free stuff on his site. I printed some of the on cheap printer paper and had a play on some bendy MDF which I had painted white.

 

 

 

 

Now to find some photos of Buxton's skyline.

[chuffinghell]

The shots taken looking down the length of the platforms are brilliant

 

I envy anyone who can take really good photographs, it’s a skill all by itself

[Rowsley17D]

12 hours ago, chuffinghell said:

The shots taken looking down the length of the platforms are brilliant

 

I envy anyone who can take really good photographs, it’s a skill all by itself

 

It has very little to do with the photographer, Chris and everything to do with what the camera does automatically, plus a lot of luck.

[Rowsley17D]

It was a bit warm to do anything in the railway room today, but I did get the columns painted and glued to the roof side girders.

 

 

 

 

I think I have got them about as straight and perpendicular as I can. To my eye if not the camera they look okay. The camera is not level in either photo as the platform dips towards the middle.

 

I found a photo of some of Buxton's famous buildings and had a play just for fun with the Kirtley backscene photos.

 

 

 

[Alister_G]

The columns look really good. And the sight of the Dev dome brings back loads of memories, I worked as an ambulanceman in the eighties in Buxton, when it was still the hospital, so spent lots of time in there.

 

Al.

[Rowsley17D]

13 hours ago, Alister_G said:

The columns look really good. And the sight of the Dev dome brings back loads of memories, I worked as an ambulanceman in the eighties in Buxton, when it was still the hospital, so spent lots of time in there.

 

Al.

 

Thanks, Al. It's all a bit of fun really and I could spend hours looking for photos and cutting and pasting onto the short length of MDF that I've painted white and it certainly looks better than a room wallpaper/ uPVC window background!

[Rowsley17D]

Much more pleasant in the railway room today but not much to show for an afternoon of modelling. While I'm pretty sure the glazing on Buxton's roof came all the way down to the eves, I wanted a definite edge to my roof so strips of black Plastikard were cut 10mm wide and welded together to make two strip the length of the roof. Two rows of slates were added and stuck to the framework. 

 

 

Next how to make glazing bars. Felt tip pen looks like felt tip pen.

 

 

Lines scored with a knife were too faint and narrow. I cut narrow lengths from the slate waste. Which was not too bad but the thought of cutting lots of strips from already narrow lengths didn't thrill me.

 

 

 I then discovered Slaters do black micro strip so that may be the solution.

 

 

Edited August 13, 2020 by Rowsley17D