Warren Branch

[chuffinghell]

I decided on dark stone

 

But I’ll no doubt change my mind a couple of times 

 

Edited December 31, 2019 by chuffinghell

[AlfaZagato]

Maybe do the rebate in light stone?    If not, I would keep it dark stone.   Might be too bright if you did the whole thing light.

[Rowsley17D]

Doing the rebate lighter would match the two colours of the awning.

[Alister_G]

Hi Chris,

 

I've been having a Google round, and from all the prototype stations (as opposed to models) that I can see, the gable ends tend to be done in light stone.

 

Examples: Hampton Loade, Bovey Tracey, Bishops Lydeard.

 

That said, I quite like it as you have it now in dark stone.

 

 

Al.

[chuffinghell]

38 minutes ago, Alister_G said:

Hi Chris,

 

I've been having a Google round, and from all the prototype stations (as opposed to models) that I can see, the gable ends tend to be done in light stone.

 

Examples: Hampton Loade, Bovey Tracey, Bishops Lydeard.

 

That said, I quite like it as you have it now in dark stone.

 

 

Al.

Thanks Al

 

I must admit I do prefer the dark stone myself, I did one in light stone and it just didn’t look right

[Harlequin]

Here’s Minehead station building about 18 months ago:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/T5vcjLgPt754dmPS6

 

Preservation era so take with a pinch of salt but it looks good!
 

[chuffinghell]

The silly things we do!

 

I looked at how and where to fit guttering and to my horror it interfered with the adjoining roof

 

They moaned about it but the Station Master managed to convince the roofers to remove the roof and the brick layers to work for double time

 

They did a rough job though and just filled the gable end with bits of stuff laying around in the hope that the chippies would cover it up with the bargeboards and the Station Master be none the wiser

 

I think they’ll get away with it and the guttering no longer interferes with the adjoining roof

 

Edited January 1, 2020 by chuffinghell

[chuffinghell]

1 hour ago, Harlequin said:

Here’s Minehead station building about 18 months ago:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/T5vcjLgPt754dmPS6

 

Preservation era so take with a pinch of salt but it looks good!
 

Thanks Phil

[chuffinghell]

It’s coming together at my usual snails pace

 

cruel close up

 

I still need to figure out which bits I’m going to use to make the gents loo....I’m sure you’ve figured out that I keep putting it off 

[sb67]

Absolutely nothing cruel about that close up, I really admire how neat your work is, I couldn't even get close to that! The station's really looking good.

[chuffinghell]

26 minutes ago, sb67 said:

Absolutely nothing cruel about that close up, I really admire how neat your work is, I couldn't even get close to that! The station's really looking good.

Thanks Steve

 

very nice of you to say but I’m quite sure you already do 

[Andrew P]

If I were building it, which fortunately I'm NOT, I would still be trying to fit the roof on

 

the WRONG WAY AROUND.

 

Superb mate

[Alister_G]

Nice job Chris, really like the subtle weathering you've got there.

 

Al.

[chuffinghell]

1 hour ago, Alister_G said:

Nice job Chris, really like the subtle weathering you've got there.

 

Al.

Thanks Al

 

I'm pleased you’ve noticed the subtle weathering. I purposely tried not to over do it

[chuffinghell]

Had a look at the downpipes and ended up with this

Made up from this

 

unfortunately I’m going to be busy for the next week or two with a few odd jobs around the house I’ve been putting off but I’ll be lurking around in here

[Nick C]

You say snail's pace, it looks pretty fast to me, I've not managed to do any modelling at all over the break...

 

And don't worry about not following a prototype either - obviously the building was built by the Warren and Somewhere-or-other Junction Railway, which was then taken over by the GW when it went bankrupt just before opening (or was operated by the GW while remaining separately owned, another common occurrence), and so was built to their own design. 

[chuffinghell]

Whilst I’m busy doing other things I thought I’d share my first attempt at making the gents, I did this when I made the main building but I wasn’t too sure about it which is why I didn’t attach it and have since put off doing another

 

I didn’t want it to stick out too far because it’s in low relief and I didn’t want to cover the window aperture in the adjoining building so I originally came up with this

 

With a door

Without the door

 

I prefer it like this, you just have to imagine you enter and turn to the left and it opens out to your right (remembering it’s in low relief and extends further back) Otherwise it would mean making something quite a bit deeper to cover the window aperture in the adjoining building.

 

The opening to the left scales at only 2ft which is probably too narrow? If it is deemed to be too narrow I’ll have to put the door back on....or see if I can make something deeper with what little materials I have left

 

I could possibly make it 4mm deeper, making the opening to the left 3ft wide and still leaving the window aperture clear

 

Or partially ‘bricking up’ the window aperture and put in a smaller window (less preferred option)

 

Edited January 4, 2020 by chuffinghell
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[teaky]

Having the back wall in stone allows the eye to scale it against the front wall.  Perhaps if it was plain or a smaller brick it would trick the eye?  I could be wrong but might be worth an experiment.

 

Alternatively (or additionally), an L-shaped wall coming forwards from the doorway would obscure the entrance without undoing your efforts not to block the main building window.

[chuffinghell]

13 minutes ago, teaky said:

Having the back wall in stone allows the eye to scale it against the front wall.  Perhaps if it was plain or a smaller brick it would trick the eye?  I could be wrong but might be worth an experiment.

 

Alternatively (or additionally), an L-shaped wall coming forwards from the doorway would obscure the entrance without undoing your efforts not to block the main building window.

Perhaps a combination of making it slightly deeper and using brick instead of stone may help, Having a brick interior would maybe look more like an internal partition?

[Rowsley17D]

2 hours ago, chuffinghell said:

Perhaps a combination of making it slightly deeper and using brick instead of stone may help, Having a brick interior would maybe look more like an internal partition?

 

And paint it tar paint black half way up with whitewash white on the top half.

[chuffinghell]

25 minutes ago, Rowsley17D said:

 

And paint it tar paint black half way up with whitewash white on the top half.

I’ll do that, thank you 

 

Assuming I can take it apart of course. 
 

It’s supposed to go on the left hand side so I had to cut/file a chamfer on the edge/corner but I also reinforced it with styrene angle, hopefully I’ll be able to carefully cut down the corner and just add another side piece.

 

Once I’ve finished all my odd jobs around the house that I’ve been putting off 

[Alister_G]

I have done what Jonathan suggests in the past for toilets. if you paint 4mm brick in gloss white it looks like tiles:

 

 

Al.

[chuffinghell]

1 hour ago, Alister_G said:

I have done what Jonathan suggests in the past for toilets. if you paint 4mm brick in gloss white it looks like tiles:

 

 

Al.

Should I still paint the lower half black?

 

I’ve only got a Flemish bond brick sheet  so I’m just going to do it as a white washed wall as a pose to tiles (if that makes sense)

 

We’ll just have to pretend it’s tiled in the main block and not in the entrance 

 

I might have a hour spare tomorrow so I’m going to have a go at redoing it

 

Edited January 4, 2020 by chuffinghell

[Alister_G]

5 hours ago, chuffinghell said:

Should I still paint the lower half black?

 

Hmm, maybe. Not sure. could you mock it up both ways in paint and see?

 

Also, although you are doing it half-relief, I reckon you could bring the front wall forward a bit more, almost to the edge of the window of the main block, to make it a slightly wider entrance.

 

Al.

[chuffinghell]

48 minutes ago, Alister_G said:

 

Hmm, maybe. Not sure. could you mock it up both ways in paint and see?

 

Also, although you are doing it half-relief, I reckon you could bring the front wall forward a bit more, almost to the edge of the window of the main block, to make it a slightly wider entrance.

 

Al.

I’ve pretty much decided to increase the depth up to the window and use the embossed brick sheet. The embossed sheet is quite thin and based on a few measurements the entrance would scale at 3ft instead of the current 2ft

 

Plus @teaky’s suggestion of using brick instead of stone I think is a good idea

 

The jury is still out regarding the combination of black and white walls though

 

I have managed to cut apart what I’d made without damaging the front wall, the same can’t be said of the side wall though which has been completely butchered

 

 

Edited January 5, 2020 by chuffinghell