Warren Branch

[St Enodoc]

31 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said:

there is a limit you know.

That was my question...

[Winslow Boy]

42 minutes ago, St Enodoc said:

That was my question...

Bit like tax I'm afraid. You only find out how much you owe once you've paid it.

[MrWolf]

2 hours ago, Winslow Boy said:

Not that she's thinking about f all that money she'll get from selling off all the 'junk' once you've popped your clogs. Of course not.

 

She definitely doesn't want me for my money. If it was my first wife or some of my other exes, my inner cynic would agree with you, but she's likely to inherit far more from her own family than I am. 

I need to stop selling paintings and saw a few cows or sharks in half.

At present I don't think that my estate would buy you a new car. 

Or anything 0 gauge...

[MrWolf]

Have any of you seen this goods shed interior?

 

 

 

 

[lezz01]

2 hours ago, MrWolf said:

 

It's something to do with enjoying being alive and active apparently and nothing to do with a rust obsession, which I am told that only I suffer from...

I too have the same obsession with rust. How it forms, where it forms, the change of colour with age etc.

Rust is a very absorbing subject. When it is done badly or randomly it looks truly awful. Random splotches of rust on a BR 16 tonner for instance is a pet hate of mine. Reference photos are essential for a good representation of rust.

Regards Lez.     

[MrWolf]

It's annoying on your shiny chrome exhausts though.

 

 

Technically, I am working right now!

[chuffinghell]

The interior has now had two coats of ‘off-white’ all round, even the wall that is potentially is out of sight

 

 

I’ll attempt to dirty it up mostly in the corners and along the bottom maybe?....I don’t know, I’m winging it

 

Would it be plausible to have boxes stacked here?

 

I was going to put them inside but I thought it would add a little interest with a chap outside moving them around?...I’ll still put some things inside too

 

 

I don’t know, I’m open to opinions

 

Not sure if I have weathered the building too much or too little but I think I should leave it at that now because I want to crack on with the assembly and I’ve spend the last three days tinkering with it

 

 

 

Edited April 8, 2021 by chuffinghell

[MrWolf]

Dark and dusty in corners and near the ceiling, damp dirty and damaged near the floor.

I don't know if this picture taken in our attic of sorts is any help. I doubt that back wall has been whitewashed in half a century.

 

 

[NHY 581]

42 minutes ago, chuffinghell said:

The interior has now had two coats of ‘off-white’ all round, even the wall that is potentially is out of sight

 

 

I’ll attempt to dirty it up tomorrow but I don’t want it too dirty, mostly in the corners and along the bottom maybe?....I don’t know, I’m winging it

 

Would it be plausible to have boxes stacked here?

 

I was going to put them inside but I thought it would add a little interest with a chap outside moving them around?...I’ll still put some things inside too

 

 

I don’t know, I’m open to opinions

 

Not sure if I have weathered the building too much or too little but I think I should leave it at that now because I want to crack on with the assembly and I’ve spend the last three days tinkering with it

 

 

 

 

 

Totally agree on the weathering in corners which I would taper, getting wider at the top if that makes sense. Top edge where the roof timbers are abutting the wall. The rest, very light. 

Colourwise, I would start with dark earth, given its close match to the off white, with perhaps smoke right in the angle applying the smoke first as the earth over the top would then mute it as it was blended in. 

 

Rob. 

 

 

 

Edited April 7, 2021 by NHY 581
Sausage hooves

[MrWolf]

Such a building is likely to have been gas lit, probably right until closure and there would be a fine coating of soot higher up the walls and around the roof.

I don't actually know whether locomotives were permitted to run through a goods shed, or whether wagons were barred along / winched / horse shunted beyond the door or out of the back.

Perhaps someone more knowledgeable can confirm?

[NHY 581]

6 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

Such a building is likely to have been gas lit, probably right until closure and there would be a fine coating of soot higher up the walls and around the roof.

I don't actually know whether locomotives were permitted to run through a goods shed, or whether wagons were barred along / winched / horse shunted beyond the door or out of the back.

Perhaps someone more knowledgeable can confirm?

 

 

I'm not that knowledgeable, Rob but I can't recall seeing any images of a loco in a goods shed off the top of my head. 

 

As you say,  no doubt some one will be along to add insight. 

 

 

Rob. 

 

 

 

Edited April 7, 2021 by NHY 581
Sausage hooves....again

[chuffinghell]

40 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

Dark and dusty in corners and near the ceiling, damp dirty and damaged near the floor.

I don't know if this picture taken in our attic of sorts is any help. I doubt that back wall has been whitewashed in half a century.

 

 

 

I got carried away and I’ve probably gone too far

 

I’ve rubbed some of the paint away because paint peals away from cold damp walls, rising damp from the floor up and staining from under where the trusses sit

 

 

 

 

oh and damp/mould under the windows

 

Im sure it will be less ‘in your face, with the trusses in place etc

 

Edited April 7, 2021 by chuffinghell

[MrWolf]

It's not in yer face at all. Without a suitable photo I can't prove it, but that's what it would look like.. Spot on. 

[chuffinghell]

38 minutes ago, NHY 581 said:

 

 

I'm not that knowledgeable, Rob but I can't recall seeing any images of a loco in a goods shed off the top of my head. 

 

As you say,  no doubt some one will be along to add insight. 

 

 

Rob. 

 

 

 

 

My knowledge is even less, in fact you could write everything I know on a postage stamp and still have room for an elephants foot!

But I must admit I didn’t think a loco would enter the goods shed either but I suppose it could have happened?

[MrWolf]

It might,

 

 

[Alister_G]

9 hours ago, chuffinghell said:

I got carried away and I’ve probably gone too far

 

No I don't think so. Even in the height of the GWR when they tried to make everything look fresh, with regular repaints, "Best Kept Station" competitions etc, I'm pretty sure they would not bother to re-whitewash the inside of the goods shed on a regular basis.

 

Al.

[Graham T]

10 hours ago, MrWolf said:

Dark and dusty in corners and near the ceiling, damp dirty and damaged near the floor.

 

 

 

 

 

But she's good with the kids

[chuffinghell]

10 minutes ago, Alister_G said:

 

No I don't think so. Even in the height of the GWR when they tried to make everything look fresh, with regular repaints, "Best Kept Station" competitions etc, I'm pretty sure they would not bother to re-whitewash the inside of the goods shed on a regular basis.

 

Al.

 

Thanks for the reassurance Al, I tend to second guess everything I do just lately. The more I do the more I want to try and get it right.

 

Unfortunately I've got to redo the exterior of the end wall because a coat of varnish washed away the weathering powders, I forgot to 'fix' the powders with isopropyl first (it was late and I just plain forgot) aaaarrrrrggggg

 

 

Edited April 8, 2021 by chuffinghell

[Alister_G]

This is the goods warehouse at Cromford, note the big sign above the door: "Engine Must Not Enter This Warehouse"

 

 

You could have something similar.

 

Al.

[Alister_G]

9 minutes ago, chuffinghell said:

 

Thanks for the reassurance Al, I tend to second guess everything I do just lately. The more I do the more I want to try and get it right.

 

Unfortunately I've got to redo the end wall because a coat of varnish washed away the weathering powders, I forgot to 'fix' the powders with isopropyl first (it was late and I just plain forgot) aaaarrrrrggggg

 

 

You have been far more restrained than I was. This is the interior of Bakewell's goods shed:

 

 

Al.

[MrWolf]

Cromford could well be an example of "local prohibition"  IIRC the goods shed served a cloth mill at the end of the canal. You can imagine that they wouldn't want to mix burning coal with bales of new cloth.

[MrWolf]

The interior of my goods shed is also grubby, despite its size.

 

 

 

[Gedward]

45 minutes ago, Alister_G said:

 

No I don't think so. Even in the height of the GWR when they tried to make everything look fresh, with regular repaints, "Best Kept Station" competitions etc, I'm pretty sure they would not bother to re-whitewash the inside of the goods shed on a regular basis.

 

Al.

 

This is all fine and all that. But clean and sparkly is not what I'm after. So don't think we're going to win any awards for best kept station. 

[Andrew P]

10 hours ago, chuffinghell said:

I got carried away and I’ve probably gone too far

 

I’ve rubbed some of the paint away because paint peals away from cold damp walls, rising damp from the floor up and staining from under where the trusses sit

 

 

 

 

oh and damp/mould under the windows

 

Im sure it will be less ‘in your face, with the trusses in place etc

 

BRILLIANT Chris, just right mate.

[MrWolf]

Just for reference purposes, I have taken some pictures of old limewash in various grubby corners of Schloss Von Wulf. You can also see some of the hugely valuable junk that Miss R will make a fortune from "when I pop my clogs.".. 

 

Warning - image heavy.