Ladmanlow Sidings and other C&HPR locations

[Alister_G]

Excellent work on the wall and Track mate, I love that Track colour, superb.

Thanks Andy,

 

I'm quite pleased with how it's turned out, it should look good when it's all done.

 

Al.

[lezz01]

Very very nice Al.

Regards Lez.

[Alister_G]

Very very nice Al.

Regards Lez.

 

Thanks Lez.

 

Al.

[Alister_G]

I've now completely painted the sidings end of the layout:

 

 

 

 

 

I'm quite pleased with how this has turned out, it looks how I imagined it, which is good.

 

I will need to think about adding some grass and so on, now.

 

More soon,

 

Al.

[Mrkirtley800]

Coming on very nicely Al. Filling in the gaps with cork has paid off.

Derek

[Alister_G]

Coming on very nicely Al. Filling in the gaps with cork has paid off.

Derek

 

Thanks Derek, yep, I think it just about works.

 

Al.

[Alister_G]

This evening, I had a change of tack. I got fed up of painting, so i though I'd do a bit of plasticard mangling instead.

 

As I said at the start of this, I don't want to have too much clutter on this layout, so there will only be two small buildings; a yard office / platelayers hut at one end, and a weighbridge and associated office near the back road entrance.

 

I had a go at building the first of these tonight.

 

Those of you who follow my threads will know what to expect, but for those of you new to this, what I normally do is create a kit of parts cut out of styrene sheets and so on, and then stick the resulting bits together to form the finished article.

 

So I took a sheet of 60thou styrene sheet, and cut out the sides and ends of the building:

 

 

Then I cut out the door and window apertures of the front elevation:

 

 

I next took a sheet of Slaters 4mm brick embossed plasticard, and cut the same shapes out of that, allowing a slight overlap for the joins,

 

 

and again cut out the window and door:

 

 

Then I added some reinforcing bits of 60thou to the inside of the walls:

 

 

and added some 4mm tube sections to one end to create the chimney stack:

 

 

Then I started to stick the basic shell together, with a triangular offcut to keep things square:

 

 

And here it is complete:

 

 

Then I clad the shell in the embossed sheet:

 

 

 

Next, I added another two sections of 4mm rod to form the inside depth of the chimney:

 

 

and then scored and folded round the brick sheet "wings":

 

 

 

I then scored and bent round the remainder of the "wings" to join up on the back face of the chimney:

 

 

 

For the roof, I cut out two more sections of 60thou styrene, shaped to fit round the chimney:

 

 

and added a triangular fillet at the chimney end to support the roof sections:

 

 

 

and then attached the roof:

 

 

 

I decided I didn't like the overhang of the roof at the chimney end, so reshaped it:

 

 

 

And there's the main structure complete.

 

I will file the corners down, and then paint the main structure before adding tiles, window, door and then a good weathering.

 

 

Thanks for looking,

 

Al.

[Signaller69]

Had somehow missed your latest creation until now Al, really looking great. Glad your modelling mojo returned!

 

Martyn.

[Alister_G]

Had somehow missed your latest creation until now Al, really looking great. Glad your modelling mojo returned!

 

Martyn.

 

Hi mate, great to hear from you.

 

So far, things are looking good, I'm really enthusiastic about this - I think mainly because i can actually get on with doing it in odd moments without a big palaver to set it up to work on it, which is the problem with the other layouts at the moment.

 

Cheers mate,

 

Al.

[Signaller69]

Hi mate, great to hear from you.

 

So far, things are looking good, I'm really enthusiastic about this - I think mainly because i can actually get on with doing it in odd moments without a big palaver to set it up to work on it, which is the problem with the other layouts at the moment.

 

Cheers mate,

 

Al.

Al, it certainly does look good, and its always nice to see "how I did it" photos too.

 

I think it's nice with such a micro layout to be able to grab it, set up and able to run trains in a next to no time and with a minimum of fuss, keep getting ideas of something a similar size myself.

 

Cheers mate.

[Alister_G]

Al, it certainly does look good, and its always nice to see "how I did it" photos too.

 

I think it's nice with such a micro layout to be able to grab it, set up and able to run trains in a next to no time and with a minimum of fuss, keep getting ideas of something a similar size myself.

 

Cheers mate.

 

That's the big attraction with this, I think, I'm having fun with this, because I can just play trains for an hour, whereas all my other layouts need either setting up or clearing stuff off before I can do that.

 

Go on, you know you want one...

 

Al.

[Alister_G]

The hut has had it's first paint applied.

 

A base coat of Humbrol 70 Brick Red, followed by highlighting some random bricks in Humbrol 29 and Humbrol 63.

 

 

 

 

When this has all dried properly, I will give it a wash of light tan to fill in the mortar lines and distress the brick a bit.

 

Although I said above that I was going to tile the roof, I feel that a hut of this size may not have had tiles, and as the other building will be a more substantial stone-built structure, I'll use tiles on that.

 

So I was going to put corrugated iron on this one, the only problem is, that on searching my stash, I don't appear to have any corrugated styrene sheet in stock.

 

This  may have to wait for a re-stock, which I was going to do anyway as I need some paints.

 

Later, I'll make a start on the weighbridge  office.

 

Thanks for looking,

 

Al

Edited January 14, 2019 by Alister_G

[Stubby47]

Small huts like that, especially if railway owned, would have had tiles.

 

Would you like some 'chads' ?  I've used them on this hut:

 

[Alister_G]

Thanks Stu,

 

Tiles it is then!

 

That's a very kind offer, but I've got a sheet of 10thou tiles cut on my Silhouette, so I'll use those.

 

Cheers,

 

Al.

[Stubby47]

Is 10thou too thick, especially on (what looks like) a 20thou sub-base?

[Alister_G]

It's what I usually use, so I think it should be OK.

 

The sub-base is 60thou - probably a bit heavy really, but it will double as the barge boards and give me something to hang the guttering from.

 

Al.

[Enterprisingwestern]

Just an observation, by no means a criticism, but do you think the cork looks like, well, painted cork! IMHO it could do with a covering of fine ash/ballast to equalise the surface. Apologies if you've already said that you are going to do it.

 

Mike. 

[Alister_G]

Just an observation, by no means a criticism, but do you think the cork looks like, well, painted cork! IMHO it could do with a covering of fine ash/ballast to equalise the surface. Apologies if you've already said that you are going to do it.

 

Mike. 

 

 

Hi Mike,

 

I agree, there are some bits which are quite coarse grained cork, and they do look a bit like cork... particularly the section closest to the front edge.

 

The rest is a finer cork, and looks a lot better, I think.

 

It's all had a dusting of ash, but I can try adding a thicker layer over the more corky bits.

 

Thanks a lot,

 

Al

[Alister_G]

Just to bring the first hut up to date, I've now given it a dilute wash of Humbrol 237 Matt Tan, to try and get the mortar lines to show up, and to dull down the brickwork.

 

It might need another wash to really get the effect I'm after:

 

 

 

 

I think it's more noticeable at a distance.

 

 

More in a minute,

 

Al.

Edited January 14, 2019 by Alister_G

[Alister_G]

This evening, I've started the weighbridge office.

 

As before, I've cut the basic shell out of 60thou styrene sheet:

 

 

and then this will be clad, this time in Slater's 4mm Dressed Stone:

 

 

The shell went together quickly:

 

 

 

 

However, what's been taking the time is that I decided to add quoins to the corners, here are some cut out of 20thou styrene sheet:

 

 

And so I've been cutting each edge of the stone sheet round these, starting with the back:

 

 

 

 

 

 

And then the gable end with the door:

 

 

And this is where I got to before giving up for the night:

 

 

 

So I'll continue with this tomorrow.

 

Thanks for looking,

 

Al.

Edited January 14, 2019 by Alister_G

[Alister_G]

Incidently, whilst looking for photos for inspiration, I came across this, from a well-known model manufacturer:

 

 

Which shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how quoins work... 

 

Al.

Edited January 14, 2019 by Alister_G

[Alister_G]

This evening, the little hut was advanced with the addition of a door and window:

 

 

 

And then it was painted:

 

 

 

The roof of this and the weighbridge office will be tiled.

 

Stubby47 is very kindly sending me a bulk order from his chad factory in darkest Cornwall, so when they arrive I will finish this off.

 

And speaking of the weighbridge office, it is now all built:

 

 

 

and has had a first coat of Humbrol 63 Sand:

 

 

 

 

This will then be given dilute washes of Humbrol 91 Black Green to create the look I want.

 

Thanks for looking,

 

Al.

 

 

Edited for spillong

Edited January 16, 2019 by Alister_G

[Alister_G]

And here's the weighbridge office after the washes:

 

 

 

 

 

 

(still a bit wet in places...)

 

Al

[Sasquatch]

 Late to the party as always Al.

 

Am interested about the bananas. Are they mixed with PVA into a mash and smeared about as a slow drying, self blackening smoothing filler or just for boosting the old mojo?

 

Inspirational stuff as always mate.        

 

Regards Shaun  

 

P.S. loved the chuffing screeching saddle tank clip!

Edited January 16, 2019 by Sasquatch

[Alister_G]

Never thought of that Shaun, I could have used the bananas as the ground cover...

 

Oh well, next time.

 

Al.