RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted December 21, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 21, 2019 Excellently done so far, looking forward to seeing the layout progress Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post westerner Posted December 22, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 22, 2019 I've done some more work roughing out the scenery at the right hand end of the layout. As yet nothing glued down. this will stay unglued until I have worked some more on the bridge. But it gives some sort of Idea as to what this area of the layout will look like. May I take this opportunity to Wish you all a Happy Christmas and a Great and Successful modelling New Year. 25 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted December 22, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 22, 2019 Hi Alan. That looks very promising indeed. I like it!! Rob. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welchester Posted December 22, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 22, 2019 On 21/12/2019 at 07:40, westerner said: They definitely are. If I remember correctly when I was very young back in the 1950s, they were known as "matchbox tanks" in my home town of Gloucester. Perhaps because the tanks looked like matchboxes and England's Glory matches were made in Gloucester. Morelands factory - opposite the Wagon Works, if memory serves. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mulgabill Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 You mean the trading estate, opposite the carting track, if you model the current scene. Incidentally it is/was a manufactory accoding to the carved stone embelishment. TONY 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted December 23, 2019 Author Share Posted December 23, 2019 Couldn't resist it, A couple of Ben Ashworth's No where near his standard! 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JelleJan Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 (edited) That looks great Alan, now your 3716 only needs a couple of Berry Wiggins tankers, like mine... Jelle Jan Edited December 23, 2019 by JelleJan 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welchester Posted December 23, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 23, 2019 8 hours ago, Mulgabill said: You mean the trading estate, opposite the carting track, if you model the current scene. Incidentally it is/was a manufactory accoding to the carved stone embelishment. TONY Next you'll be telling me there isn't a railway between Weston Road and the Park. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 4 hours ago, JelleJan said: That looks great Alan, now your 3716 only needs a couple of Berry Wiggins tankers, like mine... Jelle Jan I recognise one of those, haha, very nice mate. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted December 25, 2019 Author Share Posted December 25, 2019 Merry Christmas to all who follow RMWeb. 5 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted December 28, 2019 Author Share Posted December 28, 2019 (edited) Bucked up enough courage this afternoon to paint the backscene, I was rather worried that I might spoil the sky, I'll let you be the judge of that. To tie in the hanging basket liner I will be giving it a light airbrush with the Tamiya Flat Green. It was all done with one main colour Tamiya Flat Green with a touch of Tamiya Neutral Grey for the further trees and Tamiya Blue to increase the dept of colour for the darker hues. It was all applied with an old Junior School brush in a jabbing motion with just the tip of the brush hitting the sky surface. What it seems to have done is bring out the touches of blue in the sky, which unfortunately does not really show up in the photos. Edited December 28, 2019 by westerner 13 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb67 Posted December 28, 2019 Share Posted December 28, 2019 Alan that looks fantastic, cant belive you've only used 3 colours! I've just painted my first backscene, and while I'm pleased with it, it is nowhere near the standard of yours, it really does give an added depth to your layout. Did you blend the colours on the board? Well done Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted December 28, 2019 Author Share Posted December 28, 2019 Thank you Steve. They were blended in the yogurt pot. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted December 28, 2019 Share Posted December 28, 2019 Excellent work on the Backscene Alan, and now YOUR backscene is individual to you and you alone. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielB Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 Great work so far on what looks to be a cracking layout. I second Andy's comments on the backscene, very nicely done. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post westerner Posted January 5, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 5, 2020 Thought I have a rest from doing scenery and thought it about time to clad the station building It's based roughly on the very small building at Ruspridge, but as this is not a model of Ruspridge I've made it a mirror image. When it's been primed I'll build the windows and the door, and obviously the roof. 19 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Killybegs Posted January 5, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 5, 2020 On 22/12/2019 at 11:45, westerner said: I've done some more work roughing out the scenery at the right hand end of the layout. As yet nothing glued down. this will stay unglued until I have worked some more on the bridge. But it gives some sort of Idea as to what this area of the layout will look like. May I take this opportunity to Wish you all a Happy Christmas and a Great and Successful modelling New Year. I recognise that bridge tunnel combination in 'the Forest' ! 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted January 9, 2020 Author Share Posted January 9, 2020 The station building now primed and with a roof and windows, at the moment no door or chimneys. There will be a hedge and trees running behaind the platform. 18 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted January 24, 2020 Author Share Posted January 24, 2020 It seems ages since I last posted. Work on the layout has been held up somewhat with me going down with what is known locally as "The Cough". An awful lot of people seem to have had a hacking non productive cough which means once you start you keep coughing. Not the best thing to have if you are trying to model, especially if that involves glues, bits of polystyrene and strands from hanging basket liner. Rather knocked my mojo sideways for a about 10 days. I'm pleased to say that it now seems to have gone and work has now continued on the station building. it is now getting to a completed state. I'll but some photos up in the next couple of days 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRASinBothell Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 I have to say I like that backscene. I didn't pay anywhere near enough attention in art classes all those years ago to even manage anything a tenth as good. They certainly evoke the spirit of one of the captions on a photograph of Blakeney in H.W.Paar's book - "Looking west to the fair hills of Dean, that lured the Central line to its unhappy destiny". Will you be including a milepost like the one in the book, with Forest of Dean Central Railway misspelled as CFDR? Gordon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted January 27, 2020 Author Share Posted January 27, 2020 Gordon, I hadn't thought about it, but an interesting detail. Work on the station building carries on slowly. The stone work is now painted and the mini cup hooks you can see will be to support the guttering. They were bent up from brass wire. Work has already started on the roof, chimneys, gutteing and glazing. 14 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post westerner Posted January 28, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 28, 2020 A little more done this morning, roof on and chimneys. Need to do the ridge. Sorry they are slightly out of focus, not sure what happened there. 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted February 5, 2020 Author Share Posted February 5, 2020 I've been having "fun " with my computer (changing from Windows 7 to 10). However layout beginning to get there. I've started laying out the landscape on the viewers side of the layout. at the moment nothing stuck down so photos are of the polystyrene. 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post westerner Posted February 9, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 9, 2020 A little more work on the bridge. 16 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 Very effective especially when viewed at eye level 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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