RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted March 29, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 29, 2020 Fantastic 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb67 Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 Great stuff Alan, the view through the trees is superb 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post westerner Posted March 30, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 30, 2020 A slight change today. I'm having a rest from scenery and I decided I ought to look at the other Dapol 16ton mineral I have. I don't think it's been out of the box. As with the other one the back to backs were all over the place. I don't know why they can't get them right, but a little while with the B-B gauge and everything was OK. I decided I'd weather it. Here are a few photos with it lightly weathered with the other one which has had a tiny bit more weathering added. 20 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Adrian Stevenson Posted March 30, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 30, 2020 The 16ton mineral wagon is such an icon of BR steam era goods trains. They look the business. Cheers, Ade. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted March 30, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 30, 2020 3 hours ago, westerner said: A slight change today. I'm having a rest from scenery and I decided I ought to look at the other Dapol 16ton mineral I have. I don't think it's been out of the box. As with the other one the back to backs were all over the place. I don't know why they can't get them right, but a little while with the B-B gauge and everything was OK. I decided I'd weather it. Here are a few photos with it lightly weathered with the other one which has had a tiny bit more weathering added. Nicely done, Alan. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post westerner Posted March 31, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 31, 2020 Taking it easy today, I don't want to get ahead of myself and find I have very little to do when Boris keeps us in for another3 months or so. So I took a couple of picks of the layout as a whole. Still a fair bit to do though, Lampost to construct, telegraph post, hedges and trees to foliate and perhaps one or two more to plant as well as some bushes etc, a pannier to weather, people to paint, 2 wagons to build (another ply van and another mineral (BRexMOWT)) a Dodge flat bed to build and paint plus obviously small details etc. The trouble is with all this time on our hands it could all be done in relatively quick order. Hence pacing myself. Anyway todays photos. the first looking along the front of the layout from the fiddleyard end and the second one what you see of the scenic section when you walk into the railway room. 23 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 Excellent Alan, I do like to see overall shots like that last one now and again, is puts the whole thing into perspective size wise. 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 Absolutely smashing - and those sedum trees are magnificent. I really like how they are at the front, creating a lovely natural viewpoint. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted March 31, 2020 Author Share Posted March 31, 2020 Thank you Herr Doctor 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
salmonpastures Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 Now the rush is over I have found time to catch up with the "BIG 0"!!!! Those trees look magnificent Alan,,,, it is just a shame they hide your lovely backscene!!! Where's the bus,,,, as you now have a bridge??? SAD 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted April 2, 2020 Author Share Posted April 2, 2020 Thanks SAD I don't think one would fit on the bridge. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post westerner Posted April 5, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 5, 2020 I've spent the last couple of days adding to the mineral wagon fleet. A Parkside slope sided 16 tonner (Kit PS31). not the easiest kit for me (My left hand does not work as well as it did in the past)as the upright part of the side had to be glued to the top of the bottom of the side (if that makes sense)and then the gap filled. Therefore it became a subject of fairly heavy weathering. It might even get a bit more. 23 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 That looks excellent to me Alan, well done young man. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggies1961 Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 Excellent work Alan love the weathering, what did you use on the slope sided mineral to achieve that effect? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted April 5, 2020 Author Share Posted April 5, 2020 Baggies, sorry I don't know your real name, I tend to use Lifecolor acrylics and Humbrol washes an odd combination of enamels and Acrylics. The Chassis is painted using the Lifecolor's, Weathered Black, followed by Frame Dirt, Track Dirt, and finally Brake Dust all from Lifecolor's Rail Weathering Set, The frame dirt and Track dirt is brushed upwards from the chassis and is allowed to flick the bottom of the body. The Body: the inside was given a wash of Humbrol rust and before it was really dry it was given a second wash of Humbrol Dark Grey, this producing the rusty coal effect. The outside was initially given a spray with grey primer. this looked close enough to the normal body colour that I did not bother to over paint with the correct grey knowing I was going to weather it fairly heavily. The weathering was done mainly with Lifecolor's Dust and Rust set namely Rust Base , and Rust Light Shadow No's 1& 2 mainly applied with a cocktail stick, there was much removal using a damp cotton bud. Over this was applied a wash of the dark grey Humbrol, again wiped off with a cotton bud in a downward direction. Depending on how it looks I then redo the rust patches again until I'm satisfied. As you can see with the 2 Dapol minerals it is easy to vary the amount of weathering. 2 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb67 Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 Nice weathering there Alan 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post westerner Posted April 13, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 13, 2020 Only a little done in the past week. made the lamppost next the steps on the platform made one of the telegraph poles and grass as appeared on the platform. The station and line are closing in a few months. The lamp hut is just a mock up at the moment. 20 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post westerner Posted April 18, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 18, 2020 The last couple of days I've been putting together the Intentio GWR lamp hut. And a helicopter shot. 22 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 Lovely weathering on that Hut Alan, t's all looking very nice. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggies1961 Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 Hi Alan, Apologies I should have signed off with my name when I asked the question on weathering your minerals. Love the how its all coming together and the effect of closure looming. Its a brilliant layout. Regards Julian. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted April 19, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 19, 2020 8 hours ago, westerner said: The last couple of days I've been putting together the Intentio GWR lamp hut. And a helicopter shot. Very nice Alan. I like the sleeper base. That's gone into the files... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb67 Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 Th hut looks really good Alan, fits in there very nicely. I like the idea of putting it on the sleepers as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted April 19, 2020 Author Share Posted April 19, 2020 The 4 sleepers came with the kit so I assumed they were to mount the hut so that the bottom of the corrugations had a better chance of not corroding. There will be longer tufts of grass around them, the sleepers, and around the station building. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted April 19, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 19, 2020 Alan, the lamp hut looks the business, but according to OPC's 'A Pictorial Record of Great Western Architecture', the lamp huts were not provided with a floor! (P421) The official drawing shows lower part of the frame had baseplates which were buried in the ground and then the hut had a concreted floor poured in. I suspect that Intentio supplied the sleepers to be trimmed and laid as a box like section to represent the concrete base. Being placed on sleepers as you have doesn't really work as the poor lamp man would be hurdling the sleepers as he tried to sort out the lamps. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted April 19, 2020 Author Share Posted April 19, 2020 (edited) Food for thought. Easily altered I hope???????? Edited April 19, 2020 by westerner 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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