Cawdor Quarry

[Alister_G]

Thanks Dave.

 

Your White Peak layout was a very heavy influence in my choice of look for this. If I can get Cawdor looking half as good I'll be very pleased.

 

Al

[Rowsley17D]

Baby powder? What about some actual calcium carbonate - chalk!

[sb67]

7 hours ago, Alister_G said:

Hi John,

 

Thanks very much. No, I think bevelled corners is a step too far...

 

I agree, it needs to look more dusty. I don't know if you can get white weathering powders - I would expect so - so I might have to get some.

 

Alternatively, I could just chuck some Johnson's Baby  Powder at it... It would smell nice, too...

 

Cheers mate,

 

Al.

 

I'm sure Humbrol do a white weathering powder Al.

 

Steve

[chuffinghell]

21 hours ago, sb67 said:

 

I'm sure Humbrol do a white weathering powder Al.

 

Steve

They do, I have some......

 

......that doesn’t smell like a baby’s bottom either

 

 

Edited November 3, 2019 by chuffinghell

[Alister_G]

When I laid the curved siding at the back of the yard, I forgot to paint it, so first job this evening was to mask off the world, and give it a blast of Tamiya Red Brown.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once that had dried, I was able to do the next job, which is to start to bring the ground up to rail-top level.

 

So the track was masked off, and more filler added:

 

 

I put the retaining wall back in position to identify any low spots:

 

 

And added more filler:

 

 

Finally, I removed the masking tape whilst the filler was still wet - as I wasn't sure what would happen if I let it dry - and removed any overspill:

 

 

Although there's a fair depth of filler, I'm hoping it will be dry by tomorrow evening, and I can sand it to it's final shape.

 

Then, I'll do the other side.

 

 

Thanks for looking,

 

Al.

[Alister_G]

My replenishment of squirty paint has finally arrived, and so this evening I've had a go at the tall building.

 

I first gave it an all-over coat of Humbrol 64:

 

 

 

 

Then I deployed the masking tape, and covered most of the building, but left a few panels free.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then I gave it a blast of Humbrol 27 Sea Grey.

 

When that had dried, I removed all the maskage:

 

 

 

 

And in position on the layout:

 

 

 

 

Hopefully I've kept the pleasing contrast in colours that we got from the different styrene sheets. Probably overdone a bit, but once weathered it should calm it down.

 

So tomorrow is time for some rustage.

 

Thanks for looking,

 

Al.

[chuffinghell]

I’ve had a number of try’s to come up with a word to best describe your work

 

I couldn’t choose one so without sounding like Mary Poppins the best I could come up with was excellentsuperbfantasticmagnificent 

[Alister_G]

Thanks Chris, that's very kind of you. A real portmanteau of a word...

 

Al.

Edited November 4, 2019 by Alister_G

[Enterprisingwestern]

 

I go away for a month, and, bish bash bosh, you're at it again!

There's a medical term for it I believe, "Swadlincoteitis"!

Excellent modelling as ever.

Presumably this will be the northern end of a string of layouts working their way down to Cromford to connect with the C&HPR and Ladmanlow sidings?

For mitred corners in plastic and brass, I find one of these invaluable;

 

 

Mike.

[Alister_G]

That looks very  useful, thanks Mike.

 

"Swadlincoteitis" I like. Sadly not for much longer.

 

Al.

Edited November 5, 2019 by Alister_G

[Alister_G]

As promised, a bit of paintage:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for looking,

 

Al.

[Enterprisingwestern]

 

There are times when "that looks crap" is a compliment!

 

Mike.

[chuffinghell]

1 minute ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

There are times when "that looks crap" is a compliment!

 

Mike.

I’ll try that next time Sarah comes back from having her hair done at the salon and let you know how I get on

[Alister_G]

36 minutes ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

There are times when "that looks crap" is a compliment!

 

Mike.

 

Erm... Thanks?

 

33 minutes ago, chuffinghell said:

I’ll try that next time Sarah comes back from having her hair done at the salon and let you know how I get on

 

Do you want flowers at the funeral, or just donations?

 

 

Al.

[Alister_G]

You know how I said there'd be a plan "B" for applying rivets?

 

Well...

 

Here it is...

 

 

 

I'm sure Adrian (Westerham) would be proud of the Acme Rivet Mask(TM)  patent pending.

 

I know it looks like a cowpat suffering from wood worm, but it is in fact an offcut of styrene with lots of holes drilled through it.

 

This is then held over the subject, and Humbrol Dark Earth sprayed through it from a rattle-can.

 

This is the result:

 

 

Of course, you have to be careful how much paint you use... Here I may have  been a little enthusiastic...

 

 

However, there's lots of weathering to add yet, to hide my sins.

 

Ah well, there's always plan "C".

 

No, I haven't thought of it yet, but I'm sure it will be great...

 

Cheers,

 

Al.

[chuffinghell]

It looks quite effective to me but I get the impression you’re not entirely happy with it (reference to plan C)

[Alister_G]

Just now, chuffinghell said:

It looks quite effective to me but I get the impression you’re not entirely happy with it (reference to plan C)

 

I'm happy with the front face, but really annoyed that I overdid it on the side. Unfortunately as I used the mask it became increasingly contaminated, and dripped more paint onto the surface.

 

I should have made another one really to keep it clean.

 

However, it's done, and it doesn't look too bad.

 

Al.

[Enterprisingwestern]

 

Whilst it's a bit of a mind numbing exercise, a cocktail stick/bit of wire dipped in PVA/superglue is a good rivet maker, in your case with the added ballache of rusting each one!

 

Mike.

[Alister_G]

Thanks Mike,

 

Someone else mentioned that - either here or on a different thread - and I tried it on a scrap piece as a test. Either my PVA, cocktail stick or general ineptitude meant that I couldn't get consistent small blobs, so I gave up.

 

Al.

[Enterprisingwestern]

 

You can make a small indent with point of a scriber to blob the glue into which I find helps, and there are those who just make the indent and weather that, as from normal viewing distances the eye can't make out concave/convex shapes under a slathering of weathering!

 

Mike.

[westerhamstation]

Hi Al, I have passed your idea for the Acme Rivet Mask to the Research & Development dept at at Acme Enginnering Works who have expressed an intrest in it. They have found one or two holes in the design concept but would be quite willing for you to develop the idea further. All the best from the Acme Enginnering Works.

PS: the paintage looks great.  

[sb67]

Really like the painting and weathering on the loader Al, I'm sure you'll sort out the side you're not happy with, I like the idea of the rivet mask.

Steve.

[Alister_G]

Thanks guys.

 

Adrian, I will get the working drawings over to Acme Engineering Works, and they can set up their foundry. I admit there are some holes in the design, but hopefully they can fill in the blanks.

 

Thanks Steve, I think after a good dose of lime, it should be fine.

 

Al.

[Alister_G]

This evening, I been mostly getting plastered.

 

First, I continued to try and bury the sidings under filler:

 

 

 

 

 

Then, I made a start on covering the quarry face, and putting in some basic shaping and strata:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once this has dried, I can scribe in some finer detail, and then paint it all.

 

Thanks for looking,

 

Al.

[Alister_G]

A bit more styrene bashing this evening.

 

I decided to have a go at freelancing something like this:

 

 

Not all of it, you understand, just the thing on the right.

 

So I started with the most obvious thing... A salt container:

 

 

I chopped the top and bottom off, and then discarded the middle section:

 

 

 

 

On a piece of paper I marked a square of suitable size to fit round the circumference:

 

 

Then, on some 40thou stryene I marked and cut a circular piece with my Olfa to fit the bottom of the cone:

 

 

Then, I took a strip of 20thou x 80thou styrene, and curved it between my fingers:

 

 

This was then attached to the small circle, to give it a slight lip all the way round:

 

 

 

 

This made a nice snug fit inside what was the lid, but will be the bottom of the hopper. it was glued in place using UHU glue, as MEK didn't do much to the salt container.

 

 

Next, some ribs were added to the sides, to make it look more interesting, using 10thou x 60thou strip:

 

 

Turning our attention to the frame of the structure, I cut a load of lengths of "H" girder:

 

 

and using the paper template as a guide, stuck them all together. I used some 40thou square styrene rod for the bracing struts:

 

 

I did that twice:

 

 

Then I started adding the sections to join the two sides together:

 

 

Finally the frame was all stuck together:

 

 

And here's what it looks like:

 

 

Here's where it is going to live:

 

 

 

 

I'm going to take it away and prime and paint it now.

 

Thanks for looking,

 

Al.