Ruston Posted March 1, 2020 Author Share Posted March 1, 2020 (edited) The ballast and track are now finished and ready for the addition of grass and weeds. I'm pleased with the look of the trackwork now that it's had rust weathering powders on the rail sides and chairs, followed by a blow-over of a general dirt mix from the airbrush. Other left overs from River Don Works were these Knightwing pallisade fencing gates, which now seperate the yard from the BR exchange sidings. They're awaiting a couple of security signs that I have made using Photoshop. I'll also have to fill the gaps around and between the rails with sleepers or something. Edited January 25, 2023 by Ruston 13 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37114 Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 The track work looks great in those last shots Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb67 Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 Looking good Dave. I like the gates in the last photo and the use of sand for ballasting has got the right texture, looks just right. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ruston Posted March 3, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 3, 2020 (edited) Dave said "let there be light"; and there was light. I've had these LEDS for a while now. I got them from an electrician friend for just £10. They're supposed to run off 12v DC but I don't have a ready source of 12v so I'm using an old plug-in 16v AC transformer that I bought second hand at an exhibition, for a fiver. A bridge rectifier turns it into about 14v DC, which seems to work. I've been playing with the trainset and as I have put a bit of grass down, I thought I'd take some snaps. I made some supporting columns as if they were a continuation of the demolished bridge but then I thought would a scrap man would leave them standing? No, they'd be gas-axed and go into a railway wagon, so I've just left stumps on stone bases. These will be filled with grass and weeds. This chap is an old Phoenix casting and worked in the old scrapyard layout, so after 30 years he's back in business. Edited January 25, 2023 by Ruston 30 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted March 3, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 3, 2020 This is one of the best photos of a model railway I have ever seen: 6 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb67 Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 Superb photo's Dave, the locos look great and the wagons and loads are fantastic. All very inspiring! Well done. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted March 4, 2020 Author Share Posted March 4, 2020 (edited) I have just found another figure from the old layout. He used to be part of a BR track gang but he's now got a job in the scrap yard. Just trying the lorry, that I built a few pages back, for size. More recycling. This 13-t steel high wagon was bought for an EM project that never took off. I regauged it to EM and have now put it back to OO, weathered it and painted the rough white lettering on as something that's come to be cut up. Edited January 25, 2023 by Ruston 17 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ruston Posted March 8, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 8, 2020 (edited) This week, but mostly yesterday, I made another low-relief backscene building and a crane. This crane uses left over parts from a Walthers kit that have been modified to fit. I have also made the first of the weighted point levers. It is made entirely from brass so as to be able to take knocks during track cleaning. Although it is only cosmetic, the lever does move. Edited January 25, 2023 by Ruston 17 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ruston Posted March 8, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 8, 2020 (edited) Today's post. The remaining gate post from when the yard was a public goods yard. I've made it from card and wire, whilst the thing (what is the technical name?) to stop carts from clobbering the hinges is made from plastic pipe and superglue. I painted dark grey around the iron hinge pins to represent the lead that holds them into the masonry. The post isn't yet fixed down. The long-abandoned trackbed has some quite mature trees growing on it and the end is now fenced off. I've put the trees in to hide the ends of the buildings and to disguise the fact that they have no real depth. Edited January 25, 2023 by Ruston 27 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ruston Posted March 10, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 10, 2020 (edited) Another low-relief backscene building, and one that I just had to have on the layout, is the pub. As the layout is neither period as regards the Peaky Blinders TV series, or a model of the real Small Heath of the 1980s, I can do whatever I like. I've made The Garrison more like the real thing than the building in the TV series. I've used photos of it during the present century, and it is reversed and smaller, so what's seen here on the layout is fiction based on prototype. Edited January 25, 2023 by Ruston 18 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted March 12, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 12, 2020 Nice, well documented build, Dave. A very nice layout indeed. Rob 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LBRJ Posted March 12, 2020 Share Posted March 12, 2020 I seem to have missed a few updates on here, which makes it all the better to take in the wonderful atmosphere you have created (again!) , though in my minds eye its all happening in Sheffield not Birmingham - which ties in with the PB theme, cos my own g/grandad was a bit tommy shelby (series I, maybe II version!) back in the 20s Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted March 12, 2020 Author Share Posted March 12, 2020 Thanks for the comments, chaps. Not a very interesting photo but it's a vital part of the scene under construction. The first of two assemblies that go to make up the traveling part of the crane. I still haven't managed to get hold of any steel flat bottom rail for it to sit on. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted March 12, 2020 Author Share Posted March 12, 2020 (edited) That's the basic structure done. Edited January 25, 2023 by Ruston 7 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted March 12, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 12, 2020 Would there be a bar across the ends to tie the sides together? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted March 12, 2020 Author Share Posted March 12, 2020 (edited) On 12/03/2020 at 20:16, Stubby47 said: Would there be a bar across the ends to tie the sides together? If you mean between the long beams that stand on the supports then the answer is not that I know of. The cranes that I've seen for myself don't and I haven't found any on the interwebz with such a bar. With the supports being so hefty and firmly planted into the ground I guess there's no need for one. The small crane still needs its traveling part, The backscene is now finished as far as the rear panel buildings are concerned. The building with the arched windows is the lower storey from the Skytrex resin mouldings that I had to cut off to get the distillery store to fit. I've just added some Wills corrugated sheet to it. The building on the far left is just Wills brick and corrugated sheet, with a staircase added for interest. Edited January 25, 2023 by Ruston 13 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb67 Posted March 12, 2020 Share Posted March 12, 2020 Very nice Dave, really like the cranes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LBRJ Posted March 12, 2020 Share Posted March 12, 2020 The stone to prevent cart wheels* hitting the gate post could be just called a Bollard....... or you could go posh and call it a chasse roue *Cart wheels project from the main body of the cart so could easy catch on things, on motor vhicles they tend to be "inboard" so don't offer the same risl. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobbler Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 Really enjoying the layout thread, thanks for posting. have three Hornby Ruston, giving me lots of ideas and inspiration ! Richard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warspite Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 Just finished catching up with this thread. Absolutely lovely work, especially the attention to detail. And as for those gorgeous Rustons ... Keep the pictures coming. Stephen Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted March 14, 2020 Author Share Posted March 14, 2020 I made this very short film to show the DCC sound in one of the Rustons and have added the background scrapyard soundtrack that I made. The whole soundtrack lasts for 30 minutes and, apart from the general noise of scrap, there is the sound of a BR train and a HST passing off-scene (but not in this clip), lorries idling and the sound of an oxy-acetylene set being fired up and burning metal is also in the full version. I'm not sure if I will use it much as it's a bit of a din! WHAT DID YOU SAY! 17 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warspite Posted March 15, 2020 Share Posted March 15, 2020 The Ruston sounds great. I think the background scrapyard sound also works really well and adds an extra dimension to the scene. Just wondering what I can use as background sound to an ironstone yard. Probably just Paul Chetter's birdsong and some distant quarry sounds ... Stephen 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted March 16, 2020 Author Share Posted March 16, 2020 The main scrap pile, to go under the large gantry crane. I cut up some foam insulation and glued hundreds of bits of old and broken stuff and plastruct off-cuts to it until it was almost completely covered. As it is, it now has an all-over spray of matt black (which doesn't appear to be very matt at all!) from a rattle can. I'll spray over the pieces with a rusty brown colour and then pick out some pieces that could have the remains of paint on. After that I'll see what I can do with washes, weathering powders and airbrush to make it look something like believable Smaller clumps and individual parts will be placed after this lump is in position to try and blend the thing into the scene, rather than have it standing out of its surroundings. Pieces scattered between the tracks and in the four-foot, under the crane - that sort of thing,,, 11 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ruston Posted March 17, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 17, 2020 (edited) KEEP OUT... By order of the Peaky Blinders. Edited January 25, 2023 by Ruston 20 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike morley Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 (edited) Might that scrap pile be just a little bit too high and precarious? The tiniest slip might make the crazy train go off the rails . . . Edited March 17, 2020 by mike morley 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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