Mountain Ash

[NHY 581]

23 minutes ago, Barry Ten said:

"I never wash," says TV's NHY 581.

 

 

Just the occasional dip.....

[Chris Chewter]

Given the recent interest in weathering locomotives, I came across this handy step by step guide and thought it might be useful to put a link here in this dicussion.

 

https://www.world-of-railways.co.uk/techniques/weathering/how-to-weather-a-locomotive-using-paint-washes-and-powders

[Chris Chewter]

River bed laid but it looked too bright.

 

 

I covered it with dilute black acrylic and another sprinkling of talus. Hopefully that’ll do the job.

 

 

Leaf litter is an opened green tea bag. I don’t do green tea!

[Chris Chewter]

E-Z water melted and laid, although it wasn’t quite so e-z. I ended up with a ridge on the first pour, so had to melt a bit more and thankfully that sorted it out.

 

First the disaster. Make sure the diorama is flat otherwise you end up with this:

 

 

Now on a flat surface, another layer before the first had cooled allowed the imperfections to melt and a nice finish achieved.

 

 

[Chris Chewter]

After a bit of sanding, I’ve fitted the back scene. I’ve also put some reeds in along the bank edges. I also found two telegraph poles to fit either side of the bridge and fitted some detritus on the far bank. There was an imperfection in the e-z water under the bridge, so a dumped sleeper will have to hide that.

 

 

Again, Goblin will have to give a bit of scale to the layout. The Andrew Barclay is sat on the shelf in the living room so wasn’t to hand.

[Bo-Bo]

Nice model work, I do like those long rushes along the waters edge.

[Chris Chewter]

Autumnal tree made up by using Noch autumn leaves affixed with spray mount.

 

 

Taking photos is very useful as the rushes on the left hand side look too regular. A few more are required I think.

[Chris Chewter]

Sorted out the reeds. That looks better.

 

 

[Chris Chewter]

Whilst sorting out the photos for my entry into this round of the cake box competition, I remembered that I have a DJ models austerity Mountain Ash No.8.

 

 

I can’t use it for my entry, but I thought I’d post it here for your enjoyment.

[Kevin Johnson]

Hi you have produced a lovely cakebox railway layout, nice modelling through the build. Well done!

[Ben B]

The shot with the Austerity is really evocative of the real place, I was re-reading Gordon Edgar's book on the class and there's some nice shots of the real bridge.  Lovely bit of modelling, and the water is very realistic indeed.

[tomparryharry]

On 13/11/2019 at 07:17, Dickon said:

 

You could barely see the green paint in their working days.

 

I love the loose buffer hanging off the wagon.

 

Both photos are of-what was- Big Pit. It's all gone now. The locomotive shed has disappeared underneath an industrial estate.