RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted April 21, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 21, 2021 Some of us would be delighted to approach that result. It looks fine. The railway's environs are key to giving it an atmosphere, but they are not the be-all and end-all. Hard to imagine how this building wouldn't add value. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 36 minutes ago, gwrrob said: Mininatur summer ivy I assume. Not sure where you would get it now but this was from International Models of many years ago. Cut into individual strips and odd leaves painted Olive Green to give it a more variegated look. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted April 21, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 21, 2021 3 minutes ago, KNP said: Not sure where you would get it now but this was from International Models of many years ago. Cut into individual strips and odd leaves painted Olive Green to give it a more variegated look. https://www.newmodellersshop.co.uk/mininatur/936-22s_ivy_summer.htm 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mick Bonwick Posted April 22, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 22, 2021 Not a particularly productive day. I recently joined the Industrial Railway Society and have received some back numbers of the Record. When something new arrives to read you just have to read it! I did get some chimney pots added and some lead flashing stuck on the roof, though. 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mick Bonwick Posted April 25, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 25, 2021 There will now be an interlude while I deal with another matter. Not reading magazines, though, just doing some weathering for a change. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted April 25, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 25, 2021 (edited) I've had a hair cut too. Will you be weathering the cottages? A touch of green growth around the footings, some soot stains on the chimney and in the sheltered corners. Edited April 25, 2021 by Stubby47 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mick Bonwick Posted April 25, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 25, 2021 1 minute ago, Stubby47 said: I've had a hair cut too. Which one? 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mick Bonwick Posted April 25, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 25, 2021 17 minutes ago, Stubby47 said: Will you be weathering the cottages? A touch of green growth around the footings, some soot stains on the chimney and in the sheltered corners. Not in this case, no. Green growth only happens in damp places, such as leaking downpipes and very wet ground. Soot staining on chimney pots is usually on the top surface of the rim and inside the pot itself. 4 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold john new Posted April 25, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 25, 2021 Don't forget the orange lichen. Not sure about Tophill but on many a roof down here in Underhill, also the ubiquitous white splatting. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mick Bonwick Posted April 26, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 26, 2021 (edited) No sooner do you turn your back than things start growing. Edited April 26, 2021 by Mick Bonwick 13 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgman Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 2 hours ago, Mick Bonwick said: No sooner do you turn your back than things start growing. Watch out ! 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mick Bonwick Posted April 29, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 29, 2021 Who's got what modelling plans for today, then? Mine involve tidying up. I seem to have opened just about every single box in the workshop while doing the cottages, so it all needs putting away properly, so that I can find it the next time I need it. 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted April 29, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 29, 2021 Me, me, sir. Cutting bits of cardboard into wall shaped shapes, 16 separate pieces needed, then they all need covering in brick paper. And it's in 7mm scale... Then the roofs will need doing, and the water tank, and the wooden curved platform and matching awning. Whaddyamean I should be decoding validation rules for a report? Pfft. 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 Thatching!!!!’ 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold JustinDean Posted April 29, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 29, 2021 Building a control panel as a distraction from post Covid jab shivers! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 (edited) A twenty miles round trip on a three quarter century old motorcycle to get no2 jab knocked that out of me this morning. Just a mildly aching shoulder now. I will be creating a signal box interior / dropping tiny parts on the floor and maybe making the lead flashing for the station building out of grocery receipts suitably scalpelled. Edited April 29, 2021 by MrWolf 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mick Bonwick Posted April 29, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 29, 2021 We had our second jabs on Tuesday afternoon, at the Kassam Stadium. What a slick operation that is! No waiting anywhere during the process, from parking the car to driving away again took less than 10 minutes. It should have taken longer but I completely forgot that I was supposed to wait 15 minutes in the car before driving away. Having cleared away most of the residue of the cottage construction I decided to do a little more ballasting. I had only done plain track up to now, so the first of the points is being tackled, a little bit at a time: 13 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted April 29, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 29, 2021 Did you paint the sleepers first ? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mick Bonwick Posted April 29, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 29, 2021 54 minutes ago, Stubby47 said: Did you paint the sleepers first ? Yes. This time I remembered! 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted April 29, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 29, 2021 You've not cut the excess sleeperage or tiebar pips off though... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mick Bonwick Posted April 29, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 29, 2021 1 minute ago, Stubby47 said: You've not cut the excess sleeperage or tiebar pips off though... Correct. Note that that bit hasn't yet been ballasted. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 1 minute ago, Mick Bonwick said: Correct. Note that that bit hasn't yet been ballasted. Quick thinking!!! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mick Bonwick Posted April 29, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 29, 2021 This photograph from Colin Caddy shows how the end of Bloomfield Terrace is right next to the footbridge across all of the station throat tracks to Railway Road off to the right of the shot. This bridge had no connection to the railway's property. I hope that this shot shows how I plan to replicate that association on my model. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mick Bonwick Posted April 29, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 29, 2021 (edited) Oh, look! Somebody has been using a razor saw. Edited April 29, 2021 by Mick Bonwick 6 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mick Bonwick Posted April 29, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 29, 2021 Weathering, ballasting and scenery all in the same photograph. How about that, then? Meanwhile, just a few inches away . . . . . . . That's it for today. I'm off for a meeting with Gordon and Maggie Gravett this evening. Who else will I see there? 12 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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