Popular Post Chandwell Posted May 17, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted May 17, 2021 (edited) The station is finally finished! It has taken five months but has turned out almost exactly as I had hoped. If we compare this picture to the elevation I drew and showed in my last post, it is almost the same... It is built into a gently-rising slope from the left of the building to the right. It’s a 20mm rise in all. This makes the slope very gentle but to the naked eye it really works well. The camera doesn’t pick it up so much: It is all scratch built from card as usual. Even the tiny, 33mm high war memorial, which was made from 18 individual pieces of cereal packet and paper: I showed the graffiti in an earlier post but it has worked out really well on the back wall. I need to sweep the ballast drifts out of the fire escapes but it is hard to get round the back now that it is glued down! I am pleased with the view down the tracks to WH Smith’s on the concourse. I’m going to spend the next week or so editing the Chandwell YouTube video. I have almost four hours of footage I need to edit down into three 10-minute updates. If you watched my recent “This is Chandwell” episode that was made to look like a tourist information film from 1993 then you will know of the Visit Chandwell Tourist Board. They now occupy one of the rooms in the station, and have a cheesy “Ghost Tours” A-board out the front. In the windows, and on the walls inside are posters advertising Chandwell (“It’s not as grim as you think it is”/“a lovely place to leave”) with actual photographs of the layout as background. You can just about make out a 4mm high photo of The Weir pub on the wall next to the downspout. Next door is Pippa’s Pantry, complete with apostrophe mistakes in her egg’s and chip’s sign out front. I really enjoyed making this building and adding some personality to it. The portico has a glazed roof but I’ve not managed to get a good picture of it yet. I may post more in the coming days. Edited May 17, 2021 by Chandwell 20 15 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padishar Creel Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 Brilliantly done. The gentle slope makes everything so realistic es grüßt pc 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duncan. Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 Hi Michael, Very nice work. I do not like layouts built on flat baseboards with track laid directly upon it because everything is level and there is nowhere for water to run to (if it was real) and would immediately flood with the slightest rain. Even in 'flat' areas such as the Fens the tracks are mostly built above the landscape (in this case to prevent flooding). With your layout being built well above the flat datum you can incorporate slopes and multiple 'levels' both above and below track level, result a real looking model. I tried to achieve similar effects with Shirebrook but my datum was the track base... that is the only flat and level part of the model everything else is rising (or falling) to some degree. Your buildings are impressive and look entirely correct for the area modelled. Cheers Duncan 4 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
warpy Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 The station looks superb Michael. Well done and definitely worth the hours put in. As others have said the gentle slopes but with the level windows works really well. The clock tower looks suitably imposing enough to represent the sort of railway folly so common from that era. And as usual the attention to detail with the VCTB, the cafe and all the signs, posters etc really makes the difference. I’ll look forward to the videos when they’re ready. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanks522 Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 Superb work Michael, your attention to detail is fantastic! The whole scene is coming together perfectly. Graham Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 (edited) Excellent result there. The design works really well. If the "not as grim as you think" campaign falls flat how about "It's a suprising place to live"? Edited December 24, 2021 by BernardTPM Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chandwell Posted June 17, 2021 Author Share Posted June 17, 2021 So now that the station is complete, I am turning my attention to a low relief Victorian hotel behind the station. This is based on the really interesting, incredibly rambling, and massive Midland Hotel at the entrance to Bradford Forster Square station. This will be an exercise in interestingly intricate roofs, hexagonal towers, domes, terraces, arches, chimneys, and fancy wrought ironwork (Err... Or not...). This is the cereal packet mock up of the build. It's already taken 32 hours over 25 days to get this far but I am ready to make a start on the building itself tomorrow evening. It has 124 individual window/door openings. I will be using the Sticky Label technique for every window frame. It's going to be a long job, but I can't wait to get started. 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium JDW Posted June 17, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 17, 2021 I'm not generally an N scale fan but this is fantastic, the attention to detail and level of realism in such a small scale is brilliant. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CN6 Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 I hope the tourists board are going to do another video of the construction! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahame Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 10 hours ago, Chandwell said: It has 124 individual window/door openings. I will be using the Sticky Label technique for every window frame. It's going to be a long job, but I can't wait to get started. Why not use Scene-setters glazing grids - they come in a range of sizes/pitches and are quick and easy to use. This building, that I scratch-built in N/2mm scale and, as yet, incomplete, is based on a real building and has over 70 windows all formed from the glazing grids: 4 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chandwell Posted June 18, 2021 Author Share Posted June 18, 2021 3 hours ago, grahame said: Why not use Scene-setters glazing grids - they come in a range of sizes/pitches and are quick and easy to use. This building, that I scratch-built in N/2mm scale and, as yet, incomplete, is based on a real building and has over 70 windows all formed from the glazing grids: That’s one lovely building! Beautiful work. The reason I use the sticky label method is two fold: I actually enjoy it! And most importantly, I can get all 124 windows onto a quarter of a sheet of sticky label and a bit of old birthday cake box, which will cost me a total of just over one and a quarter pence. And everything on Chandwell is done at absolute rock-bottom pricing! 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Martin Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 Hi Michael I've just spent 45 minutes pounding away on the exercise bike while watching your hotel build on YouTube. It's really fantastic stuff! I think that the backs of buildings are often more interesting than the fronts; and the Royal Scot is a marvellous hotch-potch of styles (not to mention that modelling the back allows us to enjoy the allure of Buffers nightclub). I don't have a YT account, so I can't subscribe to your channel, but I'll definitely be watching your other videos and following this topic. Jim 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chandwell Posted September 2, 2021 Author Share Posted September 2, 2021 Thank you Jim! I've not posted anything to this thread for a while, but it is really nice to see your comment! I hope Chandwell made your exercise bike a little more enjoyable! :) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBM37404 Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 Have seen this a while back on here but never commented, I like the way it's a terminal but has a bit of running line with a junction. Buildings and scenery are well done also. J Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Chandwell Posted October 14, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 14, 2021 The Royal Scot - Chandwell's low-relief Victorian scratch-built hotel is finally finished. I've been working on this for 138 days, and it's taken me 170 hours of effort, with materials costing £26.30 plus inkjet printer ink. It's turned out much better than I ever thought it would. If you've watched my 16-part YouTube series on making the hotel it will be familiar to you. If not - feel free to ask any questions about the build and I will answer them! 18 13 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Chandwell Posted October 14, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 14, 2021 And here's a quick BEFORE: And AFTER: 19 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanks522 Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 Fantastic work Michael, love the shot of pacer in the platform with the hotel bearing over it, absolutely superb! Graham 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold pirouets Posted October 14, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 14, 2021 Two new like options are needed - Gulps in astonishment - That's it. I quit Also, is your local celebrity, Lady Scoggins prepared to grace such an establishment with her presence or is it still to down market? 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridgiesimon Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 Absolutely stonking model making!!! Best wishes Simon 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chandwell Posted October 14, 2021 Author Share Posted October 14, 2021 10 minutes ago, pirouets said: Two new like options are needed - Gulps in astonishment - That's it. I quit Also, is your local celebrity, Lady Scoggins prepared to grace such an establishment with her presence or is it still to down market? Hahaha. Thank you! As to your question… watch tomorrow at 5pm and you may get your answer! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoover 40 Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 That's absolutely superb 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidMcKenzie Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 On 14/10/2021 at 19:12, Chandwell said: The Royal Scot - Chandwell's low-relief Victorian scratch-built hotel is finally finished. I've been working on this for 138 days, and it's taken me 170 hours of effort, with materials costing £26.30 plus inkjet printer ink. It's turned out much better than I ever thought it would. If you've watched my 16-part YouTube series on making the hotel it will be familiar to you. If not - feel free to ask any questions about the build and I will answer them! That sir is outstanding! Especially like the last shot with the sprinter in it. All the best, Dave 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angliacan Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 (edited) Hi Michael I thought I'd post a small reply on Chandwell You Tube channel. As I said I've got photos of the West Yorkshire Railway scene since the mid 1980's. I was brought up in Wharfedale, wher my parents still live. I have a interst in the whole history of West Yorkshire Railways since the early days of Middleton Railway in the 1810's. Here are some of the scans I've done from my photos of this era. I also know about the closures and reduction in railway. Take somewhere like Ilkley before Beeching it both a through Station on the Skipton to Arthington Jct line and a terminus from Leeds & Bradford with a large goods shed to the east of the station. Now it a 2 platforn terminal of the Wharfedale Lines. I remember Bradford when Interchange was the Inter-City Station for HST to London and Foster Sq was just for the Airedale & Wharfedale Lines, but with Large Warehouse for van trains for Gratton's. Ian Edited October 24, 2021 by Angliacan 10 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angliacan Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 (edited) Michael I've been checking the online rescourse about the Railways of West Riding. So to give you ideas of how much railway was built and how much is still around. Adolphus St Goods Station is Bradford is seperate to the passenger at Exchange. Also in Chandwell was the Goods Yards on a lower level below the viaducts. Perhaps this has closed in the years before you set and some of the larger buildings and rusting rails cobbles are still there awaiting the redevelopment which may have been delayed by the resession of the early 1990's. If you go for the remains of viaducts to a Goods Station could ther be some track stilll be in situ but not used & cut off from the rest of the layout. Here the Link to Bradford. http://lostrailwayswestyorkshire.co.uk/Bradford.htm Heres the link to Dewsbury http://lostrailwayswestyorkshire.co.uk/Dewsbury.htm Here the link to Leeds http://lostrailwayswestyorkshire.co.uk/leeds west.htm In the era your modelling British Rail was sectorised and getting ready for privatization so reduction in all sorts of things. Cities which still had Household Coal Yards saw these closed and the traffic stopped. Parcel & Mail traffic changed, the Mail Trains went from serving local stations with many TPO trains, there used to be a Whitehaven Huddersfield TPO nightly. A nightly York Shrewsbury Passenger/Parcel train. Then the were changing to dedicated larger Mail only modern out of town Hubs. Stations like Leeds or Manchester Victoria which had large Mail/Parcel handing areas reduced or cut back. At Leeds the new platforms 0 to 4 were all the old parcel depot The is the idea that some towns & cities across the UK had a few different stations over the years and were reduced to just one. I know in East Anglia Cromer had 2 station now only 1, Great Yarmouth had 3 Stations and extessive frieght lines. Now there just one. Norwich had 3 Station over the years. The 1st Victoria was closed when the current Thorpe Syation was open. the area became a goods yard mainly Househod Coal with it own ex BR diesel shunter, this yard lasting till the early 1980's now it a supermarket. Ian Edited October 25, 2021 by Angliacan 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidparker172 Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 On 14/10/2021 at 18:12, Chandwell said: The Royal Scot - Chandwell's low-relief Victorian scratch-built hotel is finally finished. I've been working on this for 138 days, and it's taken me 170 hours of effort, with materials costing £26.30 plus inkjet printer ink. It's turned out much better than I ever thought it would. If you've watched my 16-part YouTube series on making the hotel it will be familiar to you. If not - feel free to ask any questions about the build and I will answer them! I think this is now my favourite set of build log videos on youtube!!!! Absolutely fantastic 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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