Docklands Sidings - Restoring photo's!

[sb67]

I've added some rubbish and a bit of junk around this end of the layout, really must get on with something else now!

Trouble is things aren't running so well, as careful as I've been I need to clean the inside edges of the rails and also the goods siding, having painted and textured it, the paint and texture has collected around the chairs  increased the height of them! now very litle runs smoothly along it so a bit of work to do there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 28 by sb67

[Mick Bonwick]

Looks good, though!

[chuffinghell]

Mick is right it does look good and I’m sure it only requires a little fettling 

[Mikkel]

 Just been looking at your grass here Steve, very convincing I think. It has just the look I'm after for an embankment. Thanks for the inspiration.

[sb67]

Thanks Mikkel, you're welcome. I can't take credit for any new methods, mostly they came from RMWeb and the Modelling grasslands book by Gordon Gravett.

If you're looking for embankment inspiration have you seen Heaton Lodge Junction on here? If has the most realisticscenery I have ever seen, definitely worth looking through the thread there's a step by step near the start.

 

https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/110677-heaton-lodge-junction/&tab=comments#comment-2287639

Edited March 7, 2021 by sb67

[Rivercider]

On 04/03/2021 at 21:34, sb67 said:

I've added some rubbish and a bit of junk around this end of the layout, really must get on with something else now!

Trouble is things aren't running so well, as careful as I've been I need to clean the inside edges of the rails and also the goods siding, having painted and textured it, the paint and texture has collected around the chairs  increased the height of them! now very litle runs smoothly along it so a bit of work to do there.

 

 

 

 

 

I think that is nicely understated, with not much going on, because there is not much going on!

 

cheers

[Mikkel]

47 minutes ago, sb67 said:

Thanks Mikkel, you're welcome. I can't take credit for any new methods, mostly they came from RMWeb and the Modelling grasslands book by Gordon Gravett.

If you're looking for embankment inspiration have you seen Heaton Lodge Junction on here? If has the most realisticscenery I have ever seen, definitely worth looking through the thread there's a step by step near the start.

 

https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/110677-heaton-lodge-junction/&tab=comments#comment-2287639

 

Thanks, hadn't thought of looking at Heaton Lodge, embankments galore!

[SteveyDee68]

Not sure how I've missed this (or, rather, not followed it). Really liking everything you are doing here, Steve, and will be stealing emulating for Castlebrook Sidings, as this is the kind of run down look I've had in mind.

 

Steve S

 

[sb67]

20 hours ago, SteveyDee68 said:

Not sure how I've missed this (or, rather, not followed it). Really liking everything you are doing here, Steve, and will be stealing emulating for Castlebrook Sidings, as this is the kind of run down look I've had in mind.

 

Steve S

 

 

Thanks Steve, steal away! I've probably pinched the ideas from other layouts myself! 

[sb67]

Finally attatched my buildings to the backscene, just got to work out what to put in between them now! 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 28 by sb67

[sb67]

Inspired by the Carlie Strong Metals thread and the fact that the area I was basing my layout on had a bit of scrap traffic I thought about the buildings on the right being part of a scrap yard. 

I've mocked up how I think it could look.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 28 by sb67

[Flying Pig]

1 hour ago, sb67 said:

Inspired by the Carlie Strong Metals thread and the fact that the area I was basing my layout on had a bit of scrap traffic I thought about the buildings on the right being part of a scrap yard. 

I've mocked up how I think it could look.

 

 

 

 

I'm trying to think of a way to load scrap onto rail wagons, but I think that might be over-egging the pudding.  Can you make the boundary follow the line of the railway?  A chain link fence topped with barbed wire might be more in period and piles of scrap would hide the base of the backscene well enough.

[sb67]

2 hours ago, Flying Pig said:

 

I'm trying to think of a way to load scrap onto rail wagons, but I think that might be over-egging the pudding.  Can you make the boundary follow the line of the railway?  A chain link fence topped with barbed wire might be more in period and piles of scrap would hide the base of the backscene well enough.

 

I did think of chain link fencing but thought that if it were near scrap piles it should be a bit more substantial. If I'd thought it through at the start I could have had some sort of loading facility at the back.  That siding goes through the level crossing and I was supposing it goes to an industrial estate part of which would be the scrap yard but it only sees occasional traffic. 

I wanted to be able to run steam stock on the layout as well so wasn't sure if a chain link and barbed wire fence would be suitable. 

[Flying Pig]

That makes sense, but I still think making the boundary follow the railway if possible will look more interesting.

[37114]

It looks good, I agree about the comment on the boundary following the railway. For the wall you could use old sleepers mounted between I shape beams, which would be more substantial and suit both steam and diesel?

[sb67]

I was going to copy a photo I've got in a book of a wall with corrugated sheets on the top taking the height to about a scale 10ft. I like the sleeper wall idea though, I'll try and find some photo's of one but I think I know what you mean.  

I've also done a bit of basic grassing, a lot of it will eventually be covered in bramble weeds etc and the building will have stuff growing up part of it as per a phot. Not worked out what the plants are yet though. 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 28 by sb67

[37114]

On 15/04/2021 at 15:25, sb67 said:

I was going to copy a photo I've got in a book of a wall with corrugated sheets on the top taking the height to about a scale 10ft. I like the sleeper wall idea though, I'll try and find some photo's of one but I think I know what you mean.  

I've also done a bit of basic grassing, a lot of it will eventually be covered in bramble weeds etc and the building will have stuff growing up part of it as per a phot. Not worked out what the plants are yet though. 

 

 

 

Here is a good photo, I used it for the sleeper wall on my layout:

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/rivercrouchwalker/31986775192/in/photolist-2aCvAqy-NgGhgB-gkypdj-2f95HvV-MBqb1Z-ExLfLL-29CXCWT-26M2ses-ovanx9-Ts26WX-Vd3X8q-2eHmkPE-JPhmqz-JPhmGM-QJyzS1-28APDNx-JGqQ8v-moUu2F-nHWSmw-ok8YMT-oBqtj9-JPhkpM-2furWWw-HZU4d6-9oSYR7-rg6DJA-F11biV-nEDhep-6s5oM8-gk25XT-oSFwa5-VsPFTW-bxXZJa-yGmwsr-Mg3Wqw-nrDij5-gjbKFc-rT76tg-27KYSNM-nkn5TB-YTB8cs-dKLY3Q-JKgLWd-KCY7qE-rEwWfR-nivnuY-AkZsvq-qKn3ij-29oZQPj-rGfKTp

 

[sb67]

Thanks Rob. I like that. 

[sb67]

Progress has been a bit slow of late due to my indecision as to what to put on the backscene. 

I've been growing brambles and weeds though! This is based on a photo I've seen of some plant, Virginia Creeper I think, grown up the side of a building surrounded by brambles. Nothing is stuck down yet, the grass needs trimming a bit at the front and the creeper will be stuck to the building but I just wondered what people thought? 

 

 

 

[Mick Bonwick]

I might be wrong, and am quite happy to be corrected if that's the case, but the colour of the creeper leaves looks to be at odds with the colour of the grass. The former looks like autumnal colouring and the latter looks like mid-to-late summer. Nonetheless, the overall scene is excellent.

 

One of the problems with achieving this level of detail is that because there is so much to look at there will be even more people who find fault with what you've done, or seem to think they know far more about the subject than you do.

Edited May 7, 2021 by Mick Bonwick

[sb67]

That's a good point Mick, maybe the longer grass should be more paler? I cant post a pic of the photo as I dont want to fall fowl of any copyright stuff. 

I could add some greener leaves to the creeper as well to suggest it might just be turning red. 

[Ighten]

Some great inspiration here I'm especially liking your vine creeper leaves and brambles -- what did you use as the base wire/line  for them as it seems almost invisible

[sb67]

10 minutes ago, Ighten said:

Some great inspiration here I'm especially liking your vine creeper leaves and brambles -- what did you use as the base wire/line  for them as it seems almost invisible

 

Thank you Ighten. The Brambles are made from ruberised horsehair and the creeper is Postiche or Theatrical hair. Both sprayed with glue then appropriate scatter sprinkled on. As I said the scene needs developing and tidying a bit more and nothing is stuck down yet. 

Edited May 7, 2021 by sb67

[lapford34102]

Looking very good Steve. Have you sorted out the running yet?

 

Stu

[sb67]

14 hours ago, lapford34102 said:

Looking very good Steve. Have you sorted out the running yet?

 

Stu

 

Thank you Stu. The running is a bit better, still needs a bit of work but cleaning the inside edges of the rail tops helped. I have been a bit preoccupied with the scenery though as I lost my way with my ideas.