Aston On Clun. A forgotten Great Western outpost.

[MrWolf]

Well spotted, lots of useful photos there too. You can see why I thought it might be Eynsham, although looking at the photographs I can see that the shed was further away from the booking office at South Leigh, also the Eynsham shed looks to be the taller version of the 14' X 8'....my goof!

 

 

 

 

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[MrWolf]

Painted and very lightly weathered. I added a latch strap to the door and carved the blob of a handle into something vaguely padlock shaped.

 

 

 

 

Pictured here with its contemporaries, gives an idea of the size of the model.

 

 

 

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[chuffinghell]

You’ve used the Slaters corrugated sheet to good effect 

[MrWolf]

Not made any great strides in railway modelling today, I can't complain though, I have been working on a painting, flicking through books and trawling the internet for research material.

I have been working on the front wall of the Gent's for my station building. It got its kick up the derriere from me finding the slatted ventilator moulding. 

I hope that @Captain Kernow will recognise which station inspired it. 

 

 

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[chuffinghell]

[MrWolf]

36 minutes ago, chuffinghell said:

 

No, it needs something a little more accurate to hit the Chav Family Robinson three doors down...

[MrWolf]

Still finding bits to do on the other buildings, such as telephone insulator brackets....

 

 

 

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[NHY 581]

Top stuff , Rob. 

 

That really does look the part. 

 

Rob. 

[Captain Kernow]

 

On 26/12/2020 at 17:56, chuffinghell said:

it’s more an approximation

Which actually makes it spot-on accurate, because that is essentially how the old GWR painting foremen went about things, mixing the colours on site, using a colour card as a guide.

 

[Captain Kernow]

8 hours ago, MrWolf said:

I hope that @Captain Kernow will recognise which station inspired it

I'm going to go out on a limb here (before I undertake an 'essential trip' into the village) and suggest that it could have been any Eassie wooden station building, but more likely somewhere such as Dorstone?

 

[MrWolf]

On 05/01/2021 at 09:47, Captain Kernow said:

I'm going to go out on a limb here (before I undertake an 'essential trip' into the village) and suggest that it could have been any Eassie wooden station building, but more likely somewhere such as Dorstone?

 

 

I remembered you commenting about stations on the Golden Valley line when I mentioned Vowchurch. It's a mixture of that, Dorstone and Peterchurch. 

I have added a small canopy for three reasons.

1. To make it look less of a straight Eassie crib. 

2. Because I have the parts in the box of doom.

3. I like station canopies.

 

Below is a working sketch of roughly what it will look like.

 

 

 

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[MrWolf]

I am slightly stalled at present with the station building, due to a shortage of materials and conflicting ideas about the layout of the building. 

I had an idea thanks to @Horsehay Railway Modeller posting on his thread and scrolled back half a dozen pages to the advice that everyone has given me about signalling and particularly a signal box. 

I had bits of both Wills and Ratio signal boxes kicking around and looking at the components of the Wills all timber box, it is reminiscent of the resin and 3d kit from Dexters cove. The steps are even facing the right way for what I wanted. It's apparently a Saxby & Farmer design.

 

 

 

Image Wills / Model Maniacs.

 

It can be cut and shut into a four window frontage without too much trouble by chopping about like this:

 

 

 

 

That makes an 18' box. What I need though is a 14' box, which means a bit more cutting about.

 

 

 

 

Once you have chucked several bits away, it starts to make sense I hope!

 

 

 

 

If I have my sums right, I think that I have taken a scale 8'6" off the building, made it a plausible size for the layout and not overwhelmed any of the other buildings.

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[Horsehay Railway Modeller]

I'm glad my ponderings were of some inspiration. 

 

I realised I hadn't read through your thread yet, now rectified, some excellent work. 

[MrWolf]

Enough for one night. It still needs a lot of cleaning up tomorrow when all those joints have hardened.

 

 

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[MrWolf]

Having done a good amount of cutting and shutting on the front and back walls of the signal box, I wasn't expecting to be doing any work on the gable end walls other than filing off the rather LMS looking name boards below the eaves and scribing the plank details back in.

 

Easy.

 

Wrong.

 

I managed to make what can only be described as a complete dog's breakfast of it. Fortunately, the tongue and groove boarding that Wills' produce is to the same dimensions. So I cut out two new gables and glued them in between the corner posts.

I think that I have got away with it.

It now needs sanding and painting before I add any more details.

 

 

 

 

 

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[MrWolf]

I haven't got an awful lot of practical progress made today, but I have got a couple of coats of paint on the signal box.

 

 

 

 

 

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[MrWolf]

What I have been doing is doodling a few ideas whilst we are watching inspirational Hollywood violence on TV. 

 

It's because the first kit I ever hacked about, after an article in MRC sometime around 1983, was the good old Airfix signal box. I had 50p and a Stanley knife, so set about making my own version of the square box at Dent. Just because.

 

@chuffinghell 's ruminations about goods shed offices had got me thinking and I didn't want to hog his thread or muddy his own ideas on how to build a goods shed.

 

But I thought I would share my ideas for what might be possible, just by using the roof and three sides of the signal box. Other bits could be very useful too.

 

 

I have no idea why this is sideways, it isn't like it in my files. 4G sucks lately and this is about my 10th upload attempt. I suspect "they" want us all to buy new phones...

Anyway, what would be the top picture, is a goods yard office / checker's hut. Bottom is a possible porter's room on the end of a brick station.

 

 

Next I thought add skylights and a vent and you have a gents, or cut the building another way and you have a weighbridge hut for a small space, squeezed up against the goods shed wall.

 

Image Andrew Grantham.

 

There's a lot of useful bits in this 60 year old kit. 

I suppose that you could even make a signal box out of it?

 

I have posted this in the hope that it will be of interest or useful even to one or more of you.

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[Moxy]

I hope you don't mind the slight hijack, but this is my take on a cut down Airfix signal box

 

 

It won't be going any further than that because I've managed to get the far vertical,  well slightly less than vertical, but it gives the idea of what I intended.

 

The replacement roof is Wills ends (SSMP220 T&G boarding, I think), card roof with a downloaded texture for the slates.  The matchsticks under the end are to support bargeboards.

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[Alister_G]

13 hours ago, MrWolf said:

What I have been doing is doodling a few ideas whilst we are watching inspirational Hollywood violence on TV. 

 

It's because the first kit I ever hacked about, after an article in MRC sometime around 1983, was the good old Airfix signal box. I had 50p and a Stanley knife, so set about making my own version of the square box at Dent. Just because.

 

@chuffinghell 's ruminations about goods shed offices had got me thinking and I didn't want to hog his thread or muddy his own ideas on how to build a goods shed.

 

But I thought I would share my ideas for what might be possible, just by using the roof and three sides of the signal box. Other bits could be very useful too.

 

 

I have no idea why this is sideways, it isn't like it in my files. 4G sucks lately and this is about my 10th upload attempt. I suspect "they" want us all to buy new phones...

Anyway, what would be the top picture, is a goods yard office / checker's hut. Bottom is a possible porter's room on the end of a brick station.

 

 

Next I thought add skylights and a vent and you have a gents, or cut the building another way and you have a weighbridge hut for a small space, squeezed up against the goods shed wall.

 

 

There's a lot of useful bits in this 60 year old kit. 

I suppose that you could even make a signal box out of it?

 

I have posted this in the hope that it will be of interest or useful even to one or more of you.

 

That's very clever Rob, a great use of an old kit.

 

Al.

[MrWolf]

Thank you Alister, I wouldn't claim to be the first to think of bodging around with it, but I think it pays to revisit these models and look at how we  can use them or parts of them to make something unique or unavailable elsewhere.

I rather like what @Moxy has begun with his, it has a look of one of the South Wales companies about it time and I have never known anyone alter the width before now. I reckon that it needs finishing off just for the hell of it, there's a lot of potential there.

[MrWolf]

Today's post brought a wonderful surprise, in the shape of a Dapol streamlined railcar. It's an anniversary present from RRH for having quit smoking. I don't know if she was paying attention when I showed her the pictures of the one on Little Muddle last year or whether she bought the fully valanced model because of her art deco leanings.

I have been testing it under power and it seems to run very smoothly. It's back in it's box now until I finish with the landscaping!

Compared to what I was used to as a kid, the packaging is commendable. Pulling a model out of the polystyrene trays of yesterday was nerve wracking, not quite as bad as playing with landmines, but you get my point.

I wasn't expecting this, as I got a loco for Christmas too.

I'm now doubly glad that I quit smoking last year! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Rowsley17D]

Who's a lucky boy then?

 

Looks as though it's crying out for passengers because of those large windows. Any plans? I hope it's easy to take apart if you have.

[MrWolf]

15 minutes ago, Rowsley17D said:

Who's a lucky boy then?

 

Woof Woof.

 

15 minutes ago, Rowsley17D said:

 

Looks as though it's crying out for passengers because of those large windows. Any plans? I hope it's easy to take apart if you have.

 

Good point. It's very easy to remove the body by spreading two clips under the centre doors, leaving all the seats, lighting etc firmly screwed to the chassis. 

But then you need a driver / conductor. Which is where the First Law Of The Cosmos comes in:

 

Thou Shalt Not Win.

 

Driver at one end, wrong.

 

Driver at both ends, wrong.

 

I will have to only run it at night with the forward cab lit up.

[Rowsley17D]

I could say I have a similar problem with my motor train, but I haven't really. There's a driver in the trailer and one in the cab, but it's hard to make out the one in the trailer and the one in the cab is on the non-viewing side!

[Mick Bonwick]

46 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

 

Driver at one end, wrong.

 

Driver at both ends, wrong.

 

 

Just alter your viewpoint so that you can only see one end at a time. It won't matter then, will it?