RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted June 9, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 9, 2021 2 hours ago, woodenhead said: A class 20 on the Western CK? Deputised for something else on a freight from the LMR to Westerleigh Yard. No problem for the 'go anywhere' Saltley driver. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Captain Kernow Posted June 9, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 9, 2021 Never mind yer etched brass kits, yer 3-D printing and CAD design or yer rivet counting, I'm staying 'old school' and having plenty of fun just cutting up scraps of cardboard and gluing them to the layout with PVA! 18 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Captain Kernow Posted June 10, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 10, 2021 With the road bridge forming a central feature of the layout and being located right on a board joint, I do need to ensure that the scenery matches up on each side, yet doesn't foul the vertical pieces of plywood bolted to the ends, to protect the layout in storage and when being transported. As such, although I am planning to work on the scenery on each individual board in isolation (in my work room, where I have space for one board at a time and don't need extended permission to occupy elsewhere in the house), I do need to do some of the basics around the road bridge area, with both boards joined up. One of the next tasks, is to cut out and fit a card road surface, that includes the road over the bridge, the lane down in front of one set of cottages, plus the access road to the goods yard. I want this to be all cut from one piece of card, so that there is a kind of 'flow' to it and no avoidable join lines. Having produced a paper template in the same manner for the simpler road on 'Bethesda Sidings', I set about doing the same for 'Callow Lane', sticking smaller pieces of paper together with Sellotape, until the whole area was covered: The completed template was then removed and positioned on a large piece of light grey Daler board: I then lightly taped the template to the Dalerboard, drew round the outline and cut the resulting piece of card out: The card roadway was then positioned on the layout. Fortunately only a few minor tweaks were necessary to get it to fit: There's a lot more work to be done here, of course, including making and fitting pavements and other street furniture, painting and weathering etc. 16 6 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted June 10, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 10, 2021 Needs more potholes... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Holt Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 Are you going to introduce any camber to the roads, especially the one over the bridge? If so, I'd be interested to see how you do so. Great to see the layout progressing again. Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted June 11, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 11, 2021 I've thought quite a lot about whether to introduce any camber on the road, Dave. The area in front of the cottages is not a road, anyway, rather a footpath, so no camber required there. Also, the access track leading down to the goods yard is going to be rather decrepit and a bit overgrown, having seen better days and is also quite narrow (I'm thinking of the long, single track 'road' that leads down to Exmouth Jct yard in Exeter), so I wouldn't have put a camber on that either. This leaves the 'main' road over the bridge, which in reality is actually quite narrow. If I do put some camber on it, I will probably use a thinner card, glued over a central strip along the centre of the road, but it would still only be very slight and I'm not sure if it would be worth all the work, to be honest. I will probably produce a trial piece and make a decision after that. 1 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackRat Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 Nice to see the layout back up AND running CK. You got a special flat wagon/weltrol for the grand piano?? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted June 11, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 11, 2021 4 hours ago, BlackRat said: You got a special flat wagon/weltrol for the grand piano?? Er, grand piano? Bit of a slow day. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackRat Posted June 13, 2021 Share Posted June 13, 2021 On 11/06/2021 at 16:11, Captain Kernow said: Er, grand piano? Bit of a slow day. The piano player on your vids......... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted June 13, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 13, 2021 I'm impressed CK can play the piano, film and drive the train all at the same time! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted June 13, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 13, 2021 38 minutes ago, BlackRat said: The piano player on your vids......... A recent but much valued member of staff here at Kernow Towers. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold queensquare Posted June 13, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 13, 2021 Great progress Tim, I like the trick of using lots of small pieces of paper aped together. Regarding the camber on the road, I suspect you could suggest it sufficiently with careful painting. Jerry 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted June 13, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 13, 2021 (edited) On 13/06/2021 at 09:31, queensquare said: Great progress Tim, I like the trick of using lots of small pieces of paper aped together. Regarding the camber on the road, I suspect you could suggest it sufficiently with careful painting. Thanks Jerry. I have made a test piece of camber, involving a strip of thin card down the middle of the Dalerboard roadway, with another bit of thin card glued over the top. It's just about discernible and very subtle, but I'm not totally persuaded that it will be that apparent to viewers of the layout. My use of a new Olfa scriber (a la latest MRJ and the lovely Irish station building by Simon de Souza, which directly inspired me to order one on Friday last week) on some pavements seems to be working well. Some of the pavement sections, which are quite narrow, will have to be removable, to disguise the baseboard join. Photos to follow, as I am now required to go to the local garden centre! Edited August 1, 2023 by Captain Kernow 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted June 26, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 26, 2021 A few progress photos. Test piece of pavement scribing with the new Olfa cutter: Some actual pavement, shaped to fit in front of the chip shop: The totality of the scribed plasticard pavement that I intend to add: 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Captain Kernow Posted June 26, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 26, 2021 Re6/6 came round for a visit a few days ago, so I took the opportunity of putting many of the completed buildings out on the layout (all except the goods shed will eventually be permanently attached to the layout): The card will eventually receive suitable scenic treatment and the gaps between the building walls and the card will be filled. Some trains were then run. NCB locos were 'plated' to run as far as Callow Lane from the nearby Frog Lane colliery: 28 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgman Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 Inspired as always ! A fan 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium figworthy Posted June 26, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 26, 2021 4 hours ago, Captain Kernow said: NCB locos were 'plated' to run as far as Callow Lane from the nearby Frog Lane colliery: Very nice mon capitain. Is that a High Level Barclay ? Adrian 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted June 27, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 27, 2021 13 hours ago, figworthy said: Very nice mon capitain. Is that a High Level Barclay ? Adrian Yes, that's right. Number 45 was based at Frog Lane colliery at the time 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrowroad Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 Love your terrace of houses Tim what is their source? Robin 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgman Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 1 hour ago, barrowroad said: Love your terrace of houses Tim what is their source? Robin Made by his own fair and talented scratchbuilding hand, which inspired me to use Scalescenes products to supplement / compliment other media. ( With apologies to the good Captain for answering on his thread ) G 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium figworthy Posted June 27, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 27, 2021 13 hours ago, Captain Kernow said: Yes, that's right. Number 45 was based at Frog Lane colliery at the time Thanks. I've got one working its way through the erecting shop at the moment. If you don't mind me asking, how have you arranged the pickups for the power, the instructions are a bit vague about it. Adrian 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dragonboy Posted June 28, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 28, 2021 Very nice indeed +1 more now following 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted June 28, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 28, 2021 11 hours ago, bgman said: Made by his own fair and talented scratchbuilding hand, which inspired me to use Scalescenes products to supplement / compliment other media. ( With apologies to the good Captain for answering on his thread ) G No apology necessary, but the source of the two front-facing terraces and the cottage backs are the Howard Scenics kits, albeit with my own windows and some fairly significant modifications in the case of the cottage backs. I do have a row of Scalescenes cottages elsewhere on the layout, plus another of their products. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted July 9, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 9, 2021 On 27/06/2021 at 23:24, figworthy said: Thanks. I've got one working its way through the erecting shop at the moment. If you don't mind me asking, how have you arranged the pickups for the power, the instructions are a bit vague about it. Adrian Sorry Adrian, completely forgot to check, the loco is packed away in a drawer, but I'll get it out and have a look. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted July 9, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 9, 2021 I've been slowly working on the landscaping and pavements, all of which are close to the baseboard joins between the two scenic boards. The first bit of the embankment next to the road bridge now done. The road bridge itself is on one board and the bit of embankment shown is on the next. This means that the retaining wall for the bridge (which is covered in this photo with some protective card) is not on the same board as the bridge itself. The cling film stops the Polyfilla and PVA mix gluing the join up: Following a question by @Dave Holt previously, I have now decided to put a camber on the road, albeit only a rather gentle one and only on the 'main' road over the bridge itself. Some thin card was first glued down the middle of the road: Another piece of card (thinner than the Daler board used previously) was then cut to shape and glued on top: The pavement sections were not glued down at the time. 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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