Westerham, + Weald. Tarmac surface for the platform

[mullie]

23 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

http://www.dover-kent.com/2014-project/Peacock-Iden-Green.html

 

Our local until we moved to France - taking the landlady and her hubby with us!

What a fantastic looking pub. That design could be seen in Essex too.

 

Martyn 

Edited April 5, 2023 by mullie

[Graham T]

4 hours ago, westerhamstation said:

Hop Pickers Wanted, but not until September, when the hops will be ready for picking.   think the next building might be the pub as I owe the farmer a few pints for giving me the land to build the Oat House.

Some pictures of the finished Oast House.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All the best Adrian.

 

 

Very nice indeed!  I really like that.

 

[MrWolf]

Very nicely built and blended into the landscape, top Job.

 

[westerhamstation]

13 hours ago, Oldddudders said:

http://www.dover-kent.com/2014-project/Peacock-Iden-Green.html

 

Our local until we moved to France - taking the landlady and her hubby with us!

Hi Ian, thank you for putting the link up to the pub site, it is a great resource and one that I have spent many a happy hour revisiting pubs that I remember, it also gives a lot of background detail as well on the history of each one. All the best Adrian.  

[sb67]

Very nice modelling there Adrian, hop picking sounds a fine way to spend a few weeks in September. My parents used to do that, who knows could have been near Westerham! Your modelling certainly gives the feel of the fine Kentish countryside. 

[Sasquatch]

Hi Adrian, seeing as we're reminiscing over Kentish Inns and the like, I couldn't help thinking of The White Heart in Newenden, probably the coziest pub we ever visited. Spent a couple of hours in there waiting for the AA one rainy Easter bank holiday Monday (over 30 years ago now). When I looked it up on Google Earth, there's an Oast house just like your model right behind it!

 

Regards Shaun.   

P.S. Happy easter, don't over do it on the chocolate eggs etc.

[SRman]

I've only just caught up again. The oast houses and the layout in general look absolutely magnificent. Lovely work, Adrian.

[Fishplate]

Lovely modelling Adrian. 

[westerhamstation]

Spring is sprung, the grass is riz. I wonder where the birdies is.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ChrisN]

 The bird is on the wing, but that's absurd,

I say the wing is on the bird.

 

Lovely pictures.

[Nevermakeit]

Really evocative pictures - although the leaf-litter on the ballast makes me think of Autumn rather than Spring! :-)

[Sasquatch]

Hi Adrian. You're making me rather home sick. Please take that as a compliment!

 

Regards Shaun 

[Fishplate]

Lovely pictures Adrian. I particularly like the 3rd and 6th ones.

 

I can't remember your track plan to place that scene relative to Westerham and Brasted. Do you have one you could share ?

 

What are you planning next ?

[westerhamstation]

11 hours ago, Fishplate said:

Lovely pictures Adrian. I particularly like the 3rd and 6th ones.

 

I can't remember your track plan to place that scene relative to Westerham and Brasted. Do you have one you could share ?

 

What are you planning next ?

Hi Fishplate, sorry I don't have a trackplan but I will try to draw one up in the next week. Next on the list are a pub, cattle dock, barn, very low relief shed/barn, station building and the list goes on 🙂. All the best Adrian.

[Fishplate]

26 minutes ago, westerhamstation said:

I don't have a trackplan

 

That'll be why I can't remember it . . . . 

 

Look forward to seeing that. I'm sure others will also be interested.

[westerhamstation]

The platform at Weald was made from a old wardrobe door which had a mahogany varnished surface, this needed changing  into something that looked more platform like. Old tarmac for the platform surface with repair joins etc was my choice, and as I had some pieces of 240 grit wet and dry these have been used for the surface. Joining them together I have torn them so that the edge is ragged and thinner, this means that it is not raised from the next piece and the join is more like a repair to the tarmac. After the pieces had been glued down and left to dry I knocked the surface back by going over it all with a block of wood, this has the effect of dulling the surface of the wet and dry, some brown pastel chalk has been used in places to add a bit of colour. I think that the pictures show the sequence I have used but if not just ask.

All the best Adrian.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

God Save The King.

[Graham T]

That’s a neat technique, particularly for the joins.  Looks very effective to me.