BlackRat Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 Never mind the thread being dead........ I thought you'd popped yer clogs! Good to see you back and tidy modelling! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium The White Rabbit Posted January 19, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 19, 2017 How many weeks old was it and does it need walking twice daily? More to the point, is it house-trained? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted January 23, 2017 Author Share Posted January 23, 2017 The small goods shed for the Southern mini branch line layout. The engine shed is also built bar the doors. Waiting for Evergreen V boarding to arrive from Hattons then I'll post pics when completed. Cheers. Allan 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ianLMS Posted January 23, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 23, 2017 Perfection in miniature yet again!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted January 26, 2017 Author Share Posted January 26, 2017 (edited) The Evergreen V groove boarding arrived today enabling me to build the doors and finish the engine shed off. Here it is along with the coal stage and Terrier Tank Engine. Cheers. Allan Edited January 26, 2017 by allan downes 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted January 28, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 28, 2017 Good to see you're posting on here once again Allan. 'ow far sowf are ya going wiv dis? Cos it looks rar-ver 'ayling eye-land or possiblly Isle A Whigh. Niton would be a good locale, the Suvern didn' go dat far sowf. Niton is even farfer sowf dan Weymuf or Swanidge. Regards Shaun. Ain't we not got no accent 'av we in Bri'n. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted January 28, 2017 Author Share Posted January 28, 2017 Goin' Sarf as far as the spare room walls allow Shaun. Cheers. Allan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted February 5, 2017 Author Share Posted February 5, 2017 For a back drop a brewery as a change from the usual cottages seemed a good Idea so one got built. It was a single story building to start with and even the coal stage dwarfed it so I added another floor beneath it which made all the difference and it will eventually sit on a raised loading platform with a rail feed to the front. Anyhow, here are a few awful test shots taken in artificial light but when it's fixed down on a platform I'll try later to get some better shots outside in natural light. Cheers. Allan. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sp1 Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 Just had a thought - do you have any pictures of 'Candleford Mill' (I think that's the name I remember) that didn't appear in Railway Modeller? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted February 6, 2017 Author Share Posted February 6, 2017 Just had a thought - do you have any pictures of 'Candleford Mill' (I think that's the name I remember) that didn't appear in Railway Modeller? I don't have any pictures now and I'm sure it appeared in the RM. It was on permanent display at Peco for 17 years then taken apart where the buildings were used on another in house layout and the rest put into storage. Cheers. Allan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted February 6, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 6, 2017 I don't have any pictures now and I'm sure it appeared in the RM. It was on permanent display at Peco for 17 years then taken apart where the buildings were used on another in house layout and the rest put into storage. Cheers. Allan. See earlier in this very thread : http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/70935-anything-you-can-do-i-can-do-better-robinson-and-downes/?p=1165175 (post #2013 onwards) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted February 6, 2017 Author Share Posted February 6, 2017 The brewery. Outside shots. Cheers. Allan 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebottle Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Shakes head in admiration... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted February 6, 2017 Author Share Posted February 6, 2017 Ever tried ordering anything from Gaugemaster lately ? Absolute bloody nightmare where after an hour or more you get absolutely nowhere yet - last week it was a doddle. Gaugemaster note.Go to Ebay instead. Ordered and paid for in minutes. Cheers. Allan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
batrapyr Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 (edited) Confession time precedes this response to one of the longest threads that I have ever tried to read from beginning to end. I haven't modelled anything in the past 44 years. I am only returning to model railways as retirement approaches and first grandson has arrived. However, I started reading this thread as it looked like a good source of inspiration. It didn't disappoint, although I have to say that I haven't read every single one of the 6,000+ replies!!! Allan - your most recent posts indicate that you are modelling something in the Southern region but all of the images that I have seen only show buildings/walls as plain brick (forgive me if I am wrong on this). Have you considered that most boundary walls and some building walls included large areas of flint & mortar? I am not sure about the techie term for this method of building is but I do recall that, in Sussex at least, walls invariably consisted of brick piers with rows of bricks at the bottom and top and the middle part was flint and mortar. I assume that this was because flint was freely available anywhere near the South Downs. I am also planning a Southern layout (in 4mm) so any hints or tips as to where I can source materials to model 'flint' walls would be appreciated. Also, is there anywhere that I can go to view some of your amazing handiwork? Edited February 6, 2017 by batrapyr Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgman Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Loving the brewery Allan, is it based on anywhere specifically ? This is one that always got my juices flowing in more ways than one ! Hook Norton Brewery in the Oxfordshire village of the same name which was part of my old stomping ground, so to speak. It was and may still be powered by steam. Certainly one for modelling and could be adapted for a light industrial scene I reckon. Hmmm..... Grahame 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted February 6, 2017 Author Share Posted February 6, 2017 Hi Graham. That is a truly beautiful building and typical of the Victorian era. I saw it after I had started my effort as inspired by the Abingdon Brewery also of Victorian influence. Still time to change it I suppose... As a model, such industry built to dead scale dimensions would soon swallow up a layout and leave precious little room for anything else thus calling for some very heavy compromising and ending up looking nothing whatsoever like the prototype ! - especially when you're trying to fit it, AND a branchline station, on a door ! Cheers. Allan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted February 6, 2017 Author Share Posted February 6, 2017 Confession time precedes this response to one of the longest threads that I have ever tried to read from beginning to end. I haven't modelled anything in the past 44 years. I am only returning to model railways as retirement approaches and first grandson has arrived. However, I started reading this thread as it looked like a good source of inspiration. It didn't disappoint, although I have to say that I haven't read every single one of the 6,000+ replies!!! Allan - your most recent posts indicate that you are modelling something in the Southern region but all of the images that I have seen only show buildings/walls as plain brick (forgive me if I am wrong on this). Have you considered that most boundary walls and some building walls included large areas of flint & mortar? I am not sure about the techie term for this method of building is but I do recall that, in Sussex at least, walls invariably consisted of brick piers with rows of bricks at the bottom and top and the middle part was flint and mortar. I assume that this was because flint was freely available anywhere near the South Downs. I am also planning a Southern layout (in 4mm) so any hints or tips as to where I can source materials to model 'flint' walls would be appreciated. Also, is there anywhere that I can go to view some of your amazing handiwork? Well, welcome back to the hobby Sir and I guess you're right as far as flint and brick cottages are concerned in the South. Anyway, if you wish to replicate this try budgie grit, and ideal representation of flint and somewhere on this thread there's a picture of a church using this material but don't ask where ! The only place I know of where my work is exhibited is at the Peco modelrama in Beer, Devon. Whether or not that any of it is til there after decades of being on show I'm not certain. Cheers. Allan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Smeeton Posted February 7, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 7, 2017 About time you got out on the show circuit, Allan, showing us lesser mortals where we are going wrong. Next door to Mr Wright, perhaps, for a one/two stop shop for all our modelling disasters. Regards Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevejjjexcov Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 Ian I agree with you completely. Over to you Allan we await your response with hope in our hearts!! Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted February 8, 2017 Author Share Posted February 8, 2017 The auld body wiilna stand up to exhibitions these days I'm afraid. Anyway, I'd miss my nurse ! Cheers. Allan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Smeeton Posted February 8, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 8, 2017 Bring her with you. We need to find out how you keep on going, and Nurse sounds like she is the answer! Regards Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted February 9, 2017 Author Share Posted February 9, 2017 With her legs nobody's gonna be taking notice of me. Cheers Allan 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted February 13, 2017 Author Share Posted February 13, 2017 The Station Hotel. This is the last building for the layout ( there's only so much you can get on a door ) which now leaves the finer details and blending everything in which takes more time than you anticipate with waiting for glue to dry being the main culprit. So, about a week should see it off and ready for Chris Nevard's magic Box Brownie and, speaking of whom, have you seen his latest Micro-layouts recently ? Well treat yourself and check him and his work on Model Rail Facebook - stunning. Cheers. Allan. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted February 13, 2017 Author Share Posted February 13, 2017 Here's a few colour shots of the whole layout to give some idea as to what I'm at. Most of the buildings are loose standing at the moment and that anemic green sludge around the goods shed won't always be an anemic green sludge - it's just the first stage groundwork build up. Cheers. Allan 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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