7APT7 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 And Jaz That is shown in the trees you have made.... This a been a great thread to watch and read, the humour throught but the end result as been excellent... Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaz Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Well it is either back to terraforming, or onto Goathland station. It is still too cold to brave the garage and the airbrush. At which point Kal has a number of jobs lined up.So weathering locos, renaming, and a little project with grafitti will be elevated to big status. Meantime I am photographing my water, but it will take a while for me to get the detail, as i like to work on the water at my leisure. If anyone is interested in any specific modelling they can post an interest. Although ballasting is waiting until I know whether Kal is sticking with the peco or trying something else. Terraforming is most likely. I have 1. finish Heartbeat, joining up the roads, making a space for the tow houses that should fit in the space between Goathlnad and Heartbeat. 2. finish Goathland. This will include the second platform made from PIR. The wall behind the station made from PIR and the hillside made from....you guessed it PIR, swell as platforms etc. 3. get on with the bridge in Heartbeat that leaves Goathland station 4. sneak off and play with Sheffield Park. I plan a lane/road rising up to 100mm with a sort of Hovis advert style with modern buildings. OR a modern industrial area, which is about what is in the sheffield area nowadays. I won't be doing it like the rap thing it would be a tribute affair. 5. The back scenes to the computer control area are also up for grab although the one on the right is likely to be a flavour of the exit from Goathland, just ignoring the track, because we need an up and a down track. although if we hit a railway show and i get more detail bits / figures / etc I can paint them whilst watching TV. I won't do the willow back to back with the beech because it will probably bore the pants off people. So I won't have anyone to chat to. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
emt_911 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Jaz That tree is inspirational. :fan: I honestly don't think that there are enough craftsmanship icons available. Duncan 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaz Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 (edited) Hopefully I should get some nice on layout photos later today (i.e. after I have been to bed) , I suspect a lot of people will be shocked at how big the thing is. Although is is 100foot, the English champion Beech is 151 so half as big again!!!!!!!! It will dwarf the layout LOL, it's an absolute monster, and I added more height designing it to sit wit the exposed roots. Anyways I am off to bed Thanks again for the nice comments Edited January 30, 2014 by Jaz Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeroken1 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Good work here Jas. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
7APT7 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 (edited) Good work here Jas. Jaz, this is Ken one of the chaps at Birkenhead as I call it because that where I head for on the Road signs, I should say the Merseyside Model Railway Society and Ken, Jaz make great everything Models... Trees and water features and load more Just browse through the thread, there not a lot I dont think I have seen Jaz not do, would that be correct Jaz. Jamie Edited January 30, 2014 by 7APT7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaz Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 (edited) LOL I started to reply to this and the post kept growing. I should have done this on page 100. But This is a potted history of Arboretum Valley. Hi aeroken1 welcome to Arboretum Valley. Is there a link to the Mersey Model Railway Society? Perhaps a layout on RMweb? Always lovely to see other peoples work. As 7APT7 says Kal and I will have a go at just about anything, although I have way more time than him because he works and I am a housewife. We bounce a lot of ideas off each other, and Kal is a fantastic researcher (a small part of his work skills) I should have done a broad overview when we reached page 100, but it never occurred to me. Hopefully the following posts will give you an overview of what we have tried on our layout. Kal originally roped me in with would I paint a back drop then dress a little bit of the layout , a garden etc like a little dolls house. And it grew from there. I used to spend most of my time artistic time drawing (fantasy, portraits or characatures), Plus I like Warhammer painting. We use mostly plonk and play resin buildings, but as time allows I do weather them, these are Northern lights I have weathered. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/72163-arboretum-valley-you-cant-find-the-trees-for-the-wood-how-jaz-makes-trees/page-8&do=findComment&comment=1095160 Edited February 1, 2014 by Jaz 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaz Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 (edited) and helped draw up the layout ideas, especially the stuff around the tracks.But have crossed over into the scenic areas. I like water features (a lot) waterfall (this survives the rip out) the old river through version heartbeat 1 this is now ripped out http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/72163-arboretum-valley-you-cant-find-the-trees-for-the-wood-how-jaz-makes-trees/page-3&do=findComment&comment=1064027 this is going to be partly covered by Heartbeat version 2, but the high level will have a new waterfall reminiscent of Mallyann Spout falling onto this area so it is not completely lost Port Lynn Cove Edited February 1, 2014 by Jaz 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaz Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 (edited) and am fascinated by trees. considering the last exhaustive pictures I won't bore people with that My first serious kit (and only the third or fourth at all) build was done last year for Kal's birthday. Kalborough station http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/72163-arboretum-valley-you-cant-find-the-trees-for-the-wood-how-jaz-makes-trees/page-4&do=findComment&comment=1069380 dt sent a nice one for me to make up, the B.R.U.T.E.S. to which I added my own curtains made from painted tissue paper - the type you wrap china in Kalborough Station A Dapol house kit (the first thing I ever made from a kit. Temporarily sat in the Hogsmeade area. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/72163-arboretum-valley-you-cant-find-the-trees-for-the-wood-how-jaz-makes-trees/page-14&do=findComment&comment=1116515 Edited February 1, 2014 by Jaz 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaz Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 (edited) I enjoy the modelling, because I did 3D art at college. So I got a basis in photography (hence why I admire work like 7APT7 - thinking like the plastic model in the layout and getting photographs from their perspective, getting certain things in focus and others out of it (so you mind fills the details), pottery (which translates well, hence my skills with the DAS), , technical drawing (useful for drawing the track layout especially as I although am not computer phobic I really don't like CAD (computer aided design) as I prefer sneaking off to draw it with a pencil and paper) I did life drawing (but the modelling of 4mm figures are too fiddly for me to even want to trying to emulate the likes of Dart Castings, I don't even cut up plastic models and rearrange them). I have taken a great interest in the likes of acg_mr, freebs, Westerhamstation, , CW&R, JCL (I have yet to get the chance to read very much about his printer or his thread would be littered with me asking questions) as in people who have recently got into scratch building - and have made it their own. As well as more established modellers such as the inspirational Iain robinson and Allan Downes. Regards scratch builds I have set aside my first one in order to re do the walls because when I made my thatched roof out of DAS it became far too heavy for the 30 thou plasticard. Ye Olde White Horse Inn. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/72163-arboretum-valley-you-cant-find-the-trees-for-the-wood-how-jaz-makes-trees/page-10&do=findComment&comment=1100263 http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/72163-arboretum-valley-you-cant-find-the-trees-for-the-wood-how-jaz-makes-trees/page-11&do=findComment&comment=1103404 http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/72163-arboretum-valley-you-cant-find-the-trees-for-the-wood-how-jaz-makes-trees/page-14&do=findComment&comment=1115175 The only window I didn't 'draw I cut my own plasticard so is a bit naff lthough I did do a small one after a dare from C&WR (which I could not overlook because we dared him previously and he ended up with that lovely Art Deco build) I have bought in Linka to emulate Sasquatchs fantastic abbey, but as yet had no time. The small out house was the result. A scratch built outhouse photographed on Hogsmeade area Edited February 1, 2014 by Jaz 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
7APT7 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Hi Jaz That is excellent work, the house you have made is huge... Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaz Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Yes the pub was rather large, it is a real pub, and it was pointed out to me that first a first scratch build something so big might be a mouthful. Which is why I did the small outhouse (quick done in an evening). The photos today give a flavour of what has occurred on our thread, from my perspective at least. Kal does wiring, computer control, chipping, modelling as well, and a variety of other aspects. but as i can answer question about that which I am involved with I have stuck to those areas. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaz Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 (edited) having to date only weathered one loco.I didn't expect to be so pleased with it, so did not record how I did it. MPD ripped out to be rebuilt in a new position and a picture of the pro type to explain why it is so dirty Edited February 1, 2014 by Jaz 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
7APT7 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Great Jaz Well I have to say.... you are excellent at it. Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaz Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 (edited) But I have to admit nothing scares me, and as I read so many great threads I am learning good stuff all the time. As with everyone it is time. We have a modern day layout, which also includes a heritage and preservation aspect (allowing us a lot of choice of trains) and a film studio which basically covers anything else in the way of cheating (even the small RAF base could be a film studio - hence it's strange layout.Thus we justify just about anything on our layout....it is rather like being Alice and falling into Wonderland LMAO. (NB the following pictures are not numbered as they have been used in context elsewhere, however all are on my gallery) Kalborough Modern Kalborough East, another are yet to be fully developed Modern Kalborough Union Station Modern http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/72163-arboretum-valley-you-cant-find-the-trees-for-the-wood-how-jaz-makes-trees/page-15&do=findComment&comment=1123878 the original Heartbeat area (on this thread prior to August 2013 - although I refer to it after that date on numerous occasions Modern and Heartbeat 1960s film set And Goathland modern preservation film set for Heartbeat and Harry Potter http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/72163-arboretum-valley-you-cant-find-the-trees-for-the-wood-how-jaz-makes-trees/page-17&do=findComment&comment=1126617 In August 2013 we ripped up a large quantity 32 feet worth and started again.!!!!!!!!! The MPD which will now be rebuilt in the old loft sometime in the future in some guise or other modern (but needs to be resurrected in the new area atm homeless) http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/72163-arboretum-valley-you-cant-find-the-trees-for-the-wood-how-jaz-makes-trees/page-17&do=findComment&comment=1126454 http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/72163-arboretum-valley-you-cant-find-the-trees-for-the-wood-how-jaz-makes-trees/page-3#entry10658 Sheffield Park, the layout is ready, to be populated we just need the time it will be modern but with BlueBell preservation and heritage Port Lynn RAF base modern film studio / RAF rescue base with film set and re enactments which is so popular on NYMR (North Yorkshire Moors) Port Lynn Town Modern Port Lynn Cove Modern Hogsmeade and Hogwarts Modern filmset and filming crew for Harry Potter Modern Film set The recent work on Heartbeat and Goathland terraforming is us replacing it slowly. Sheffield Park station will follow. Kal masterminds all the electronics, wiring,DCC, point controllers, Railroad and Co, his understanding of this stuff is totally above my head, and his conversations with Richard Johnson of DCC concepts make my eyes water. And an initial test piece and how the terraforming started this rebuild, this piece floats around and is used to check new stuff looks ok OMG looking this I realise how much of our pictures we did not bring a cross with us from the other forum. I am off to upload some photos..................... Edited January 30, 2014 by Jaz 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
7APT7 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Hi Jaz & Kal True craftsmanship, those photos are all great, and shows just how long the layout is, it a great length and width. Keep up the excellent modelling, I'm learning a lot from your photos. Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
silky_jack Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 I am speechless. The tree.......... ........it's just superb. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
silky_jack Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 The pic of Sheffield Park that you are getting ready.....what is the large shed building on the left? I like it. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaz Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 There is a pair, one behind the other, Hornby Traction Building R9679 available from hattons which is where i uplifted the picture. Hope this helps. Unless you meant the one further left? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaz Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 I have seen someone do a brilliant weathering job somewhere, They basically recoloured and made it look completely different, far better than the standard model imo. I think on this forum, but the precise whereabouts defeat me. But it is worth looking our for. Ooh perhaps in the RM the skills and knowledge area? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Hi Jaz / Kal, I stopped besides the road this morning to look at a tree with Fungus, sad or what? Great work both, Andy 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaz Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Oh as a point of interest. I usual populate the gallery as i use the pictures on the posts, and therefore rarely review them. I was looking for something in their and thus browsing when I found some nice comments, but also questions. I have now answered the questions but if anyone has questions about the gallery it might be faster to pop the question up here, where Kal or I will almost certainly notice it, and you can get an aster while you still remember what ir refers to......LOL Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaz Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 (edited) AndrewP, did you take a picture with you phone? You can post it up here, all grist for the mill. Edited January 30, 2014 by Jaz Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaz Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 (edited) Port Lynn showing RAF at Top Cove at bottom and town to the right. rmweb506portlynn1 Whilst looking at my gallery today I noticed a few gaps so here i have added the Port Lynn cove area for your perusal Above you see the RAF base, and to the right Portlynn town, some wag did say we should turn it into PortWynn from the Doc Martin series. rmweb507Portlynn2 To the left you see my waterfall, on the heights is Hogsmeade and Hogwarts, below is Heartbeat, although the watermill by Bachmann is from Early near Reading IMHO And a long view of PortLynn town rmweb516portlynn1 Hope these make it easier to visualise Edited February 1, 2014 by Jaz 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcredfer Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 some wag kind, hansom person did say we should turn it into PortWynn from the Doc Martin series. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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