danstercivicman Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Looks just the part Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Michael Delamar Posted March 5, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 5, 2019 (edited) I’ve had a bit of time off with a sore back so when I felt a bit better I have been working on the engine shed. Almost like doing a jigsaw! I have now finished making up all the etched nickel smoke chutes. They are all primered in Halfords red primer. These took a while to solder up with the 1mm square brass rod. Before they can be fitted the shed needs to be painted in its cement colour, but before that I have been adding detail. Adding the cinder block wall on one side from when the shed was reduced from 6 to 4 roads and the other side which was cement rendered. In the triangular area above these on one side of the shed was plain brick and the other had an opening. Cutting the brick for these was awkward and eventually done on the laser cutter. Once done the shed was primered in Halfords white primer. It’s first dusting, there are some areas to clean up and fill in before it gets another and painting concrete colour. Then the smoke chutes can be fitted from below. The first ones are just placed in for photo. The backscene has also been completed and a start made on the lighting pelmet. Edited March 5, 2019 by Michael Delamar 24 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom D Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 Hi Mike, Shed looks great, I can't imagine how long it took for you to solder all those chutes. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gismorail Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 Amazing and mind blowing you must have the patience of a Saint either that or obsessed 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted March 6, 2019 Author Share Posted March 6, 2019 Obsessed id say as I don’t really enjoy factory production line type of modelling. Doing the same thing over and over. But id say the hard boring work is done now. There is more brickwork to add to this side of the roof, but that can’t go on until the roof is on. 13 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted March 6, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 6, 2019 Looking superb. Just goes to show how modern technology can turn an almost impossible modelling task into a manageable mind blowing job. Mike. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Holt Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 Michael, I must say how much I enjoy reading updates to this thread. I love the gritty, urban setting and the layout and buildings capture the feel beautifully. Have to say, the shed building with all those smoke hoods to fix must an absolute labour of love to stick at it. Dave. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Michael Delamar Posted March 30, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 30, 2019 Chris has been busy ballasting which is now finished and is currently airbrushing the rails and sleepers... The concrete sleepers are yet to be treated in these shots. 20 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
1BCamden Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 (edited) On 26/08/2018 at 18:43, Michael Delamar said: The grass has been growing thanks to Chris. Hi Mike, really admire your attention to detail with regard to the prototype, a very nice and possibly overlooked touch, was that you have pulled in Tue Brook into the scenic area, great little cameo. Ha, my mistake, it’s the subway !! perfect. Good thing I checked again. Edited March 30, 2019 by 1BCamden 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted March 31, 2019 Author Share Posted March 31, 2019 I’ve also acquired a DJH J10. Needs some work, some detail work, renumbering and conversion to EM gauge. For now it’s dumped alongside the shed like the last of the prototypes were. 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard.h Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 Just caught up with this, excellent work all round and the Loco Shed is first class, can't wait to see how it develops. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted March 31, 2019 Author Share Posted March 31, 2019 All credit for the layout deserves to go to Chris Hewitt, great motivator and will always have a surprise for when I come to the club, he works very hard. I pretty much tell him what I want and he does it. Sometimes I’ll ask him to change things and he will with no questions asked. 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andytrains Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 Very appropriate tee shirt! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir3oV9gxOMk 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gismorail Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 18 hours ago, Michael Delamar said: I’ve also acquired a DJH J10. Needs some work, some detail work, renumbering and conversion to EM gauge. For now it’s dumped alongside the shed like the last of the prototypes were. A wonderful locomotive and a real workhorse which also hung around to the end of the 1950's at Chester Northgate along with its counter part the N5 tank version. You've done well to find a model and i hope it's a better build than the one I have been struggling to resurrect from a second model I bought a long time ago. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted April 2, 2019 Author Share Posted April 2, 2019 Chris continues with the track weathering, darkening the sleepers and toning down the rail rust colours that had strayed too far on to the sleepers. I'm still searching for a Impetus kit of a Simplex 4wPM for the Dunlop siding on the left here. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 Best of luck with that. I liked the L&Y pug watching Chris airbrushing. Did they get the WotH? By the time I got to Liverpool, they had all gone...as had all the Semis, Princesses, Scots and Pates. Only a couple of Jubes around. We managed 8A, 8B, 8C, and 8K in the day. Warrington was the best shed with half a dozen Jubilees and a few Brits. the rest was Balck fives etc. Not really what a young (sub 14) spotter was expecting, having read my out of date shed book diligently to see what I MIGHT spot... Bank Hall was...interesting...with the live rails in the yard and a couple of double chimneyed 75xxx locos in green. It's resident Jubilees were long gone. Spring 1966. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted April 2, 2019 Author Share Posted April 2, 2019 (edited) 3 hours ago, JeffP said: I liked the L&Y pug watching Chris airbrushing. Did they get the WotH? They definately got to Walton in LMS days, in the days when they were fitted with the large spark arrestors. I’ve got 2 shots of them at Walton. Wether they got there in BR days in the period the layout is set I’m unsure and doubt it. It’s on the layout as being small it’s a a good test loco. We could say it has popped up from Huskisson yard for coal as it would be a shorter trip than back to Bank Hall. Edited April 2, 2019 by Michael Delamar Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Michael Delamar Posted April 3, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 3, 2019 (edited) Even though the track hasn’t even had the paint cleaned off the top of the rails yet I couldn’t resist some shots with some stock posed. All stock in these shots are RTR although converted to EM gauge in one way or another, some In the shots still need weathering, detailing and couplings changed. Buildings and signals still need to be planted in the ballast. I never like seeing signals with a baseplate, these will be hidden later. Up until now I’ve resisited installing anything that sticks up as there was always soldering irons, dremels, tools etc flying around on the boards with the risk of items being damaged. But now I’ve started to install things like the buffer stops from Lanarkshire models. Maybe these should have been in before painting began but can still be painted later, Chris got on with the painting so quickly I never had chance to get them in beforehand, there is always somewhere to touch up with the airbrush later anyway. Next things to be painted are the hard standing in the goods yard which show up white in the shots and embankment grass. Edited April 3, 2019 by Michael Delamar 30 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kier Hardy Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 It's looking great Mike & Chris.... (as are all of your layouts from the past) and I look forward to seeing it in the flesh one day. With the close proximity of the track to the front of the baseboard, will there be anything there to prevent stock being knocked off, or will you leave it to chance? I can see the practicalities of clear acrylic sheets being screwed to the front of a layout for protection of the models, and in some cases protection for the viewers, but they do look naff! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RusselBridge2017 Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 Scratch built steam shed looks awesome, keep up the good work... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gismorail Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 Just brilliant so much like the real place as it used to be thanks for sharing 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted April 3, 2019 Author Share Posted April 3, 2019 30 minutes ago, Kier Hardy said: It's looking great Mike & Chris.... (as are all of your layouts from the past) and I look forward to seeing it in the flesh one day. With the close proximity of the track to the front of the baseboard, will there be anything there to prevent stock being knocked off, or will you leave it to chance? I can see the practicalities of clear acrylic sheets being screwed to the front of a layout for protection of the models, and in some cases protection for the viewers, but they do look naff! Cheers, Ive never liked clear acrylic on the front of layouts either I think it looks tacky. So will be left to chance it may have some beading as a protector. Also we’ve left provision to have the other 2 sidings in the goods yard that had to be left off on an extension board in the future if we ever decide to do so and get the space. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 Nice photos...but I'm now checking every one to see where the pug is....LOL Only ever saw one at Goole... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted April 6, 2019 Author Share Posted April 6, 2019 (edited) Today is Grand National day and a busy day at Walton as more exotic motive power than is usually seen here are being serviced on the ash pit road for their return journeys after bringing in race specials to Aintree Central. While a coal train for Clarence dock power station passes. Edited April 6, 2019 by Michael Delamar 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
APOLLO Posted April 6, 2019 Share Posted April 6, 2019 Grand National specials - just look at the livery mix on train behind !! Brit15 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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