HeavyDuty Posted May 27, 2014 Share Posted May 27, 2014 Heck Ken. You're in Chicago. Thats down the road from Minneapolis in US terms... And I've been meaning to get up your way to ride the light rail. Maybe I'll catch you at an exhibition! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Holmes Posted May 31, 2014 Author Share Posted May 31, 2014 So, today I made a start on working on the station building. Using the dimensions in the Scalescenes Hornby magazine freebie as a guide. The building stretched out in length back towards what it started out at. But it looks OK I think. Evergreen styrene sheet was used to make the structure. Once it was starting to take shape I set myself a little detailing task. I decided to put an interior into the outside gents. It's something that will be visible so it was a no brainer really. A urinal for a start, perhaps a toilet depending on what you can see. We'll see how that goes. Plenty to go at yet. But a good, fun start. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merc435 Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Towel dispenser(Working!) Loo roll in the cubical. Copy of the Daily Mirror on top of the towel dispenser....... Love this layout, Ian. Keep up the great work. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Steve Purves Posted June 1, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 1, 2014 Towel dispenser(Working!) Loo roll in the cubical. Copy of the Daily Mirror on top of the towel dispenser....... Love this layout, Ian. Keep up the great work. The above would clearly show it being a model as the real station would never have loo roll nor a working towel dispenser!And for daily mirror, swap for a daily sport and you would probably be closer to the mark. Dont forget the big puddle of p on the floor where somebody hasn't bothered aiming. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Holmes Posted June 12, 2014 Author Share Posted June 12, 2014 Here's a great example of why I spend time looking at the model. See how the simple change of storage shed makes a difference. The profile of the larger store (based on a typical British Rail concrete "provender store" outline found on RMWeb) starts to cramp the station and overpower the platform.Not a good state of affairs. The smaller store fits in much better. It even matches the clapboard of the station building. The other thing I don't like is the extra depth of the larger store. It now comes to the edge of the baseboard. making it feel like it's crammed in there. A smaller structures sits comfortably in the space. (Perhaps detecting the difference in these iPhone shots isn't that obvious but believe me, "in the flesh" in 3D the difference screams at you.) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Holmes Posted June 12, 2014 Author Share Posted June 12, 2014 A bit of station site development. You can see the building is coming along quite nicely now. The pictures I saw on the Cornwall Railway society website showed me some thing I hadn't seen in the more modern pictures. Is the raised platform area opposite the main platform face. Perhaps the off loaded vans there in steam days. Anyway, I've since seen that it's still there. I'm thinking I'd like to recreate that to some extent. I've blocked that out as well. I don't know if it'll work or not. You know the drill by now. Leave it and look at it for a few days. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merc435 Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Hi Ian, any updates Mate? Andy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Holmes Posted August 28, 2014 Author Share Posted August 28, 2014 Hi Ian, any updates Mate? Andy. Not lately. Pressures of work and all that. In fact those "pressures of work" put me in the Emergency Room with some sort of mental nervous issue/panic attack just over a week ago. It would be great to be able to find some time to work on it again. Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merc435 Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 That's terrible Ian, get well soon mate. It sounds like some time on the layout could be just what the doctor ordered. All the best. Andy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Holmes Posted August 31, 2014 Author Share Posted August 31, 2014 A lot of supportive clicks there. Thank you all very much. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merc435 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Always Ian. Lookin out for each other. Andy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intercity125 Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Hope you're feeling better soon, and look forward to further updates when you're in a position to resume modelling. Regards, Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Holmes Posted October 7, 2014 Author Share Posted October 7, 2014 It has to be said that the first issue of the Finescale Railway Modelling Review magazine gives me plenty of food for thought and inspiration to get going on the model again. Particularly the article on Guerrilla Modelling and the piece on the shadow box diorama. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merc435 Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Hi Ian, hope you're feeling better Chief! What on earth is Guerrilla modelling? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saddletank Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 It threw me when I heard it too. Bought a copy out of curiosity (never ever getting to that standard of modelling but interesting to read through anyway) and guerrilla modelling is just another way of saying they're small dioramas that the builder has used to create very realistic looking photos using just his iPhone with a few filter apps. Bit of a weak article really but the photos the guy has produced really do look VERY realistic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold bcnPete Posted October 11, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 11, 2014 Nice idea for a project...a class 25 on some clay hoods in the siding would cap it off Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TrevorP1 Posted October 12, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 12, 2014 Have a look at http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/42150-a-diorama-or-two-by-sandhills/ All 31 pages! It threw me when I heard it too. Bought a copy out of curiosity (never ever getting to that standard of modelling but interesting to read through anyway) and guerrilla modelling is just another way of saying they're small dioramas that the builder has used to create very realistic looking photos using just his iPhone with a few filter apps. Bit of a weak article really but the photos the guy has produced really do look VERY realistic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saddletank Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 There's a lot to be said for the improvement layout photography gains by bringing the camera down to a more lifelike height in relation to the stock being photographed. Those grainy, poorly macro'ed top down photos in just about every thread on this site always undersell the layout, in my opinion. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Holmes Posted October 19, 2014 Author Share Posted October 19, 2014 Normal service is now resumed... I've been looking at the layout for the longest time. Five months? Five months of overtime and associated nervous breakdowns. Which had given me a lot of time to think and evaluate where the project was going. Layoffs from modelling usually mean that the project loses steam and I get distracted and want to do something else. Not this time, even with the impending 10th anniversary of my Purespring Watercress layout. I'm still keen on getting this concept to where I want it. The first thing I decided that I had to do was trim the mainline platform. It was too deep. So some hefty surgery cut it back a bit. It's not anything that will be noticed by any of the viewing public but it bothered me. In this picture below you should be able to notice I've cut some 15mm out of the platform. Another thing I did today was I set too and constructed all the platform walls followed by adding some mortar paint into the brick courses. It all helps me to visualize everything. While I had the jar of cream paint open I added a coat of paint to the station building and the goods shed. I'm liking what I see. Some extra contours will need adding behind the branch platform wall though. Just a little extra re-shaping of the hill at the rear will be needed to blend that in overall. But what of the what may become the "iconic" layout view? It's looking OK... I'm still in two minds about the platform wall there though. It looks high. But it isn't really. That's about the same height as the stone wall at the back of Liskeard station is. I have seen pictures where there's a small dumpster/skip in front of the wall. The wall is pretty much the same height. That's a good five feet. Still might cut out a couple of courses of the wall yet though. Anyway, there you go. Normal service resumed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merc435 Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Glad to hear that you are feeling more yourself Ian. The layout is looking very good, an interestingly different viewpoint from the norm. Keep the updates coming please. Andy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium cold-ash Posted October 21, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 21, 2014 That last shot looks brilliant now. Only going to get better. Very inspiring. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cromptonnut Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 I do wish I'd though of this idea first Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Holmes Posted October 23, 2014 Author Share Posted October 23, 2014 Mainline platform does look a touch high, but I like the idea of the red dumpster......Almost a Liskeard signature feature nowadays! It looks high to me too. but in the branch platform it looks low. Must be the difference between the P4 track on the main line and the PECO track in the operating section of the model. It won't look so bad when the track is ballasted I expect. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold bcnPete Posted October 23, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 23, 2014 Maybe you could add a slither of card under the mainline track prior to ballasting - might be worth a dry run first. BTW, love that last shot of the classic view - I think once you have swapped the DMU for a Bubble car you will have nailed it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Holmes Posted October 24, 2014 Author Share Posted October 24, 2014 Maybe you could add a slither of card under the mainline track prior to ballasting - might be worth a dry run first. BTW, love that last shot of the classic view - I think once you have swapped the DMU for a Bubble car you will have nailed it Probably will try placing a slither of card under the track just to raise it a bit. A good idea. Thanks Pete. The plan is to run different types of DMU's on the layout Bubblecar, Waggon and Maschinenbau etc; Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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