Aberbrothock Posted March 31, 2017 Author Share Posted March 31, 2017 Agreed, and that signal is very, very good. The only caution I would make on the telegraph pole's new location, is ensure the line of (imaginary) wires don't go through the signal post(s) etc., - Just one of my niggles. My thoughts exactly - if you have the posts, check out the run of the wires - I could of course change the camera angle, which might avoid the problem! I have to make up a couple of tall posts at the North 'box to ensure that their "wires" don't get entangled with the down home gantry. Oh, what fun......... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Johnson Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 Signal post looking great Ken, as do the flats. Will you be building the house/houses that appear in front of the flats in the original photo? Or is life too short, my maxim! Hope you're still OK health wise. Les Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
26power Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 C16 tank 67486 at Arbroath, 5-4-58. https://www.flickr.com/photos/robertcwp/29105530176/in/dateposted/ From Robert Carroll of this parish. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted April 5, 2017 Author Share Posted April 5, 2017 Signal post looking great Ken, as do the flats. Will you be building the house/houses that appear in front of the flats in the original photo? Or is life too short, my maxim! Hope you're still OK health wise. Les Hi Les Signal post almost ready to be planted properly, flats have quite a character, and the houses beside will be done in low relief as that's all there's room for. Health not bad and a fitness class stint for an hour tomorrow am should help to blow away the cobwebs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted April 5, 2017 Author Share Posted April 5, 2017 C16 tank 67486 at Arbroath, 5-4-58. https://www.flickr.com/photos/robertcwp/29105530176/in/dateposted/ From Robert Carroll of this parish. A lovely shot that captures the essence of Arbroath in the 'fifties perfectly - many thanks! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted April 12, 2017 Author Share Posted April 12, 2017 Went up into the loft this morning and took the pics below which show the current state of things: 1. The new NBR gantry and South box. 2. Just along the line the track goes under quite a high road bridge, giving the reason for the sky arms on the signals, and the street, (Colvill Place), ends nicely with the frontage of St Thomas's church. It is represented by a photo mounted on card and if you're careful with the angle, a reasonably realistic shot can be taken. I will be adding the gable ends of the houses on either side to add to the backscene, sometime soon........... 3. My favourite location is the North box and footbridge, and the light was quite good this morning to get this shot - the internal details in the 'box show up quite well, but I should probably add facial features to the signalman as he looks very colourless at the moment - probably been standing in the one place for too long. I've done an updated "TO DO" list to see how much work is still outstanding on the layout, and was relieved to find that the list is actually getting shorter - progress by any other name. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted April 25, 2017 Author Share Posted April 25, 2017 Finally after a break for Easter, got started on the TO DO list, and tidied the wall at the left hand side of the South 'box, which took a bit of time, but is looking much better without the gaping space hacked out to make space for the wider 'box. I chanced a colour shot which isn't bad. Now what's next on the list????? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted May 18, 2017 Author Share Posted May 18, 2017 Been working on "backscene" buildings at the south end of the station - not complete yet, but these shots give flavour of things to come, in colour and B&W. So I haven't been hibernating....... 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted June 12, 2017 Author Share Posted June 12, 2017 If you'll pardon the accent on infernal combustion, I've customised a Base Toys lemonade lorry to serve the Robb Brothers depot. New crimson livery and names/description plus lemonade crates delivered and hacked about before loading on to the vehicle. Now posed at the depot.......... Must get back to Railway modelling! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerburnie Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 I've just stumbled onto this tonight, what an excellent example of a craftsman at work, I stay just up the way. This was our station by R MAURINS, on Flickr Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted June 14, 2017 Author Share Posted June 14, 2017 I've just stumbled onto this tonight, what an excellent example of a craftsman at work, I stay just up the way. This was our station by R MAURINS, on Flickr Good to hear from you - there are quite few of us railway "nuts" around the area. Looking at the photo of Inverkeilor, I can't understand why they've taken out the crossing on the crossover points - there are not nearly enough crossings around to cope with the inevitable needs for "wrong-line running" which occur quite regularly - maybe it'll be replaced? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerburnie Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 Complete novice at this, but just beginning the Great Central station I often visited as a youngster and also part of the main line at the rear of my old family home in Leicestershire. Very early days, just sorting out the base and raised trackbed as the station was on a viaduct. I'm a retired engineer, so I do have some skills, but we'll find out if they transfer to railway building. I did build a V2 from a kit some 20 years or more ago including a scratch built chassis, still have it, but never got round to painting it, it does run however. I've been to the shop in Invergowrie a couple of times, I built a small layout for the me and the grandkids to play with, but it's not very satisfying, so I've decided to go for the idea I've had on and off for the last 30 years or so. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
danstercivicman Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 Inspiring work Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted June 27, 2017 Author Share Posted June 27, 2017 i haven't been idle over the last few weeks but have been doing, "something completely different", helping two local Primary 7 boys to make model of their school, (Kingsbarns Primary), to 1/25 scale. It was a good exercise for them to measure the building, make scale drawings, cut out the ground area, walls, roof, etc...... Today the finished article was shown to the other pupils and parents and staff, who reckoned the boys (and me), had done a great job. The pics below show the structure, and now I'll be able to get back to the "main" project, ie, the railway, but it was a great diversion. ttfn 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted July 10, 2017 Author Share Posted July 10, 2017 Added another low relief house end on Dishlandtown Street to "frame" St Thomas's chapel. Farther along the street are the old Robb Bros. lemonade buildings. Getting back to the main street is this congested looking townscape which looks nicely busy and actually has a bit of railway content with the upper part of the Std. class 4 peeping out of the gloom of the cutting. Once the buildings have been completed, they'll all need to be properly grounded and all the boundary fences and walls completed - and a bit of vegetation in the cutting sides wouldn't go amiss either........... 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerburnie Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 You will also need a few hundred sea gulls too lol. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted July 10, 2017 Author Share Posted July 10, 2017 You will also need a few hundred sea gulls too lol. I have some already, but they have to be painted and perched in suitable places - the factory building behind the North signal box already has evidence of their visits................. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted July 14, 2017 Author Share Posted July 14, 2017 The next part of the backscene to be done is a pair of quite attractive stone-built terraced houses which have some interesting dormer windows... Drawings done last night to be compared, but not too closely (!) with the photos of the originals in Arbroath. Should keep me out of mischief for a couple of weeks. Plenty of variety in Dishlandtown Street then! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Johnson Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Plenty of variety in Dishlandtown Street then! Hi Ken , that should be a nice little project! Keep you busy. Where did that street name originate? Do you know? Haven't done anything on my shed for months. Must get going again. Keep well Les Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted July 19, 2017 Author Share Posted July 19, 2017 Plenty of variety in Dishlandtown Street then! Hi Ken , that should be a nice little project! Keep you busy. Where did that street name originate? Do you know? Haven't done anything on my shed for months. Must get going again. Keep well Les The area where the street was built was Dishland Hill, and the area where folk lived presumably became Dishlandtown - there was also a pottery thereabouts known as Dishland. I'll try my Arbroath source for any more info. K. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted July 21, 2017 Author Share Posted July 21, 2017 The word has got around, and the block of flats in Dishlandtown Street now has a number of seagulls populating the rooftops - sitting ones have arrived already, and some flying ones should come too, once I've worked out how to mount them realistically.............. Hopefully it can be seen that there are some herring gulls and also some lesser black backs to give a bit of variety. Maybe some guano should be added to the scene? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted July 25, 2017 Author Share Posted July 25, 2017 Some more gulls have flown in - here they come............ There will be more to come, I fancy! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted July 27, 2017 Author Share Posted July 27, 2017 Gull watching today around the station................ Any excuse for taking some pics! - and I did actually run some trains today................. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted August 1, 2017 Author Share Posted August 1, 2017 Moved on a bit from the drawings and the terraced houses are beginning to take shape........... Onwards and upwards then. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooby71 Posted August 2, 2017 Share Posted August 2, 2017 Well done with the blocks of flats, looking really good Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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