Les Johnson Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 Beginning to look the biz, Ken. I see someone has built Smith Hood coal shed from Arbroath in O gauge in the latest Gazette, but they've copied your Thomas Muir version?? Maybe to avoid you suing them, ha,ha? Les Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted August 3, 2017 Author Share Posted August 3, 2017 Beginning to look the biz, Ken. I see someone has built Smith Hood coal shed from Arbroath in O gauge in the latest Gazette, but they've copied your Thomas Muir version?? Maybe to avoid you suing them, ha,ha? Les Just shows you can't it right all the time............. (My T M S & P coal shed is basically the Ratio kit, slightly customised). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Johnson Posted August 4, 2017 Share Posted August 4, 2017 Sorry, I was trying in a polite way to ask is the curved roof the Smith Hood or the Thomas Muir? Les Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted August 4, 2017 Author Share Posted August 4, 2017 Sorry, I was trying in a polite way to ask is the curved roof the Smith Hood or the Thomas Muir? Les Hi Les I was meaning the builders of the coal shed, not you! The curved shed is the T M S & P, while the single pitched roofed one is Smith Hood & Co. There are pics on this thread on previous pages, can't remember which number, it's an age thing............. Ken Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted August 23, 2017 Author Share Posted August 23, 2017 Terraced housing taking shape, so I tried it on the layout - looks basically OK. Received the chimney pots today, so I'd better make the chimneys then! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted September 6, 2017 Author Share Posted September 6, 2017 Pending completion of the background buildings at Dishlandtown Street, I thought I'd add a pic of a most unusual visitor to Arbroath. I don't think many 9F's were seen in the area, but I "copped" this one passing the North 'box........ It's a case of applying Rule 1! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted September 9, 2017 Author Share Posted September 9, 2017 Finally got to the stage of placing the new terraced houses on the layout........ 3 poses from slightly different angles. OK I think. Now only one little space to fill all that way to the church - please get me there on time! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted September 13, 2017 Author Share Posted September 13, 2017 We've had some great modelling weather over the last couple of days, (lots of rain!), and the missing link in Dishlandtown Street, No. 57 has come quite quickly off the stocks - 2 pics ready to come off the assembly line, and two more with it "planted" on the layout - beginning to run out of buildings to make............ All we have to do now is to bed in the whole street and add in road surfaces, pavements, walls, gardens - and street lights,(non-working, probably).......... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted October 6, 2017 Author Share Posted October 6, 2017 Maintenance required on the storage siding track and pointwork - removable section reveals the nether regions leading to the lower loops - track cleaned and then the upper section replaced with the tiny diesel shunter doing the track testing - looks a bit lost in all the empty loops........ Only the other half of the loops to be cleaned now! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted October 8, 2017 Author Share Posted October 8, 2017 A new vehicle has arrived on the layout courtesy of the Chain Bridge Honey Farm, (near Berwick on Tweed). A very fine model of the old ERF prototype. Two shots of it, one with an A4 passing on the Up line. Now the roads are getting to be as congested as the railway lines! 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted October 19, 2017 Author Share Posted October 19, 2017 The second last town building is on the stocks - 1-3 Colvill Place, another brown/red stone house block, but quite attractive for all that. The real thing in typical Arbroath sunshine........ Front elevation of the model so far. Rear elevation with outside stairway and railings to be added, (plus roof,chimneys, etc.,etc.,etc.) 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted November 1, 2017 Author Share Posted November 1, 2017 Progress report on Colvill Place. Front and RHS showing the mix between red and brown stone. Front and LHS showing blocked up windows of probable former shop. The upper floors will accessed by the usual rear outside stair complete with stairs/railings and "pletty" , (a platform for those unfamiliar with the local dialect.) The railings for the outside stair are being painstakingly made from plastic strip and rod - quite a challenge........... Hopefully to be completed soon before my eyes go permanently crossed! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted November 5, 2017 Author Share Posted November 5, 2017 Outside stairs now installed as well as plumbing for bathrooms/kitchens and pretty well ready to be installed on the layout.......... Typical Scottish block of flats with quite a bit of character, I think. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted November 6, 2017 Author Share Posted November 6, 2017 Made a photographic trip round part of the layout today and took the shots below giving a flavour of progress to date. South 'Box and ex-NBR gantry. Ivatt Class 2 46463 approaching Arbroath on a service from Dundee. A new fangled diesel thingy in the main yard. New tenement block on the corner of Princes Street and Queen Street to be "dug in". Still travelling hopefully, better not to arrive yet! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSD Posted November 12, 2017 Share Posted November 12, 2017 What a beautiful layout Ken! I've been driving buses in and around Arbroath since February, but I think I learned more about the town from this thread than from real-life experience Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
danstercivicman Posted November 12, 2017 Share Posted November 12, 2017 Some great stuff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted November 12, 2017 Author Share Posted November 12, 2017 What a beautiful layout Ken! I've been driving buses in and around Arbroath since February, but I think I learned more about the town from this thread than from real-life experience Hi JSD I've worked in Arbroath and known the place since the 1960's, but am still learning more all the time about this fascinating old town....... Thanks for your comments. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerburnie Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 (edited) I travel from Arbroath on the train now and then, would loved to have visited in the days of steam, the ECML had some wonderful locos on it. Edit, I note the Round Britain is scheduled to come through the town in 2018, so I will pop down there with my camera. Edited November 13, 2017 by tigerburnie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted November 13, 2017 Author Share Posted November 13, 2017 I travel from Arbroath on the train now and then, would loved to have visited in the days of steam, the ECML had some wonderful locos on it. Edit, I note the Round Britain is scheduled to come through the town in 2018, so I will pop down there with my camera. It's very illuminating to compare the current scene at Arbroath, as depicted so well in the Dundee MRC's new layout, with the "way things were" pre 1970 or so as I'm modelling. In "those days" goods traffic still figured prominently and the old "linies" down to the harbour still saw occasional traffic. Thank goodness we can recreate the past for our amusement and show how important the railways were for goods as well as passenger traffic. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted November 17, 2017 Author Share Posted November 17, 2017 On the opposite street corner to my previous effort is No.1 Victoria Street and this is the latest candidate for reproduction. It's a split level villa and may originally have been one house but now has the almost inevitable access to the upper floor by an outside stair with railing - more plastic rod cobbling for the railing, but the pics show progress to date - again it's a red/brown stone mix. This time I've used embossed plastikard for the walls and cheated by using Wills window frames which save a bit of finicky cutting with microstrip. The colours are quite a challenge and I'll probably add a bit of judicious weathering powder to tone things down a bit. Also quite an ornate pediment to the front door - great fun to measure and assemble............. Front and LHS Rear and RHS 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted November 24, 2017 Author Share Posted November 24, 2017 Progress report on Victoria St flats. Mostly done - apart from the railings on the outside stair at the rear - wish me luck! Front and right side - for the sharp-eyed the down pipe is a different colour for the upper and lower flats - how sad can you get? The detail on the pediment upper section just about shows up, and the relief detail of the different stone thicknesses comes out well, I think. The rear view with un-railed stair - the stonework is a bit too "pink" at the moment, but will be toned/weathered down a bit. The front view in B&W just to add some character......... Now to attack the railings! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted November 26, 2017 Author Share Posted November 26, 2017 Princes Street / Victoria Street / Queen Street junction buildings pretty well complete - civil engineers to be called in to bed the structures in. Princes St / Victoria St rear stair now fitted and to be installed on layout. Two views of the buildings placed and to be bedded in............ Quite a bit of earthmoving, etc., to be done, but looking not bad. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Johnson Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 Two more superb buildings Ken.How do you find the time? Les Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberbrothock Posted November 29, 2017 Author Share Posted November 29, 2017 Two more superb buildings Ken.How do you find the time? Les Hi Les Just a bit sad because I tend to focus my time on the magnum opus , but I do have a life away from Arbroath in miniature.......... Kind regards Ken Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
danstercivicman Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 Nice Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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