Wyndal, a small layout/photo plank type thing

[Nile]

Modular photo planks sounds like a good idea.

[ess1uk]

great work so far

[HAL 'O THE WYND]

Excellent job! If I was ever to have a stab at 'O' I think I'd follow your lead. And yet... I need a portable branch terminus to attach to the main layout so this might be perfect...

 

Hal.

[AireValley1962]

Just read though this thread - great work.  (I've used the same signal box and painting techniques for it on my layout as well.)

 

Any updates on this project of late?

 

Cheers,

William

[Nile]

Thanks William. I've been too busy with other things to do anything with Wyndal. However I have recently bought an interior kit for the signal box, and a footbridge to go at the left end of the layout. I really must get round to doing some more soon.

[Nile]

Some progress to report, at last!

Carrying on from where I left it, so long ago (it now seems), I've been painting the station building with the aim of actually finishing it.

First a coat of Humbrol brick red as a base. I then picked out individual bricks with various colours - black,grey,brown,red in a random pattern. The arches were painted dark grey.

It looked a bit weird at this stage, and this was a bit of an experiment.

The next stage was to apply a thin wash of earth brown over the whole wall to tone it down and blend the colours together. This improved the look a lot. After this had dried the wall was made wet by painting it with just water. While wet a thin mix of light grey was dabbed on, allowing the paint to run between the bricks, and wiping any off the surface of the bricks. this gives the impression of mortar.

Pleased with how this turned out I got on with the lintels, windows and doors.

More to follow soon, hopefully.

[Nile]

Some more progress to report.

I added an interior wall to the ground floor to remove the see through effect.

 

The windows have been glazed, some panes frosted with the tissue paper that comes wrapped around Bachmann boxes.

The two sections of the roof have been glued together prior to painting.

The small extension to the building on the right is the ladies toilet. This is what the men have to use.

And this is where it goes.

I've added a piece of plastic strip to fill a gap between the wooden and brick walls at the right.

Add some paint.

And glued to the building.

I thought it looked better with the extra wooden wall against the brick wall.

[Nile]

Moving onto the roof. The chimneys were built up and then painted in the same way as the walls.

 

The roof tiles were painted a dark brick red colour before the chimneys, bargeboards and gutters were fitted. I've also dry brushed them with grey and green shades to weather them.

The platform side.

 

For the lead flashing I used black paper, fixed in place with superglue gel.

 

[Nile]

I wanted a footbridge at the left end to disguise the hole in the sky. For this I found a Hornby kit, which with a bit of work should do the job.

The first problem to address is its length, as it's clearly designed to span widely spaced set-track.

 

Here's how I shortened the side walls.

 

A check that it will fit.

 

The grey floor bit was similarly shortened, the off-cut used to strengthen the joint.

 

It now fits between the station and backscene.

 

The stairs and railings also needed to be shortened to get it to the right height. Here it is on temporary legs.

[Ramblin Rich]

Cutting the sides 'on the  slant' - cunning!

[Nile]

The green parts are made from a flexible plastic. This makes it possible to fit them to the walkway with breaking, but it's almost impossible to glue them together. To keep the two halves together and aligned I drilled holes in the ends and inserted bits of brass rod.

 

This shows how I see the parts fitting together. The stairs on the left face away from the canopy.

 

A test fit of the shortened legs.

 

I thought the legs would look better with some bracing, it would also help keep them straight. This needed two holes per leg, drilled at 90 degrees. I used marks on the surface as guides.

Add some plastic rods and this is the result.

 

I then painted them, trying to match the railings.

 

Because the back scene curves round in the corner I can't fit the bridge into the corner. As it needs to be against the rear back scene I've moved it slightly to the right. By a coincidence this puts the the bottom of the steps at the end of the platform fence. The lack of steps at the left end won't be visible with the station building in place.

[Jimmy styles]

Simply stunning. The details are amazing I'm watching with interest

[Nile]

I recently finished a wagon kit, which prompted me to get Wyndal out and do a bit more.

Until now the canopy has just been resting against the station building. Actually it needs something leaning against it to stop it falling onto the track. Here it is in position, with added train for interest.

 

To fix it in position I drilled holes into the base of the columns and inserted brass rods.

 

These fit into holes drilled into the platform. The canopy is now stable but also removable.

 

The wagon that prompted all this is a coal wagon to go in the siding, that is being unloaded.

I will eventually add detail around this scene, but that's all for now.

[Nile]

Thanks to all for looking and liking.

Not a proper update, but while photographing wagons I took this photo of a short Midland train passing through.

[agt613]

Just found this really helpful thread with great workmanship. Thanks for so much inspiration in a small space. I will definitely use some of the ideas when I build my 6 foot + fiddle Caledonian Railway country terminus station layout.