37114 Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 Love the underground station, excellent. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparxD428 Posted September 21, 2017 Author Share Posted September 21, 2017 Been some running under lights tonight for a change. 50011 waits to leave on night parcels west The Ark on the fueller ready on standby 37284 idles having detached from a speedlink drop Meanwhile down below...passengers are still waiting for a tube on the Central Line Cheers Stu 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparxD428 Posted September 24, 2017 Author Share Posted September 24, 2017 Not done much worth of note this weekend. Recently made some more GWR benches for the platforms as well as fitting a sliding gate to the tube platform entrance and handrails to the escalators in the background. I have started a roof construction but am not happy with it so will be back to the drawing board on that one. Also noticed that my retaining wall behind the speedlink platform is leaning a bit and realised why. I never glued it in to any position, just built around it. So that will need attention as well. Did run a few trains today whilst contemplating.. Cheers Stu 47402 idling in the siding with the leaning wall noticeable ( a bit) in the background New benches just about visible to make out the GWR logos. Likewise the gate and escalator handrails just about visible in pics below 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparxD428 Posted September 25, 2017 Author Share Posted September 25, 2017 No excuses tonight. Just some more pics for fun from different angles. 47593 on the fueller with 45103 on a down parcels west View from back of layout up platform 5 steps to the road bridge. Looks a bit plastic mind. More conventional angle of 45103 And low eye level of 47593 When the opportunity arises I will invest in some new stock. Cheers Stu 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparxD428 Posted October 13, 2017 Author Share Posted October 13, 2017 Actually did some modelling tonight by finishing off roof slates on the street shops. Then ran a load of trains which has been halted by a loose dropper connection on the down relief on the lift section. Therefore engineering are out tonight. After a few earlier trains. Cheers, Stu 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob D2 Posted October 14, 2017 Share Posted October 14, 2017 Love the underground bit. I can almost taste the rush of fetid air out the tunnel as the train approaches ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparxD428 Posted October 22, 2017 Author Share Posted October 22, 2017 Done a little bit of backscene modelling on the final corner but nothing worth posting. Instead today Paddington was closed for engineering work. Acton Green was the Eastern end of the Western region for the day. Quite interesting operating it as a terminus for an hour or so. A few train pics. HST on the relief platform with 50020 and 50031 waiting their departures DMU arrived on the bay 33004 brings in vans 50004 on up Plymouth Waiting the road... I will be at the Weymouth show next weekend helping crew Tidworth for Ian (Temeraire) and battling it out with Mike (Scoobyra) for position of chief train crasher. Come over and say hello if you're down there . Cheers Stu 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold mudmagnet Posted October 29, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 29, 2017 Hi Stu Great to put a face to your name at Weymouth! Myself and Ray had a great weekend with Hounslow Sidings, not to mention the banter on Saturday even in 'spoons! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparxD428 Posted October 29, 2017 Author Share Posted October 29, 2017 Hi Stu Great to put a face to your name at Weymouth! Myself and Ray had a great weekend with Hounslow Sidings, not to mention the banter on Saturday even in 'spoons! Thanks Rich. It was great to meet you and Ray too and I had a great time this weekend. I'm sure we'll catch up again in the near future. Cheers, Stu. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post SparxD428 Posted November 4, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 4, 2017 Bought a few items last week when at Weymouth having fun operating Tidworth with Ian (Temeraire) and Mike (Scoobyra). Mainly 3 buses and 3 PGA wagons. This brings my PGA fleet to 6, whoop whoop! One older style one has been sanded to blend with the weathered 3, and the 2 pristine ones will need doing soon. One of the Routemasters has since been weathered and looks OK, a little less bright red anyway. And the 08 has been bugging me for weeks looking too bright, so a coat of light grime has been applied all over and it looks much more suitable now. The platforms now have numbers (2-5 anyway) and one of the plastic brutes has been painted BR blue to tone it down - just 3 more to do although I think in the future I will get some better looking kit samples. As usual took a couple of pics today. 37284 towing 6 Yeoman PGA's of varying state and age. Lots of London bus action with the traditional bus on the bridge en route to Brent Cross More realistic 08243 on loan to the WR from Cricklewood Platform numbers just about visible 50024 rounds the curve on the down fast on the parcels Cheers, Stu 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Temeraire Posted November 5, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 5, 2017 Looks about ready for a play day! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparxD428 Posted November 5, 2017 Author Share Posted November 5, 2017 Looks about ready for a play day! I think so. Have a busy couple of weeks coming up being away with work again but maybe first weekend of December (Saturday 2nd) would be a good time? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparxD428 Posted December 29, 2017 Author Share Posted December 29, 2017 First of all I hope everyone has had a Merry Christmas and is looking forward to a happy new year. Not really been up to much on the layout but have purchased a couple of Esso TEA wagons to increase he oil rake and have done the first level of weathering on them. Still unable to get that final corner sorted but have a new idea yet again ! Just a couple of pics today hope to do a bit more weathering over the weekend. Then in the new year definitely hold a running day. Cheers Stu 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparxD428 Posted January 3, 2018 Author Share Posted January 3, 2018 Finally decided to put the back end of a wagon works on the difficult corner. I am building it on a separate 3mm piece of MDF so if in the future I don't like the idea i can just lift it away. Not worth putting any pics up yet as its just painted board and 3 bits of track stuck down to it. I will be making a small wall round the outside of it to avoid it looking out of place. It may not be massively realistic to have it over a bridge but hey-ho, at least it will fill a space and give the scenics a sense of completion finally. Hoping to get some time at the weekend to crack on and get some pics up. Cheers Stu 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparxD428 Posted January 4, 2018 Author Share Posted January 4, 2018 Bit of bonus on call modelling time today. Construction of the wagon depot low relief back end has started. Made from foamboard inner with mountboard outer card and brickwork is the Wills flexible brick sheet. Waiting for the paint on the wasp striped doors to dry before further work will be done. Attached a couple of pics on the workbench, and then where it will reside on the layout. The doors can only be seen when you stand on the other side of the layout and I will cut down to shape the "inside" backscene to make it more friendly to the eye. Once this is done just need to crack on with the filler building opposite and the exterior depot walls. Pics attached Cheers Stu 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Revolution Mike B Posted January 4, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 4, 2018 Nice one Stuey Happy New Year bud Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparxD428 Posted January 6, 2018 Author Share Posted January 6, 2018 Nice one Stuey Happy New Year bud Thanks Mike. Happy new year to you. Hope to catch up soon at the next show or running day. Once I've got through a busy January schedule I think its time some of the crew came round and crashed some trains on Acton Green ! Cheers Stu. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparxD428 Posted January 6, 2018 Author Share Posted January 6, 2018 Tidied up the garage today sorting out a lot of the Christmas debris for the tip as well as going through a lot of the offcuts boxes of card, materials etc. and thinking "Do I really need that?" I only have 4 shoeboxes full of the stuff as well as a crate of wood, so decided to streamline a little to make the garage much more habitable for an evening of running trains. 45103 makes a rare turn on an inter regional service 33004 on a trip freight Route 47 bus to Monument is a bit off track, er...think I need to do new route blinds for this one. Shunt move brings 47402 down to the blocks on the speedlink platform to release the 08 Hope to have some time to continue the wagon works tomorrow and final block of flats. Cheers Stu 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparxD428 Posted January 7, 2018 Author Share Posted January 7, 2018 Continued with the wagon works today making some roof vents from card, then some painting and weathering. In between the tracks had the first ballast and weeds put down as well as a small wall around two sides of the scene. Hindsight is beginning to suggest I should maybe have had this scene rotated 90 degrees in the corner but its taken so long to finish this corner I will leave it as it is. A couple of pics in situ (awkward to take ! ) Plenty of small details to do still but its getting there. Cheers Stu View from inside the layout, the normal viewing side And from over the backscene at the end of the layout 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparxD428 Posted January 14, 2018 Author Share Posted January 14, 2018 After only a week it seems the temperature at the front of the garage has warped the 3mm MDF that the wagon works is mounted on so the wall is already about a scale foot off the ground. This means I will have to glue the blighter down. Hey-ho thats decided then no change to this in the future, it will always be a wagon works. On the plus side I can just about park an old "dead" (DC) loco on the out road occassionally as it just about fits one. Also today I have ordered a Domino Table. Red White & Blue is arriving some time this week which means I may finally now have the guts to change the Ark to Renown. Or Agincourt. Possibly.. Cheers Stu Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparxD428 Posted January 18, 2018 Author Share Posted January 18, 2018 My Domino Table has arrived (as it was known by Doncaster Works) Bit of a bargain from Rails Of Sheffield. Its 1987. 50026 on a running in test train. No detailing/weathering as yet, making sure she is running well first. Cheers Stu 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparxD428 Posted January 19, 2018 Author Share Posted January 19, 2018 The tools have been purchased for a couple of the vacs to undergo an identity change in the near future. I will be changing 11 & 35. Starting with 35. Unless it all goes tits up removing the numbers and plates..! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparxD428 Posted January 20, 2018 Author Share Posted January 20, 2018 So the first identity change is completed. OK so it didnt go 100% to plan. The dinner plates on the Ark were a pig to remove cleanly but one side came off cleaner than the other. Having read all the advice for removing numerals and transfers etc. I decided the only way was to use meths, cotton bud, lint free cloths and the corner of a craft blade. If you are careful enough (and believe me I have a clumsy habit now and again !) you can remove the numerals in reasonable time. I will need to add some weathering to the numbers and around the new nameplate area to dull the effect of the dinner plate issue. No longer the Ark, but 50 029 Renown Plates need cleaning and weathering above Not a bad angle One down, second one underway Cheers Stu 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparxD428 Posted January 20, 2018 Author Share Posted January 20, 2018 ... and right on cue the postie arrived with some nameplates to complete this transformation. The numerals and plates seemed to come off easier on this one. Again I need to weather the numbers and around the plates but this beast has arrived at Acton Green on a Plymouth - Paddington additional.. No longer number 11 , its now Didnt notice the wonky buffer taking the pic Not a bad effort all in all for my skill set Cheers Stu 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparxD428 Posted January 20, 2018 Author Share Posted January 20, 2018 Also started weathering 50026 today, as well as the HST roof pods. Been experimenting with the spotlight positions to try and get some better light for photo's of the layout. A couple of more pics hopefully with better lighting. Seems I am in posting overload mode today. Away with work this week so all will be quiet again soon. Cheers Stu 50014 on Parcels, 50024 Fuelling & 50029 on an Oxford turn at Acton Green HST weathering started. Oily roofs all round. 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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