RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted May 2, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 2, 2017 Made a start painting rails tonight, one side of half of the layout done with Humbrol No 62, it'll get a bit of tidying up and toning down with the sleepers getting a bit of detailing. 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted May 3, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 3, 2017 Starting to look like a hill Paul, Now I've had a good look over it last night, it really is starting to look right now, you can't get the feel of it as an open frame. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted May 15, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 15, 2017 Got quite a bit done over the weekend, most of the track is painted, the coal depot handrails fitted and painted and the cottage 'bedded in', it will be fixed but for now it will stay loose until other jobs in the area are finished. 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted May 16, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 16, 2017 Been trying to get my head round the buildings in the yard, I think it's something like right. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted May 17, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 17, 2017 Pigs? Probably. These days there seems to be hundreds of hens freely roaming the site so there will be plenty of them added. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted May 17, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 17, 2017 Being serious, ( for once!!), would there have been any domestic traffic, or was it all mining related? Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted May 17, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 17, 2017 Being serious, ( for once!!), would there have been any domestic traffic, or was it all mining related? Mike. There would have been quite a lot of domestic traffic, the mines, at their peak employed around 5000 people and then there were their families and other businesses plus the 'native' population, so probably 10,000 plus in the dale? there was no decent road into the dale either. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeHemmings Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 Pigs? Very wet pigs today Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mark Forrest Posted May 17, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 17, 2017 We have the remains on an old pig pen in our garden, probably similar dimensions to the section with the red tiled roof in your model. From what I can tell from what remains only the back half had a roof, the front section was open to the elements. However, the Staffordshire climate is probably considerably kinder, so might just be that the pigs that used to live in my garden needed less protection! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted May 17, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 17, 2017 Been trying to get my head round the buildings in the yard, I think it's something like right. IMGP9951-001.JPG I hate to point out the obvious but shouldn't a cottage with a pigsty be somewhere far less visible? Perhaps behind the hill?? Mr York can advise... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted May 17, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 17, 2017 We have the remains on an old pig pen in our garden, probably similar dimensions to the section with the red tiled roof in your model. From what I can tell from what remains only the back half had a roof, the front section was open to the elements. However, the Staffordshire climate is probably considerably kinder, so might just be that the pigs that used to live in my garden needed less protection! We breed 'em tough up here... The pigsties on my uncles farm next door don't have outside areas but they could be let out into the adjacent field. There haven't been pigs there for 35+ years though and this house I'm typing this in was built on the field 45 years ago. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted May 19, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 19, 2017 Last night the sheds progressed to the mostly painted stage now, the pigsty still needs a door. It's been mostly bigger jobs tonight, the front profile boards for boards 1, 2 and 3 have been cut, fitted and had a coat of stain, while the depot cottage yard surface has been started using lightweight filler. the last job tonight was a coat of brown paint on the front of boards 1 and 2. Included here on board 2 is a little something for those who like that sort of thing... 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted May 20, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 20, 2017 Yummy, chocolate cake. Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted May 20, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 20, 2017 Are we sure that's paint? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Worsdell forever Posted May 23, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted May 23, 2017 Boards 1 and 2 up tonight and although you can't really see I've marked off where the fence runs up the slope from behind the cottage towards the track opposite the goods shed then along the trackside. I'm also still puzzling over the terrace, I've recently found another map from 1893 on the NLS website which appears to have 20 houses in the row rather than 17 in the 1910 one so I've decided for now to leave them as they are, a good, educated guess to what was there. 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted May 24, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 24, 2017 Really taking shape now Paul, what sort of height of hill goes at the back of the boards? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted May 24, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 24, 2017 Really taking shape now Paul, what sort of height of hill goes at the back of the boards? In reality the hill starts rising a lot further back than the baseboard edge will allow, a 4' wide board probably wouldn't be enough and it probably rises up to 100' to the moor top behind, I'm hoping to have it about up to the height of the buildings so if it's fairly steep it will be about 5" from the back of the board. Hopefully there will be a photo backscene behind with a bit of hill, moor and sky. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted May 24, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 24, 2017 In reality the hill starts rising a lot further back than the baseboard edge will allow, a 4' wide board probably wouldn't be enough and it probably rises up to 100' to the moor top behind, I'm hoping to have it about up to the height of the buildings so if it's fairly steep it will be about 5" from the back of the board. Hopefully there will be a photo backscene behind with a bit of hill, moor and sky. Any sheep to keep the pigs company? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted May 24, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 24, 2017 Any sheep to keep the pigs company? Oh yes, there will be plenty of sheep. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted May 24, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 24, 2017 Oh yes, there will be plenty of sheep. Can't have too many sheep. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted May 24, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 24, 2017 Can't have too many sheep. Careful there, We know you're from Wales... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanchester Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 You certainly can have too many sheep! I believe a sheep needs a minimum of four acres and on poor upland ground quite a lot more. How many sheep do you actually see in pictures of the S&C, for example? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 Four acres! The whole thing is only something like 16' x 3', isn't it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted May 24, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 24, 2017 You certainly can have too many sheep! I believe a sheep needs a minimum of four acres and on poor upland ground quite a lot more. How many sheep do you actually see in pictures of the S&C, for example? I would say up to 10 on good land, probably 5 per acre in the field to the front of the layout, which in total will be about 20 acres, they do like to keep together so if they all wandered round this way there could be up to 100 sheep, but I don't fancy painting that many... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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