RMweb Gold jcarta Posted July 18, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 18, 2020 10 hours ago, Richard Thomas said: Although I've seen various YouTube clips of Heaton Lodge I only found this thread last Tuesday, since then I've worked my way through all the postings every evening after work. I must say that I'm exhausted and amazed, both by your stamina and enthusiasm for this project together with your obvious talents and gift of being able to observe and recreate such detail on your railway. Although you are working single-handedly you are, quite rightly, not afraid to call in professional help when required. Bravo Simon and I raise my glass to you! Cheers Richard T Ditto You have definitely hit the nail on the head............ I think we are all amazed at the dedication that Simon has done in producing such a childhood memory masterpiece 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeatonLodge40 Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 Thanks Richard and everyone else who has given messages of support. Makes a big difference when I’m not having the best of days.! Today however I’ve been painting hundreds of cut sections of styrene rod before priming them and painting a wood colour using Lifecolor paints. At 5.5cm long (roughly 8ft in ‘0’) these are to represent the planks used to separate steel loads on the Cargowaggens. 13 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simond Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 Simon, I hope you’re never in any doubt that what you’re doing is utterly amazing, and the envy of 99.83% (approximately!) of everyone who has ever heard of the project. If you ever are lacking in mojo, just remember there’s a whole hoard of modellers out here are rooting for you, and willing you onwards to finish and display what will be an undoubted icon, and landmark, in British modelling. Stick at it, and if you’re having a bad day at the office, let us know, there’ll probably be a dozen suggestions, and I bet that at least some of them will be helpful! we’re with you! Simon 2 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HeatonLodge40 Posted July 20, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 20, 2020 Well I am touched Simon thanks again! I might have a pint of Colron Dye in honour of Mr Downes The first loaded Cargowaggens are rolling out of the workshop. Given the amount of plastic rod & ‘I Beam’ bar I need to fill 25, I acquired it in 3m sections from The Plastic Shop (online). After cutting to fit and priming they are sprayed with a variety of steel shades and secured with fine chain from Cambrian models. The wooden stakes to separate the beams are thin plastic rod painted with Lifecolor wood colours. I’m amazed just how impressive these Cargowaggens look once loaded. Rear working brake lamp is Dapol. 15 of these should look fantastic growling up the bank with two 37’s at the front 38 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No.71 L/spa Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 hi simon... like many other folk... i've followed yer progress for quite sometime.. yer never fail,to amaze me..with heaton lodge jct. best wishes.... pip 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 (edited) Tried hard but I couldn't convince my partner that they were photos of models! Edited July 20, 2020 by monkeysarefun 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growling Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 Forget the Cargowaggons. The Tesco bag steals the show! 2 5 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HeatonLodge40 Posted July 24, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 24, 2020 Lots done this past week - I try and vary the work so it doesn’t become repetitive.. First up is the finished dive under tunnels complete with fully removable roof. The rough ground both on the top and next to the dive under walls have had multiple layers of static grass and ‘canopy’ (basically dolls hair) layered to create depth. Finished off with large trees and some seafoam bushes sprayed with varnish and sprinkled with ground up dead leaves. The sewerage farm is progressing with a resin pour in two of the circular tanks. However disaster struck with the smaller one - the resin reacted with something - still don’t know what, and once dried left an ‘interesting’ effect I wasn’t expecting. On closer inspection it reminds me of some sort of whirlpool so I’m going to keep it! The scratchbuilt gates now have the Yorkshire Water logo although this is too modern - in the 1980’s it was a white rose. Pinning a copy of this down is proving difficult. The first 50ft of the model has now had the backscene boards added which even bare, is a big improvement. I’ve also fitted the black banners underneath (instead of curtains). I was persuaded that having the ‘80’s logo ‘This is the age of the Train’ printed on the banners complete with Jimmy Savile probably wasn’t a good idea. The second mill has had fencing added and dirt roads constructed. Still a lot of work to do on this yet. Finally I’m trying to create a realistic taupaulin over one of the Cargowaggen loads. Layered tissue paper laid on the load before being soaked in diluted PVA is looking promising. After painting the ‘taupaulin’ and throwing a couple of miniature chains over it it should look pretty good.. 29 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HeatonLodge40 Posted July 24, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 24, 2020 Additional pics of the dive under surrounding scenery & the prototype pre painted taupaulin.. 29 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed1234 Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 (edited) 4 hours ago, HeatonLodge40 said: The scratchbuilt gates now have the Yorkshire Water logo although this is too modern - in the 1980’s it was a white rose. Pinning a copy of this down is proving difficult. Here are a couple of versions of (I think) the logo you mean. They are taken from the Annual Reports from the early 1990s (Yorkshire Water was listed in 1989) so aren't great resolution or quality - they are scans from microfiches at Companies House - but with a bit of digital fettling might be ok, given the scale. The version seems a slightly better quality scan, and could be inverted fairly easily. You might have more joy with further research at Companies House. Note the company is now called Kelda Group. Edited July 25, 2020 by ed1234 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeatonLodge40 Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 5 hours ago, ed1234 said: Here are a couple of versions of (I think) the logo you mean. They are taken from the Annual Reports from the early 1990s (Yorkshire Water was listed in 1989) so aren't great resolution or quality - they are scans from microfiches at Companies House - but with a bit of digital fettling might be ok, given the scale. The version seems a slightly better quality scan, and could be inverted fairly easily. You might have more joy with further research at Companies House. Note the company is now called Kelda Group. That’s super thanks very much, I didn’t think of companies house. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Portchullin Tatty Posted July 27, 2020 Share Posted July 27, 2020 On 24/07/2020 at 22:43, HeatonLodge40 said: I think there are several processes in a sewage plant; one is an aeration of the material and it does have sort of whirlpools in it. However, I think this is a fairly early stage of the process and the material is less - urrmmm - clear! It will have rather more colour to it (do I need to say which one) and will have slightly more white froth in several locations in the bed where the air is pumped in. The later processes are to spill the now rather more clear liquid over filters. This is where you see the sprinklers slowly going around an almost black filter bed. Possibly worth doing a bit or research into the processes, as I am no expert its just my train used to go past them each day; Hersham I think they were! There is bound to be a British Standard on it somewhere! I enjoy your thread by the way. Mark 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve45 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Simon, It's a good job you have chosen to model Heaton Lodge in the winter, otherwise you would have had to model the flies buzzing around the sewage works. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarge427 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Just amazing! Simon, please consider a coffee-table book when you're done; too good to not have a permanent, high-quality, record. 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joner Posted July 28, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 28, 2020 A live stream on running days? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simond Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 On 28/07/2020 at 19:07, Joner said: A live stream on running days? I hope we’re not talking about the sewage farm here... 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joner Posted July 30, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 30, 2020 9 hours ago, Simond said: I hope we’re not talking about the sewage farm here... Authentic smells too, that'll be new..... .....coming from the models anyway 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted July 31, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 31, 2020 14 hours ago, Joner said: Authentic smells too, that'll be new..... .....coming from the models anyway Automatically applied at exhibitions! Mike. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc1989 Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 On 25/07/2020 at 08:37, HeatonLodge40 said: That’s super thanks very much, I didn’t think of companies house. This is a great layout and right in my modelling era of the 1980's. On the subject of the Yorkshire Water company logo, there is one before the white rose one,that was used up until around 1990. It is shown in this picture on the Bedford Astravan. https://www.flickr.com/photos/midestpics/18532188225/in/photolist-ueCiUD-xnhk7y-2jefe8h-2jfPzVM-2jefe7F-2jefe6U-2jei51S-2ipW3Th-nRiVXJ-eRNZt5-eegja2-o1X7td-eeNurh-pXxMjY-ebgVDG-25p5WwD-dtukXi-dscMKz-dtfN4G-pHfS8A-A9FbUq-2j1ZGWy-nzMi3S-2jfPH4Q-AdvZxb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewT Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 On 20/07/2020 at 21:15, Growling said: Forget the Cargowaggons. The Tesco bag steals the show! Not being picky - only some historical info..... I appreciate this bag may have blow in on the wind, thrown out of train window, or whatever - but Mirfield didn't have a Tesco until May1987, when the Hillards chain was bought out by Tesco. The Hillards store was within the premises which are currently a 'BetFred' and a Hansons opticians. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewT Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 (edited) On 25/07/2020 at 08:37, HeatonLodge40 said: That’s super thanks very much, I didn’t think of companies house. In colour: And you might also like to see the entry at the Intellectual Property Office: https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmcase/page/Results/1/UK00002041522 Edited August 3, 2020 by AndrewT Added link 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HeatonLodge40 Posted August 4, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 4, 2020 Afternoon folks once again thanks for the interest. Had a few days up at Dent again watching the Staycation Express rumbling past every couple hours. Great to see the large logo 47 ‘Galloway Princess’ & the green 37 at each end.. Anyway this week Tim Horn kindly delivered another batch of (very complicated) frames to form the first part of the Huddersfield line on two levels. As many will know the dive under line & the two tracks above it eventually meet at Heaton Lodge South junction half a mile further on. Believe it or not I’m actually short of space so I plan to bring the road bridge at Heaton Lodge South junction forward a touch - this also being the third and final scenic break. That, as I envisaged, also means I will still have a hefty triangular gap where the top level Huddersfield line diverges. Its dawning on me just what a superb view this is going to provide since this superelevated curve is on a 40’ radius for 5 metres or so. However I’ve still got a lot of complicated removable scenery to make in ‘the gap’ as well as working out how to fill the rest. I’ll probably end up constructing a trolley made from aluminium square tube with castors on and build scenery on top of it. If this scenery is triangular in shape the trolley will wheel in to plug this gap. Today I’ve finished another load of static grass to cover the embankment and surrounding ground. I’ve used a heck of a load of postiche (dolls hair) here to give the impression of thick brambles which ironically totally cover the painstakingly made stone work and fences of the nearby road under bridge. view looking east of the new stretch of line..View looking west 28 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HeatonLodge40 Posted August 4, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 4, 2020 Here’s a step by step of the embankment coverage.. 4.5mm & 6mm mini natur & noch grass mixed in a magimax prior to being laid. First layer straight onto neat PVA. The tufts are made by a hand held vac nozzle just touching the wet grassA heavy sprinkling of crushed earth..Second layer laid onto sprayed matt varnish Dolls hair also known as canopy or posticheTeased out and laid on top of the grass after being heavily covered with spray matt varnish 16 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HeatonLodge40 Posted August 4, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 4, 2020 Dried out dead leaves go into the magimix followed by the coffee grinder. The resulting powder is sieved onto the dolls hair..Heres the result of a lot of coated dolls hair..And a lighter covering 20 2 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HeatonLodge40 Posted August 4, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 4, 2020 And the basically finished field and embankment. Lots of detail yet to add such as grates and drain covers in the road, couple of street lights in the adjoining road, bit more fence and lots of mud and puddles.Going back to the new frames on the left and the view from here shows just how far away the trains will be spotted appearing under the bridge. As I mentioned the two lower tracks join the two higher tracks at the same level around 10m further on.. The backscene will curve past this bridge and join with the bridge on the right at the end. What to fill in the middle? I might even extend the river 33 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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