Grim-up-North; Goathland, Queensbury & Bradford.

[aardvark]

On 31/12/2022 at 17:35, Sasquatch said:

I'm toying with the idea of making a lift out two-story interior and attaching the whole roof assembly to it. That way I can fully detail the shop!

 

I'm interested to hear how you go with this idea. I'm toying with just a removable roof+ceiling, but not heard of anything like this being done previously.

 

[ChrisN]

4 hours ago, aardvark said:

 

I'm interested to hear how you go with this idea. I'm toying with just a removable roof+ceiling, but not heard of anything like this being done previously.

 

 

Shaun will not have been the first person to have done this, but I am sure that when he does it, it will look really good.

[jcredfer]

9 hours ago, aardvark said:

 

I'm interested to hear how you go with this idea. I'm toying with just a removable roof+ceiling, but not heard of anything like this being done previously.

 

 

Some while ago, someone had a layout, which had a huge row of terraced houses, on a raised road, against the backscene.  It looked like some of the multi tracks out of Paddington, with high arched walls and roads along the tops, although I can't recall the name.  That one had made a play of different scenes in all the rooms, which could be lit up individually, to show their interiors.  He didn't raise the rooves, but, similarly, had removable backs.  [Oooh... that might well have been the fronts, either way the walls were removed  in batches, several house fronts in one piece.]

 

 

[Sasquatch]

Firstly, I made a floor from thin card and built up a back room from foamboard. A sort of conduit was added in the back room above the rear hole in the structure floor, to help guide the lighting wires.

Ages was spent making up a basic florist. Plenty of room for buckets of flowers, another stand, simple counter and a butler sink, which utilized the laser sheet from the kit. For an added bit of entertainment, I also put my cabinet making skills to the test in 4mm to make a bookcase, also from the kit sheet along with the two detail sections that were removed from the shop front.

 

The tap on the sink is from the Ratio cattle dock fencing kit.

 

The most fun is to be had inventing ways to make a wide selection of blooms, houseplants and pots. These are snippets cut off of the tapered end of a used plastic micro brush.

 

The righthand shop window display consists of house plants and an expensive bouquet of the week.

close up of the pavement display.

  

 

The upper story is simply foam board cut to fit and once painted will be fixed to the back room of the lower section and the lighting added. About an hours work left, the only thing I don't seem to be able to source is a suitable proprietor.

It'll definitely be a female but the only ones I have are all Airfix and seem to be dressed for winter and carrying bags of various types. I might just have one figure who is seated that can be placed on the doorstep, so to create the scene I'll need to have the shop door open!   

More later...

Squatch. 

Edited January 3, 2023 by Sasquatch
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[westerhamstation]

Hi Shaun, blooming lovely.

[jcredfer]

49 minutes ago, westerhamstation said:

Hi Shaun, blooming lovely.

 

...........   Oh dear!...  Not you an' all!..   Please, stem the flow...   

 

 

[ChrisN]

Just amazing Shaun.  

 

The tap, from the Ratio kit.  Is it a bit of the fence?  You know why, I have at least one sink with no tap, two ranges that do not have a tap, although there is no way I can fit them now, but, but, but, several houses with sinks and ranges still to go.  Of course if it is a mixer tap, I am 50 years too soon for one of them.

 

Proprietor.  I assume you have no Preiser or Dart Castings figures to hand?  I think any spare that I have have been given a good slap and told to get a proper ankle length skirt on.

[Sasquatch]

1 hour ago, ChrisN said:

Just amazing Shaun.  

 

The tap, from the Ratio kit.  Is it a bit of the fence?  You know why, I have at least one sink with no tap, two ranges that do not have a tap, although there is no way I can fit them now, but, but, but, several houses with sinks and ranges still to go.  Of course if it is a mixer tap, I am 50 years too soon for one of them.

 

Proprietor.  I assume you have no Preiser or Dart Castings figures to hand?  I think any spare that I have have been given a good slap and told to get a proper ankle length skirt on.

The Ratio fence fret has a standpipe! I just cut the tap off and painted it brass. One thing you won't need for your period is hot & cold.

So not so many taps to install but then again, you'll be needing big kettles for the range tops! I use gold paint for brass because even my gran polished her brass weekly right up until about 1976!!! I was not a stranger to Duraglit wadding as a kid.

 

The girl I have in mind for the rather fancy florist would be the woman from "Chocolate". A vibrant immigrant dark haired foxy type.

I like to create the sort of interesting characters that have something to bring to the scene other than just a boring nondescript, hum drum dowdy Dapol shopper or passenger. They're ten-a-penny. (well at least they were when Airfix introduced them).    

 

I'll go with the woman sitting on the step and will add pics in due course. The iPhone is tied up with Radio Garden, we have a Mexican station on after making chicken Tacos for lunch. Our mouths are on fire. Regina, our Christmas guest made them the night before she went back to Portland and I'm hooked but alas mine were nowhere near as good. 

 

Regards Shaun.

Edited January 3, 2023 by Sasquatch

[Sasquatch]

After the young lady had been painted and placed on the front step to pose for the camera, I uploaded the image onto the laptop and found that she looked like she was from Mars. Now that a more Mediterranean skin tone has been applied, she's changed her shoes and done her hair, Fiorella is open for business. (See what I did there).🤭 

[ChrisN]

13 hours ago, Sasquatch said:

The Ratio fence fret has a standpipe! I just cut the tap off and painted it brass. One thing you won't need for your period is hot & cold.

So not so many taps to install but then again, you'll be needing big kettles for the range tops! I use gold paint for brass because even my gran polished her brass weekly right up until about 1976!!! I was not a stranger to Duraglit wadding as a kid.

 

The girl I have in mind for the rather fancy florist would be the woman from "Chocolate". A vibrant immigrant dark haired foxy type.

I like to create the sort of interesting characters that have something to bring to the scene other than just a boring nondescript, hum drum dowdy Dapol shopper or passenger. They're ten-a-penny. (well at least they were when Airfix introduced them).    

 

I'll go with the woman sitting on the step and will add pics in due course. The iPhone is tied up with Radio Garden, we have a Mexican station on after making chicken Tacos for lunch. Our mouths are on fire. Regina, our Christmas guest made them the night before she went back to Portland and I'm hooked but alas mine were nowhere near as good. 

 

Regards Shaun.

 

Yes, it is good to have characters, it is surprising just how many there are around.  Wonderful scence making.

 

Yes big pots, but most ranges had a water boiling part, which you filled from the top, and had a tap about half way up so you could get your hot water that way.  I will have to look for taps, they are a bit too small to actually model.  (Now there is be lots of links to people who have done!)

[Sasquatch]

7 hours ago, ChrisN said:

 

Yes, it is good to have characters, it is surprising just how many there are around.  Wonderful scence making.

 

Yes big pots, but most ranges had a water boiling part, which you filled from the top, and had a tap about half way up so you could get your hot water that way.  I will have to look for taps, they are a bit too small to actually model.  (Now there is be lots of links to people who have done!)

If I had to make a number of taps, I'd get some soft brass wire such as picture hanging wire (28 gauge/0.35mm) then drill holes in a strip of square plastic strip (0.75mm) the same size as the wire, one all the way through and holes at 90 degrees in line with the through hole. Feed the brass wire through and bend it to the required tap shape then use carriage door handles (Roxey/MJT etc.) dipped in super glue for the fossettes. Then cut them from the plastic strip!    😉

 

Hope that helps.

Regards Shaun.

 

[ChrisN]

30 minutes ago, Sasquatch said:

If I had to make a number of taps, I'd get some soft brass wire such as picture hanging wire (28 gauge/0.35mm) then drill holes in a strip of square plastic strip (0.75mm) the same size as the wire, one all the way through and holes at 90 degrees in line with the through hole. Feed the brass wire through and bend it to the required tap shape then use carriage door handles (Roxey/MJT etc.) dipped in super glue for the fossettes. Then cut them from the plastic strip!    😉

 

Hope that helps.

Regards Shaun.

 

 

Shaun, thank you.  The trouble is once you start these things, you never stop.  Still, now you have said it........

 

Please rearrange the following words into a well known phrase or sentence.

 

Back, for, own, rod, a, my, making.

[Sasquatch]

To illuminate Herbology, two LEDs have been employed and a circuit hashed together.

 

The sink at the back can just be made out, tap and all.

 

 

I do hope Fiorella sells some flowers, she's going to need a fist full of shillings to feed that electric meter!

 

 

Hope you enjoyed that build because I might just get into baseboard building next.

 

Squatch.

[Sasquatch]

Before I can get on with layout building I'm going to be needing some sustenance, so I thought I'd pop down the chippy. Oh yeah, we don't have a chippy, so I'll have to build one...

 

 

Having saved a photo of a nice old shop in Leeds on my old laptop of Robinsons Famous Fisheries to one day use as the basis for a model, this would make a nice starting point.

 

These shop front moldings from DPM modulars seemed suitable for hacking up. Three were used, one each for the main windows and one craftily cut into four for the sides of the bays.

 

With plastic card and strip added I mounted them on a card roof section.

 

 

Hashed up a door with hopper style window above. This assembly slots in between the two bay window sections. 

 

 

The original building was a red/brown colour scheme, so I went with that...

 

The upper storey is pure foam...😉 sorry upper story is pure foam board...

 

 

...clad in HO scale concrete block, painted in a dirty millstone grit finish of course.

 

Next, I knocked up a removeable roof section of foamboard formers.

 

 

Card roof.

 

 

The clever bit is that after measuring all the roof sections and cutting them out I found that if the hips were aligned and taped together on the inside and the gully on the outside all the sections just folded into the correct shape. (Although I think this only works for a roof with a 45 degree pitch!)

 

 

I stuck that to the former while still surprised that it all went so smoothly before it all went tits up.

Rooves aren't the easiest things to model! 

 

After gluing all that together, I took a piccy of all the sections apart.

 

Last night I tiled it in the time-honored fashion. 

 

Now for the tricky part.

The windows need leaded light with green panes and white writing.

The main panes were carefully scribed with the leading and black/gun metal mix painted on and rubbed off when dry.

Translucent green paint was applied on the back where wanted. I used "Woodland Scenics" dry rub roman lettering for the writing.

It's not brilliant but no one's going to be looking at it through a microscope.

 

 

The side door that accesses the flat above the shop was scratch built and I'm quite proud of it especially the fielded panel. Again, more glazing detail and a number 10.

 

Steps, curtains, glazing and lots of paint complete the detailing to date.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for checking in.

Squatch. 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Edited January 10, 2023 by Sasquatch

[westerhamstation]

Hi Shaun, six of chips and a piece of rock please, and can I have a bottle of Tizer as well thank you.

Ps a great bit of modelling. All the best Adrian.

[St Enodoc]

1 hour ago, westerhamstation said:

Hi Shaun, six of chips and a piece of rock please, and can I have a bottle of Tizer as well thank you.

Ps a great bit of modelling. All the best Adrian.

Rock? In the West Riding? You'll be lucky...

[Sasquatch]

The Grin-Up-North electricity company has installed power to the chippy & number 10.

To celebrate Robinsons have invested in new state of the art catering equipment.

 

[Barry O]

On 10/01/2023 at 20:08, St Enodoc said:

Rock? In the West Riding? You'll be lucky...

A cake ina cake more likely. As in a breadcake filled with a fishcake.

 

A fishcake is a thin layer of fish between two potato scallops, covered in batter and deep fried.. excellent stuff!

 

Baz

[St Enodoc]

8 minutes ago, Barry O said:

A cake ina cake more likely. As in a breadcake filled with a fishcake.

 

A fishcake is a thin layer of fish between two potato scallops, covered in batter and deep fried.. excellent stuff!

 

Baz

Wi' scraps.

[Sasquatch]

Sorry to say that I don't miss British food. We're having a Mexican food bonanza having discovered two Mexican supermarkets. Tonight, I made chicken tacos. The meat was slow cooked in the crockpot with the seasoning. The tortillas brushed with oil and warmed in a pan then the tacos were assembled with pico de gallo, cojita cheese, sliced green bell pepper and red cabbage, avocado, sour cream, fresh coriander and lime juice. Next time we go back I'm getting ox tongue for the tacos!

 

The only good fish and chips I can remember having in England was in Tonbridge on the way to Margate one year. The shop was run by Spaniards which might explain why it was so good.   It's been months since I ate a potato...  

 

Squatch.

[St Enodoc]

4 minutes ago, Sasquatch said:

It's been months since I ate a potato...

Nearly 24 hours for me. We had a nice dinner last might with some old friends who are visiting from the UK. A nice rare steak with mash (the menu said potato puree but I reckon it was still mash).

[Barry O]

Squatch 

Some very good Fish and Chips in Leeds, Whitby,Cleethorpes etc  including Yorkshire caviar (aka mushy peas).

 

Bad fish and chip shops don't last long..just avoid things like cod.. rock?? (Dogfish?)

 

Baz

[Sasquatch]

13 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

Nearly 24 hours for me. We had a nice dinner last might with some old friends who are visiting from the UK. A nice rare steak with mash (the menu said potato puree but I reckon it was still mash).

We recently learnt that being members of the nightshade family, potatoes can aggravate inflammatory issues. After a long day back in October we had fish and chips. The following morning my hands and feet felt like someone had set about me with a hammer! Shame because I like potatoes just as much as the next person. 

Yukon gold spuds make the best mash and fries.

 

Regards Shaun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Sasquatch]

13 hours ago, Barry O said:

Squatch 

Some very good Fish and Chips in Leeds, Whitby,Cleethorpes etc  including Yorkshire caviar (aka mushy peas).

 

Bad fish and chip shops don't last long..just avoid things like cod.. rock?? (Dogfish?)

 

Baz

The fish-n-chips in Bridlington and North Shields wasn't bad but not as good as that in Ijmuiden, Vlissingen and s'Gravenhage which is quite different! Over here in the Pacific Northwest we're spoilt. Why have cod when you can have Dungeness crab. Brother-in-law gave us a crab for Christmas, so we had crab cakes on Christmas Eve with homemade Tartar sauce. Christmas morning, I wanted to make Crab Cakes Benedict, but the girls protested about too much rich food!  

 

Regards Shaun.

(Mouth watering yet?)

[Sasquatch]

It seems rather fashionable on RMweb to post a yearly update of such, so here goes with another ambitious plan.

 

Nothing new is planned, just to press on ahead with the Mill Town section. 

Seeing as we have decided not to build any more kitchen cabinets and put up glass shelves instead, I have gained some serious modeling time. 

I'm working on a complete layout tour video. Something I don't think I'm very good at. I'll shoot the same bit of video 6 times because something seems to go tits-up every time and then the battery goes flat. So, a work in progress. The last video (of the black 08) was quite well received on YouTube. This has encouraged me to do a layout build video of the mill town. edit: Just worked out that I can plug the charger in while taking the footage🤔 

 

One section of the town that's got the mojo flowing is the idea of making a sort of square, with a small park area surrounded by shops and amenities that incorporates a tram terminus.

 

Almost everything needed to build the 23'x12' section has been acquired, anything I'm short of seems to be out of stock. It's all very well reintroducing a dead and defunct scale Peco, but you mustn't forget to look after your bread-&-butter customers. I'm never going to even consider going TT along with most other modelers, but we still need OO turnouts, buffer stops, rail joiners, fencing etc!!! Winge over.

 

When the weather gets too cold there will be structure modeling by the wood burner. More shops, a church, large factory, station, signal box, hotel, L&Y offices several bridges, more houses, two pubs, derelict mill and maybe a carriage shed.

 

We brought ourselves an espresso machine for Christmas. It's surprising just how much gets done after coffee!

 

Squatch.  

Edited January 17, 2023 by Sasquatch
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