RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted April 17, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 17, 2017 (edited) diligent abrasion Didn't Studiolith used to sell a hair shirt for that purpose to P4 modellers? Edited April 17, 2017 by Captain Kernow Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted April 26, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 26, 2017 Being a procrastinator has some advantages. Before cutting timber I tweaked the design a touch to both allow full depth structures behind the lines on the wharf and to provide an destination for trains at the right hand end of the layout. These pictures should explain. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted June 1, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted June 1, 2017 (edited) Strong and stable and more than a little wooden; I'm pleased to report that the Belgian bit of my model making endeavours now has a pair of baseboards. They're designed to sit on tables; why bother with the effort and expense of building legs when most venues can supply tables? There's less to carry and fit into the car too. The boards have 6mm ply tops, 12mm ply ends and a spine of paired 12mm beams running down the centre. The photos should explain all. Edited June 1, 2017 by Neil 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted June 4, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted June 4, 2017 Yesterday morning I bunked of DIY duties and instead spent the time cutting and shaping track ready for the time I plan to fix it down. This is what it looks like now overlaid on the full size layout drawing. You might notice that I've cut away the plan underneath the points and crossing, this is to allow me to transfer these positions through to the baseboard surface, so that I can make sure the alignment of the track matches the plan. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted June 29, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted June 29, 2017 Though it's only three weeks since I last posted an update I seem to have got the bit between my teeth as the latest photos show quite a bit of progress made. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted August 1, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted August 1, 2017 Another month gone by and another update. In between then and now the Belgian layout has gained a name thanks to an on-line conversation with Dutch/Flemish speakers and Dutch Master in particular; it's now titled 'Vischkaai' an old spelling of fish quay which seems apt both because of the fish shaped outline of the baseboards and some of the traffic I intend to run. The layout has also gained a full complement of wiring, Sunday being a red letter day as trains ran the full length and width of the the layout without hitch, from the off. Despite training as a sparky many years ago such holes in one don't always happen. Here are a few photos of the boards assembled and under test. Inter board connections are made by 1/4" jack plugs and sockets and twin core flex; I like the inherent robustness of these components. Though it's the wrong way round and faces the wrong siding I couldn't resist mocking up the industrial end of the layout. The structure is an Artitec kit, a very kind gift from an on-line correspondent on another forum. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mikkel Posted August 1, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 1, 2017 Congratulations on the hole in one The industrial building looks very good. The Artitec kits are excellent, almost a reason in themselves to model the continent! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted August 2, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 2, 2017 The Artitec kits are excellent, almost a reason in themselves to model the continent! Yes, I've always liked them, expecially that particular one. It's always struck me as having potential for a British industrial or military type structure, as well. All looking good, Neil! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted August 7, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted August 7, 2017 Another week and a few more pictures to show. First of all a card mock up of the bridge which will separate fiddle yard from scenic section. It's based on the Sint-Michielsbrug in Ghent though only the span over the cobbled quayside will be modelled. Next up is a waterside bar fashioned from a pair of Artitec resin mouldings (one of which was a kind gift, ready finished) some styrene sheet and a sprinkling of Auhagen window mouldings. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted August 18, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted August 18, 2017 This week I 'av mostly bin doing cobbles. The photos should make all reasonably clear but just to make sure the crucial points are an under-layer of brick red das modelling clay to the sleeper tops followed when set by a layer of off white to just shy of the rail head. Embossing of sets done with a home made tool created from the remains of a suitably sized old paintbrush. Tackled a small section at a time to preserve sanity, eyesight, avoid rsi and to stay within the working time of the clay. Embossing works best when the clay has partially set. Be under no illusions it takes far longer then normal ballasting but it's an addictive and strangely soothing process especially if accompanied by music. Here are the snaps: 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted August 18, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 18, 2017 (edited) Excellent stuff - a fellow cobbler! I do like the diesels you've got there as well. Edited August 18, 2017 by Captain Kernow Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted August 18, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted August 18, 2017 Excellent stuff - a fellow cobbler! I do like the diesels you've got there as well. Thank you, I've become fluent in cobblers, many days I speak nothing but. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted August 22, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted August 22, 2017 (edited) A few more days and a little more progress. I've finished the large cobbled section of quayside; there will be some more to come but not in such a large chunk. Also both O&K diesels have been finish painted. They will require weathering too but I don't have time before the layout's debut at the weekend to get this done. Unseen by the camera is the lighting rig which is finished but needs painting to match the rest of the layout. I've been painting buildings and fabricating walling. Though far from finished the layout should be presentable and working at the weekend; hopefully enough will be done to give a flavour of northern Belgium and give a hint as to how it will look like when complete. Edited August 22, 2017 by Neil 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted August 29, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted August 29, 2017 Vischkaai went to its first exhibition over the bank holiday weekend. I had managed to do a little more work to the scenery and while nowhere near finished I was pleased with the potential it's beginning to show. Also p[leasing was that it worked pretty reliably too. I was going to take a few photos at the show but time got away from me so instead I got the camera out once the layout was back in my playroom. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted August 29, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 29, 2017 Looks great, Neil, and you've got a fireless loco too! Superb. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 Don't know whether you have considered this but do you buildings need to be a bit less straight - walking around Amsterdam i am amazed how some of the buildings are still standing, some lean away from one another, others lean forward. I'm sure its not just Amsterdam that is like that because of the air. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted September 16, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 16, 2017 After an airing at the Corris Railway exhibition in an incomplete state I've returned to work on Vischkaai. This means more cobbles, in particular the siding that snakes off behind the workshop/warehouse building. Why you may ask am I going to town with a section of the layout not normally on public view. There are several answers. When operating I get to see the back of the layout and I might as well have something engaging to look at, my modelmaking pleasure per square centimetre of layout is increased and it effectively doubles the length of view even though only one side is visible at a time. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted December 9, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 9, 2017 Last week to make an order up to a worthwhile size I bought a Roco DB van for the transport of perishable goods. A few years ago I bought a similar Fleischmann van from one of the bargain rummage boxes at a toyfair. I always thought that the Fleischmann van looked over scale, putting the two wagons together confirmed this. Running the ruler over both vans and with a little help from the calculator I estimate that the Fleischmann specimen is close, though not exactly, to 4mm/1'. This is good news as next year I hope to start on a large(ish) 00 layout where one of the themes will be traffic from the continent. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted December 9, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 9, 2017 next year I hope to start on a large(ish) 00 layout where one of the themes will be traffic from the continent. This sounds like excellent news! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted December 9, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 9, 2017 Luv the 'proper' cobbling Neil! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted December 10, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 10, 2017 Thank you John. It's obviously not as good as the Baron's but most of my model making isn't, however it sits well with the rest of the layout so far and does a good job of disguising the robust chunkiness of the code 100 Peco track. It has set a bit of a problem re. footpaths, specifically finding a technique which gives a similar textured look but with the regularity of the real thing. Many of my test pieces haven't lived up to expectations however I think I've found a solution. More later when I can test it out on the layout proper. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted December 10, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 10, 2017 (edited) The 'look' is great Neil and does fit in with the ambience of the layout. You know me, l just loathe the Wills plastic card with its non-prototypical straight lines! Cobbles look nice, but the alignment through the crossing..............! A good 'well used' effect here. Edited December 10, 2017 by Re6/6 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted December 10, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 10, 2017 The second example is spot on and reminds me that I'll need to do some excavations for grates and other ironwork. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonhall Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 Last week to make an order up to a worthwhile size I bought a Roco DB van for the transport of perishable goods. A few years ago I bought a similar Fleischmann van from one of the bargain rummage boxes at a toyfair. I always thought that the Fleischmann van looked over scale, putting the two wagons together confirmed this. vans ho oo.jpg Running the ruler over both vans and with a little help from the calculator I estimate that the Fleischmann specimen is close, though not exactly, to 4mm/1'. vans ho oo b.jpg This is good news as next year I hope to start on a large(ish) 00 layout where one of the themes will be traffic from the continent. I've looked up this van in the Stefan Carstans book, it appears that the Fleischmann model is 1:82 scale although my German isn't good enough to tell you why. There are drawings and prototype photos, remind me of your email by PM and I'll send you a scan... Principle dimensions 11740mm over buffers, 10500 over headstocks, 6600 wheelbase, height 4132 excluding vents, 4271 including them. Jon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allegheny1600 Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 A good 'well used' effect here. Cobbles 1.jpg Hi John, I must say that is tremendous! In fact, I have to ask, is it the real thing? If not, it is really superb modelling. Sorry to butt in here, Neil! Cheers, John. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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