Kings Moreton, (1980's BR)

[Andrew P]

And what did you do after lunch?

 

In the last pictures is there room to turn the house 90 degrees (or whatever goes there!) so it is flush with the profile board then you can model a front and back garden?   Just a thought.

 

I think I have found you're missing pictorial it's hanging on the bracket of this pub......

 

Looks good.

Thanks Kevin, I've been out there most of the day to be honest, it's not a 5 minute job, hahah

 

Re the Pub, well it's very tight at 90 degrees, but just doable. I may set it further back from the Canal and slope the front down to the Tow Path.

[Andrew P]

Superb stuff as usual Andy.

 

Regards,

Brian.

Thanks Brian, but still loads to do to get it looking realistic though.

[Andrew P]

Tomorrow I want to look to see if I can lower the right hand level to bring a path down to the Tow Path from the Pub.

 

Edited July 10, 2017 by Andrew P

[georgeT]

Very good buddy, fills the gap across the door nicely, well done...

[Alister_G]

Superb backscene, Andy, really so good.

 

Al.

[westerner]

I'm always gobsmacked by the quality and speed of your work, Andy.

[danstercivicman]

Wow great stuff

[emt_911]

This morning I decided to make a start on the Oxford Canal Section.

 

Firstly I removed the backscene and cut out the area for the Canal, and cut and painted the Canal base. This will have several coats of Varnish later.

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I then made up the side walls, the right hand side will have a Tow Path later.

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I then made the embankment from Dore Lane Bridge

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Next I made a start on the Backscene.

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Then some Green Gloss paint as a base colour ready for the Grass.

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I can go off people very rapidly

 

Seriously though, another masterpiece.

[Andrew P]

Thanks George, Al, Alan, Dan and Duncan, still loads to do over the coming Months, but a little now and then and it all comes together.

 

Not sure if I'm in the Shed or not today at the moment, it's the Club tonight, and I'm out all day tomorrow, Wife's Birthday Thursday, so probably out for Lunch, and going to The Patchings, an Art Festival in Nottingham on Friday, so a very busy week ahead.

[Bogie]

I reckon if you had taken me up on my offer you would have built a layout in the hold of the plane by the time we landed in Brisbane.

 

You really do not muck around.  Great stuff!

[Andrew P]

I reckon if you had taken me up on my offer you would have built a layout in the hold of the plane by the time we landed in Brisbane.

 

You really do not muck around.  Great stuff!

Cheers Bogie, although not quite sure how I'd manage to throw the rubbish out in mid flight. hahah

[Andrew P]

I did venture out to TOPS and decided to tackle the right hand embankment, the next step will be the Tow path after Elevenses. 

 

[KNP]

I did venture out to TOPS and decided to tackle the right hand embankment, the next step will be the Tow path after Elevenses. 

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That looks better.

How wide do you envisage the actual canal itself will be?

Have the makings of a nice beer garden leading down to the canal.

[Andrew P]

That looks better.

How wide do you envisage the actual canal itself will be?

Have the makings of a nice beer garden leading down to the canal.

Thanks Kevin, Once the Tow Path is in, the actual Canal will be about 3 inch's wide under the Bridge.

 

Yes the Beer Garden sounds like a nice idea, although people didn't frequent Pubs for Lunches and Beer Gardens until just a few years ago, I'm not sure there were many about before the 90's. Not being a Pub goer or Drinker, I really cant remember when they first became the norm, perhaps someone can enlighten me please.

Edited July 11, 2017 by Andrew P

[KNP]

Thanks Kevin, Once the Tow Path is in, the actual Canal will be about 3 inch's wide under the Bridge.

 

Yes the Beer Garden sounds like a nice idea, although people didn't frequent Pubs for Lunches and Beer Gardens until just a few years ago, I'm not sure there were many about before the 90's. Not being a Pub goer or Drinker, I really cant remember when they first became the norm, perhaps someone can enlighten me please.

 

I can confirm there where beer gardens around in that era.

From the mid 1980's I worked for Wethered at Marlow (part of Whitbread's then empire) mainly maintaining and upgrading public houses and there were may in use at that time with more and more being formed, especially if they had something interesting to look out.

Plus the landlord would wont to get the passing trade from the canal as well so a small mooring wall along the towpath with a gate leading from it up into the beer garden wouldn't look out of place. Nor a pub sign and noticeboard either.

I was also responsible for designing and installing the signs for a PH so I'm talking from former knowledge here. 

 

I can see it now a canal boat moored up, people sitting on the roof with a tray of drinks from the pub, groups of people sitting in the sun in the garden eating there lunch under a patio umbrella.........brings back memories

Edited July 11, 2017 by KNP

[brushman47544]

Thanks Kevin, Once the Tow Path is in, the actual Canal will be about 3 inch's wide under the Bridge.

 

Yes the Beer Garden sounds like a nice idea, although people didn't frequent Pubs for Lunches and Beer Gardens until just a few years ago, I'm not sure there were many about before the 90's. Not being a Pub goer or Drinker, I really cant remember when they first became the norm, perhaps someone can enlighten me please.

 

Village pubs with beer gardens - well tables outside - that may or may not go down to a nearby river bank certainly existed in the 80s and even before. Much rarer in urban areas then, I suspect.

[Andrew P]

Cheers Andrew, I do remember some in and around Portsmouth in about 80 / 81 or so, but mainly near the Water Front etc.

[Andrew P]

This afternoon the Tow Path was cut to shape, a walling put around and then covered in PVA and then Beach Sand.

 

It was then fitted in position and the Bollards added. it's now drying.

 

 

 

 

[Alister_G]

Ooh, look at 'im modelling with plasticard!

 

You can pack that in Peters, or I'll 'ave the union on yer. :nono:

 

 

 

 

 

Nice job mate, looks good.

 

Al

[Andrew P]

Ooh, look at 'im modelling with plasticard!

 

You can pack that in Peters, or I'll 'ave the union on yer. :nono:

 

 

 

 

 

Nice job mate, looks good.

 

Al

You don't want to now how many attempts it took to cut that bit strait, hahhaha.    

[Alister_G]

You don't want to now how many attempts it took to cut that bit strait, hahhaha.    

 

 

:D

[PeterBB]

Cheers Bogie, although not quite sure how I'd manage to throw the rubbish out in mid flight. hahah

 

'Hold'-on rather than hand luggage. 

[gismorail]

Andy your latest creation is a very evocative scene that could be set virtually anywhere in the country but not often modelled in such a convincing way and the amazing part about it is that it is on a fill in across the doorway ......great modelling matey. I can just imagine the trains emerging from beneath the road over bridge followed by the rumble across the canal bridge... brilliant Andy well done a good days work me thinks 

[Andrew P]

Andy your latest creation is a very evocative scene that could be set virtually anywhere in the country but not often modelled in such a convincing way and the amazing part about it is that it is on a fill in across the doorway ......great modelling matey. I can just imagine the trains emerging from beneath the road over bridge followed by the rumble across the canal bridge... brilliant Andy well done a good days work me thinks 

Thanks Martin, the door section was always going to be a puzzle as to what would work. I also needed to find a home for the Canal, so it's turned out to be a double bonus for me. 

[Andrew P]

Just beyond the Rail Bridge is the Canal's Dore Locks, (door lock,    get it,       the lock in the door!      ), but unfortunately I don't have room to model the Dore Locks.

Edited July 11, 2017 by Andrew P