Little Muddle

[KNP]

I have mentioned many times before that there are times when you build something and at the time you are happy with it then..............doubt creeps in.

 

This happened to the rear of Encombe Station and the retaining wall and half relief house.

As built in January 2015

 

 

 

Excuse the strange angle must have had an 'arty moment'

Quite a bit of work on this in getting the levels right, brick courses to line up, cladding and tiling correct but I was never really happy with it.

So I parked it for a while which in the end lasted for 15 mths before I came back it and thought right, time to sort this out.

It just looked to modern and not in keeping with the area.

 

So with a repaint to the cladding, new chimney stack added, fencing to platform and rebuilt piers it was revamped to this:

 

 

 

Plus backscene added which can clearly be seen as five different pieces cut and fitted to suit the location.

 

Much happier with it now so well worth leaving for while, having a rethink and revisit to sort out.

Edited March 2 by KNP

[Andrew P]

Abso bloomin lovely Kevin, I don't know how you make these Buildings look so good.

[gwrrob]

Abso bloomin lovely Kevin, I don't know how you make these Buildings look so good.

Five letters beginning with S.

[gismorail]

Wow wow and double wow.....I'd have been happy with the original but I do see where your coming from ......and time does help expand the mind and the scene it would appear 

[KNP]

Abso bloomin lovely Kevin, I don't know how you make these Buildings look so good.

 

Thanks, printed brick paper changed the whole context of modelling for me a few years ago and the quality you can now print on home printers plus if you run out so I just pop downstairs and print off another sheet.

Vallejo paints was another as it dries quickly but more importantly can be thinned to a wash consistency so the colour can be built up with variations and depth.

 

Sometimes I come back later on another project and think 'how did I get that colour/finish/effect!!!!!

[KNP]

Five letters beginning with S.

 

I give up?

[KNP]

Wow wow and double wow.....I'd have been happy with the original but I do see where your coming from ......and time does help expand the mind and the scene it would appear 

 

Thanks, it was one of those things that I stood back and just couldn't put my finger on why I wasn't happy with it.

Everybody else was but me.

 

At one stage I was going to scrap it and start again!

 

Agree - time does expand the mind and the light of a fresh day makes you see things differently. 

Edited May 17, 2017 by KNP

[Stubby47]

Five letters beginning with S.

Sweet ?

[bgman]

Vallejo paints was another as it dries quickly but more importantly can be thinned to a wash consistency so the colour can be built up with variations and depth.

 

Sometimes I come back later on another project and think 'how did I get that colour/finish/effect!!!!!

Hi Kevin,

 

Vallejo is now my "go to" paint of choice and usually grab it for most of my modelling jobs.

 

Very much like you I used to be forgetful about the methods I'd used and then took to writing my methods down either during or afterwards. It has paid dividends over the years

 

Grahame

[St Enodoc]

Thanks, printed brick paper changed the whole context of modelling for me a few years ago and the quality you can now print on home printers plus if you run out so I just pop downstairs and print off another sheet.

Vallejo paints was another as it dries quickly but more importantly can be thinned to a wash consistency so the colour can be built up with variations and depth.

 

Sometimes I come back later on another project and think 'how did I get that colour/finish/effect!!!!!

I agree regarding brick paper. I still use Superquick from time to time. Under the two-foot rule a well-built brick wall should really look flat.

[autocoach]

Interesting as I have been finding Vallejo Model Color my new go to hand brush paint when I don't want to go to a lot of trouble to set up the airbrush. We in the North American scene have been working around the demise of Floquil Polly S acrylic after it was acquired by Rustoleum/Testors/Model Master a couple of years ago. 

 

Some results on my http://srandsp.blogspot.com/ blog. Note that the Padstow station building seen in the background behind the PFE cars is "stone" paper built about 6 years ago.

Edited May 18, 2017 by autocoach

[KNP]

With regards to brick paper I find that I just can't beat the colour effects the printed paper gives.

Over the many years I have been modelling railways the main material was Wills brick sheets, I can even go back to the punched card 'chads' as brought to the modelling world by Allan Downes, but could never get these colour effects offered by the printed sheet.

 

The best example of what I'm on about is the following picture of the side wall of the new boilerhouse.

 

 

 

It's easy to work with, make interesting  shapes, angles etc.

A couple of coats of UV varnish and it's finished.

 

Great fan of this material.

Edited March 2 by KNP

[sandwich station]

Five letters beginning with S.

 

I give up?

 

Skill.

[Alister_G]

Five letters beginning with S.

 

 

I give up?

 

 

Sheep?

 

 

Al

[Stubby47]

What's the longest 6 letter word ?

[Alister_G]

What's the longest 6 letter word ?

 

Smiles

 

 

('cos there's a mile between the "S" at the start and the "S" at the end)

 

Al.

[gwrrob]

I give up?

Skill.

[gismorail]

Five letters beginning with S.

Skillful

[Bogie]

It just looked to modern and not in keeping with the area.

 

I knew eventually you would fall down - it is "too modern".

[KNP]

In response to Andy P displaying a long rake of milk tank wagons trundling around his new layout Kingsley Road I thought in good RM Web tradition I will do a sequence of pictures (in ANTB style) of my milk train going from Encombe to Little Muddle.

 

After much marshalling in the yard, a train was specially sent and I was able to take the following:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yard Master was a bit surprised at Little Muddle as this arrival was not on his schedule, though he was pleased as he had run out of milk for his tea......

Edited March 2 by KNP

[gwrrob]

ANTB style ,whatever that may be.  

[Mulgabill]

Excuse me for showing my ignorance, but shouldn't the milk train have a passenger brakevan? Or was that only on mainlines?

 

If not please don't tell Mrs MB, 'cos I've recently got 2 full brakes, on the basis that I didnt have any for Helstonish's milk traffic.

 

Please keep the inspiration going

[KNP]

ANTB style ,whatever that may be.

 

13 letters beginning with I..........

 

 

[KNP]

Excuse me for showing my ignorance, but shouldn't the milk train have a passenger brakevan? Or was that only on mainlines?

 

If not please don't tell Mrs MB, 'cos I've recently got 2 full brakes, on the basis that I didnt have any for Helstonish's milk traffic.

 

Please keep the inspiration going

 

To be honest I don't know but I suspect someone will advise us in due course?

 

In my defense this was all that was available in the yard at the time I requested the photo shoot from the Encombe Station Master...........!?!

[Coombe Barton]

Excuse me for showing my ignorance, but shouldn't the milk train have a passenger brakevan? Or was that only on mainlines?

 

If not please don't tell Mrs MB, 'cos I've recently got 2 full brakes, on the basis that I didnt have any for Helstonish's milk traffic.

 

Please keep the inspiration going

Not all milk trains running down a branch line had a passenger coach attached, some consisted of just milk vans or tanks and a goods brake van on the rear.

 

So says http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/gansg/7-fops/fo-milk.htm

Edited May 20, 2017 by Coombe Barton