westerner Posted September 22, 2018 Author Share Posted September 22, 2018 I had a little play this evening with my new camera. The 08 waiting patiently for its next duty. Yes I have noticed I need to do something about the cab handrail. I couldn't have taken this one and seen what I was taking with my other camera And this one of the new canopy (still not glued together) was hand held and I particularly liked the fuel tankers 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted September 23, 2018 Author Share Posted September 23, 2018 More work on the canopy today, Putting on the ridge and putting the glazing bars. Nothing else can now be done until it is sprayed and then the glazing can be put on and the external bars. Then I have to build the legs. As you will see the only bits of the Dapol/kitmaster Kit I used were the Girders and the A frame roof supports, the glazing bars, inside gutter and ridges were done with various sizes of Evergreen strip. Hopefully if the weather is kind tomorrow I'll be able to get out into the garage and spray prime it and hopefully later in the day give it a coat of Tank Grey 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted September 24, 2018 Author Share Posted September 24, 2018 Tonight I have been dealing with some small mistakes I made when doing the parcel office end of the platform and finishing the bricking around the edges, blocking up a couple of windows in the parcels office that will be obstructed by the new small canopy. All this whilst the cnopy glazing is drying. I still need to do the external glazing bars. Will post pix tomorrow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb67 Posted September 25, 2018 Share Posted September 25, 2018 Nice photo's Alan, what camera did you get and do you use any extra lighting for your pics? Steve. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted September 25, 2018 Author Share Posted September 25, 2018 Morning Steve, it's a Canon G5X.so has aperture control up to f11. All photos at the moment taken just with ordinary room lighting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted September 26, 2018 Author Share Posted September 26, 2018 Promised photos . canopy still needs outer glazing bars but glazing is in place Fencing around platform edge Bricked up windows Please remember nothing is permanently in place including retaining wall 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted September 26, 2018 Author Share Posted September 26, 2018 a closer view of the bricked up windows Sorry about this but my normal playing about with pictures decided to play up when dealing with the previous post and I had to use a different much poorer programme. I decided for one last try and my normal programme kicked into action. It does this occasionally. It decides my Scratch disc is full (whatever that is). My hard drive etc is pretty empty. and then it will suddenly decide everything is OK and it all works again. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted September 28, 2018 Author Share Posted September 28, 2018 (edited) Started on the sky backscene this morning using emulsion. It started to cockle which got me slightly worried but as it dried it went flat again, thank goodness. Some photos. I think it looks better in real life than in the pix. I'm not sure about an horizon line as the layout will be quite high and obviously there are quite tall buildings over the bottom half of the sky. I shall cogitate over night. it is something that will be possible to do when the sky is in place. As you may be able to see I've not gone for a plain blue sky. But one with some greyish haze. Edit: The bottom unpainted bit will be cut off before it is placed in position. Edited September 28, 2018 by westerner 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted September 30, 2018 Author Share Posted September 30, 2018 Back scene installed. There is just the odd buuble which can be dealt with and will be covered up by 2D scenics, More worrying all though you cannot seen it on the photos is that the extension piece had about a half mm overlap which I didn't see or feel although everything was clamped tight when it was added and with an overhead light casts a very thin shadow from overhead light(unfortunately didn't show up on the phot I took with the room lights on although you can see it with No1 eyeball. It doesn't show with the light coming through the window, a much more sideways on light. I'm not sure what to do about it Strip the backs cene off and sand everything flush, I suspect that will ruin the layout what with the damp in removing the back scene and the sanding or slightly lower the layout and have a deeper fascia. I think I'll try the latter when the roof and lights are installed and see what it looks like. Anyway a couple of photos. First Photo: the layout stripped of buildings and covered (masked) to stop spots of glue falling on the track. Second photo: some buildings back and lit with light from the window. Unfortunately the photos I took with the room lights did not show the shadow so not worth posting, I'll try again later. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted October 3, 2018 Author Share Posted October 3, 2018 As I said above I would retake photos of the shadow line of the backboard extension join. Here they are: the line across the back of the layout and on the left hand side: as stated in the previous post, stripping the back scene off and filling and sanding the join with all the track work and wiring done and some of the scenery (the back wall of the large canopy and the canopy uprights) permanently in place is not something I wish to contemplate. I feel the mess caused could do permanent damage to the layout. I have been thinking about non invasive solutions and I feel lowering the layout, should it ever go to an exhibition, By a few inches so that track height would be around 50 ins and deepening the fascia panel to about 41/2 -5inches would conceal the lines. With a fascia board that deep I could experiment with a row of LEDs on the bottom inside edge of the fascia slightly up-lighting the shadow and thus getting rid of it that way. it certainly seems to work with torches. Obviously at home, whilst a nuisance, operating the layout it is too high for me to notice. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted October 4, 2018 Author Share Posted October 4, 2018 (edited) Putting behind me the problems with the back scene work has been progressing on the short canopy. Outside frames of the glass has been done and the first support post has been made. I'm waiting for some more canopy brackets from York Modelling for the other 3 posts. Whilst I had the camera out I thought I'd take a couple of photos of some locos. Edited October 4, 2018 by westerner 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacathedrale Posted October 5, 2018 Share Posted October 5, 2018 This whole layout is beautiful Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted October 5, 2018 Author Share Posted October 5, 2018 Many thanks William, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted October 8, 2018 Author Share Posted October 8, 2018 (edited) I think the short canopy is nigh on finished ,apart from some slight weathering, legs, struts or posts or whatever you like, now attached,. Edited October 8, 2018 by westerner 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted October 8, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 8, 2018 Very Victorian looking, over engineered, but ornate and decretive at the same time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted October 8, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 8, 2018 All of this makes me want to build an inner city terminus...........Bristol......ex-Midland......no....must resist......enough on plate.....aargh!!! Rob. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted October 23, 2018 Author Share Posted October 23, 2018 I haven't posted for the last couple of weeks, we've been away for a few days plus pondering about the fuel storage and a slight loss of mojo. The classic getting near the end and interest starts to wane. It has now picked up and work has started on the fuel storage area. When a bit more has been done I'll show some photos. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted October 24, 2018 Author Share Posted October 24, 2018 As promised some photos of the storage tank area. Nowhere near finished and nothing as yet stuck together. Photographs can be very cruel, the dinks in the tanks and the seams are hardly noticeable to the naked eye. the problem is I have not yet found a decent photo of this sort of area of a depot. I have bought the new bookazines on diesel sheds and the Hornby one as well as a book on Early Diesel Sheds and still not seen a clear photo of upright or even sideways storage tanks. I have consulted Clive and he has found the same. The things I think I have to do, please correct me if I'm wrong, is a ladder to the top of the tanks and a walkway across the top of them. Any info gratefully received. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted October 24, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 24, 2018 As promised some photos of the storage tank area. Nowhere near finished and nothing as yet stuck together. Photographs can be very cruel, the dinks in the tanks and the seams are hardly noticeable to the naked eye. storage tanks 1.jpg storage tanks 2.jpg the problem is I have not yet found a decent photo of this sort of area of a depot. I have bought the new bookazines on diesel sheds and the Hornby one as well as a book on Early Diesel Sheds and still not seen a clear photo of upright or even sideways storage tanks. I have consulted Clive and he has found the same. The things I think I have to do, please correct me if I'm wrong, is a ladder to the top of the tanks and a walkway across the top of them. Any info gratefully received. Hi Alan I know these are ER not WR, are these of help Finsbury Park Kings Cross Kings Cross again. Are these of any help? These were the Hanging Hill tanks based on Finsbury Park and Stratford. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted October 24, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 24, 2018 Hi Alan You will need one of these as well.....in chocolate and cream. https://www.national-preservation.com/threads/a-warning-to-trainspotters-part-2.30101/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted October 24, 2018 Author Share Posted October 24, 2018 Thanks Clive. I've saved the notice by the way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted October 29, 2018 Author Share Posted October 29, 2018 Finished the storage tanks I think, I just need to build a pump house between the tanker discharge site and the storage tanks. It will be roughly where the hut is in one of the photos. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted November 1, 2018 Author Share Posted November 1, 2018 I've added the steps so that the workers can get over the bund and also built a pump house, No sure whether the underground pipes from the discharge site should come up and go through the wall off the pump house and also the side that feeds the storage tanks. I'll have a think and perhaps someone has an idea as well. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted November 2, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 2, 2018 I think you should add them. Random pipes will add more interest to the scene. Also possibly vent pipes, as seen a petrol stations, plus joints and large valve wheels. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted November 11, 2018 Author Share Posted November 11, 2018 Some time since posting. I've been cogitating on the backscene under the canopy and a possible new project when this is finished. Anyway Here are the results. I also decided to add an a further roof over the rest of the station. and whilst I had the camera out one of Western Enterprise just about to leave for its next duty. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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