Ladmanlow Sidings and other C&HPR locations

[georgeT]

Hello Al, Cant believe it's been 13 pages till l found you, some really nice modelling going on, will be watching with interest, great stuff

[Alister_G]

Hi George, great to hear from you mate, thanks very much.

 

Al.

[Alister_G]

I managed to get some more done on the back corner, last night, which I would have posted, but RMWeb was having a lie down...

 

The next section of wall just needs the cap stones adding, but is painted.

 

In addition, I've done a bit of landscaping to add the track from the gate up the field.

 

 

 

 

 

I decided to move the grounded van, and make it part of a farm, rather than being on railway property, so this is where it is planted for now.

 

 

 

Finally, a view round the back of the weighbridge hut. There will be a wall seperating this from the field.

 

That's all for now, thanks for looking,

 

Al.

 

[Alister_G]

You may remember that some time ago I talked about making a yard crane for the layout.

 

After looking at all the options I decided to use most of the parts of the Peco kit. I took this decision, as I recognised that to create a convincing frame with all the mechanism meshing properly would be a tricky thing to do as a scratch build.

 

However, the Peco kit comes with an "H" girder metal jib, so I was going to replace that with round styrene tube to more nearly  match the wooden jib like the one at Conwy.

 

Having built it, however, It was really too large and overpowering for the layout, so as an alternative I've modelled it without the jib, as a derelict mechanism.

 

 

This isn't finally planted, as I'm still not sure whether  it really adds anything to the layout. I'll leave it for now, and see if it grows on me...

 

Al.

[Alister_G]

Anyway, today, I visited Ladmanlow, and took some photos as an anonymous  J94 pottered about the yard:

 

 

Thanks for looking,

 

Al.

[NHY 581]

Lovely views Al. 

 

This one in particular ticks the boxes for me. 

 

Rob. 

[Stubby47]

Stunning Al, really good.

[westerhamstation]

Hi Al, really nice set of photos, I like the idea of the derelict crane fits in well. All the best Adrian.

[Andrew P]

Like Adrian, I too like the idea of the derelict crane, it does add the look of a once busy, but now derelict area.

[Alister_G]

Thanks very much all of you for your encouraging comments, it means a lot to me.

 

I'm warming to the derelict crane, but I'm not so fond of the big base it sits on, so I might substitute a smaller concrete plinth, and add a load of grass round it.

 

Al.

[Rowsley17D]

Hi Al, you can almost hear the rattling and banging of that stock which has seen better days. The shadows are lengthening in more ways than one.

[sulzer27jd]

Where has this been hiding? Found my way here today and had to stay a while. Very nice, simple idea, well executed with a lot of atmosphere. Well done.

[Alister_G]

29 minutes ago, sulzer27jd said:

Where has this been hiding? Found my way here today and had to stay a while. Very nice, simple idea, well executed with a lot of atmosphere. Well done.

 

Thank you very much.

 

Al

[Andrew P]

Small broken / cracked concrete base as you said, some black grease around the gears / cogs and LOADS of weeds, it will then almost disappear into the undergrowth mate.

[Alister_G]

4 hours ago, Andrew P said:

Small broken / cracked concrete base as you said, some black grease around the gears / cogs and LOADS of weeds, it will then almost disappear into the undergrowth mate.

 

Sounds good Andy, How's this?

 

So first it's hairspray time, I masked up an area and drowned it in hairspray, then applied various lengths of static grass:

 

 

 

Then I glued down the new concrete base, and applied some tufts of longer grass:

 

 

 

 

And finally fitted the mechanism to the pillar:

 

 

here's a nice moody shot of the result...

 

 

 

I'm a lot more pleased with that!

 

Thanks for looking,

 

Al.

 

[Andrew P]

19 minutes ago, Alister_G said:

 

Sounds good Andy, How's this?

 

So first it's hairspray time, I masked up an area and drowned it in hairspray, then applied various lengths of static grass:

 

 

 

Then I glued down the new concrete base, and applied some tufts of longer grass:

 

 

 

 

And finally fitted the mechanism to the pillar:

 

 

here's a nice moody shot of the result...

 

 

 

I'm a lot more pleased with that!

 

Thanks for looking,

 

Al.

 

That's the way to do it, as Punch said to Judy!

[Alister_G]

17 minutes ago, Andrew P said:

That's the way to do it, as Punch said to Judy!

 

Thanks mate.

 

I've tried to do as you said and apply some appearance of oil/grease round the bearings, not sure how successful this is:

 

 

 

 

Al.

[Andrew P]

Better, much better mate, lovely in fact.

[NHY 581]

Afternoon Al. This is all very timely. I am looking to add a yard crane jobbie to Bleat Wharf.  

 

Is this the Wills example? 

 

 

Rob 

[Alister_G]

Hi Rob,

 

This is the Peco whosit, of the two I found it to be more detailed than the Wills one.

 

https://www.track-shack.com/acatalog/Peco-Lineside-LK-35-OO-Scale-Yard-Crane-Kit-Peco-Lineside-LK-35.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIh8qVlpjX4AIVBeJ3Ch2ddwONEAQYASABEgI4-vD_BwE

 

Al

Edited February 25, 2019 by Alister_G

[Alister_G]

On Kev's Little Muddle, he's been playing with an online photo editor, which creates old postcard type images from photos.

 

The site is http://funny.pho.to/old-photo-effect/

 

and the results can look like this:

 

 

Which is pretty good, isn't it?

 

Al.

[Alister_G]

It's quite addictive...

 

 

This isn't Ladmanlow, but it's a great photo...

 

 

Must stop now...

 

Al.

 

[calvin Streeting]

LOL  nice fav on is second one  

[Alister_G]

Thanks Calvin, it's a great site, thanks for leading me to it, I could play for hours...

 

Al.

Edited February 27, 2019 by Alister_G

[westerhamstation]

Hi Al, Like the photo effects, is there a programme that if your old and wrinkly already (like me), can reverse it and make you look modern and trendy. All the best Adrian.