West Canal Sidings - University portable shelf layout.

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A yard crane was assembled for the canal dock. I added a chain in place of the cotton suggested. 

 

The retaining walls were heavily weathered with the air brush and a coal merchant sign painted using a 3d printed stencil. 

 

Basic scatter of soil and tile grout were glued in place in the coal yard area. 

 

 

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Meanwhile the station had received extra detail consisting of the painted lamps, 3d printed flower pots with scale. Model scenery flowers. And a 3d printed sign. 

 

Bachmann passengers were later added. 

 

 

 

 

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I then devised the raining space into a small goods / storage yard and a country lane leading to the coal merchants. This features a weathered oxford diecast Land rover. 

 

I belive the fence is wills or ratio and brown cotton is used for the wires, a wills grounded van sits in the corner of the yard

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Plenty more to come, hoping to be up to date by the end of the week. Still in photos from August 

 

Photos above show very early progress that is improved upon in the next round of updates 

Edited January 19, 2022 by Horsehay Railway Modeller

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The next stage was to work on the coal yard and road. 

 

The coal yard received a healthy dose of black airbrush weathering followed by coal dust and coal in the Staithes. 

 

Hedges made of rubberised horsehair and fine turf were then added along with a 3d printed gate. 

 

The grounded van was also painted. 

 

 

 

 

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The lane then had static grass and foliage applied as well as weathering with pastels and the airbrush. 

 

The Land rover is oxford diecast and was weathered with my airbrush. 

 

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Here's a close up of the weathering. 

 

 

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The next area of attention was the raised section above the hidden sidings. 

 

Several months ago ( Christmas 2020 I believe) I made a scale mess del scenery terraced house kit. 

 

This was left as is until August 21 when I weathered it and glued it down. 

The gardens then received 3d printed fences which I painted and weathered with artists acrylics. 

 

I forgot to mention I also added some photos hopped photos to make a park backscene 

 

 

 

Edited January 25, 2022 by Horsehay Railway Modeller

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For years I've wanted a war memorial somewhere on a railway, so I decided to add one on the raised section. 

 

The memorial itself is a 3d printed base with an airfix ww1 figure on top. 

 

I then used static grass, seafoam trees and scale model scenery flowers. Along with the leftover ratio fence. 

 

 

 

 

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We're now caught up to when I moved back to uni. 

 

Just before leaving I made a removable fiddle stick and modified the lighting pelmet from cherrybrook to fit wcs. 

 

I also added name plates that I 3d printed. 

 

 

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The first job I worked on at uni was adding figures and details I had bought at parrs models whilst visiting family in Suffolk. 

 

I started with some woodland scenics I dustrial details in the yard, as well as static grass. 

 

I also installed a 3d printed fire barrel I made using a flickering orange led. 

 

 

 

 

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I then glued in some. Bachmann figures and preiser animals around the layout. 

 

 

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We're almost up to date. 

 

I had another break from the layout through November and December and returned to it at the start of January. 

 

A few weeks ago I weathered and detailed the yard a little more and started work in he gardens. 

 

So far I have an overgrown garden and a simple Lawn. I have also 3d printed some sheds I'll show when I move on to the next garden as well as some paving slabs. 

 

 

 

 

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Finally the last major update is that I am starting to rip out the old arduino and servo control for the points and install the digital point Motors I had bought last year for cherrybrook. 

 

I have also joined Merg to get access to some of their feedback circuits and I will slowly add automation to this layout with dcc and raspberry pi. 

 

So far I have only placed everything down to see how it fits but soon I will start installing everything properly 

 

Right were finally up to date and now I can update this thread as and when I get work done between studies etc. 

 

 

[MrWolf]

So much new stuff to look at here. I really like how you've captured the verdigris on the bronze parts of the war memorial, very convincing.

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A little work this evening. 

 

I decided to work on the next two gardens. They had soil coverage already. 

 

I glued in the 3d printed shed. Applied 2mm static grass to the lawns and used a mix of woodland scenics clump foliage, tasma products flowers. And some blue scale model scenery flowers. 

 

There is also a Bachmann figure, something tells me she's in her way to drag her husband from the shed! 

 

The second garden still needs work, I'm thinking of some stepping stones and a bench. 

 

 

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The bloody cat won't get down from the roof again! 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 26, 2022 by Horsehay Railway Modeller

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Final bit of detailing for tonight. I've pai Ted up a bit of solder so now there is a hosepipe to help keep the lawn so pristine. 

 

 

Bit bloody fiddly 

 

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I should probably head to the library soon - sometimes I forget I have a degree to study . 

 

Just been pondering the last few bits for the raised area. 

 

First of all there is now a dog not best pleased to see the neighbours cat. 

I also need some advice. 

The garden with the large shed I am considering putting patio slabs for the whole area. I think the gardens would look a bit plain if they all had lawns. Would a slabbed garden look OK? 

 

The end garden is going to be another simple lawn but this time with painters and decorators storing ladders and cleaning paintbrushes in the garden. (there is already a painter in the lit upstairs bedroom) 

 

 

I also need advice on the allyway/ Lane at the side of the houses. I'm thinking of putting a decorators van here, any ideas for a model, Oxford diecast or similar? Also I quite like the idea of a 50s/60s concrete lamppost. Would this be realistic and any ideas for a decent working model. 

 

Cheers, 

David 

 

[MrWolf]

For a typical van I don't think that you can go far wrong with a Bedford CA, which is something that you see in pretty much every period street scene, about a third of a million were built between 1952-69 and many still working in the 80s even.

Oxford amongst others do them. 

Another possibility is the Austin A30 - A35 which is a small car based van.

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3 hours ago, MrWolf said:

For a typical van I don't think that you can go far wrong with a Bedford CA, which is something that you see in pretty much every period street scene, about a third of a million were built between 1952-69 and many still working in the 80s even.

Oxford amongst others do them. 

Another possibility is the Austin A30 - A35 which is a small car based van.

Thanks I'll look at some options 

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Having a break from the gardens. In my spare time yesterday evening and this morning I've begun rewiring the layout. 

 

I'm using the same methods as I did on cherrybrook. In fact I'm using the same point Motors! 

 

As I'm reusing the cobalt digitals, over the last week or so I have swapped all of the old wires for new piano wire long enough to go through the slightly thicker baseboards. 

 

 

 

So far I've mounted and tested all of the motors and I've begun wiring in power to the rails of the points as well as the point motors themselves. 

 

I've also added some felt feet to stop the wires from the point motors catching as they stick out just below the baseboards. 

 

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Some more points now have power. 

 

 

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Sorry for the quiet, had some uni exams but I thi k they all ent well. After my exams I did a little more wiring. I have installed the led lighting wires as well as the grounds for the block feedback. 

 

I also 3d printed a mounting bracket for the MERG feedback board. 

 

 

After that I started a new thread in here looking at signalling the junction between the main and the yard. As a result some custom signals have been ordered from CR signals and the plans for a ground frame have been drawn. 

 

I will be installing a 4 lever ground frame in the middle of the yard for the junction and then hand levers on the rest of the points. 

 

 

Finally just this weekend I assembled my First MERG kit. A DTC 8a block detection board. It went together well and I have tested it as instructed. I have also ordered a CANVOUT for feedback input and signal control as well as a CANUSB4 to connect the cbus to my pc or the raspberry pi. 

[5BarVT]

1 hour ago, Horsehay Railway Modeller said:

Sorry for the quiet, had some uni exams

Exams matter so ‘quiet’ is good!

 

1 hour ago, Horsehay Railway Modeller said:

Finally just this weekend I assembled my First MERG kit. A DTC 8a block detection board.

Pleased to see that you’ve put the transistors in the ‘wrong way round’!  (For those that are concerned, wrong is right for 2020 PCBs.)  I’ve got two DCT2 to change, procrastination on the other 3 has been a benefit for once.

Paul.