Gill Head: Kirkby Luneside's neighbour

[Physicsman]

Work is continuing apace, though to the casual observer they'd probably notice little change. So, for the people on here who appreciate an image of the moon, or three, a couple from Saturday night.

 

An 80 minute imaging session generated 140Gb of excellent data, which will take me another few days to process. To put that in perspective, a typical image on here is 2Mb. 140G is 70,000 times larger! And it'll all boil down to just a few images by the time I've sifted through it.

 

 

 

 

 

[MrWolf]

Hopefully nobody's opened a Costa in the Roche Crater yet, but I suppose it's only a matter of time...

[DeadRinger]

Great Moon images and thanks for re-posting some of the early images of this great model

Deadringer

[PeterBB]

You did not let us down, was expecting to see moon pictures so thank you.  Also nice to 'revisit' some of the 'older' pictures and read the manner in which construction and 'grassing' was carried out.

 

[Physicsman]

3 pics to show that I AM doing something.

 

Walls around large cutting now re-done....just need a spot of paint on them. 90% of what could be replaced has been replaced. Only another 2500 stones to go.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 14, 2022 by Physicsman

[John Besley]

Couple of quick question Jeff, what make of static grass applicator do you use and PVA?

 

How do you do your layering..

Edited April 14, 2022 by John Besley

[Physicsman]

18 minutes ago, John Besley said:

Couple of quick question Jeff, what make of static grass applicator do you use and PVA?

 

How do you do your layering..

 

John, have a look at the previous page (82), where I re-submitted the post about how I do my grass work, as all the original pics had disappeared. It's dated April 2.

 

I use a Noch Grassmaster and all the fibres are from Noch. I've tried a few different brands but haven't found anything that's as good as them. And having spent over £500 on grass fibres for this layout alone, I had to get it right.

 

Each to their own, of course!

 

J.

 

 

[John Besley]

2 hours ago, Physicsman said:

 

John, have a look at the previous page (82), where I re-submitted the post about how I do my grass work, as all the original pics had disappeared. It's dated April 2.

 

I use a Noch Grassmaster and all the fibres are from Noch. I've tried a few different brands but haven't found anything that's as good as them. And having spent over £500 on grass fibres for this layout alone, I had to get it right.

 

Each to their own, of course!

 

J.

 

 

 

Many thanks Jeff,

 

I think I've got the general idea. I have an area roughly about 18" square that will need some short grass, so far I've been making my own tall grass weeds from garden string cut into tufts and pushed into a foam block to create a tall grass, then once dried removed and planted as individual items - done around 130 so far

 

Just brought a cheap static applicator tool for this section - much as I'd like a Noch cant justify the cost for such a tiny patch besides much of this will be covered by other over growth.

 

I've set my season as Mid April before everything comes out into full leaf, so much of my green is quite bright and fresh looking, with dead leaves as a carpet layer under the grasses I've made. all of this is on a base covered in mid brown household emulsion and sifted garden soil 

[PeterBB]

4 hours ago, Physicsman said:

3 pics to show that I AM doing something.

 

Walls around large cutting now re-done....just need a spot of paint on them. 90% of what could be replaced has been replaced. Only another 2500 stones to go.

 

 

 

This one is very impressive the bridge with the curved track and with the bushes and trees.

 

On another aspect showed GD Moon pics. - seemed a wee bit surprised.  Thanks.

 

Edited April 14, 2022 by PeterBB

[Physicsman]

I've been applying some grey-brown wash onto the cutting walls - a pleasant task after all the hours building the little bu99ers!

 

For a 30 minute aside I decided to give the rock faces in the Gill a bit of a coating. Pics attached - first grey-brown wash.....

 

Looks better wet, but it's going to dry out at some stage!!

 

 

 

 

[Physicsman]

The paint has now dried out, and pleased to see the staining effect still looks ok. Always looks better when wet, sometimes looks very dull and flat when dry.

 

[MrWolf]

The wash has accentuated the shape of the rocks well, they look good and scoured, they put me in mind of this photo taken in the area.

 

[figworthy]

Not sure if these help, they were taken in upper Dentdale, some where around where the Artengill Beck runs into the River Dee.

 

 

Adrian

[Physicsman]

Rob, Adrian, thanks for the photos. Any relevant material is inspirational to the build.

 

I thought - as a little break from walls, trees etc  - that I'd sort out the rock structure and infill (talus, pebbles and the like). I'll put the "water" in at a later stage to avoid it getting crapped up (I use WS Realistic Water gel). That way I can work out how the vegetation around, and within,the Gill fits in and get it sorted.

 

At least that's the theory. There's always another distraction waiting around the corner to wear out the poor modeller!!

[MrWolf]

Upper reaches of the river Lune. I rather like the marooned oak tree.

 

 

 

[Rowsley17D]

A nice piece of limestone scenery modelling, Jeff. The real thing also changes when wet. I am always surprised by how different the scenery appears on trips up to Ribblehead depending on the weather and amount of sunshine, not that we get that much of the latter!

 

 

[Physicsman]

Progress is being made, but I'm not rushing things. A couple of views of the ongoing "rock saga" with most rocks now "tainted".

 

 

 

 

[Physicsman]

A set of pics to (probably not) show what's happening.

 

The hillsides were flocked down to the top of the rocks, allowed to dry and excess hoovered off.

 

 

 

The Gill floor was given another coating of a grey-brown acrylic mix. Most of this will be covered in small rocks eventually.

 

 

A base coat of 2.5mm fibres has just been applied on top of some of the flock. The whiteness of the PVA is still very evident.

 

 

 

 

Another section of walling is also being worked on, but that's for another time.

 

 

[Physicsman]

Right, I'm not a great one to sit on here pumping post after post into the thread every time I move a new car, wagon or blade of grass onto the layout (YES, there are some post cravers on this Forum, more fool them....)

 

BUT I couldn't resist these pics. The first 2 are stitched panoramas and the last one is "sunrise over Gill Head". Being panoramas they can be clicked on to open out a fair bit.

 

Ooooh, getting arty-farty in my old age. What next?

 

Anyway, the viaduct roughly aligns north-south with north to the left. So the "sun" rising (a reflection off the Bunker door) is coming from around the ESE direction, corresponding to early March. The tree vegetation doesn't quite match, but....this is "art".....

 

You'll be expecting to see trains running on the track next. Phew - not in the near future. 

 

 

 

[teaky]

Excellent, Jeff.  It gives a real sense of scale.  The train looks small perched on the large viaduct which in turn is dwarfed by the landscape.

 

[Rowsley17D]

Went again on the real thing today. The greenery was very near your model. The gill bed looks very convincing.

[Physicsman]

33 minutes ago, Rowsley17D said:

Went again on the real thing today. The greenery was very near your model. The gill bed looks very convincing.

 

Don't make me jealous!! Already 4 weeks since our journey - we need to do it again.

[Physicsman]

3 hours ago, teaky said:

Excellent, Jeff.  It gives a real sense of scale.  The train looks small perched on the large viaduct which in turn is dwarfed by the landscape.

 

 

I hadn't thought about the scale aspect as the wagons were there more by chance than by planning! But it does put things into perspective.

 

I just wish (oh well, never mind) that I'd had another 2' behind the viaduct to show the structure with a bit more of the landscape around it. Maybe I'll build another viaduct in my living room - DAS bricks, eh? - and do that......

 

J.

[Physicsman]

Edited to include prototype comparison...

 

I'll make this batch the last group of pics for a while. 

 

"That" camera angle - looking up at the bottom of the central arches. A stitched pic from 2 images, not quite perfectly aligned.

 

 

EDIT: Here's the camera angle I referred to, as shown in post 1 of this thread.

Followed by the large cutting - taken in natural light at around 4.30 - which brings out the variations in the vegetation colours better than with the usual LED lighting.

 

 

Edited April 19, 2022 by Physicsman

[PeterBB]

8 hours ago, Physicsman said:

Right, I'm not a great one to sit on here pumping post after post into the thread every time I move a new car, wagon or blade of grass onto the layout (YES, there are some post cravers on this Forum, more fool them....)

 

BUT I couldn't resist these pics. The first 2 are stitched panoramas and the last one is "sunrise over Gill Head". Being panoramas they can be clicked on to open out a fair bit.

 

Ooooh, getting arty-farty in my old age. What next?

 

Anyway, the viaduct roughly aligns north-south with north to the left. So the "sun" rising (a reflection off the Bunker door) is coming from around the ESE direction, corresponding to early March. The tree vegetation doesn't quite match, but....this is "art".....

 

You'll be expecting to see trains running on the track next. Phew - not in the near future. 

 

 

 

Fantastic set of pictures showing great scale with wagons;  the rocks now look superb and in context the whole is really impressive.