Aston On Clun. A forgotten Great Western outpost.

[MrWolf]

Buffed up gunmetal followed by a dirty black wash run into the board gaps.

 

What do you think?

 

 

 

Edited August 17, 2022 by MrWolf
Replaced picture

[chuffinghell]

Looks spot on to me 

[Captain Kernow]

12 hours ago, Regularity said:

How do they help keep your trousers up?

Comfort over style every time,  Dear Heart

[JustinDean]

Looks good! I’ll be ripping you off for the top of the coaling stage at Middleton Top as that looks very similar.

Jay

[Alister_G]

24 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

What do you think?

 

Jolly good show, old chap!

 

 

Al.

[chuffinghell]

[MrWolf]

32 minutes ago, chuffinghell said:

 

I'm stealing that!

[MrWolf]

Thanks all, I think I can take it that works.

 

Hopefully it will solve the problem for @57xxtoo.

 

Now I need a heap of plastruct 4mm & 1mm angle ....

 

Nope, that's only points replacement avoidance behaviour. 

[Stubby47]

What will the wood planks be part of  / used for ?

 

[chuffinghell]

1 hour ago, MrWolf said:

............avoidance behaviour. 

 

I know all about that, I've been displaying that for the last two weeks 

[Bluemonkey presents....]

Nice wood Sir. 

 

If that is not too weird to say 

[chuffinghell]

5 minutes ago, Bluemonkey presents.... said:

Nice wood Sir. 

 

If that is not too weird to say 

 

 

 

Edited May 18, 2021 by chuffinghell

[Graham T]

[Gedward]

[MrWolf]

 

Full house!

[NHY 581]

[Gedward]

She showed me her room
"Isn't it good, Norwegian wood?"

[MrWolf]

2 hours ago, Stubby47 said:

What will the wood planks be part of  / used for ?

 

 

Probably bashing this bunch of loons over the head with...

 

It is in fact the roof from a Wills' water tank. I have ditched the stone base and will be creating a much smaller version of this.

 

 

Not sure if it is going on the layout, just felt the urge to build it.

[Stubby47]

This is the one I remember from my home town:

[chuffinghell]

15 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

.....Not sure if it is going on the layout, just felt the urge to build it.

 

That's a good enough reason for me!

[MrWolf]

2 hours ago, Stubby47 said:

This is the one I remember from my home town:

 

That is an impressive lump of 30s concrete. I don't think that we had anything on that scale. The house with the scars of a missing lean to is very inspiring.... Oh dear...

 

This was one of our favourite spots as children, the tank was securely fenced off though. The old airfield buildings were a playground and as teenagers, the old runways became race tracks.

 

[CoombeTown]

9 hours ago, MrWolf said:

Buffed up gunmetal followed by a dirty black wash run into the board gaps.

 

What do you think?

 

 

And there was me sat trying to work out how to paint the exterior of the loading dock on my layout. Very nice work indeed!

[57xx]

21 hours ago, MrWolf said:

@57xxThat timber is a sort of RAF hut shiplap boarding.

 

 

Which gives me an idea for another experiment.

 

It's from my old garden shed that was here when I got the house 27 years back. It got replace about 5 years ago when the floor had completely disintegrated. It was amazingly well built compared with the stuff you buy these days. The yellower wood is the internal framework that never got attacked by the weather.

[57xx]

10 hours ago, MrWolf said:

Buffed up gunmetal followed by a dirty black wash run into the board gaps.

 

What do you think?

 

 

 

That is looking damn good. I think working darker to lighter as you go has cracked it.

[Regularity]

2 hours ago, 57xx said:

That is looking damn good. I think working darker to lighter as you go has cracked it.

Depends on what you are trying to show, and whether it started off as treated wood, or untreated.

The below is plasticard, given a very small amount of scuffing, then treated to thin washes of cream, red, and grey, before a final wash of metallic gunmetal, prior to dry brushing: supposed to be 20+ years old.