bootneckbob Posted November 21, 2022 Author Share Posted November 21, 2022 (edited) Although the means were there back in 71 to access Red Cow, the sign on the platform would indicate otherwise. More recently there seems to have been a white picket fence to stop that access too. Edited November 21, 2022 by bootneckbob 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowley 47521 Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 1 hour ago, bootneckbob said: Although the means were there back in 71 to access Red Cow, the sign on the platform would indicate otherwise. More recently there seems to have been a white picket fence to stop that access too. I remember being told off in the 1980s for taking a shortcut that way. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted November 22, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 22, 2022 I must have been lucky when I did it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Tim Dubya Posted November 22, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 22, 2022 You lot are just too naughty! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowley 47521 Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 3 hours ago, Tim Dubya said: You lot are just too naughty! Oh definitely. It’s more fun that way. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bootneckbob Posted January 5, 2023 Author Share Posted January 5, 2023 Well, despite having a couple of weeks off over Xmas I didn't really get anything done on the layout. As me and the Mrs didn't visit family over Xmas so we could have one on our own, I didn't think it would be fair to disappear in to the shed and leave her in the house alone! Anyway, been doing some armchair research on other peoples layouts and subsequently been bombarded with Scalescenes posts on Facebook. I decided to buy the Scratch builders kit just the otherday and proffed with a 25% discount on it too. Although I really like embossed plastic it is expensive and the painting process is painfully slow and one thing I've really noticed is my progress is also painfully slow and I've a lot to do. To that end I've decided that using Scalescenes paper will give me coverage quickly. I can always go back and redo things 'better' (maybe) at a later date. Here's a few photos of a section of platform I did after work tonight in an hour or so. Although the paving slabs are a bit 70s and too old for the 80s the platform can take on a finished look very quickly. I used some white paper to seal the platform edge and also make the white line which I'll tone down a touch in due course. In time I'll probably add kiln sand over the paving and airbrush in as tarmac, but I think adding a layer of glued paper is only adding strength to the structure anyway so no harm done. The other platform was airbrushed and the white line hand painted in and that took hours and hurt my eyes! Plus it still needs a lot more work on it as airbrushing the tarmac in over the grey primer plus I'm not happy with the platform edge so I was going to fill it with plaster. There's also a longshot of Cowley Bridge road which is still a huge work in progress but as with the platform, I was able to paper wrap the supporting walls very quickly and get some enthusiasm back for that area. I did also do some plasti card work with the extension of the wooden fence paneling and more block work and painting. There's also a not quite complete Scalescenes coal office building sitting in the scene. This was a free download and the first time I printed off anything from Scalescenes. It's not quite prototypical of the small brick building that resides in that location but it's close enough for now. 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bootneckbob Posted January 8, 2023 Author Share Posted January 8, 2023 I probably should have done this sooner, but after doing one platform in the Scalescenes paving slabs from the scratch builders kit I was wondering if there was a better way to do the platform, and it turns out there is with a station shelter kit. So I printed off some tarmac finish sheets and the edging slabs and had a go at another platform. The platform edging is really good as it saves me loads of time from what I was doing and it looks better! I still plan to overspray these paper sheets in time with the airbrush but I think it looks pretty good as is; way better than it was or still is on the main platform yet to be finished. 13 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bootneckbob Posted January 15, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 15, 2023 Well, even with the scalescenes paper this is still a long job! This weekend I've managed to get the retaining wall in on Cowley Bridge road (wrapped and glued in). Also got platforms 3/4 and 5/6 wrapped. Need to do some trimming in places under the platform but there's loads to do when I get to the detail work. Now I can get the main station platform built and wrapped along with the bay. After that I need to start drawing up the main station building. So I've taken a photo from the north showing the crossing as it is now and a bit of the retaining wall on Cowley Bridge road. The other is the view from Exeter Panel Signal Box, which is also where the layout control is situated although I do have a wireless remote control for when I want to venture north! 22 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted January 20, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 20, 2023 Just found your topic, very nice and recognisable scenes, I like the way you build a section and add a photo from the era to pin point it. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bootneckbob Posted January 22, 2023 Author Share Posted January 22, 2023 Thank you John. A long time this layout was unrecognizable as ESD (other than the track layout for the station) and someone asked about putting photos up to help connect the scenes with the real location. As I started most of the scenic section of this layout at the made up end with the tunnel portals and the re routed river; it was impossible to show photos there until I started the old iron bridge. Whilst I can put photos up of my work as I progressed; if I had looked at this because I had an interest in ESD I'd have been disappointed. Now I have enough areas to work on which are as you said 'recognisable,' so it's nice to add photos for those that know ESD. It's also probably better for people who may not be familiar with the location, but can just see how the model making is for trying to create the impression of a location/period in time etc. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted January 22, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 22, 2023 Will you be making the large wooden building yesterday backed onto the backroad, which subsequently burnt down - its site is now part of ESD TMD offices Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bootneckbob Posted January 22, 2023 Author Share Posted January 22, 2023 Do yu mean the large white building which used to run down the side of platform 6? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 5BarVT Posted January 22, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 22, 2023 57 minutes ago, bootneckbob said: Do yu mean the large white building which used to run down the side of platform 6? Which I think back in the day might have said NCL on the side. Paul. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bootneckbob Posted January 22, 2023 Author Share Posted January 22, 2023 Yes it was National Carriers. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 10 minutes ago, 5BarVT said: Which I think back in the day might have said NCL on the side. Paul. The National Carriers building in the background, 50017 has arrived on the 06.41 from Salisbury, 31260 is on the Old Oak Common empty news van service and has just picked up the empty GUV to attach. Re-signalling of the station area has recently seen the removal of the down through line, 9/7/85, 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted January 22, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 22, 2023 3 hours ago, bootneckbob said: Do yu mean the large white building which used to run down the side of platform 6? 2 hours ago, 5BarVT said: Which I think back in the day might have said NCL on the side. Paul. That's the one 👍 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bootneckbob Posted January 22, 2023 Author Share Posted January 22, 2023 I will be making all of that building, but I'm trying to build from the backscene to the front so I don't damage the layout; that's the plan anyway. ..and thanks for adding the pic Kevin. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 10 hours ago, bootneckbob said: I will be making all of that building, but I'm trying to build from the backscene to the front so I don't damage the layout; that's the plan anyway. ..and thanks for adding the pic Kevin. Great work so far. As an Exonian I have been following this with interest. cheers 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bootneckbob Posted January 29, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 29, 2023 Not quite finished the platforms but thought I'd get a couple of pictures in as it is now. I need to print off some more platform edging then go back to plasticard on the platform wall. Bit of a learning curve, but I found it easier to put the edging on then do the plasticard detail; it will make sense later. 19 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted January 31, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 31, 2023 Redcow crossing and the backscene for including hhe advertising hoarding - spot on. Did you get the bacscence printed from your own photos? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bootneckbob Posted January 31, 2023 Author Share Posted January 31, 2023 12 minutes ago, John Besley said: Redcow crossing and the backscene for including hhe advertising hoarding - spot on. Did you get the bacscence printed from your own photos? Hi John and thanks for the comments. Red Cow no where near done but as you will have gathered (if you have read everything on here) it was/is a real problem as there's just no space there. It stems from the original track plan where I was viewing it from the other side and as such it wouldn't have been seen really. Although that layout barely got past track laying the station area has remained as original. The billboards were knocked up just to see what I could possibly obscure and the pub was a screen grab from a photo online and printed off. I'm going to print it out again but I think the size is pretty close to where I want to be. The houses in that scene are covering a derelict shed which is printed on the backscene. I'm still researching what's there and how to do it. It's actually a carpark and the back of some houses which run up to the hotel. The old laundry to the hotel is likely to feature as it has the tall brick chimney. That whole stretch down to the Red Star parcels building (at the end of the bay platform) is a nightmare! I'd love to paint the backscene and maybe one day I will but right now as you will have gathered I'm just trying to get a bit of ground cover everywhere and representations of the buildings. It's a massive layout and it's taken years to get where I am. I need to crack on with a little more pace. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted January 31, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 31, 2023 I have a funny feeling that where yhe hoardings are use to be a run of buildings that were demolished in the 80's a check up on some period B&W photos should confirm this - just seem to remember them from some old Bradford Barton books with my Father's photos in them. Sadly his original photo albums were leant to Ian Allen and never returned ... someone lost them and I've never been able to track them down again 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bootneckbob Posted January 31, 2023 Author Share Posted January 31, 2023 Just found this online but its from 1948. Shows there was a row of houses there. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted February 1, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 1, 2023 That's interesting in what it shows as you can see how the tracks also went over the rest of Station Road to Riverside Yard. And the building that was demolished in the middle of the triangle of road leaving the open space that is still there to this day Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold tractionman Posted February 1, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 1, 2023 NLS have later editions of the 10k scale OS https://maps.nls.uk/view/189248741 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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